Enfors, E.I., Gordon, L.J., Peterson, G.D., Bossio B., 2008, Making Investments in Dryland Development Work: Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya catchment, Tanzania. Ecology and Society 13(2): 42. [online]
URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art42/

Vadeboncoeur, Y., G.D. Peterson, M.J. Vander Zanden, J. Kalff.  In Press.  Benthic algal contributions to primary production across lake size gradients: Interactions among morphometry, nutrients and light.  Ecology.

Gordon, L.J., G.D. Peterson, and E.M. Bennett, 2008. Preparing for surprises in the food-water system, Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23(4) 211-219.

Wardwell, D.A., C.R. Allen, G.D. Peterson, A.J. Tyre.  2008. A test of the cross-scale resilience model: Functional richness in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Ecological Complexity.  5(2) 165-182.

Mikkelson, G. M., A. Gonzalez, A. & G.D Peterson. 2007. Economic Inequality Predicts Biodiversity Loss. PLoS ONE 2(5) e444.

Chapin, F.S. III, AL Lovecraft, ES Zavaleta, J Nelson, MD Robards, GP Kofinas, SF Trainor, GD Peterson, HP Hunington, RL Naylor.  2006.  Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate. Proceedings of National Academy of Science. 103(45) 16637-16643.

Fox, H.E. , C. Christian, J.C. Nordby, O. R.W. Pergams, G.D. Peterson, C. R. Pyke. 2006.  Perceived barriers to integrating social science and conservation. Conservation Biology 20(6) 1817-1820.

Allen, C.R., A. S. Garmestani, T. D. Havlicek, P. A. Marquet, G.D. Peterson, C. Restrepo, C. A. Stow, B. E. Weeks. 2006. Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative hypotheses. Ecology Letters 9(5) 630-643.

Rodriguez, J.P., T.D. Beard, Jr., E.M. Bennett, G.S. Cumming, S. Cork, J. Agard, A.P. Dobson, and G.D. Peterson. 2006. Trade-offs across space, time, and ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 11(1) 28.

Cork, S., G.D. Peterson, E. Bennett, G. Petschel-Held, M. Zurek. 2006. Scenarios of global ecosystem services. Ecology and Society.  11(2) 11.

Carpenter, S.R., E. Bennett, G.D. Peterson. 2006. Scenarios for ecosystem services: an overview. Ecology and Society. 11(1) 29.

Carpenter, S.R., E.M. Bennett, and G.D. Peterson. 2006. Editorial: special feature on scenarios for ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 11(2) 32.

Drever, R., G. Peterson, C. Messier, Y. Bergeron and M. Flannigan. 2006. What does ecological resilience mean for natural disturbance-based forest management? Forest Ecology and Management. 36(9) 2285-2299.

Groffman, P.M., J.S. Baron, T. Blett, A.J. Gold, I. Goodman, L.H. Gunderson, B.M. Levinson, M.A. Palmer, H.W. Paerl, G.D. Peterson, N.L. Poff, D.W. Rejeski, J.F. Reynolds, M.G. Turner, K.C. Weathers and J.A. Wiens. 2006. Ecological thresholds: the key to successful environmental management or an important concept with no practical application? Ecosystems 9(1) 1-13.

Gunderson, L. H., S. R. Carpenter, C. Folke, P. Olsson, and G.D. Peterson. 2006. Water RATs (resilience, adaptability, and transformability) in lake and wetland social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11(1) 16.

Bennett, E.M. G.S. Cumming, G. D. Peterson. 2005. A systems model approach to determining resilience surrogates for case studies, Ecosystems 8(8) 945—957.

Bennett, E.M. G. D. Peterson, E. A. Levitt, 2005. Looking to the Future of Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, 8(4) 125-132.

Chapin, F.S. III, G. Peterson, F. Berkes, T. V. Callaghan, P. Angelstam, M. Apps, C. Beier, Y. Bergeron, A.-S. Crépin, K. Danell, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke, B. Forbes, N. Fresco, G. Juday, J. Niemelä, A. Shvidenko, and G. Whiteman.  2004. Resilience and Vulnerability of Northern Regions to Social and Environmental Change. Ambio 33(6) 344-349.

Elmqvist, T., C. Folke, M. Nyström, G. Peterson, J. Bengtsson, B. Walker, and Jon Norberg.  2003. Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(9) 488—494.

Bennett, E.M., S.R. Carpenter, G.D. Peterson, G.S. Cumming, M. Zurek, and P. Pingali.  2003. Why global scenarios need ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(6) 322-329.

Peterson, G.D., S.R. Carpenter, and W.A. Brock.  2003. Model uncertainty and the management of multi-state ecosystems: a rational route to collapse.  Ecology.  84(6) 1403-1411.

Peterson, G.D., Graeme S. Cumming, and Stephen R. Carpenter. 2003. Scenario Planning: a Tool for Conservation in an Uncertain World. Conservation Biology 17(2) 358-366.

