Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmental asymmetries / Graeme S. Cumming, Grenville Barnes, Jane Southworth -- Diversity and resilience of social-ecological systems / Jon Norberg ... [et al.] -- A network perspective on modularity and control of flow in robust systems / Colleen Webb, Örjan Bodin -- Social networks as sources of resilience in social-ecological systems / Thomas Hahn ... [et al.] -- Theoretical challenges : information processing and navigation in social-ecological systems / John M. Anderies, Jon Norberg -- Regime shifts, environmental signals, uncertainty, and policy choice / William A. Brock, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marten Scheffer -- Participation in building scenarios of regional development / Louis Lebel, Elena Bennett -- Practicing adaptive management in complex social-ecological systems / Lance Gunderson, Garry Peterson, C. S. Holling -- Scale and complex systems / Graeme S. Cumming, Jon Norberg.