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Resilience, Adaptive Capacity, and the "Lock-in Trap" of the Western Australian Agricultural Region [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2004
Using the Western Australian (WA) agricultural region as an example of a large-scale social-ecological system (SES), this paper applies a framework based on resilience theory to examine the region's resilience and capacity for change and renewal. Despite
Helen E. Allison, Richard J. Hobbs
doaj   +2 more sources

Environmentally conscious design : an economic life cycle approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Companies are under increasing pressure to deal with environmental concerns during product design, for it is the design process which primarily decides the environmental impact of a manufactured product over its life.
Rose, Elliot P.
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python-adaptive/adaptive: version 0.15.0

open access: yes, 2021
What's Changed Rename master -> main by @basnijholt in https://github.com/python-adaptive/adaptive/pull/384 Add docs section about executing coroutines by @juandaanieel in https://github.com/python-adaptive/adaptive/pull/364 Add loss_goal, npoints_goal,
Weston, Joseph   +3 more
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Adaptive Cycling

open access: yesCurrent Sports Medicine Reports, 2017
Abstract Adaptive athletes have globally embraced the sport of adaptive cycling, and participation is expanding rapidly on local, national, and international levels. With a diverse array of events supporting adaptive cyclist participation, there is a need to create more awareness about the history and classes of adaptive cycling, adaptive ...
Andrew H, Gordon, Arthur Jason, De Luigi
openaire   +3 more sources

Facilitating Transitional Processes in Rigid Institutional Regimes for Water Management and Wetland Conservation: Experience from the Guadalquivir Estuary

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2012
Traditional policies for water resources management and wetland conservation are often based on command-and-control approaches. The latter tend to drive the human-wetland-water system into pathological states, characterized by more vulnerable ecosystems ...
Pablo F. Méndez   +3 more
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Adaptive control of a nonlinear aeroelastic system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Aeroelastic two-dimensional wing section with both trailing-edge (TE) and leading-edge (LE) was investigated in this paper through numerical simulation in time domain.
Shijun Guo   +5 more
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Comparative Resilience in Five North Pacific Regional Salmon Fisheries

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2010
Over the past century, regional fisheries for Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) have been managed primarily for their provisioning function, not for ecological support and cultural significance. We examine the resilience of the regional salmon fisheries
Xanthippe Augerot, Courtland L. Smith
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
Long-term development of resource utilization has caused a series of economic, social, and ecological problems in resource-based cities (RBCs).
Yue Yang   +3 more
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Soil cultures - the adaptive cycle of agrarian soil use in Central Europe: an interdisciplinary study using soil scientific and archaeological research

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Today's global challenges (e.g., food security) are not unprecedented in human history. Starting with the Neolithic transition, the agricultural sector and society underwent several cultural and technological changes and endured natural challenges. These
Sandra Teuber   +5 more
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Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2007
The paper compares two ambitious conceptual structures. The first is the understanding of social-ecological systems developed around the term "resilience," and more recently the term "panarchy," in the work of Holling, Gunderson, and others.
Nicholas M. Gotts
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