Brian H. Walker

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Brian H. Walker is affiliated with the following schools: Stockholm University, University of California, Berkeley, Clark University, Duke University

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#68

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Brian H. Walker's Degrees

PhD Environmental Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Environmental Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Environmental Science University of California, Berkeley

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Brian H. Walker's Published Works

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A safe operating space for humanity (2009) (9107)
Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. (2000) (8520)
Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems (2001) (6107)
Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity (2009) (4616)
Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management (2004) (3354)
From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What? (2001) (3156)
Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations (2002) (3019)
Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability (2010) (2909)
Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World (2006) (2706)
Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development (2007) (2140)
Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience (2003) (1714)
Resilience Management in Social-ecological Systems: a Working Hypothesis for a Participatory Approach (2002) (1611)
Biodiversity and Ecological Redundancy (1992) (1588)
Biotic Control over the Functioning of Ecosystems (1997) (1116)
Original Articles: Plant Attribute Diversity, Resilience, and Ecosystem Function: The Nature and Significance of Dominant and Minor Species (1999) (979)
An African Savanna: Synthesis of the Nylsvley Study. (1993) (903)
Resilience and vulnerability: Complementary or conflicting concepts? (2010) (870)
Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet. (2010) (816)
Interactions of woody and herbaceous vegetation in a southern African Savanna (1985) (560)
Conserving Biological Diversity through Ecosystem Resilience (1995) (543)
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications (2012) (539)
Are We Consuming Too Much? (2004) (536)
Aspects of the Stability and Resilience of Savanna Ecosystems (1982) (525)
Reconnecting to the Biosphere (2011) (510)
Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system? (2014) (467)
Social norms as solutions (2016) (427)
Global change and terrestrial ecosystems (1996) (356)
Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions (2009) (335)
Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function (2012) (295)
General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events (2012) (284)
Insight, part of a Special Feature on Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Fifteen Weddings and a Funeral: Case Studies and Resilience- based Management (2006) (282)
Grazing Management, Resilience, and the Dynamics of a Fire-driven Rangeland System (2002) (268)
Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries. (2013) (259)
Creation of a Gilded Trap by the High Economic Value of the Maine Lobster Fishery (2011) (250)
TO CULL OR NOT TO CULL: LESSONS FROM A SOUTHERN AFRICAN DROUGHT (1987) (247)
The Effects of Different Forms of Land Use on the Ecology of a Semi-Arid Region in South-Eastern Rhodesia (1976) (242)
An Overview of the Implications of Global Change for Natural and Managed Terrestrial Ecosystems (1997) (236)
The terrestrial Biosphere and global change: implications for natural and managed ecosystems. Synthesis volume. (1997) (233)
Banded Vegetation Patterning in Arid and Semiarid Environments (2001) (231)
Drivers, "Slow" Variables, "Fast" Variables, Shocks, and Resilience (2012) (227)
Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems (2015) (202)
Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists. (2004) (191)
The Kruger Experience: Ecology And Management Of Savanna Heterogeneity (2013) (175)
Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship (2019) (160)
Loss of Resilience, Crisis, and Institutional Change: Lessons from an Intensive Agricultural System in Southeastern Australia (2006) (159)
Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis (2015) (137)
Robust strategies for managing rangelands with multiple stable attractors (2004) (136)
Incorporating Resilience in the Assessment of Inclusive Wealth: An Example from South East Australia (2010) (134)
Global change and terrestrial ecosystems. The operational plan. (1992) (132)
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere (2021) (130)
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas (2007) (113)
