[p2p-research] Gotts, Nicholas M. 2007. "Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis." Ecology and Society 12(1).

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Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis

Gotts, Nicholas M. 2007. "Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis."
*Ecology and Society* 12(1).

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http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00004781/Abstract

"The paper compares two ambitious conceptual structures. The first is the
understanding of social-ecological systems developed around the term
resilience, and more recently the term panarchy, in the work of Holling,
Gunderson, and others. The second is Wallersteins world-systems approach to
analyzing hierarchical relationships between societies within global
capitalism as developed and applied across a broader historical range by
Chase-Dunn and others. The two structures have important common features,
notably their multiscale explanatory framework, links with ideas concerning
complex systems, and interest in cyclical phenomena. They also have
important differences. It is argued that there are gaps in both sets of
ideas that the other might remedy. Their greatest strengths lie at different
spatiotemporal scales and in different disciplinary areas, but each also has
weaknesses the other does not address, particularly with regard to the
mechanisms underlying proposed cyclic patterns of events. The paper ends
with a sketch for a research program within which panarchical and
world-systems insights might be synthesised in the study of the Great
European Land-Grab, i.e., the expansion of European capitalism and its
distinctive social-ecological systems over the past five centuries."


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