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Threshold effects of hazard mitigation in coastal human–environmental systems [PDF]

, 2013
Despite improved scientific insight into physical and social dynamics related to natural disasters, the financial cost of extreme events continues to rise.
Lazarus, Eli
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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, Eric M. White, Jeffrey D. Kline, A. Paige. Fischer, Alan Ager, John Bailey, John Bolte, Jennifer Koch, Emily Platt, Christine S. Olsen, Derric Jacobs, Bruce Shindler, Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Roger Hammer   +13 more
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Modelling feedbacks between human and natural processes in the land system [PDF]

Earth System Dynamics, 2018
The unprecedented use of Earth's resources by humans, in combination with increasing natural variability in natural processes over the past century, is affecting the evolution of the Earth system.
D. T. Robinson, A. Di Vittorio, P. Alexander, P. Alexander, A. Arneth, C. M. Barton, D. G. Brown, A. Kettner, C. Lemmen, B. C. O'Neill, M. Janssen, T. A. M. Pugh, T. A. M. Pugh, S. S. Rabin, M. Rounsevell, M. Rounsevell, J. P. Syvitski, I. Ullah, P. H. Verburg   +18 more
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Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event

Ecology and Society, 2023
In October 2011, the Halloween Nor’easter produced unusually early and heavy snowfall while leaves were still on the trees, causing extensive damage throughout the northeastern United States.
Irena F. Creed, Christopher M. Hewitt, Nora J. Casson, Alexandra R. Contosta, John L. Campbell, David Lutz, Anita T. Morzillo   +6 more
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Convergence of socio-ecological dynamics in disparate ecological systems under strong coupling to human social systems [PDF]

, 2018
bioRxiv preprint first posted online Apr. 6, 2018; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/296202. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity ...
Anand, Madhur, Bauch, Chris T., Sigdel, Ram P.   +2 more
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Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. [PDF]

, 2013
Interactions between distant places are increasingly widespread and influential, often leading to unexpected outcomes with profound implications for sustainability. Numerous sustainability studies have been conducted within a particular place with little
BATISTELLA, M., DEFRIES, R., DIETZ, T., FU, F., HERTEL, T. W., HULL, V., IZAURRALDE, R. C., LAMBIN, E. F., LI, S., LIU, J., MARTINELLI, L. A., MCCONNELL, W. J., MORAN, E. F., NAYLOR, R., OUYANG, Z., POLENSKE, K. R., REENBERG, A., ROCHA, G. DE M., SIMMONS, C. S., VERBURG, P. H., VITOUSEK, P. M., ZHANG, F., ZHU, C.   +22 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, M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove   +2 more
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A conceptual framework to evaluate human-wildlife interactions within coupled human and natural systems

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, Kirsten M. de Beurs, Chelsea J. Martin-Mikle   +2 more
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Understanding coupled human and natural systems in a changing world [PDF]

Frontiers of Earth Science in China, 2010
It is now widely accepted that global change and human disturbances, such as global warming, economic globalization, population growth, and government policy changes are putting great pressures on the ecoenvironment worldwide. The impacts of land degradation, soil erosion, air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, and increased greenhouse gas ...
Zhifeng Yang, Shikui Dong
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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., Ferreira, Oscar, Navas, F., Cooper, J. A. G., Gracia-Prieto, F. J., Talavera, L.   +5 more
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