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Governance, scale and the environment: the importance of recognizing knowledge claims in transdisciplinary arenas [PDF]

, 2011
Any present day approach of the world’s most pressing environmental problems involves both scale and governance issues. After all, current local events might have long-term global consequences (the scale issue) and solving complex environmental problems ...
Arts, B.J.M., Buizer, I.M., Kok, K.
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Social Vulnerability and Ecological Fragility: Building Bridges between Social and Natural Sciences Using the Irish Potato Famine as a Case Study

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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Livelisystems: a conceptual framework integrating social, ecosystem, development and evolutionary theory [PDF]

, 2014
Human activity poses multiple environmental challenges for ecosystems that have intrinsic value and also support that activity. Our ability to address these challenges is constrained, inter alia, by weaknesses in cross disciplinary understandings of ...
Dorward, Andrew
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Source/Sink Patterns of Disturbance and Cross-Scale Mismatches in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological Landscapes

Ecology and Society, 2008
Land-use change is one of the major factors affecting global environmental change and represents a primary human effect on natural systems. Taking into account the scales and patterns of human land uses as source/sink disturbance systems, we describe a ...
Nicola Zaccarelli, Irene Petrosillo, Giovanni Zurlini, Kurt Hans. Riitters   +3 more
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Modeling resilience and sustainability in ancient agricultural systems [PDF]

, 2015
The reasons why people adopt unsustainable agricultural practices, and the ultimate environmental implications of those practices, remain incompletely understood in the present world.
Allcock S. L., Anderies J. M., Atalay I., Bar-Yosef O., Casana J., Childe V. G., Clutton-Brock J., Cumming G. S., Diamond J., DiBattista A., Fisher C. T., Flannery K. V., Ford R. I., Gallant T. W., Goldman A. L., Gunderson L. H., Gunderson L. H., Helbaek H., Hillman G. C., Holling C. S., Holling C. S., Holling C. S., Hunn E., Hunt T. L., John M. Marston, Liu J., Marston J. M., Marston J. M., McAnany P. A., McAnany P. A., Miller F., Miller N. F., Mitchell S., Peeples M. A., Piperno D. R., Redman C. L., Redman C. L., Redman C. L., Renfrew J. M., Rose C. B., Rosen A. M., Scheffer M., Smith M. L., Tainter J. A., Tainter J. A., Ucko P. J., van der Veen M., van Zeist, van Zeist W, Voigt M. M., Voigt M. M., Walker B., Walker B., Walker B., Walker B., Westley F., Zeder M. A., Zeder M. A., Zohary M.   +58 more
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Learning from the Anthropocene: Adaptive Epistemology and Complexity in Strategic Managerial Thinking [PDF]

, 2020
open access articleTurbulence experienced in the business and social realms resonates with turbulence unfolding throughout the biosphere, as a process of accelerating change at the stratigraphic scale termed the Anthropocene.
Lambrechts, Wim, Lemon, Mark, Mitchell, Andrew   +2 more
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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, Kristina L. Cockle, Tomás A. Altamirano, Yntze van der Hoek, Suzanne W. Simard, Cristián Bonacic, Kathy Martin   +6 more
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Not All Roads Lead to Resilience: a Complex Systems Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Tortoises in Arid Ecosystems

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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