Wallowa County, Oregon, USA

  Case Study     WANI  

Restoration of Forest Systems and Rural Livelihoods: A Partial Resilience Assessment of a Work in Progress. This case study is based on the three core models of change in complex adaptive social-ecological systems: adaptive cycle and panarchy summarized in Holling (2001); and the thresholds model of Scheffer et al. (2001). The study falls well short of a detailed resilience assessment (Walker and Salt 2006; 2012; Jones, in prep). This case is focused on Wallowa Resources, working with local government, as an innovator and change agent in Wallowa County, its growth as a change agent; its impact on different aspects of the Wallowa County system; and influence on larger scale systems in the region.

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