摘要：Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, manyenvironmental laws were developed around the prevailing scientific understanding that there was a "balance of nature" thatcould be managed and sustained. This view assumes that natural resource managers have the capacity to predict the behaviorof ecological systems, know what its important functional components are, and successfully predict the outcome of managementinterventions. This paper takes on this problem by summarizing and synthesizing the contributions to this Special Feature (Lawand Social-Ecological Resilience, Part I: Contributions from Resilience 2011), focusing on the interaction of law and social-ecological resilience, and then offering recommendations for the integration of law and social-ecological resilience
