The potential impacts of climate change on current livestock systems worldwide are a major
concern, and yet the topic is covered to a limited extent in global reports such as the ones …

Conventional approaches to natural resource management are increasingly challenged by
environmental problems that are embedded in highly complex systems with profound …

Representing human decisions is of fundamental importance in agent-based models.
However, the rationale for choosing a particular human decision model is often not …

The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its
fundamental properties and their in-ence on society. These changes include climate; the …

Formal models used to study the resilience of social-ecological systems have not explicitly
included important structural characteristics of this type of system. In this paper, we propose …

Agriculture as the main source of livelihood for rural residents of the developing countries is
inherently sensitive to climate variability and change. Among different climatic events …

Dzud is the Mongolian term for a severe winter weather disaster. With global change dzud
may increase in frequency and intensity, placing livestock and livelihoods at risk. We …

Fragmentation of the ecosystems of the earth into spatially isolated units has emerged as a
primary component of global change. Often, fragmentation results from actions that are …

We tested the explanatory usefulness and policy relevance of Holling's (2001)“adaptive
cycle” theory in exploring processes of “collapse,” also called “release,“and recovery in …

In May 2013, the contributors to this volume were invited to attend a meeting in rural
Somerset, UK, to present early drafts of their chapters and discuss the organization of this …