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Empowering Rural Communities on Rural Pact Implementation: A Human–Ecological Perspective on Social Innovation and Rural Young Entrepreneurship

open access: yesProceedings
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics: translating ecological data into knowledge and decisions in a rapidly changing world: ICEI 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Conference Proceedings are an impressive display of the current scope of Ecological Informatics. Whilst Data Management, Analysis, Synthesis and Forecasting have been lasting popular themes over the past nine biannual ICEI conferences, ICEI 2018 ...
International Conference on Ecological Informatics
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Sustainability of Village Tank Cascade Systems of Sri Lanka: Exploring cascade anatomy and socio-ecological nexus for ecological restoration planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Village Tank Cascade Systems (VTCSs) in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka have evolved as sustainable ecosystems through human interventions to ensure water availability and other services for people and their environs during the last few millennia.
Danny Hunter   +11 more
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Trust in Public Environmental Agencies and Farmers’ Willingness to Adapt to Climate Change: Evidence from Central Chile

open access: yesLand
Climate change poses increasing challenges to agricultural systems in vulnerable territories, where climate variability, ecosystem degradation, and governance constraints interact to shape farmers’ management decisions.
Nicole Torres-Torres   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regime shifts in ecological and socio-ecological systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Alternative stable states are common in nature, as are regime shifts that take a system from one stable state to an alternative contrasting one. Regime shifts have been explored in social models, ecological models, and coupled socio-ecological models. These models show that regime shifts may be driven either by human factors (such as social norms) or ...
Sigdel, Ram
openaire   +2 more sources

Climate change perspectives of coffee farmers in Junín Mountain tropical forests and CMIP5 projections

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate
BackgroundClimate change poses a remarkable challenge for farmers due to its profound impact on ecosystems. Certain crops, such as coffee, are particularly sensitive. In Peru, global climate models project increasing temperatures, shifts in precipitation
Alexis Nicolás Ibáñez-Blancas   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Index to Measure Rural Diversity in the Light of Rural Resilience and Rural Development Debate

open access: yesEuropean Countryside, 2014
Diversity has been extensively studied in ecological systems and its relationship with resilience has been well recognized. In social and ecological systems, in fact, diversity is considered key to determining resilience where resilience is defined as ...
Quaranta Giovanni, Salvia Rosanna
doaj   +1 more source

Food, fields and forage: A socio-ecological account of cultural transitions among the Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh in India

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Traditional food systems of many ethnic communities in India directly depend on their symbiotic relationship with the surrounding natural resources and the local socio-ecological and cultural dynamics.
Aayushi Malhotra   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Effects on the Quinoa Cultivation Yield Based on Different Hydric Scenarios of the Chilean Altiplano

open access: yesHorticulturae
This study evaluates the impact of different irrigation scenarios on the yield of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) in the Chilean Altiplano. The research was conducted in Ancovinto, Tarapacá, Chile, using “Pandela” quinoa seeds.
Matías Sánchez-Monje, Jorge Olave
doaj   +1 more source

Comprehensive Diagnostic Framework and Application of Water Balance in Water Source Area of West Route of South-to-North Water Diversion Project [PDF]

open access: yes长江科学院院报
[Objective] This study aims to develop a comprehensive diagnostic method for evaluating the water balance status across water resources, ecosystems, and socio-economic systems in the context of large-scale water management projects.
ZHANG You-sheng, WEI Jia-hua, SHI Yang, HOU Ming-lei
doaj   +1 more source

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