Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?

Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, many environmental laws were developed around the prevailing scientific understanding that there was a "balance of nature" that could be managed and sustained. This view assumes that natur...

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Autores principales: Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Melinda H. Benson
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Publicado: Resilience Alliance 2013
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:74d6421d204544e18ddbb0826d5271952021-12-02T11:00:02ZCan Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?1708-308710.5751/ES-05927-180237https://doaj.org/article/74d6421d204544e18ddbb0826d5271952013-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss2/art37/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, many environmental laws were developed around the prevailing scientific understanding that there was a "balance of nature" that could be managed and sustained. This view assumes that natural resource managers have the capacity to predict the behavior of ecological systems, know what its important functional components are, and successfully predict the outcome of management interventions. This paper takes on this problem by summarizing and synthesizing the contributions to this Special Feature (Law and Social-Ecological Resilience, Part I: Contributions from Resilience 2011), focusing on the interaction of law and social-ecological resilience, and then offering recommendations for the integration of law and social-ecological resilience.Ahjond S. GarmestaniCraig R. AllenMelinda H. BensonResilience Alliancearticleadaptive governanceadaptive managementlawsocial-ecological resilienceBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 18, Iss 2, p 37 (2013)
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collection DOAJ
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topic adaptive governance
adaptive management
law
social-ecological resilience
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Ecology
QH540-549.5
spellingShingle adaptive governance
adaptive management
law
social-ecological resilience
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Ecology
QH540-549.5
Ahjond S. Garmestani
Craig R. Allen
Melinda H. Benson
Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?
description Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, many environmental laws were developed around the prevailing scientific understanding that there was a "balance of nature" that could be managed and sustained. This view assumes that natural resource managers have the capacity to predict the behavior of ecological systems, know what its important functional components are, and successfully predict the outcome of management interventions. This paper takes on this problem by summarizing and synthesizing the contributions to this Special Feature (Law and Social-Ecological Resilience, Part I: Contributions from Resilience 2011), focusing on the interaction of law and social-ecological resilience, and then offering recommendations for the integration of law and social-ecological resilience.
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author Ahjond S. Garmestani
Craig R. Allen
Melinda H. Benson
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title Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?
title_short Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?
title_full Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?
title_fullStr Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?
title_full_unstemmed Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?
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