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The role of trees in urban stormwater management by Berland, Adam, Shiflett, Sheri A., Shuster, William D., Garmestani, Ahjond S., Goddard, Haynes C., Herrmann, Dustin L., Hopton, Matthew E.

“…•Green infrastructure (GI) is an emerging management practice for stormwater control.•GI approaches based on infiltration overlook functions performed by…”
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A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems by Garmestani, Ahjond S., Benson, Melinda Harm

“…Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should…”
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Transformative Environmental Governance by Chaffin, Brian C, Garmestani, Ahjond S, Gunderson, Lance H, Benson, Melinda Harm, Angeler, David G, Arnold, Craig Anthony (Tony), Cosens, Barbara, Craig, Robin Kundis, Ruhl, J.B, Allen, Craig R

“…Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled…”
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Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance by DeCaro, Daniel A., Chaffin, Brian C., Schlager, Edella, Garmestani, Ahjond S., Ruhl, J.B.

“…Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal…”
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Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: an analysis of tools available in U.S. environmental law by Craig, Robin Kundis, Garmestani, Ahjond S., Allen, Craig R., Arnold, Craig Anthony (Tony), Birgé, Hannah, DeCaro, Daniel A., Fremier, Alexander K., Gosnell, Hannah, Schlager, Edella

“…Adaptive governance must work “on the ground,” that is, it must operate through structures and procedures that the people it governs perceive to be legitimate…”
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The role of law in adaptive governance by Cosens, Barbara A., Craig, Robin K., Hirsch, Shana Lee, Arnold, Craig Anthony (Tony), Benson, Melinda H., DeCaro, Daniel A., Garmestani, Ahjond S., Gosnell, Hannah, Ruhl, J.B., Schlager, Edella

“…The term “governance” encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries,…”
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Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience? by Garmestani, Ahjond S., Allen, Craig R., Benson, Melinda H.

“…Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, many environmental laws were developed around the…”
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Understanding and applying principles of social cognition and decision making in adaptive environmental governance by DeCaro, Daniel A., Arnold, Craig Anthony (Tony), Boamah, Emmanuel Frimpong, Garmestani, Ahjond S.

“…Environmental governance systems are under greater pressure to adapt and to cope with increased social and ecological uncertainty from stressors like climate…”
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Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems by Gunderson, Lance, Cosens, Barbara A., Chaffin, Brian C., Arnold, Craig A. (Tony), Fremier, Alexander K., Garmestani, Ahjond S., Craig, Robin Kundis, Gosnell, Hannah, Birge, Hannah E., Allen, Craig R., Benson, Melinda H., Morrison, Ryan R., Stone, Mark C., Hamm, Joseph A., Nemec, Kristine, Schlager, Edella, Llewellyn, Dagmar

“…In this article we summarize histories of nonlinear, complex interactions among societal, legal, and ecosystem dynamics in six North American water basins, as…”
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Barriers and bridges to the integration of social-ecological resilience and law by Green, Olivia Odom, Garmestani, Ahjond S, Allen, Craig R, Gunderson, Lance H, Ruhl, JB, Arnold, Craig A, Graham, Nicholas AJ, Cosens, Barbara, Angeler, David G, Chaffin, Brian C, Holling, CS

“…There is a fundamental difference between the ways in which ecologists and lawyers view uncertainty: in the study of ecology, uncertainty provides a catalyst…”
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Prolonged instability prior to a regime shift by Spanbauer, Trisha L, Allen, Craig R, Angeler, David G, Eason, Tarsha, Fritz, Sherilyn C, Garmestani, Ahjond S, Nash, Kirsty L, Stone, Jeffery R

“…Regime shifts are generally defined as the point of 'abrupt' change in the state of a system. However, a seemingly abrupt transition can be the product of a…”
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Quantifying uncertainty and trade-offs in resilience assessments by Allen, Craig R., Birge, Hannah E., Angeler, David G., Arnold, Craig Anthony (Tony), Chaffin, Brian C., DeCaro, Daniel A., Garmestani, Ahjond S., Gunderson, Lance

“…Several frameworks have been developed to assess the resilience of social-ecological systems, but most require substantial data inputs, time, and technical…”
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Quantifying the Adaptive Cycle by Angeler, David G, Allen, Craig R, Garmestani, Ahjond S, Gunderson, Lance H, Hjerne, Olle, Winder, Monika

“…The adaptive cycle was proposed as a conceptual model to portray patterns of change in complex systems. Despite the model having potential for elucidating…”
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EU Water Governance: Striking the Right Balance between Regulatory Flexibility and Enforcement? by Green, Olivia O., Garmestani, Ahjond S., van Rijswick, Helena F. M. W., Keessen, Andrea M.

“…Considering the challenges and threats currently facing water management and the exacerbation of uncertainty by climate change, the need for flexible yet…”
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Resilience in Transboundary Water Governance: the Okavango River Basin by Green, Olivia O., Cosens, Barbara A., Garmestani, Ahjond S.

“…When the availability of a vital resource varies between times of overabundance and extreme scarcity, management regimes must manifest flexibility and…”
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A new framework for urban sustainability assessments: Linking complexity, information and policy by Zellner, Moira L., Theis, Thomas L., Karunanithi, Arunprakash T., Garmestani, Ahjond S., Cabezas, Heriberto

“…Urban systems emerge as distinct entities from the complex interactions among social, economic and cultural attributes, and information, energy and material…”
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Adaptive Management to Protect Biodiversity: Best Available Science and the Endangered Species Act by Green, Olivia Odom, Garmestani, Ahjond S.

“…Although flawed, the most powerful tool for protecting biodiversity in the United States is the Endangered Species Act, which requires the use of the best…”
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Panarchy: Theory and Application by Allen, Craig R, Angeler, David G, Garmestani, Ahjond S, Gunderson, Lance H, Holling, C. S

“…The concept of panarchy provides a framework that characterizes complex systems of people and nature as dynamically organized and structured within and across…”
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Can We Manage for Resilience? The Integration of Resilience Thinking into Natural Resource Management in the United States by Benson, Melinda Harm, Garmestani, Ahjond S.

“…The concept of resilience is now frequently invoked by natural resource agencies in the US. This reflects growing trends within ecology, conservation biology,…”
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Adaptive governance of riverine and wetland ecosystem goods and services by Gunderson, Lance H., Cosens, Barbara, Garmestani, Ahjond S.

“…Adaptive governance and adaptive management have developed over the past quarter century in response to institutional and organizational failures, and…”
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