Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework : This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Anthropocene. [PDF]
Ambio, 2021 Liu J +10 more
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The Earth as an Engineering System: Addressing Sustainability through Science, Technology and Policy [PDF]
, 2012 We combine insights from the two emerging fields of engineering systems and sustainability science to develop an analytical approach for understanding and managing coupled natural and human systems. The Earth system is characterized with reference to the
Friedman, Carey L., Selin, Noelle Eckley
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Frontiers in socio-environmental research: components, connections, scale, and context
Ecology and Society, 2018 The complex and interdisciplinary nature of socio-environmental (SE) problems has led to numerous efforts to develop organizing frameworks to capture the structural and functional elements of SE systems. We evaluate six leading SE frameworks, i.e., human
Simone Pulver +6 more
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Deep Markov Random Field for Image Modeling
, 2016 Markov Random Fields (MRFs), a formulation widely used in generative image modeling, have long been plagued by the lack of expressive power. This issue is primarily due to the fact that conventional MRFs formulations tend to use simplistic factors to ...
A Dempster +20 more
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Using a Coupled Human-Natural System to Assess the Vulnerability of the Karst Landform Region in China [PDF]
, 2015 Xiang He, Zhenshan Lin, Kangning Xiong
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Persons Versus Brains: Biological Intelligence in Human Organisms [PDF]
, 2001 I go deep into the biology of the human organism to argue that the psychological features and functions of persons are realized by cellular and molecular parallel distributed processing networks dispersed throughout the whole body.
Steinhart, E.
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Local institutions and Natural Resource Management [PDF]
As researchers and policy-makers confront the challenges of and opportunities for improving natural resource management, increasing attention is being given to the dynamics of coupled natural-human systems.
Bell, Kathleen P. +2 more
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Even at the uttermost ends of the Earth: how seabirds telecouple the Beagle Channel with regional and global processes that affect environmental conservation and socio-ecological sustainability [PDF]
, 2017 Human-wildlife dynamics exhibit novel characteristics in the Anthropocene, given the unprecedented degree of globalization that has increased the linkages between habitats and people across space and time. This is largely caused by transnational mobility
Anderson, Christopher Brian +3 more
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Biocultural Diversity in the Southern Amazon
Diversity, 2009 Recent studies in Amazonia historical ecology have revealed substantial diversity and dynamic change in coupled natural human systems. In the southern Amazon, several headwater basins show evidence of substantial pre-Columbian landscape modification ...
Michael Heckenberger
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Complexity of the Socio-Ecological Dynamics in Hong Ha Commune in the Vietnamese Highland—A Review through the Coupled Human and Natural Systems Framework [PDF]
, 2020 Holger Schäfer +3 more
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