Professor Brian Walker (CSIRO and The Australian National Universit

Broschiertes Buch

Finding Resilience

Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society

Beschreibung

This book unravels how ecosystems, societies and people cope with disturbance and adversity. Written for a general readership and based on the experiences of researchers, the fascinating stories reveal what resilience is, how it works in different kinds of systems, how it is expressed, and how it can be gained and lost.

Autor

Brian Walker has conducted and led research on resilience in social-ecological systems around the world. He was Senior Lecturer at the University in Zimbabwe, Professor of Ecology in South Africa and Chief of Australia's CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology. He is a past-Chair of the international Resilience Alliance and of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics in Stockholm, and is now an Honorary CSIRO Fellow and Honorary Professor at The Australian National University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781789241594
• ISBN-10: 1789241596
• Artikelnr.: 55772659