Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Ahjond Garmestani

PhD

Research Publications Publication Date
Sundstrom, S.M., T. Eason, R.J. Nelson, D.G. Angeler, C. Barichievy, A.S. Garmestani, N.A.J. Graham, D. Granholm, L. Gunderson, M. Knutson, K.L. Nash, M. Nyström, T. Spanbauer, C.A. Stow, and C.R. Allen. 2017. Detecting spatial regimes in ecological systems. Ecology Letters 20:19-32. October 2017
Herrmann, D.L., W.C. Chuang, K. Schwarz, T.M. Bowles, A.S. Garmestani, W.D. Shuster, T. Eason, M.E. Hopton, and C.R. Allen. 2018. Agroecology for the shrinking city. Sustainability 10:675. July 2018
Gunderson, L., B. A. Cosens, B. C. Chaffin, C. A. (T.) Arnold, A. K. Fremier, A. S. Garmestani, R. K. Craig, H. Gosnell, H. E. Birge, C. R. Allen, M. H. Benson, R. R. Morrison, M. C. Stone, J. A. Hamm, K. Nemec, E. Schlager, and D. Llewellyn. 2017. Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems. Ecology and Society 22(1):31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08879-220131 August 2017
Green, O.O., A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson, C.R. Allen, J.B. Ruhl, C.A. Arnold, N.A.J. Graham, B. Cosens, D.G. Angeler, B. Chaffin and C.S. Holling. 2015. Barriers and bridges to the integration of social-ecological resilience and law. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:332-337. July 2015
Garmestani, A.S., and C.R. Allen. 2015. Adaptive management of social-ecological systems: the path forward. Pages 255-262 in Allen, C.R., and A.S. Garmestani, Editors. Adaptive Management of Social Ecological Systems. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. October 2015
Garmestani, A., C. R. Allen, J.B. Ruhl and C.S. Holling. 2014. The Integration of resilience and law. Pages 365-382 in Resilience and Law, Garmestani, A.S. and C.R. Allen, Editors. Columbia University Press. April 2014
Garmestani, A., C. R. Allen , and K. M. Bessey. 2005. Time series analysis of clusters in city size distributions. Urban Studies 42: 1507-1515. | Download August 2005
Garmestani, A. and C.R. Allen. 2014. Social – Ecological Resilience and Law. University of Columbia Press, New York, New York: in press. 404pp. February 2014
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and L. Gunderson. 2009. Panarchy: discontinuities reveal similarities in the dynamic system structure of ecological and social systems. Ecology and Society 14 (1): 15. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art15/ May 2009
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and K. M. Bessey. 2008. Discontinuities in urban systems: comparison of regional city-size structure in the United States. Pages 136-164 in Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling, editors. Discontinuities in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY. June 2008
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and H. Cabezas. 2009. Panarchy, adaptive management and governance: sustainable options for building resilience. Nebraska Law Review 87:1036-1054. | Download March 2009
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, C. M. Gallagher and J. D. Mittelstaedt. 2007. Departures from Gibrat's law, discontinuities and city size distributions. Urban Studies 44:1997-2007. | Download September 2007
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen and C. M. Gallagher. 2008. Power laws, discontinuities and regional city size distributions. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 68:209-216. | Download September 2008
Craig, R.K., A.S. Garmestani, C.R. Allen, C.A. Arnold, H. Birgé, D. DeCaro, A.K. Fremier, H. Gosnell and E. Schlager. 2016. Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: The new challenges and a review of tools available. Ecology and Society. October 2017
Craig R Allen, Hannah Birgé, David G Angeler, Craig Anthony Tony Arnold, Brian C Chaffin, Daniel DeCaro, Ahjond S Garmestani, Lance H Gunderson. 2018. Uncertainty and Trade-Offs in Resilience Assessments. Pages 243 - 268 in Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance, Gunderson and Cosens, Eds. Springer. September 2018
