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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"human-environment systems"”.
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Leveraging Human-environment Systems in Residential Buildings for Aggregate Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
Reducing the energy consumed in the built environment is a key objective in many sustainability initiatives. Existing energy saving methods have consisted of physical interventions to buildings and/or behavioral modifications of occupants. However, such methods may not only suffer from their own …
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Understanding the role of climate uncertainty in analyses of coupled human-environment systems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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A Grounded Theory Study of Systems Theory and Clothing and Textiles Theories for the Development of a Dynamic, Complex Human Systems Theory
… research design was used to examine documents on systems theory found outside the field of Clothing and Textiles (CT) and the social psychological theories used within CT. Recognizing the dynamic, complex nature of the human system and its interaction with multiple other systems led to the …
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Tracking Disaster Dynamics for Urban Resilience: Human-Mobility and Semantic Perspectives
… the impact of natural disasters on interactive human-environment systems as well as the dynamic process of resilience, including human mobility, spatial networks, and coupled mobility and sentiment perspectives. In the first, human-mobility perspective, I examine the nuanced impact of a severe …
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Comparative Ecological Modeling for Long-term Solution of Excess Nitrogen Loading to Surface Waters and Related Chronic and Systemic Human-Environment Problems
Concurrent environmental problems including 1) excess CO2 emissions and climate change, 2) excess nitrogen export and eutrophication of surface waters, and 3) dependence on non-renewable fossil fuel energy supplies can be considered interdependent symptoms of a single systemic "humans in the …
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Gains and Losses in Ecosystem Services: Trade-off and Efficiency Perspectives
Humans rely on nature for various ecosystem services to enhance their well-being. However, the gains in human well-being have been achieved at the losses in many ecosystem services. One of the key challenges in ecosystem service science is to determine how to manage ecosystems for multiple services …
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Social and ecological risk factors for mosquito production in residential neighborhoods
… Culicidae) transmit many pathogens that affect human and wildlife health, including West Nile, Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses. Since vaccines are not currently available for many of these pathogens, control of the vectors is the most effective method to reduce disease risk. In the United …
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Grasping complexity: analysing risk for sustainable development
Sustainable development relies on our ability to make decisions today that will determine our tomorrow. Given that uncertainty is explicitly allowed to influence our view of what the future holds for us, most ex ante analyses of challenges for sustainable development can be viewed as analysing …