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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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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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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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Information and entropy theory for the sustainability of coupled human and natural systems [PDF]
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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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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A cyclical wildfire pattern as the outcome of a coupled human natural system
Scientific Reports, 2022 AbstractOver the past decades, wildfire has imposed a considerable cost on natural resources and human lives. In many regions, annual wildfire trends show puzzling oscillatory patterns with increasing amplitudes for burned areas over time. This paper aims to examine the potential causes of such patterns by developing and examining a dynamic simulation ...
Farkhondehmaal, Farshad +1 more
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Storm impacts on a coupled human-natural coastal system: Resilience of developed coasts [PDF]
Science of The Total Environment, 2021 Human occupation of and alteration of the world's coast has transformed large stretches of it into Coupled Human-Natural Systems (CHANS) in which humans both influence and are influenced by coastal evolution. In such systems, human activity is as critical on natural resilience as processes and sediment supply derived from the natural setting.
Malvarez, G. +5 more
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Telecoupling: A new frontier for global sustainability
Ecology and Society, 2018 Telecoupling refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions between distant coupled human and natural systems, and has become more extensive and intensive in the globalized era.
Vanessa Hull, Jianguo Liu
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Examining fire-prone forest landscapes as coupled human and natural systems
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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Biocomplexity in Coupled Natural–Human Systems: A Multidimensional Framework [PDF]
Ecosystems, 2005 As defined by Ascher, biocomplexity results from a “multiplicity of interconnected relationships and levels.” However, no integrative framework yet exists to facilitate the application of this concept to coupled human–natural systems. Indeed, the term “biocomplexity” is still used primarily as a creative and provocative metaphor.
S. T. A. Pickett +2 more
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