Managing for resilience (2011) (113)
Terrestrial transects for global change research (1995) (96)
Genetic diversity and interdependent crop choices in agriculture (2004) (88)
Ecology and dynamics of the woody vegetation on the Kalahari Sands in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (1987) (88)
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Manage Arctic Change (2006) (83)
Predicting savanna vegetation structure on the basis of plant available moisture (PAM) and plant available nutrients (PAN): a case study from Australia (2003) (80)
Relationships between tree canopy cover and Panicum maximum in the vicinity of Fort Victoria (1973) (77)
Diversity and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems (2008) (76)
Critical Issues for Understanding Global Change Effects on Terrestrial Ecosystems. (1991) (75)
Rangelands, pastoralists and governments: interlinked systems of people and nature. (2002) (75)
The IGBP terrestrial transects: science plan (1995) (74)
The Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation Assessment Framework: From Theory to Application (2015) (73)
Should Enhanced Resilience Be an Objective of Natural Resource Management Research for Developing Countries (2010) (71)
Is Succession a Viable Concept in African Savanna Ecosystems (1981) (66)
VEGETATION-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS ON SODIC SOILS OF ZIMBABWE RHODESIA (1980) (65)
Management of semi-arid ecosystems (1983) (63)
Ecological Science and the Human Predicament (1998) (57)
Vegetation, hydrology and sedimentation processes as determinants of channel form and dynamics in the northeastern Okavango Delta, Botswana (1993) (54)
Size structure analysis of the dominant trees in a South African savanna. (1986) (54)
An analysis of vegetation–environment relationships in Saskatchewan sloughs (1968) (52)
Resilience-Based Stewardship: Strategies for Navigating Sustainable Pathways in a Changing World (2009) (52)
Drylands: Coping with Uncertainty, Thresholds, and Changes in State (2009) (52)
Relationships Between Derived Vegetation Gradients and Measured Environmental Variables in Saskatchewan Wetlands (1971) (51)
Modelling plant and soil water dynamics in semi-arid ecosystems with limited site data (1996) (50)
Measuring Functional Diversity in Plant Communities with MixedLife Forms: A Problem of Hardand Soft Attributes (2002) (49)
Patterns of shoot growth in a semi-arid grassland in Zimbabwe (1987) (49)
Resilience of an Australian savanna grassland to selective and non-selective perturbations (1997) (47)
Autecology, synecology, climate and livestock as agents of rangeland dynamics. (1988) (45)
Natural values: Exploring options for enhancing ecosystem services in the Goulburn Broken Catchment (2003) (44)
Seeking the great transition (2000) (43)
Game Ranching in Africa (1979) (41)
A PROCEDURE FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH: WITH REFERENCE TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN SAVANNA ECOSYSTEM PROJECT (1978) (40)
The role of competition in the spacing of savanna trees die rol wat kompetisie in die spasieering van savanne bome speel (1983) (39)
The occurrence of potential tree hollows in the dry eucalypt forests of south-eastern Tasmania, Australia (2007) (39)
Rangeland Ecology: Understanding and Managing Change (2016) (39)
Ecological consequences of atmospheric and climate change (1991) (36)
Herbaceous wetland vegetation in the aspen grove and grassland regions of Saskatchewan (1970) (34)
A resilience perspective of the SEEA (2007) (33)
An African Savanna: The key determinants: water, nutrients, fire and herbivory (1993) (33)
Formation, colonization and fate of floating sudds in the Maunachira river system of the Okavango Delta, Botswana (1990) (32)
A Resilience Approach to Integrated Assessment (2005) (30)
Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems (2014) (30)
Designing projects in a rapidly changing world: guidelines for embedding resilience, adaptation and transformation into sustainable development projects (version 1.0). (2016) (30)
Effect of intensity of defoliation by goats at different phenophases on leaf and shoot growth of Acacia karroo Hayne. (1988) (29)
Determinants of tropical savannas : presentations made by savanna researchers at a workshop in Harare, Zimbabwe, December 1985 (1987) (25)
An African Savanna: Community and landscape pattern and change (1993) (25)
Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene (2020) (25)
Yield responses to lime of wheat and barley on acid soils in north-eastern Victoria (1989) (24)
Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2020) (23)
Resilience as pathway diversity: linking systems, individual, and temporal perspectives on resilience (2019) (20)
