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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"social ecological"”.
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A Social Ecological Approach To Cyber Bullying
… or bullying through the use of technology. The Social Ecological Model was used as a guide to examine the development of cyber bullying through the dynamic interactions between adolescents and their social environment (i.e., peer group, family, and school). The main goal of the study was to …
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Institutions and social-ecological synergies in Indian agriculture
… synergizing livelihood enhancement and agro-ecological sustainability. Systematic knowledge of synergies and causal pathways through which they are generated remains limited. This study addresses this gap by examining the role of institutions as drivers of synergies and tradeoffs between …
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Hepatitis C: A Perspective Through the Social Ecological Model
<p>Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major global public health problem. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) affects 3.2 million Americans and 500 million people from a global standpoint (CDC, 2012). HCV contributes to significant morbidity and …
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Social-Ecological and Protective Factor Approach to Managing Parental Incarceration
… protective factors across the lifecycle from a social-ecological perspective and specifically related to parental incarceration. The comprehensive literature review inspired an innovative model, the social-ecological and protective factor approach to managing parental incarceration. The primary …
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Facilitating Sustainable Use of the Rio Grande: A Social-Ecological Perspective
… was undertaken in several steps. Changes in ecologically-important aspects of streamflow and changes in fish assemblages for four reaches of the river, governed by different water management policies and practices, were identified and evaluated. A historical profile of the basin was …
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A Social Ecological Perspective On Diabetes Care: Supporting Adolescents And Caregivers
… with diabetes face unique risks for which social support may be one protective factor. The importance of social support from family and friends is well documented in the literature. Support for the caregiver and support from the health care provider, conversely, are understudied. These four …
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Tangled lines : Examining Western and Central Pacific Tuna Social-ecological Systems
… fisheries are faced with complex and interlinked social and ecological challenges including high seas management issues, setting sustainable limits, climate change impacts, human rights violations, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated activities. At odds with this complexity, strong but narrow …
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Social-ecological assessment framework for the restoration of the Iraqi Mesopotamian Marshlands
… that recognizes the marshes as a complex social-ecological system. This study builds a social-ecological assessment framework to restore the marshes using a resilience thinking approach. This work describes the system and identifies specified resilience as a part of an integrated …
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Mismatches in salmon social-ecological systems : insights from Canada’s North Pacific Coast
… some of the world’s most resilient and enduring social-ecological systems. Mismatches between institutions and social-ecological systems, often referred to as institutional mismatches or problems of “fit”, are a major sustainability challenge in natural resource management. While mismatches are …
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Social ecological determinants of occupational zoonotic disease exposure on Colorado dairy farms
… can be challenging. Due to the complexity of the social ecological system, and it requires comprehensive, integrative, and culturally compelling interventions. It has been demonstrated that the behavior of the person at risk can affect their exposure to infectious agents. As demonstrated in other …
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Multi-scale, social-ecological influences on private land conservation in South Africa
In understanding the behaviour of social-ecological systems, much focus has been placed on the role of institutions that govern how natural resources should be managed, and the biophysical processes affected by this management. Somewhat less attention has been given to the role played by the …
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Data-Driven Modeling For Social-Ecological Resilience within a One Health Framework
… and environmental health systems; the concept of social-ecological resilience (SER) incorporates the social, cultural, and political factors that can also impact how health systems respond and adapt to changes into this framework. This dissertation adopts this approach to health systems to …
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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 …
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Social-ecological systems resilience in changing rural landscapes of the Midwestern United States
… sphere of influence to deliberately affect social-ecological systems. Human and natural processes are interlinked, non-linear, and emergent. This dissertation has explored the application of resilience thinking to sense of place as a conceptual basis for envisioning ideal environmental …
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Bringing them together: integrating economic and social-ecological dimensions in corporate decision-making
The integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions is essential for corporate sustainability. Integration requires that there be no a priori priority among these dimensions. Economic priorities, however, often dominate decision-making processes in for-profit organisations. This thesis …
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Developing a conceptual framework to assess the social-ecological resilience of the Canadian agroecosystem
There is a pressing need to develop a coherent and appropriate conceptualization of ‘resilience’ in the context of agricultural production as well as a tool for its practical assessment. Here I do both. I use a systematic and integrative approach to review and assess recent conceptualizations of …
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Investigating the Social-Ecological Trade-Offs Between Removing and Preserving Mangroves in New Zealand
… to take place. This thesis investigates the social-ecological trade-offs between removing and preserving mangroves in New Zealand. The research approach employs a mixed methods Holistic Mangrove Framework, which explores gaps in the social-ecological monitoring of mangroves both nationwide …
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Climate impacts and adaptation in the Dungeness crab fishery: a social-ecological systems perspective
… within and between coupled human and ecological communities. I first considered trophic-mediated climate risk to juvenile Dungeness crab, demonstrating the value of molecular diet analysis (“dDNA”) in understanding risk to, and potential adaptability of, marine species facing disrupted …
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