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The many-headed Hydra: assessing the Indigenous-hydropower cycle in Costa Rica
Journal of Political Ecology, 2022 This article explores the intersection of hydropower development and Indigenous rights within the context of climate governance. A historical rift between dam supporters and opponents has evolved into a contentious ebb and flow of dam proposal-resistance
Emily Benton Hite
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THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE FROM A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2018 The resilience concept raises several conceptual problems, due to its multiple features. Once clarified the meaning of resilience concerning the science context, its paradigm reveals interdisciplinary nuances, which allow analysis of multiple phenomena
ANDREEA CONSTANTINESCU, SIMONA FRONE
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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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Ecology and Society, 2020 We used the adaptive cycle as a heuristic to conceptualize the changes in ecosystem services between its phases (growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization) for Chiloé Island (southern Chile), analyzed as a social-ecological system.
Daniela C. Pérez-Orellana +2 more
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Resilience Thinking and Landscape Complexity in the Basentello Valley (BA, MT), c. AD 300–800
Land, 2023 Archaeological data for the transformation of late Roman rural landscapes in Southern Italy over the sixth to eighth centuries AD are often meagre. This record often provides little explanatory power in the context of understanding the collapse of Roman ...
Matthew Munro
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Land, 2021 Resilience is a new path to express and enhance urban sustainability. Cities suffer from natural shocks and human-made disturbances due to rapid urbanization and global climate change.
Xinghua Feng +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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Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management
Ecology 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?
Ecology 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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Ecology and Society, 2020 Understanding the long-term dynamics of social-ecological systems is critical to better inform sustainable management. Since Holling's adaptive cycle heuristic, published in 2001, substantial progress has been made to explore historical changes in ...
Hoang Trung. Thanh +2 more
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