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A Coupled Human and Natural Systems Framework to Characterize Emerging Infectious Diseases—The Case of Fibropapillomatosis in Marine Turtles [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals, 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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Sustainability assessment of coupled human and natural systems from the perspective of the supply and demand of ecosystem services

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Integrated Analysis of Species Invasion Under the Telecoupling Framework: Burmese Python Across Southeast Asia, the USA, and Beyond [PDF]

open access: yesBiology
In an increasingly globalizing world, invasive species have become a serious concern worldwide. Numerous studies have focused on the biology of different invasive species, but few have systematically integrated socioeconomic and environmental factors ...
Camille Klemann, Jianguo Liu
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The modeling framework of the coupled human and natural systems in the Yellow River Basin

open access: yesGeography and Sustainability
A mechanistic understanding and modeling of the coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are frontier of geographical sciences and essential for promoting regional sustainability.
Shan Sang   +9 more
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A review of the complexity approach to the study human (society)-nature interactions [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik 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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Sustainability, Evaluation, and Credentials

open access: yesJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2023
While there is clear demand for sustainability-ready evaluation in which environmental impacts are integrated, a major gap exists between this desire and reality.
Andy Rowe, Juha I. Uitto
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Systems Analysis of Coupled Natural and Human Processes in the Mekong River Basin

open access: yesHydrology, 2021
The Mekong River Basin is one of the world’s major transboundary basins. The hydrology, agriculture, ecology, and other watershed functions are constantly changing as a result of a variety of human activities carried out inside and by neighboring ...
Venkataramana Sridhar   +2 more
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Identifying opportunity hot spots for reducing the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western US conifer forests

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2023
The escalating climate and wildfire crises have generated worldwide interest in using proactive forest management (e.g. forest thinning, prescribed fire, cultural burning) to mitigate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in forests.
Jamie L Peeler   +17 more
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Social-Ecological Interactions Influencing Primate Harvest: Insights From Madagascar

open access: yesFrontiers in Conservation Science, 2021
Globally, non-human primates face mounting threats due to unsustainable harvest by humans. There is a need to better understand the diverse drivers of primate harvest and the complex social-ecological interactions influencing harvest in shared human ...
Christian J. Rivera   +3 more
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Hybrid Lake Model (HyLake) v1.0: unifying deep learning and physical principles for simulating lake-atmosphere interactions [PDF]

open access: yesGeoscientific Model Development
Lake-atmosphere interactions play a critical role in Earth systems dynamics. However, accurately modelling key indicators of these interactions remains challenging due to their oversimplified physics in traditional process-based models or the limited ...
Y. He, Y. He, X. Yang, X. Yang
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