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In this book I have attempted to provide the first comprehensive synthesis of a set of interrelated ideas that together create a foundation for an emerging field, the study of spatial resilience in social-ecological systems. Three key points about spatial resilience should by now be clear. First, although the explicit study of spatial resilience in social-ecological systems is a relatively new development, the concepts from which it developed have a long and illustrious history, with roots stretching back over 200 years (von Humboldt & Bonpland, 1807 (reprint 2010)). Spatial resilience offers a new way of looking at spatial phenomena in social-ecological systems, but it does not require overthrowing or disregarding the progress that many disciplines have made in our understanding of the importance of spatial variation for complex systems.
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Cumming, G.S. (2011). Synthesis and Conclusions. In: Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0307-0_11
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