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Spatial Resilience and Fragmentation in Social Systems

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One of the dominant themes of this book has been the broader relevance of many ‘disciplinary’ concepts and approaches. Chapter 8 focused on the relevance of broad-scale ecological experiments and related ideas about fragmentation, for our understanding of the spatial aspects of ecological resilience. Experimental approaches are generally inappropriate in social systems, for obvious reasons, but there is a growing realization across many of the social sciences that spatial arrangement can have profound impacts on social systems.

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