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Eco-design approach on a university campus: MSKU outdoor cinema and activity area
ESTOA: Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Cuenca, 2023 Social-ecological systems evolve in cycles of ecological adaptation increasing the resilience of places. The aim of this article is to present the design and implementation processes of the Outdoor Cinema and Activity Area Project which are applied on ...
Feray Koca +2 more
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From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
Ecology and Society, 2004 Panarchy focuses on ecological and social systems that change abruptly. Panarchy is the process by which they grow, adapt, transform, and, in the end, collapse. These stages occur at different scales.
C. S. Holling
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Colonial legacy and traps in the social-ecological systems of forest management [PDF]
Global Journal of Environmental Science and ManagementBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The persistence of colonial controls in present-day forest management has long been recognized as a potential threat to the resilience of social-ecological systems.
C.D.A. Depari
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Ecology and Society, 2003 Between 1845 and 1850, a potato blight triggered a famine that killed or displaced 25% of the Irish population. Aside from its historical and cultural significance, the Irish Potato Famine illustrates how social and economic forces can create ...
Evan D. G. Fraser
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Archaeology and rapid climate changes: from the collapse concept to a panarchy interpretative model
Documenta Praehistorica, 2015 The ‘rapid climate change’, ‘cycles of abrupt climate shift’, and ‘cold events’ in the Holocene are discussed in relation to the ‘collapse of civilisation’ concept, and adaptive cycles and the panarchy interpretative model.
Mihael Budja
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Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis
Ecology and Society, 2007 The paper compares two ambitious conceptual structures. The first is the understanding of social-ecological systems developed around the term "resilience," and more recently the term "panarchy," in the work of Holling, Gunderson, and others.
Nicholas M. Gotts
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Self-Organized Governance Networks for Ecosystem Management: Who Is Accountable?
Ecology and Society, 2011 Governance networks play an increasingly important role in ecosystem management. The collaboration within these governance networks can be formalized or informal, top-down or bottom-up, and designed or self-organized.
Thomas Hahn
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Nurturing resilient forest biodiversity: nest webs as complex adaptive systems
Ecology and Society, 2020 Forests are complex adaptive systems in which properties at higher levels emerge from localized networks of many entities interacting at lower levels, allowing the development of multiple ecological pathways and processes.
José Tomás Ibarra +6 more
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Ecology and Society, 2008 The concept of resilience has been widely used in the study of social-ecological systems, with its key components identified as resistance, latitude, and precariousness.
Thomas E. J. Leuteritz, Hamid R. Ekbia
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Crisis and reorganization in urban dynamics: the Barcelona, Spain, case study
Ecology and Society, 2018 We use adaptive cycle theory to improve the understanding of cycles of urban change in the city of Barcelona, Spain, from 1953 to 2016. More specifically, we explore the vulnerabilities and windows of opportunity these cycles of change introduced in the ...
Rafael De Balanzó +1 more
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