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Reconciling contradictory narratives of landscape change using the adaptive cycle: a case study from southeastern Australia

open access: yesEcology 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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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
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Self-Organized Governance Networks for Ecosystem Management: Who Is Accountable?

open access: yesEcology 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

open access: yesEcology 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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The Connotation and Measurement of the Resilience of Innovation Ecosystem in High-Tech Industrial Development Zones: A Case Study of Hunan Province

open access: yesRedai dili, 2023
At present, the economy of China is in a new stage, shifting from high-speed growth to high-quality development. Accordingly, high-tech industrial development zones (hereinafter referred to as "high-tech zones") have developed as clusters of innovative ...
Tang Chengli   +3 more
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Cycle Self-Training for Domain Adaptation

open access: yesCoRR, 2021
Mainstream approaches for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) learn domain-invariant representations to narrow the domain shift. Recently, self-training has been gaining momentum in UDA, which exploits unlabeled target data by training with target pseudo-labels.
Hong Liu   +2 more
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Conserving and Restoring Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests: Cycles of Disruption and Recovery

open access: yesEcology 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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Exploring social processes in transformation: the case of a collaborative water partnership in South Africa

open access: yesEcosystems 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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Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2010
Addressing the environmental challenges of the 21st century requires substantial changes to the way modern society views and manages ecosystems. In particular, many authors contend that fundamental transformation of the largely sectoral, expert-centered ...
Reinette Biggs   +2 more
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Can Properties of Labor-Exchange Networks Explain the Resilience of Swidden Agriculture?

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2010
Despite the fact that swidden agriculture has been the subject of decades of research, questions remain about the extent to which it is constrained by demographic growth and if it can adapt to environmental limits.
Sean S. Downey
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