Middendof, G and B. Grant, J. Cubit, G. Lovem C. Nilon, G. Peterson, L.M. Jablonski and T.C. Polin. 2003.  The challenge of environmental justice. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(3) 154-160.

Peterson, G.D., D. Beard, B. Beisner, E. Bennett, S. Carpenter, G. Cumming, L. Dent, and T. Havlicek.  2003. Assessing future ecosystem services: a case study of the northern highland lake district, Wisconsin.  Conservation Ecology 7(3) 1.

Peterson, G.D.2002. Estimating resilience across landscapes. Conservation Ecology 6(1) 17.

Peterson, G.D. 2002. Contagious disturbance, ecological memory, and the emergence of landscape pattern.  Ecosystems 5(4) 329-338.

Walker, B., S. Carpenter, J. Anderies, N. Abel, G. Cumming, M. Janssen, L. Lebel, J. Norberg, G.D. Peterson, and R. Pritchard. 2002. Resilience management in social-ecological systems: a working hypothesis for a participatory approach. Conservation Ecology 6(1) 14.

Peterson, G.D. and M. Heemskerk. 2001. Deforestation and forest regeneration following small-scale gold mining in the Amazon: the case of Suriname.Environmental Conservation 28(2) 117-126.

Peterson, G.D. 2000. Political ecology and ecological resilience: an integration of human and ecological dynamics. Ecological Economics. 35(3) 323-336.

Peterson, G.D. 2000. Scaling ecological dynamics: self-organization, hierarchical structure and ecological resilience. Climatic Change 44 (3) 291-309.

Peterson, G., S. Cunningham, L. Deutsch, J. Erickson, A. Quinlan, E. Raez-Luna, R. Tinch, M. Troell, P. Woodbury, and S. Zens. 2000. The risks and benefits of genetically modified crops: a multidisciplinary perspective. Conservation Ecology 4(1) 13.

Peterson, G., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling.  1998.  Ecological resilience biodiversity and scale. Ecosystems 1(1) 6-18.

Hartvigsen, G., Kinzig, A., and G. Peterson. 1998. Use and analysis of complex adaptive systems in ecosystem science: overview of a special section.  Ecosystems 1(5) 427-430.

Peterson, G., G.A. De Leo, J.J. Hellmann, M.A. Janssen, A. Kinzig, J.R. Malcolm, K.L. O'Brien, S.E. Pope, D.S. Rothman, E. Shevliakova, and R. Tinch. 1997. Uncertainty, climate change, and adaptive management. Conservation Ecology 1(2) 4.

Peterson, G., S. Pope, G. A. De Leo, M.A. Janssen, J.R. Malcolm, J.M. Parody, G. Hood, and M. North.  1997. Ecology, ethics, and advocacy. Conservation Ecology 1(1) 17.

Peer Review Book Chapters
In Press
Guichard, F, GD Peterson, In Press. “The importance of cross- scale interactions in coupled social-ecological systems" in Ecosystem- Based Management for the Oceans: Applying Resilience Thinking. Edited by K. McLeod and H. Leslie. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Peterson, G.D. In Press. “Self-organization of ecological discontinuities". In Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems edited by Edited by C.R. Allen and C S. Holling Columbia University Press, New York, New York.

Published
Gunderson, L, G Peterson, CS Holling.  2008.  “Practicing adaptive management in complex social-ecological systems" Pages 223-245 in Complexity theory for a sustainable future. Edited by J Norberg and G Cumming. Columbia University Press.

Peterson, GD.  2007. “Using Scenario Planning to Enable an Adaptive Co-Management Process in the Northern Highlands Lake District of Wisconsin". Pages 289-307 in Adaptive Co-management: Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance. Edited by F. Berkes, D. Armitage, and N. Doubleday.  UBC Press, Vancouver, Canada.

Falkenmark, M., M. Finlayson, M., L. Gordon, E.M. Bennett, T. Matiza Chiuta, D. Coates, N.  Ghosh, M. Gopalakrishnan, R. S. de Groot, G. Jacks, E. Kendy, L. Oyebande, M. Moore, G.D. Peterson, J. Mora Portuguez, K. Seesink, R. Tharme, and R. Wasson.  2007. Agriculture, water and ecosystems: avoiding the costs of going too far.  Pages 233-278 in Water for Food, Water for Life: a comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture. Edited by D. Molden. London: Earthscan and Colombo: International Water Management Institute.

Cumming, G.S., and G.D. Peterson. 2005. “Chapter 3. Ecology in Global Scenarios". Pages 45-70 in Scenarios. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.  Island Press, Washington, DC.

Bennett, E., S. Carpenter, S. Cork, G. Peterson, G. Petschel-Held, T. Ribeiro, and M. Zurek. 2005. “Chapter 5. Scenarios for Ecosystem Services: Rationale and Overview". Pages 119-144 in Scenarios. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Cork, S. G. Peterson, G. Petschel-Held, J. Alcamo, J. Alder, E. Bennett, E. Carr, D. Deane, G. Nelson, and T. Ribeiro. 2005. “Chapter 8. Four scenarios". Pages 223-294 in Scenarios. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.  Island Press, Washington, DC.

