@article{ec186edf39194254b505172ec28fcd7e,
title = "Panarchy use in environmental science for risk and resilience planning",
abstract = "Environmental sciences have an important role in informing sustainable management of built environments by providing insights about the drivers and potentially negative impacts of global environmental change. Here, we discuss panarchy theory, a multi-scale hierarchical concept that accounts for the dynamism of complex socio-ecological systems, especially for those systems with strong cross-scale feedbacks. The idea of panarchy underlies much of system resilience, focusing on how systems respond to known and unknown threats. Panarchy theory can provide a framework for qualitative and quantitative research and application in the environmental sciences, which can in turn inform the ongoing efforts in socio-technical resilience thinking and adaptive and transformative approaches to management.",
keywords = "Environment, Global change, Panarchy, Resilience, Risk governance, Risk management, Socio-ecological systems, Vulnerability",
author = "Angeler, {David G.} and Allen, {Craig R.} and Garmestani, {Ahjond S.} and Gunderson, {Lance H.} and Igor Linkov",
note = "Funding Information: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the individual authors and not those of the US Army, the US EPA and other sponsor organizations. The Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is jointly supported by a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wildlife Management Institute. Funding was provided by the August T. Larsson Foundation of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Swedish Research Councils FORMAS (2014-1193) and VR (2014-5828) and the United States Department of Defence. Anonymous reviewers and Margaret Kurth provided helpful comments on a previous manuscript version. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, The Author(s).",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s10669-016-9605-6",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "36",
pages = "225--228",
journal = "Environment Systems and Decisions",
issn = "2194-5403",
publisher = "Springer Science + Business Media",
number = "3",
}