摘要：Ecologists have made great strides in developing criteria for describing the resilience of an ecological system. Inaddition, expansion of that effort to social-ecological systems has begun the process of identifying changes to the social systemnecessary to foster resilience in an ecological system such as the use of adaptive management and integrated ecosystemmanagement. However, these changes to governance needed to foster ecosystem resilience will not be adopted by democraticsocieties without careful attention to their effect on the social system itself. Delegation of increased flexibility for adaptivemanagement to resource management agencies must include careful attention to assuring that increased flexibility is exercisedin a manner that is legitimate and responsive to the social system. Similarly, democratic systems proceed in incremental stepsand are not likely to adopt wholesale changes to achieve integrated ecosystem management. This paper uses the concept oflegitimacy in governance as a necessary component of any change to achieve greater social-ecological resilience and will turnto network theory as a means to facilitate legitimacy across multiple jurisdictions