Alcamo, J., D. van Vuuren, W. Cramer, J. Alder, E. Bennett, S. Carpenter, J. Foley, M. Maerker, T. Masui, T. Morita, B. O´Neill, G. Peterson, C. Ringler, M. Rosegrant, K. Schulze. In Press. “Chapter 9.  Changes in Ecosystem Goods and Services and their Drivers Across the Scenarios". Pages 297-374 in Scenarios. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.  Island Press, Washington, DC.

Rodríguez, J.P. , TD. Beard, Jr., J. Agard, E. Bennett, S. Cork, G. Cumming, D. Deane, A. P. Dobson, D.M. Lodge, M. Mutale, G.C. Nelson, G.D. Peterson, and T. Ribeiro.  2005.  “Chapter 12. Interactions among ecosystem services". Pages 431-448 in Scenarios. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.  Island Press, Washington, DC.

Peterson, G.D. 2005.  “Ecological Management: Control, Uncertainty and Understanding". Pages 371-395 in Ecological paradigms lost: routes of theory change Edited by K. Cuddington and B. Beisner, Elsevier.

Walker, B., G. Peterson, J. M. Anderies, A. Kinzig, and S. Carpenter. 2005.  “Robustness in Ecosystems" Pages 173-190 in Robust Design: A Repertoire of Biological, Ecological, and Engineering Case Studies edited by E. Jen.  Oxford University Press.

Gunderson, L.H., C.S. Holling, L. Pritchard Jr. and G.D. Peterson, 2002. "A summary and a synthesis of resilience in large scale  systems" Pages 249-266 in Resilience and behaviour of large scale ecosystems. L.H. Gunderson and L. Pritchard Jr., eds. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Peterson, G.D. 2002. "Forest dynamics in the southeastern United States: managing multiple stable states" Pages 227-246 in Resilience and behaviour of large scale ecosystems edited by L.H. Gunderson and L. Pritchard Jr.. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Gunderson, L.H., C.S. Holling, L. Pritchard Jr. and G.D. Peterson, 2002. "Resilience of large scale resource systems" Pages 3-20 in Resilience and behaviour of large scale ecosystems edited by L.H. Gunderson and L. Pritchard Jr.. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Peterson, G.D. 2002. “Using ecological dynamics to move towards an adaptive architecture" Pages 127-150 in Construction ecology: nature as the basis for green buildings edited by C.J. Kibert, J.P. Sendzimir, G.B. Guy.  Spon Press, London, UK.

Gunderson, L.H. C. S. Holling and G.D. Peterson.  2002. “Surprises and Sustainability Cycles of Renewal in the Everglades" Pages 315-332 in Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems edited by L.H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Holling, C.S. L.H. Gunderson and G.D. Peterson. 2002. “Sustainability and Panarchies" Pages 63-102 in Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems edited by L.H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Gunderson, L.H., C.S. Holling, L. Pritchard, and G.D. Peterson. 2002. “Resilience." Pages 530-531 in The Earth system: biological and ecological dimensions of global environmental change, edited by H.A. Mooney and J.G. Canadell. Volume 2 of the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change edited by T. Munn.

Peterson, G.D. 2002. “Alternative stable states." Pages 166-183 in Learning landscape ecology : a practical guide to concepts and techniques edited by S. E. Gergel and M. G. Turner. Springer Verlag, New York.

Gunderson, L.H., C.S. Holling, and G.D. Peterson. 2000. “Resilience in ecological systems."  Pages 385-394 in Handbook of ecosystem theories edited by S.E. Joergensen and F. Mueller. Lewis Publishers. Washington, DC.

Peterson, G., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 1999. “Ecological resilience,biodiversity and scale." Reprinted in Readings in ecology edited by S. Dodson, S.R. Carpenter, R.L. Jeanne, J.F. Kitchell, N.E. Langston, M.G. Turner, T. Ives, K. Elliot, T.F.H. Allen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Peterson, G.D.  1998.  Scaling ecological dynamics. In Elements of change 1997 edited by S.J. Hassol and J. Katzenberger.  Aspen Global Change Institute, Aspen, CO

Holling, C. S., G.D. Peterson, P. Marples, J.T. Sendzimir, K. Redford, L. Gunderson and D. Lambert.  1996.  “Self-organization in ecosystems." Pages 346-384.  In: Global change and terrestrial ecosystems edited by B.H. Walker and W.L. Steffen  Cambridge University Press. New York.

Peterson, G.D. 1993. “Animal aggregation: experimental simulation using vision-based behavioral rules." Pages 623-630 in 1992 Lectures in complex systems. eds. L. Nadel and D.L. Stein. Reading, MA, Addison- Wesley.