Community perspectives on sustainability and resilience in a social-ecological paradigm

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Title:: Community perspectives on sustainability and resilience in a social-ecological paradigm
Series Title:: UVI Thesis
Creator:: Webb, Alex Wm.
Place of Publication:: St. Thomas, V.I.
Publisher:: University of the Virgin Islands
Publication Date:: 2013
Language:: English
Physical Description:: 121 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Subjects / Keywords:: Resilience (Personality trait) Social ecology -- United States Virgin Islands. Sustainability -- Environmental aspects. Social interaction -- Environmental aspects. Ecology -- Environmental aspects -- United States Virgin Islands. Ecology -- Economic aspects -- United States Virgin Islands
Genre:: Thesis

Abstract:: Environmental sustainability has been an elusive and ambiguous concept from a management perspective since its inception in the mid 1980's. Subsequent research has given rise to numerous observations of the complex and multi-dimensional interactions between human societies and their environments. Leading to the conclusion that considerable gaps in understanding of the specific social processes that define, promote and are associated with sustainability and resilience. The research takes a bottom up, community based approach to exploring community knowledge structures regarding social-ecological dynamics as they relate to concepts of sustainability and resilience as social constructs.

Source Institution:: University of the Virgin Islands
Holding Location:: University of the Virgin Islands
Rights Management:: All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.

Aggregations:: University of the Virgin Islands
UVI Dissertation/Theses Collection