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Getting grip on complex water issues? : a case study: Rotterdam Mainport, Appropriate Assessment Wadden Sea [PDF]
, 2007 In Dutch water systems many human interventions are carried out. These interventions are designed to achieve management goals, like increase protection against flooding, improve environmental quality and/or stimulate the national economy. Decision-makers
Hommes, Saskia +3 more
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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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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.This study presents the rational design and synthesis of a highly luminescent polymeric nanocomposite. Initially, highly fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method using citric acid and β‐alanine as precursors, followed by rigorous purification through centrifugation and filtration.
Yunus Emre Toprak +2 more
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Ecology and EvolutionAlpine ecosystems harbour a rich and highly specialised biodiversity, which is particularly susceptible to anthropogenic disturbances such as habitat loss and fragmentation as well as to climate change.
Michele Chiacchio +3 more
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ProceedingsThis study aligns with the Rural Pact’s Long-Term Vision for European Rural Areas by encouraging multi-level collaboration and stakeholder engagement to address rural needs.
Maria João Parreira, Iva Pires
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Engaging With Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach
, 2017 Vexing problems of global environmental change call for better conceptual and analytical approaches for understanding human behaviors, factors influencing these behaviors, and the causal pathways through which these shape social and environmental ...
Ingalls, Micah, Stedman, Richard
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityThe growing need for alternative agri-food systems has become prominent, emphasizing local alternatives that prioritize long-term socio-ecological sustainability.
Inés Gutiérrez-Briceño +8 more
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Toward a typology for social-ecological systems [PDF]
, 2009 Characterizing and understanding social-ecological systems (SESs) is increasingly necessary to answer questions about the development of sustainable human settlements.
Alessa, L, Altaweel, M, Kliskey, A
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Social Ecological Systems in Flux
Annual Review of SociologyA world in flux confronts the present generation, raising fears of systems gone awry. Whether it is the prospect of runaway climate change or the dangers of unbridled artificial intelligence, these dilemmas suggest that scientific and technological remedies have not been matched by progress in harnessing social and political capacities for collective ...
Lejano, Raul, Stokols, Daniel
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