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The Indian Sundarban Mangrove Forests: History, Utilization, Conservation Strategies and Local Perception

open access: yesDiversity, 2015
Covering approximately 10,000 km2 the Sundarbans in the Northern Bay of Bengal is the largest contiguous mangrove forest on earth. Mangroves forests are highly productive and diverse ecosystems, providing a wide range of direct ecosystem services for ...
Aditya Ghosh   +3 more
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Constraining the Deforestation History of Europe: Evaluation of Historical Land Use Scenarios with Pollen-Based Land Cover Reconstructions

open access: yesLand, 2017
Anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) is the most important transformation of the Earth system that occurred in the preindustrial Holocene, with implications for carbon, water and sediment cycles, biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services and
Jed O. Kaplan   +8 more
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Soils, landscapes, and cultural concepts of favor and disfavor within complex adaptive systems and ResourceCultures: human-land interactions during the Holocene

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
We review and contrast three frameworks for analyzing human-land interactions in the Holocene: the traditional concept of favored and disfavored landscapes, the new concept of ResourceCultures from researchers at University of Tübingen, and complex ...
Bruce R. James   +13 more
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Climate-human-environment interactions: resolving our past [PDF]

open access: yesClimate of the Past, 2006
The paper reviews how we can learn from the past about climate-human-environment interactions at the present time, and in the future. It focuses on data sources for environmental change at local/regional and regional/global spatial scales, and shows the ...
J. A. Dearing
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Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media Data for Socio-Environmental Systems Research

open access: yesLand, 2019
Social media data provide an unprecedented wealth of information on people’s perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors at fine spatial and temporal scales and over broad extents.
Bianca E. Lopez   +2 more
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Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects: A review of the landscape

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2023
Decades of theory and scholarship on the concept of human well‐being have informed a proliferation of approaches to assess well‐being and support public policy aimed at sustainability and improving quality of life.
Erin C. Betley   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics in Relation to Shifting Inundation and Fire Regimes: Disentangling Environmental Variability from Land Management Decisions in a Southern African Transboundary Watershed

open access: yesLand, 2015
Increasing temperatures and wildfire incidence and decreasing precipitation and river runoff in southern Africa are predicted to have a variety of impacts on the ecology, structure, and function of semi-arid savannas, which provide innumerable livelihood
Narcisa G. Pricope   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integration across a metacoupled world

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Human-nature interactions are complex and have important implications for achieving sustainable development goals and addressing other global challenges.
Jianguo Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Economic and non-economic loss and damage: a harmful dichotomy?

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability
Non-technical summary Loss and damage is treated as comprising separate ‘economic’ and ‘non-economic’ dimensions in research and policy. While this has contributed to greater awareness and visibility of non-economic values, our empirical insights show ...
Douwe van Schie   +3 more
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Race, rurality and geographic accessibility to medication for opioid use disorder in the U.S.

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2023
Disparities in geographic access to medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) are well documented. Further, historical implications of systemic racism and of the longstanding War on Drugs in the United States have driven both social and spatial inequities
Penelope Mitchell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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