From the field of resilience science, the adaptive cycle was born, a model that reflects the real-world behavior and circumstances of human-natural systems. The only constant in life is change, and we ...

The Pacific Northwest is home to spectacularly beautiful forests of towering Douglas firs, lush undergrowth, and waterlogged mosses. Decades of accumulated fallen branches and dried needles camouflage ...

Formal development of adaptive management as an approach for natural resources management can be traced back to the 1970s and to research conducted at the International Institute for Systems Analysis ...