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Assignment for Wednesday, April 12: Sustainability and Ecosystem Resilience II So enough for the theory, today we turn to the applications in management, but from two very different angles: scientific and traditional. Read: C.S. Holling, "Investing in Research for Sustainability," Ecological Applications 3, 4 (1993) 552-55 C.S. Holling. and Gary K. Meffe. 1995. Command and control and the pathology of natural resource management," Conservation Biology 10 (1995) 328-337. Chapters 5, 6, and 7: "Cree Worldview from the Inside," "A Story of Caribou and Social Learning," and "Cree Fishing Practices as Adaptive Management," from Fikret Berkes, Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management, Philadelphia: Taylor and no relation! Francis, 1999.