Ecology and Society

Volume 13, Issue 2 / December 2008

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Editorial: A Different Future
- Lance Gunderson, Carl Folke

Featured Articles:

What Is the Vulnerability of a Food System to Global Environmental Change?
- Polly J. Ericksen

State-Led Ecotourism Development and Nature Conservation: a Case Study of the Changbai Mountain Biosphere Reserve, China
-Jianqiong Yuan, Limin Dai, and Qingli Wang

Adaptive Capacity and Traps
-Stephen R. Carpenter and William A. Brock

	Risk Mapping for Avian Influenza: A Social-Ecological Problem
	Pathways to Resilient Salmon Ecosystems
	Managing Surprises in Complex Systems: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Resilience
	Catastrophic Thresholds, Perspectives, Definitions, and Applications
	New Methods for Adaptive Water Management
	Navigating Trade-offs: Working for Conservation and Development Outcomes
	Do we need new management paradigms to achieve sustainability in tropical forests?

Special Feature: The Influence of Human Demography and Agriculture on Natural Systems in the Neotropics [published: Dec 2008]

Guest Editors: Mitchell Aide, Ricardo Grau, and Ariel Lugo

Ricardo Rozzi (pictured above) received the 2008 Science and Practice of Ecology and Society Award for his team's research activities at Omora Ethnobotanical Park...details

Read full article: Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve

- Eugene C. Hargrove, Mary T. K. Arroyo, Peter H. Raven, and Harold Mooney

Sustainable Development Update, December 2008

Founding E&S Editor-in-Chief, C.S. Holling awarded 2008 Volvo Environment prize

Resilience Science Blog

2009 "Science and Practice of Ecology and Society" call for nominations

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Ecology and Society. ISSN: 1708-3087