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- Title
Resilience, Adaptive Capacity, and the "Lock-in Trap" of the Western Australian Agricultural Region.
- Authors
Allison, Helen E.; Hobbs, Richard J.
- Abstract
The article presents a framework based on the resilience theory to examine the Western Australian agricultural region's resilience and capacity for change and renewal using the region as an example of a large-scale social-ecological system (SES). Natural resource problems are not isolated scientific or technical problems, but are rooted in human failure to understand the links between social, ecological, and economic systems. Despite numerous policies directed at controlling natural resource degradation in this SES, sustainable natural resource management has not been achieved.
- Subjects
WESTERN Australia; AGRICULTURE; NATURAL resources; SUSTAINABLE development; RESOURCE management; CONSERVATION of natural resources
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2004, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-00641-090103