Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management : Understanding System Complexity (Paperback)

List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword C. S Holling; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical and policy context; 3. Natural resource degradation: a resistant problem of the twentieth century; 4. The epistemology of natural resource management of the twentieth century; 5. A contemporary epistemology and framework for natural resource management of the twenty-first century; 6. Model conceptualisation of the Western Australian agricultural region: Part 1. Resilience analysis; 7. Model conceptualisation of the Western Australian agricultural region: Part 2. System dynamics analysis; 8. Synthesis; Appendices; Glossary; Acronyms.