Challenges and opportunities for modeling coupled human and natural systems. [PDF]
Natl Sci Rev, 2023 With the growing recognition of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), modeling CHANS with two-way feedbacks has become a frontier research area and a critical tool to achieve sustainability. The challenges in CHANS modeling and opportunities to advance its science and application to promote the sustainability of CHANS are discussed in this paper.
Li Y, Sang S, Mote S, Rivas J, Kalnay E.
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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
Costanza Manes +2 more
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Causal inference in coupled human and natural systems. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are complex, dynamic, interconnected systems with feedback across social and environmental dimensions. This feedback leads to formidable challenges for causal inference. Two significant challenges involve assumptions about excludability and the absence of interference.
Ferraro PJ, Sanchirico JN, Smith MD.
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Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2014 Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge. As such, using combined social and environmental perspectives to understand how people and wildlife are interlinked ...
Neil H. Carter +6 more
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Examining fire-prone forest landscapes as coupled human and natural systems [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2014 Fire-prone landscapes are not well studied as coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) and present many challenges for understanding and promoting adaptive behaviors and institutions.
Thomas A. Spies +13 more
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Top 40 questions in coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research [PDF]
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.
Daniel Boyd. Kramer +7 more
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Threshold effects of hazard mitigation in coastal human–environmental systems [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2014 Despite improved scientific insight into physical and social dynamics related to natural disasters, the financial cost of extreme events continues to rise.
E. D. Lazarus
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A conceptual framework to evaluate human-wildlife interactions within coupled human and natural systems [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2014 Landscape characteristics affect human-wildlife interactions. However, there is a need to better understand mechanisms that drive those interactions, particularly feedbacks that exist between wildlife-related impacts, human reaction to and behavior as a
Anita T. Morzillo +2 more
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Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems [PDF]
Science, 2007 Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and complex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists separately. Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organizational units.
Liu, Jianguo +15 more
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A review of the complexity approach to the study human (society)-nature interactions [PDF]
Glasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2010 Traditional approach to the study of society-nature interactions based on reductionism and linear causality is no longer fully capable of explaining complex dynamics of integrated socio-economic and natural systems. For this reason demands for complexity
Miljanović Dragana
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