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Practical Resilience: Building Networks of Adaptive Management

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Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems

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Although there have been conceptual linkages between adaptive managers and theories of ecological resilience, few cases exist of explicit linkage of adaptive management to ecological resilience. This chapter is focused on adaptive management organizations. The organizations were parsed into two general categories, federal agencies and non-governmental organizations. Non-governmental organizations involvement in adaptive management arose because they filled a gap in adaptive management education and implementation. As time has passed and adaptive management has developed, practitioners have come to view the two types of organizations as necessary and having a symbiotic relationship.

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  1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1595 Wynkoop Street, EPR-EP, 80203, Denver, CO, USA

    Jim Berkley

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, 524 Mathematics and Science Center, 400 Dowman Drive, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Lance Gunderson

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    Craig R. Allen

  2. Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Ahjond S. Garmestani

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Berkley, J., Gunderson, L. (2015). Practical Resilience: Building Networks of Adaptive Management. In: Allen, C., Garmestani, A. (eds) Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9682-8_11

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