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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"ecological system"”.
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Irish Sea : a socio-ecological system
… to look beyond the coastal zone and adopt an ecosystem-based approach to sustainable use and conservation in marine management. At the same time there has been a growing recognition that ecosystem management involves coupled, complex socio-ecological systems which are inherently unpredictable due …
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Wildfire risk: a participatory approach in an alpine socio-ecological system
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Ecotourism as a Social-Ecological System: A Case Study in Guanacaste, Costa Rica
… of tourism study that incorporates social-ecological systems (SES) theory. This dissertation responds by assessing ecotourism as an SES in a dryland setting, addressing the question: "What key characteristics of ecotourism increase social-ecological resilience?" The study site is Santa Rosa …
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Understanding the social in a social-ecological system: a perceptions study on the Diep River estuary, Cape Town
… with interlinking and interdependent social and ecological dimensions. One approach to grasping the complexities of human-nature interactions is to view them as social-ecological systems (SESs). The SES perspective reveals key links between the social and ecological dimensions that would …
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Intra-metropolitan migration and town characteristics: a description of the Boston Metropolitan area as a dynamic social ecological system.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1967.
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Bayesian participatory-based decision analysis : an evolutionary, adaptive formalism for integrated analysis of complex challenges to social-ecological system sustainability
… who are dealing with complex social-ecological system sustainability and decision-making challenges. To this end, we propose a new approach, called Bayesian Participatory-based Decision Analysis (BPDA), which makes use of graphical causal maps and Bayesian networks to facilitate …
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Usefulness of an Expanded Health Belief Model With Added Constructs (Self-Efficacy And Ecological System Measures) in Modeling Compliance With Healthy Lifestyle Recommendations in Women With a Recent History of Gestational Diabetes
… diabetes, diagnosed with diabetes) and specific ecological/environmental (social/community support) cues to action, we were able to improve prediction of compliance with healthy lifestyle recommendations in women with a recent history of GDM.</p>
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Moms on a mission : a case study exploring the socio-ecological impact of a pre-trial intervention program on participant self agency.
… this single case study was to employ the socio-ecological system framework (Bronfenbrenner, 1992) to investigate how the ReMerge program impacts the sense of agency of mothers involved in the justice system at each layer of her socio-ecological system. This qualitative case study examined how …
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Towards synthetic ecology : genetically programmable 4-module population control system in yeast
… these challenges, I demonstrate a synthetic ecological system as a proof of principle to observe microbial population level behaviors. Using a formalized design process and engineering principles, I design and construct a synthetic multi-module ecological system for population homeostasis. …
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Strategic revegetation planning in an agricultural landscape: A spatial information technology approach
… techniques are used in environmental modelling, ecological assessment and in setting geographic priorities for strategic revegetation planning in the Mt. Lofty Ranges in South Australia. This is one of the first assessments of the adequacy and representativeness of remnants in an agricultural …
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Coupling Agent-Based Models with Bayesian Belief Networks in Social-Ecological Systems Modeling: The Role of Uncertainty in the Resilience of Semi-Arid Riparian Corridors in the Sonoran Desert
Resiliency, or the ability of ecosystems to absorb change, is a particularly challenging goal for systems with a high interconnectivity of their social and ecological sub-systems, dubbed social-ecological systems. Exploring potential effects of policy decisions and/or changes in climate are …
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Strategic sustainability and industrial ecology in an island context, with considerations for a green economy roadmap: a study in the tourist accommodation sector, Grenada.
… in perpetuity are challenged by the socio-ecological system that constitutes sustainability. But all businesses have materials, energy and waste flows, (MEWFs) and a more strategic approach to managing these flows can assist businesses with the sustainability challenge. Firstly however, …
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Social Demands and Geospatial Distributions of Urban Green Spaces and Blue Spaces
… in cities provide a wealth of benefits (or ecosystem services) to the urban social-ecological system. But with increasing urban populations and development, concerns about human wellbeing have also grown, especially in relation to the management of overstressed green and blue spaces. The …
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Considering one's option when the fish leave: a case study of the traditional commercial handline fishery of the Southern Cape
… traditional handline fishery affect the social-ecological system of a region as a whole. Fishers need to cope with these local global changes and require systems that support their strategies to achieve resilience. Furthermore, stressors that drive variability in the fishery system occur on …
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A Comparative Study on Rumah Kanak-Kanak (Children Residential Home) and Rumah Tunas Harapan (Foster Home) in Malaysia: A Child-Centric Perspective
… of Symbolic Interactionism and Bronfenbrenner?s Ecological System Theory, but are explainable from a new perspective of conflict. Overall, more foster children were found to have better experiences and views as compared to their counterparts in children?s homes.
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A study of U.S. adoption breakdown : exploring current factors associated with breakdown and challenging times in adoption adjustment.
… to take steps towards these goals through a systematic review of current literature on adoption breakdown in the U.S., exploration of present factors associated with adoption breakdown, and finally, by investigating adoptive families' adjustment process in adoption from the perspective of the …
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Quantifying New Teacher Relational Competence with At-Risk Adolescents
… from poverty as they interact in a dynamic ecological system.|Keywords: Ecological Systems Theory, relational competences, new teachers, attrition, at-risk adolescents
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Using behavior change and social-ecological frameworks to inform riparian forest buffer outreach in the Maryland Upper Potomac watershed
… forest buffer adoption in a complex social-ecological system is needed. Employing qualitative methods, we integrated social-ecological and behavior change frameworks to better understand riparian forest buffer outreach and adoption in the Maryland Upper Potomac watershed. We conducted …
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The development of the contested city form of Shenzhen, China
… livability, public spaces, seafront fabric, and ecological system.
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Aqua.Street.Scapes: Interpreting Natural Hydrologic Processes while Enhancing the Urban Streetscape
… an improved 'great street' in Washington DC. A system of urban aquifers is developed beneath the surface of the street, perched atop the compacted, impermeable soils below. This set of aquifers prevents stormwater from entering the existing combined sewer and allows trees to draw water from this …
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