Lance H Gunderson

Biographic Data

ID1570169
NAMELance H Gunderson
GIVEN NAMESLance H
FAMILY NAMEGunderson
SIGNATUREGUNDERSON L H
AFFILIATIONSEmory University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS229
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • Transformative Environmental Governance

    Open AccessBrian C Chaffin, Ahjond S Garmestani et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Environment and…2016

    Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological systems (SESs) at multiple scales. The goal of transformative governance is to actively shift degraded SESs to alternative, more desirable, or more functional regimes by altering the structures and processes that define the system. Transformative governance is rooted in ecological…

  • Emergence, institutionalization and renewal: Rhythms of adaptive governance in complex social-ecological systems

    Open AccessBrian C Chaffin, Lance Gunderson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Management2016

  • Panarchy: Theory and Application

    Open AccessCraig R Allen, David G Angeler et al.ARTICLEEcosystems2014

  • Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources

    Open AccessStefan Gelcich, Thomas P Hughes et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2010

    Marine ecosystems are in decline. New transformational changes in governance are urgently required to cope with overfishing, pollution, global changes, and other drivers of degradation. Here we explore social, political, and ecological aspects of a transformation in governance of Chile's coastal marine resources, from 1980 to today. Critical elements in the initial preparatory phase of the transformation were ( i ) recognition of the depletion of…

  • Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas

    Thomas P Hughes, Terence P Hughes et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2007Cited by: 3References: 2

    Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…

  • Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

    Open AccessPer Olsson, Lance Gunderson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006Cited by: 224References: 9

    Olsson, P., L. H. Gunderson, S. R. Carpenter, P. Ryan, L. Lebel, C. Folke, and C. S. Holling. 2006. Shooting the rapids: navigating transitions to adaptive governance of social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11(1): 18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01595-110118

  • Generating and Fostering Novelty

    Open AccessLance Gunderson, Lance H Gunderson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006

    Managing social-ecological systems can be daunting because of numeric and dynamic complexity. These complexities present great uncertainties for scientists, policy makers, stakeholders, and other groups. When approaching complicated problems, there are often mismatches between problems and solutions. At least three caricatures are useful in demonstrating the mismatch between problem and solution sets [See ADDENDUM]. For simple problems such as ma…

  • Water RATs (Resilience, Adaptability, and Transformability) in Lake and Wetland Social-Ecological Systems

    Open AccessLance Gunderson, Lance H Gunderson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006Cited by: 2

    Gunderson, L. H., S. R. Carpenter, C. Folke, P. Olsson, and G. D. Peterson. 2006. Water RATs (resilience, adaptability, and transformability) in lake and wetland social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11(1): 16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01556-110116

  • South Florida: The Reality of Change and the Prospects for Sustainability

    Open AccessLance Gunderson, Lance H GundersonARTICLEEcological Economics2001

  • Ecological Resilience—In Theory and Application

    Lance Gunderson, Lance H GundersonARTICLEAnnual Review of Ecology and…2000

    In 1973, C. S. Holling introduced the word resilience into the ecological literature as a way of helping to understand the non-linear dynamics observed in ecosystems. Ecological resilience was defined as the amount of disturbance that an ecosystem could withstand without changing self-organized processes and structures (defined as alternative stable states). Other authors consider resilience as a return time to a stable state following a perturba…