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| Tidball, Keith G.; Cornell University, USA; kgtidball@cornell.edu. |
| The role of community-based natural resources management in the form of “greening” after large scale system shocks and surprises is argued to provide multiple benefits via engagement with living elements of social-ecological systems and subsequent enhanced resilience at multiple scales. The importance of so-called social-ecological symbols, especially the potent hybrid symbols of trees and their handling after a disaster is interrogated. The paper explores the notion of hybridity, and applies it to the hybrid symbol of the tree in postdisaster contexts. The paper briefly highlights three U.S. cases documenting the symbolic roles of trees in a context of significant shock to a social-ecological system: the terrorist attacks on New... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Disaster; Hybridity; Resilience; Social science; Symbolism; Trees. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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