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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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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Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America [PDF]
, 2017 Spatial patterns at multiple observation scales provide a framework to improve understanding of pattern-related phenomena. However, the metrics that are most sensitive to local patterns are least likely to exhibit consistent scaling relations with ...
Buma, Brian +2 more
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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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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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yet a challenge in vulnerability and adaptation analysis [PDF]
, 2011 Vulnerability assessments performed for long term environmental changes in the global, sub global, national or local level regularly employ up-scaling and down-scaling of information.
Mishra, Arabinda, Varma, Navarun
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Panarchy within a port setting [PDF]
Journal of Transport Geography, 2016 All facets of present day society are subjected to an ever increasing rise in uncertainty. Seaports are no exception. As complex clusters of industrial activity and gateways for distribution networks, they are vulnerable to external and internal shocks disrupting supply chains.
Vonck, Indra, Notteboom, Theo
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Can Properties of Labor-Exchange Networks Explain the Resilience of Swidden Agriculture?
Ecology and Society, 2010 Despite the fact that swidden agriculture has been the subject of decades of research, questions remain about the extent to which it is constrained by demographic growth and if it can adapt to environmental limits.
Sean S. Downey
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Innovation and New Path Creation: The Role of Niche Environments in the Development of the Wind Power Industry in Germany and the UK [PDF]
, 2012 This paper seeks to explore the issues of innovation and new path creation in the UK and Germany, illustrated through the case of the modern wind power industry. Taking an evolutionary perspective drawing on path dependence theory, the paper examines the
Carpenter, Juliet +4 more
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