ANTH 525A --- H A&S 397

RESILIENCE IN SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS


T 1:30-4:20, MGH 211 (Honors Program Multi-Purpose Room)


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Assignment for Tuesday, September 30

Since the class actually meets for the first time several days into the quarter, it seems appropriate that all of us should get up to speed ahead of time on the basic concepts we will be discussing, using, and evaluating. For today, read the little primer by Walker and Salt, Resilience Thinking, and come to class prepared to be quizzed gently on your understanding of the following key concepts:

  • System
  • Negative and Positive Feedback
  • Ecosystem
  • Complex Adaptive System
  • Socio-ecosystem
  • System variables
  • Slow Variables
  • Sustainability
  • Resilience
  • Engineering Resilience
  • Ecosystem Resilience
  • Thresholds
  • Basins of Attraction
  • System Flips
  • Regime Shifts
  • Ecological Surprises
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  • Redundancy
  • Scale
  • Cross-scale interactions
  • Adaptive cycle
  • Revolt-Remember
  • Commons
  • Heterarchy
  • Panarchy