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Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 1010-1031, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The environmental, social and economic limits and shortcomings of the current linear model of production and consumption highlight the necessity of a rapid transition towards a sustainable paradigm. The concept of a circular economy has recently gained traction among scholars, policy‐makers and businesses as a promising alternative.
Fenna Blomsma +3 more
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WIREs Water, Volume 10, Issue 2, March/April 2023., 2023 Three elements of moral economies for water. Abstract Over the past two decades, scholars have invoked E. P. Thompson's and James Scott's concept of a “moral economy” to explain how people mobilize notions of justice to make claims to water. We draw together 20 years of literature to assess the state‐of‐the‐art present in research on moral economies ...
Melissa Beresford +3 more
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International Journal of Ecology, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Fish habitat degradation, such as water pollution due to the rapid expansion of incompatible land uses, is one of the noteworthy challenges to freshwater ecosystems. Elevated contents of nutrients and contaminants in water are some of the imperative challenges.
Halima O. Mangi +3 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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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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River water temperature demonstrates resistance to long‐term air temperature change
Hydrological Processes, Volume 36, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 River water temperature demonstrates resistance to long‐term air temperature change. Abstract Ecosystem health and water quality of rivers are dependent on their temperature. With ongoing human‐induced climate change causing increases in air temperature across the globe, it is anticipated the stream temperatures will rise too—in turn increasing the ...
Fred Worrall +3 more
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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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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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Evaluating multilevel resilience of Russian urban economies 2010–2019
Ecology and Society, 2022 In this paper we examine the coevolution of individual cities and the city networks to which they belong, during an economic shock. We take an individual city and its city network to be the meso and macro levels, respectively, of a social-economic system.
Mikhail Rogov +3 more
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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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