A Coupled Human and Natural Systems Framework to Characterize Emerging Infectious Diseases—The Case of Fibropapillomatosis in Marine Turtles [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife have markedly increased in the last few decades. Unsustainable, continuous, and rapid alterations within and between coupled human and natural systems have significantly disrupted wildlife disease dynamics. Direct
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Gender differences in internet gaming among university students: a discriminant analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionResearch on gaming and gaming habits has predominantly focused on younger populations, particularly males. The main objective of this study was to analyze gender-based differences in gamer profiles, considering variables related to gaming ...
Júlia Gisbert-Pérez +6 more
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Coupling human and natural systems for sustainability: experience from China's Loess Plateau [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2022 Addressing the sustainability challenges that humanity is facing in the Anthropocene requires the coupling of human and natural systems, rather than their separate treatment.
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Ecology and Society, 2021 Theory posits that resilience of ecosystems increases when there is a diversity of agents (e.g., species) and linkages between them. If ecosystems are conceptualized as components of coupled human and natural systems, then a corollary would be that novel
Nathan D. Van Schmidt +7 more
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Reciprocal human-natural system feedback loops within the invasion process [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2020 Biological invasions are inextricably linked to how people collect, move, interact with and perceive non-native species. However, invasion frameworks generally do not consider reciprocal interactions between non-native species and people.
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Charting a New Sustainability Course for Luxury Game Lodges in Africa: A Hybrid Analytical Framework for Analysing the Key Coupled Human and Natural System Components [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2023 This paper introduces a hybrid analytical framework to comprehensively assess luxury game lodges within protected areas such as Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS).
Yolandi Schoeman +4 more
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Synthesis of human-nature feedbacks
Ecology and Society, 2015 In today’s globalized world, humans and nature are inextricably linked. The coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) framework provides a lens with which to understand such complex interactions.
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Information and entropy theory for the sustainability of coupled human and natural systems
Ecology and Society, 2014 For coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), sustainability can be defined operationally as a feasible, desirable set of flows (material, currency, information, energy, individuals, etc.) that can be maintained despite internal changes and changes in ...
Audrey L. Mayer +2 more
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CHANS-SD-YRB V1.0: a system dynamics model of the coupled human-natural systems for the Yellow River Basin [PDF]
Geoscientific Model DevelopmentModeling the coupled human–natural systems (CHANS) is vital for understanding human–natural interactions and achieving regional sustainability, offering a powerful tool to alleviate human–water conflicts, ensuring food security, thereby supporting the ...
S. Sang +19 more
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Top 40 questions in coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research
Ecology and Society, 2017 Understanding and managing coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) is a central challenge of the 21st century, but more focus is needed to pursue the most important questions within this vast field given limited research capacity and funding.
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