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Managing for Resilience:
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SYNOPSIS This symposium provides
an opportunity to examine what we have learned about natural variability
in organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems over the last century
of marine research, much of which has been stimulated by the Friday Harbor
Laboratories. When coupled with an emerging appreciation for the variability
in human systems (e.g., economies, institutions, social and political
systems), the integrated knowledge provides a framework for new approaches
to protect and restore coastal marine ecosystems. The challenges are to
recognize scales of natural variability and to use that understanding
to manage for resilience in both natural and social systems. The symposium
draws upon the explosion of emerging technologies to image, track, measure
and understand variability in both human and natural systems. In addition,
it examines case studies that highlight emerging ecosystem-based management
approaches. This symposium is distinctive in bringing together perspectives
from the disciplines of ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, mathematics,
economics, and the social sciences to focus on new tools and innovative
concepts that will enable management for resilience in coupled natural/social
systems. Hosted by UW-Friday Harbor Labs and other sponsors. We gratefully acknowledge the David & Lucile Packard Foundation's Trustee Matching Gifts Program for its substantial support of this symposium and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous gift to support student participation in this symposium. Due to the limited number of participants that can be accommodated, participation is by invitation only.
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