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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"social-ecological resilience"”.
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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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Pushing the Boundaries of Freshwater Ecosystem Restoration: Evaluating a Conservation Initiative in Terms of Social-Ecological Resilience
… to aquatic ecosystem restoration informed by social-ecological resilience as a way of applying current understandings of complex adaptive systems to restoration for improved outcomes. Trout Unlimited Canada’s Stream Rehabilitation, From Form to Function Training Program was assessed and …
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Assessing social-ecological resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of climate change: An examination of three communities in the Crown of the Continent ecosystem
<p>This research examines the social-ecological resilience and adaptive capacity of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem through a suite of three case study communities and the impacts of climate change on the ecosystem's hydrologic regime. The Crown of the Continent Ecosystem spans the …
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Cultivating Resilience: The Contribution of Community Gardens during COVID-19 in Pomona, California
… functions and meaning of community gardens to social-ecological resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Spring of 2021, I conducted mixed method case studies on informal and formal community gardens in Pomona, California. Qualitative methods included open-ended questions relating 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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A phenomenographic study of lived experience in a residential street in a small city in the Scottish Highlands
… urban spaces drawing on narrative methods, social ecological resilience and phenomenography. The research also makes recommendations for policy and practice in the consultation process for urban planning initiatives.<br/>The area is a historic residential area on the periphery of Inverness …
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AVOIDING COLLAPSE: RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN VULNERABLE SMALL ISLANDS
… Areas (MPA) have a proven ability to meet ecological goals, such as restoring fisheries and preserving ecosystem function across scales. However, there is a comparative lack of scientific baseline data and social research which may help local MPA to overcome failures in achieving mixed …
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Exploring culturally meaningful definitions of justice and resilience through the lens of sovereign Indigenous foodways
… justice, food justice, and community resilience that center Indigenous communities and their perspectives. First, I conducted an integrative literature review on environmental injustice that uniquely impacts Indigenous communities, specifically as it relates to water resources. I …
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Taming the tiger: the political ecology of prawn production in Tanzania
This dissertation explores the social-ecological dynamics and consequences of global shifts in the prawn farming industry from Southeast Asia to East Africa. The main contribution of my dissertation research is its integration of ecological theory with social theory through a political ecology …
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Social resilience, place and identity in the small-scale North Norfolk “Cromer Crab” fishery, UK
… and attachment and their implications for social resilience. Like many coastal fishing towns, Cromer has become less reliant on fishing and the future of the fishery, central to the town’s identity, appears to be in question. Although the fishing community has been reduced, the remaining …
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Conservation and resilience to drought: a social-ecological perspective on conservation areas in Kenya's Southern Maasailand
… in Kenya’s Southern Maasailand interplay with resilience to drought. Using a social-ecological systems perspective and a resilience lens, this thesis makes use of data from quantitative and qualitative methods, including a household survey, semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and …
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Bōsai, Tsunami
… needs is vital in building the nation’s social-ecological resilience. Located in the Circum-pacific of “Ring of Fire” and surrounded by sea, Japan, with an extreme range of topographic and geomorphological landscape, is highly prone to disasters. The south coastal belt of the islands is …
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Exploring the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of managing marine ecosystems
… greatest challenges to achieving a sustainable social-ecological future. Coastal marine ecosystems are essential for social-ecological resilience, providing vital services such as biodiversity enhancement, clean water, increased fish stocks and coastal protection. Despite increasing efforts, the …
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Understanding perceptions of social-ecological systems and preferences for the future in protected area communities
… process is critical for balancing ecological and human well-being, as well as ensuring social-ecological landscapes are resilient. Community perspectives in protected area management are often underrepresented, but essential to fostering environmental stewardship and establishing …
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Dynamics of Social-ecological Traps: The Case of Small-scale fisheries in the Philippines
… interactions that drive a system into a social-ecological trap, a persistently unsustainable and undesirable social-ecological system. Recent research on social-ecological traps points to some gaps in the conceptualisation and analysis of these resilient yet pathological social-ecological …
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Dynamics of Social-ecological Traps: The Case of Small-scale fisheries in the Philippines
… interactions that drive a system into a social-ecological trap, a persistently unsustainable and undesirable social-ecological system. Recent research on social-ecological traps points to some gaps in the conceptualisation and analysis of these resilient yet pathological social-ecological …