Social-Ecological Resilience: Human Ecology as Theory of the Middle Range

摘要: This chapter focuses on questions of operationalisation and measurement, by identifying several points compatibility between complexity theory resilience-based human ecology. It argues that a resilience, as opposed to engineering approach, offers means bring environment ecology more clearly into the programme, inform systems-based social science environment. Researchers operating under rubric resilience have adapted many heuristics which greatly assist task operationalising abstract theories Chaps. 1 2, this approach resolves much restrictive ‘optimal state’ assumptions associated with classical systems theory. The considers useful assess system constitution change, such concepts adaptive cycles, panarchy, regime identity.