The utilization and management of veld, with special reference to the role of the browsing animal. 1. An assessment of the ecological basis of game ranching in southern African savannas. (1976) (20)
Water depth and biotic insulation: Major determinants of back-swamp plant community composition (1991) (20)
Navigating the chaos of an unfolding global cycle (2020) (20)
Principles for Building Resilience: Principle 3 –Manage slow variables and feedbacks (2015) (19)
Vegetation of channels of the northeastern Okavango Delta, Botswana (1990) (19)
Food Production, Population Growth, and Environmental Security (1998) (19)
Rangelands and Global Change. (1993) (18)
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Resilience – Governance for a Future with Global Changes : Background report for the scientific workshop »Biodiversity, ecosystem services and governance – targets beyond 2010« on Tjärnö, Sweden, 4-6 September 2009. (2009) (17)
An African Savanna: An overview of savanna ecology (1993) (15)
The response of the herbaceous layer in a dystrophic Burkea africana savanna to increased levels of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium. (1987) (14)
Global change and terrestrial ecosystems in monsoon Asia (1996) (13)
A decision analysis approach to Savanna management (1985) (13)
Living scenarios for Australia as an adaptive system (2012) (13)
The Ecosystem Approach to Conservation: Reply to Goldstein (1999) (13)
Resilience, instability, and disturbance in ecosystem dynamics (1998) (13)
Implications of spatial heterogeneity of grazing pressure on the resilience of rangelands. (2002) (12)
Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene (2020) (11)
Consumption, Investment, and Future Well‐Being: Reply to Daly et al. (2007) (11)
Grazing Experiments at Ukiriguru, Tanzania: I. Comparisons of Rotational and Continuous Grazing Systems on Natural Pastures of Hardpan Soils (1968) (11)
Preparing for Practice: The Essence of Resilience Thinking (2012) (10)
National, regional and local scale priorities in the economic growth versus environment trade-off (1995) (10)
Estimates of the potential size and distribution of production of narrow-leafed lupins in Australia (1994) (10)
Autecology of an invading population of the cactus Cereus peruvianus (Queen of the night) in the central Transvaal (1984) (10)
Growth patterns and annual growth cycle of Acacia karroo Hayne in relation to water stress I. Leaf and shoot growth. (1988) (10)
Growth characteristics of selected plant species on asbestos tailings from Msauli Mine, eastern Transvaal (1986) (10)
Feeding niches of four large herbivores in the hluhluwe game reserve, natal 1 (1978) (9)
Global dynamics, multiple shocks, and resilience : planetary stewardship and catastrophic shifts in the earth system (2011) (9)
A Crash Course in the Science of Resilience (2017) (8)
An invitation for more research on transnational corporations and the biosphere (2020) (8)
Global change strategy options in the extensive agriculture regions of the world (1994) (8)
A procedure for land capability analysis in southern Africa, based on computer overlay techniques (1984) (7)
Management Principles for Semi-Arid Ecosystems (1979) (7)
Evaluation of Chemical Ripeners for Sugarcane (1969) (7)
Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond (2021) (7)
Grazing Experiments at Ukiriguru, Tanzania: II. Comparisons of Rotational and Continuous Crazing Systems on Natural Pastures of Hardpan Soils Using an “Extra-Period Latin-Square Change-Over Design” (1968) (6)
Rangeland Ecology: Managing Change in Biodiversity (1994) (6)
An African Savanna: African savannas: an overview (1993) (6)
Ecology and management of savanna ecosystems in south-central Africa. (1980) (6)
States and transitions: The trajectory of an idea, 1970-2010 (2011) (6)
Effects of Feeding Hay on the Early Wet Season Weight Loss of Cattle in Western Tanzania (1969) (5)
Challenges, solutions and research priorities for sustainable rangelands (2020) (5)
STABILITY PROPERTIES OF SEMI ARID SAVANNAS IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN GAME RESERVES (1981) (4)
Contribution of ‘sustainability’ criteria to social perceptions of land use options (1994) (4)
Synthesis Resilience and Vulnerability : Complementary or Conflicting Concepts ? (2010) (4)
A Resilient World (2012) (4)
Grazing Experiments at Ukiriguru, Tanzania: III. A Comparison of Three Stocking Rates on The Productivity and Botanical Composition of Natural Pastures of Hardpan Soils (1968) (4)
GRASS GROWTH IN RESPONSE TO TIME OF RAINFALL AND SEASON ALONG A CLIMATE GRADIENT IN AUSTRALIAN RANGELANDS (1997) (4)
Living scenarios for Australia to 2050 Negotiating our future : (2013) (3)
Practicing Resilience in Different Ways (2012) (3)
Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphate on Cenchrus Ciliaris at Ukiriguru, Western Tanzania (1973) (3)
An African Savanna: The Nylsvley biota (1993) (3)
Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Forage Legumes on a Cenchrus Ciliaris Pasture in Western Tanzania (1969) (3)
Simulating browse production and response of Acacia karroo to defoliation I. Model description and sensitivity analyses (1990) (3)
Vegetation — Site relationships in the Harvard forest (2006) (3)
System-resilience perspectives on sustainability and equity in Australia (2012) (2)
Simulating browse production and response of Acacia karroo to defoliation II. Evaluation of browse management systems and strategies (1990) (2)
Guiding rangelands into an uncertain future (2020) (2)
An African Savanna: Nutrients (1993) (2)
A resilience approach to conservation and development (2016) (2)
The distribution and dynamics of Elephantorrhiza elephantina on the farm Maccauvlei (1986) (2)
Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizer on Natural Pastures in Western Tanzania (1969) (2)
Book Review:Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology. Stephen Bocking (1998) (1)
Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production. Kenneth A. Gould , Allan Schnaiberg , Adam S. Weinberg (1999) (1)
Addressing Adaptive and Inherent Resilience - Lessons Learned from Hurricane Harvey (2018) (1)
An African Savanna: Primary production (1993) (1)
Describing the System (2012) (1)
Resilience assessment desktop case studies in Thailand and Niger (2015) (1)
An African Savanna: Tree–grass interactions (1993) (1)
Askö 2002: Coping with Uncertainty – A Call for a New Science-Policy Forum (2010) (1)
On new orleans drinking water perspective. (1976) (1)
Towards a resilience assessment for Australia (2012) (1)
An African Savanna: An essay on truth and the diagonal argument (1993) (0)
Askö 2000: Genetic Diversity and Interdependent Crop Choices in Agriculture (2010) (0)
Paving perspective: concrete options (1988) (0)
Management of Semi-Arid Ecosystems. Developments in Agricultural and Managed-Forest Ecology No. 7. (1981) (0)
Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship (2019) (0)
Savanna Details with a Paradigm Shift@@@An African Savanna: Synthesis of the Nylsvley Study. (1994) (0)
An African Savanna: Geology, landform and soils (1993) (0)
An African Savanna: Rich savanna, poor savanna (1993) (0)
Vegetatio Vol. 29, 3: 169-178, 1975 VEGETATION - SITE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE HARVARD FOREST* (0)
People and Pen Shells, Marine Parks and Rules: (2012) (0)
An African Savanna: Herbivory (1993) (0)
An African Savanna: Reflections on ecosystem studies (1993) (0)
Thresholds on the Range (2012) (0)
Book Review:Africa's Vanishing Wildlife. Chris Stuart, Tilde Stuart (1998) (0)
Askö 1998: The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value (2010) (0)
Utilization of the natural pastures on the hardpan soils at Ukiriguru, Western Tanzania. (1970) (0)
Creación de una Trampa Dorada Debido al Alto Valor Económico de la Pesquería de Langosta en Maine (2011) (0)
An African Savanna: Plant–herbivore interactions (1993) (0)
An African Savanna: The people of Nylsvley (1993) (0)
Book Review:Voices from Africa: Local Perspectives on Conservation. Dale Lewis, Nick Carter (1995) (0)
An African Savanna: Decomposition (1993) (0)
Multi-scale integrated analysis of agroecosystems: Giampietro M., CRC Press, London, UK, 2003, 437 pp. Price US$109.95 (hardback). ISBN: 0-8493-1067-9 (2005) (0)
An African Savanna: Bibliography (1993) (0)
An African Savanna: Water (1993) (0)
An invitation for more research on transnational corporations and the biosphere (2020) (0)
Sustainability Science Award (2004) (0)
The Beijer biodiversity programme: A postscript (1997) (0)
Issue : Is there a global tipping point for planet Earth ? Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries (2013) (0)
Askö 1997: Food Production, Population Growth, and the Environment (2011) (0)
Askö in Stanford 2000: Are We Consuming Too Much? (2010) (0)
An African Savanna: Preface (1993) (0)
Water resources management: a critique. (1971) (0)
The good soil project. Horticultural chemicals and soil health: effects and amelioration. (2003) (0)
An African Savanna: Managing savannas (1993) (0)
An African Savanna: Fire (1993) (0)
Askö 2001: Sustainability’s Compass – Indicators of Genuine Wealth (2010) (0)
Out of the Swamp (2012) (0)
An African Savanna: The climate at Nylsvley (1993) (0)
An African Savanna: Community structure, composition and dynamics (1993) (0)
Assessing Resilience for “the Plan”: (2012) (0)
From Taos to Bali and Sri Lanka (2012) (0)
A Significant Contribution to Savanna Ecology@@@An African Savanna: Synthesis of the Nylsvley Study. (1994) (0)

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