Panarchy use in environmental science for risk and resilience planning

David G. Angeler; Craig R. Allen; Ahjond S. Garmestani; Lance H. Gunderson; Igor Linkov

doi:10.1007/s10669-016-9605-6

Panarchy use in environmental science for risk and resilience planning

David G. Angeler, Craig R. Allen, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Lance H. Gunderson, Igor Linkov

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	225-228
Number of pages	4
Journal	Environment Systems and Decisions
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-016-9605-6
State	Published - Sep 1 2016

Keywords

Environment
Global change
Panarchy
Resilience
Risk governance
Risk management
Socio-ecological systems
Vulnerability

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General Environmental Science

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