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Urban resilience: an instrument to decode the post-socialist socio-economic and spatial transformations of cities from Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]
Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2021 A widely used concept, urban resilience, cannot remain a metaphor or just a theoretical view on the ability of cities to overcome perturbations, but it also needs to be operationalized and to become a useful tool in deciphering the complex and very ...
Alexandra SANDU +2 more
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Fourteen propositions for resilience, fourteen years later
Ecology and Society, 2022 In 2006, Walker et al. published an article titled, “A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-ecological Systems.” The article was incorporated into the Ecology and Society special feature, Exploring Resilience
Morgan MathisonSlee +9 more
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Ecology 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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Ecosystems and People, 2023 We explore the social processes supporting transformation towards collaborative water governance in the uMngeni catchment, South Africa. Using Holling’s adaptive cycle as a heuristic of phases (conservation, release, reorganisation and exploitation ...
Catherine B. Pringle +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Landscape ecological security is an environmental requirement for social and economic development. Understanding the dynamic mechanisms of landscape change and the associated ecological risks in regional socioecological systems is necessary for promoting
Tiantian Bao +7 more
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Navigating the chaos of an unfolding global cycle
Ecology and Society, 2020 There are many calls to use the COVID 19 crisis as an opportunity for transforming to a future trajectory that is more equitable and environmentally sustainable. What is lacking is a cohesive framework for bringing these calls together.
Brian Walker +7 more
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Ecology and Society, 2016 This paper addresses the methodological challenge of exposing and reconciling contradictory narratives of change in a social-ecological system (SES). Our research occurred in the Ovens Valley in southeastern Australia.
Andrea Rawluk, Allan Curtis
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Self-Organized Governance Networks for Ecosystem Management: Who Is Accountable?
Ecology and Society, 2011 Governance networks play an increasingly important role in ecosystem management. The collaboration within these governance networks can be formalized or informal, top-down or bottom-up, and designed or self-organized.
Thomas Hahn
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Biodiversity governance and social-ecological system dynamics: transformation in the Australian Alps
Ecology and Society, 2014 Biodiversity conservation continues to be a challenging task for societies worldwide. We undertook a resilience assessment to address the following question: What are the ramifications of social-ecological system dynamics for biodiversity governance of a
Michael Lockwood +3 more
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Conserving and Restoring Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests: Cycles of Disruption and Recovery
Ecology and Society, 2007 I provide a synthesis of the papers in the Special Issue, The Conservation and Restoration of Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests of the American West. These papers - the product of an Old Growth Writing Workshop, held at Northern Arizona University in ...
Dave Egan
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