Chuang, W.C., A. Garmestani, T.N. Eason, T.L. Spanbauer, H.B. Fried-Petersen, C.P. Roberts, S.M. Sundstrom, J.L. Burnett, D.G. Angeler, B.C. Chaffin, L. Gunderson, D. Twidwell and C.R. Allen. Quantitative approaches for assessing ecological and community resilience. Journal of Environmental Management 213: 353-362. July 2018
Chaffin, B.C., A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson, M.H. Benson, D.A. Angeler, C Arnold, B. Cosens, R.K. Craig, J.B. Ruhl and C.R. Allen. 2016. Transformative environmental governance. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41: 399-423. December 2016
Chaffin, B., A.S. Garmestani, D.G. Angeler, D.L. Herrmann, C.A. Stow, M. Nyström, J. Sendzimir , M.E. Hopton, J. Kolasa and C.R. Allen. 2016. Biological invasions, ecological resilience and adaptive governance. Journal of Environmental Management 183: 399-407. December 2016
Birgé, H. E., C. R. Allen, A. S. Garmestani, and K. L. Pope. 2016. Adaptive management for ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management 183:343-352. | Download October 2016
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson and I. Linkov. 2017. Panarchy use in environmental science for risk and resilience planning. Environment, Systems and Decisions 36: 225-228. December 2016
Angeler, D. G., C. R. Allen, A. Garmestani, K. L. Pope, D. Twidwell, and M. Bundschuh. 2018. Resilience in environmental risk and impact assessment: concepts and measurement. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 101:543-548. | Download October 2018
Angeler, D. G., B. C. Chaffin, S. M. Sundstrom, A. Garmestani, K. L. Pope, D. R. Uden, D. Twidwell, and C. R. Allen. 2020. Coerced regimes: management challenges in the Anthropocene. Ecology and Society 25(1):4. | Download January 2020
Allen, C.R., and A. Garmestani. 2015. Adaptive Management. Pages 1 - 10 in Allen and Garmestani, Editors, Adaptive Management of Social-ecological Systems. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. October 2015
Allen, C.R., H.E. Birge, S.L. Bartelt-Hunt, R.A. Bevans, J.L. Burnett, B.A. Cosens, X Cai, A.S. Garmestani, I. Linkov, E.A. Scott, M.D. Solomon and D.R. Uden. 2016. Avoiding decline: Fostering resilience and sustainability in midsize cities. Sustainability 8: 844-868. November 2016
Allen, C.R., H. Birge, D.G. Angeler, C.A. Arnold, B.C. Chaffin, D. DeCaro, A.S. Garmestani, and L.H. Gunderson. 2018. Quantifying uncertainty and tradeoffs in resilience assessments. Ecology and Society: 23(1):3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09920-230103. July 2018
Allen, C.R., D.G. Angeler, A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling. 2014. Panarchy: theory and application. Ecosystems 17:578-589. November 2014
Allen, C. R., D. G. Angeler, J. J. Fontaine, A. S. Garmestani, N. M. Hart, K. L. Pope, and D. Twidwell. 2017. Adaptive management of rangeland ecosystems. Pages 373-394 in D. D. Briske, editor. Rangeland systems: processes, management and challenges. Springer, New York. | Download October 2017
Project Completion Date
Dynamics of resilience in complex adaptive systems December 2017
Presentations Presentation Date
Craig R. Allen, Hannah Birge, David G. Angeler, Craig Anthony Arnold, Brian C. Chaffin, Daniel DeCaro, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Lance H. Gunderson. Quantifying uncertainty and tradeoffs in resilience assessments. Resilience 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 22, 2017. August 2017
Birge, H.E., C.R. Allen, A.S. Garmestani, K.L. Pope. 2016. Adaptive management for ecosystem services. Gordon Research Conference Unifying Ecology across Scales. University of New England, July 2016. July 2016
Birge, H.E., C.R. Allen, A.S. Garmestani, K.L. Pope. 2016. Adaptive management for ecosystem services. Conference for Complex Systems. Beurs Van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016. September 2016
Allen, Craig R., Olivia Odom Green, Ahjond S. Garmestani, J.B. Ruhl, Craig A. Arnold, Lance H. Gunderson, Barbara Cosens, David G. Angeler, Brian C. Chaffin. 2016. Barriers and Bridges to the Integration of social-ecological resilience and law. ESA Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL. August 2016