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Resilience & Socioecological Systems

How human societies maintain long-term ecological stability — and how that stability breaks down.

10 works

Davidson-Hunt IJ & Berkes F (2009)

Nature and society through the lens of resilience: toward a human-in-ecosystem perspective

In Berkes F, Colding J, Folke C (eds) Navigating social-ecological systems: building resilience for complexity and change. Cambridge University Press, 53-82.

Gowdy J (2019)

Our hunter-gatherer future: climate change, agriculture, and uncivilization

Futures 115 (2020) 102488.

Ingold T (2000)

The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling, and skill

London and New York: Routledge.

Lyons K et al (2016)

Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

Nature 16447.

Ponting C (2007)

A new green history of the world

New York: Penguin Books.

Riede F (2009)

Climate change, demography and social relations: an alternative view of the Late Paleolithic pioneer colonization of southern Scandinavia

In McCartan S, Schulting R, Warren G, Woodman P (eds) Mesolithic Horizons Vol 1. Oxbow Books, 3-10.

Riede F (2014)

Success and failure during the Lateglacial pioneer human re-colonisation of southern Scandinavia

In Riede F & Tallaavaara M (eds) Lateglacial and Postglacial Pioneers in Northern Europe. BAR International Series 2599. Oxford: Archaeopress, 33-52.

Riede F & Pedersen JB (2018)

Late glacial human dispersals in Northern Europe and disequilibrium dynamics

Human Ecology (2018) 46:615–620.

Riede F, Toke T, Høye PT, Djuke V, Willerslev R (2018)

Special section introduction: socioecological disequilibrium in the Circumpolar North

Human Ecology (2018) 46:615–620.

Tainter JA (1988)

The collapse of complex societies

Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.