Craig Reece Allen

Craig R. Allen is the leader of the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln. In 2008 he published an edited volume with CS Holling, Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems

 

Applied Panarchy

Applications and Diffusion across Disciplines

After a decades-long economic slump, the city of Flint, Michigan, struggled to address chronic issues of toxic water supply, malnutrition, and food security gaps among its residents. A community-engaged research project proposed a resilience assessment that would use panarchy theory to move the city toward a more sustainable food system. Flint is one of many examples that demonstrates how panarchy theory is being applied to understand and influence change in complex human-natural systems. Applied Panarchy, the much-anticipated successor to Lance Gunderson and C.S.

Foundations of Ecological Resilience

Foundations of Ecological Resilience

Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over the past three decades in an effort to explain surprising and nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems.