ERS 422
Biosphere Reserves as Social-Ecological Systems
Winter 2019
Topics
- Biosphere reserves
- Social–ecological systems
- Resilience
- Ecosystem health indicators
- Monitoring
- Field study
Readings
- Folke, C.; Berkes, F.; Colding, J. (1998). Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability. In Linking Social and Ecological Systems, pp. 414–436.
- Cairns, J. et al. (1993). A proposed framework for developing indicators of ecosystem health. Hydrobiologia 236(1), 1–44.
- Niemi, G. J.; McDonald, M. E. (2004). Application of ecological indicators. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35, 89–111.
- Cvetkovic, M.; Chow-Fraser, P. (2011). Use of ecological indicators to assess the quality of Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Ecological Indicators 11, 1609–1622.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2019
- Archived syllabus. Source header identifies graduate ERS 675 alongside ERS 422. Selected readings from the public list.