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标题：Lumpy Information
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作者：Lance Gunderson ; Carl Folke
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2009
卷号：14
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：The word “lump” has many different meanings. As a noun, it can refer to a mass of indeterminate shape, or the feeling that arises on one’s throat when one is overcome with emotion. Perhaps one of the first images that comes to mind at the mention of a lump is a mass on or in our bodies, not a particularly pleasant thought. One of us (Gunderson) experienced the second meaning last month during the wedding ceremony of a niece, and the other (Folke) had the same feeling the other night contemplating the beautiful midsummer sunset in the vicinity of Stockholm when a large grey seal, a species close to extinction in the Baltic Sea a few decades ago, exposed itself in calm waters feasting on a salmon. We’ll leave it up to the reader to assess whether the first or third meaning refers to either of the Editors-in-Chief of this journal.