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Navigating Social-Ecological Systems
2001In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change.
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Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications
Environment and Development Economics, 2012AbstractSystems linking people and nature, known as social-ecological systems, are increasingly understood as complex adaptive systems. Essential features of these complex adaptive systems – such as nonlinear feedbacks, strategic interactions, individual and spatial heterogeneity, and varying time scales – pose substantial challenges for modeling ...
Levin, Simon +16 more
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Watersheds as Social-Ecological Systems
2016Watersheds are platforms for interaction of human and natural systems in common scenarios of IWRM. As a discipline, watershed management is similar to IWRM because it also focuses on coordinated management of water, land, and related resources. It builds on watershed science, which explains how watersheds function, and the concept of social-ecological ...
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Maintaining cooperation in social-ecological systems:
Theoretical Ecology, 2016Natural resources are vulnerable to over-exploitation in the absence of effective management. However, norms, enforced by social ostracism, can promote cooperation and increase stock biomass in common-pool resource systems. Unfortunately, the long-term sustainable use of a resource is not assured even if cooperation, maintained by ostracism and aimed ...
Andrew R. Tilman +2 more
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Social-Ecological Systems in Transition
2014Section 1: Frameworks and concepts1. Theoretical frameworks for the analysis of social-ecological systemsGraeme S. CUMMING (University of Cape Town)Section 2: Ecosystem under human activities2. The recovery of biodiversity after swidden cultivation in the tropical rainforests of Malaysian BorneoTakenaka Kohei TAKANO (RIHN), et al.3.
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023Ariella R Korn
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