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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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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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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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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Integrating social science into empirical models of coupled human and natural systems [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2017 Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research highlights reciprocal interactions (or feedbacks) between biophysical and socioeconomic variables to explain system dynamics and resilience.
Jeffrey D. Kline +7 more
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Sustainability assessment of coupled human and natural systems from the perspective of the supply and demand of ecosystem services [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The sustainability of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), linked to several of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, affects both global sustainable development and human wellbeing.
Haimeng Liu +5 more
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How coupled is coupled human-natural systems research?
Ecology and Society, 2022 Interdisciplinary research that links human and natural systems is critical to addressing complex environmental and ecological problems. A growing number of interdisciplinary research teams investigate coupled natural-human systems, but the degree to ...
Yoon Ah Shin +3 more
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Understanding the coupled natural and human systems in Dryland East Asia [PDF]
Environmental Research Letters, 2012 Stressors including regional climate change, economic development effects upon land use and an increasing demand for food production have resulted in significant impacts on the dryland ecosystems in the East Asia (DEA) region. Ecosystem services, such as its provisional services in providing forage for grazing as well as its functional services in ...
Jiaguo Qi +3 more
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Addressing Complex Challenges in Coupled Natural and Human Systems Through Principled Pragmatism: A Case Study From Bangladesh [PDF]
Frontiers in Water, 2021 Some of the most persistent challenges facing society and the environment arise from an intricate coupling of natural and human systems (CNHS). These challenges resist traditional expert-driven problem-solving approaches and require a careful synthesis ...
Kevin M. Smith +4 more
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