Lance Gunderson is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.  He and CS "Buzz" Holling coined the term "Panarchy" in their 1995 edited volume Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions.   They used the word to title another edited volume in 2002, Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature.