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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"social-ecological system"”.
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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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Understanding the social in a social-ecological system: a perceptions study on the Diep River estuary, Cape Town
… this challenge by re-integrating the natural and social sciences, bridging the gap in our understanding of how society interacts with nature in an urban context. There are areas in cities where these interactions and relationships between society and nature are extremely complex, with interlinking …
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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
… and decision-makers 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 …
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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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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
… along the South African coast. Both natural and social changes in the 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, …
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Using behavior change and social-ecological frameworks to inform riparian forest buffer outreach in the Maryland Upper Potomac watershed
… riparian 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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Understanding perceptions of social-ecological systems and preferences for the future in protected area communities
There are few intact natural ecosystems remaining in the world. In Alaska, vast tracts of public land include entire ecosystems and support well-being and quality of life for tourists and local residents. Denali National Park and Preserve and Denali State Park in particular, are prime examples of …
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Unveiling Causal Links, Temporal Patterns, and System-Level Dynamics of Freshwater Salinization Using Transit Time Distribution Theory
… United States, within its diverse environmental, social and political contexts. Using extensive data collected over 25 years, this research quantifies contributions of multiple salinity sources to the rising concentration of sodium (a major ion associated with the FSS) in the reservoir and the …
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Dynamics of Social-ecological Traps: The Case of Small-scale fisheries in the Philippines
… human-environment 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 …
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Dynamics of Social-ecological Traps: The Case of Small-scale fisheries in the Philippines
… human-environment 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 …
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What lies beneath: probing the cultural depths of a nature conservation conflict in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
… conditioning the community are natural and social. Buffeted by the Atlantic sea and perched at the periphery of the most westerly inhabited islands in Scotland, linguistically different to mainland Scotland, religiously distinct from much of the rest of the Hebrides and bearing the …
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Cross-scale resilience for organisations: A study of three geographic regions
… of resilience and embrace complex dynamics in social-ecological systems (Williams et al., 2021). A social-ecological system is a self-organising assembly of physical, biological and geographical elements moving through phases of an adaptive cycle (Gunderson & Holling, 2012). Cross-scale …
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Sustainability of the gooseneck barnacle fishery in Asturias. Trends, drivers and lessons
… are no longer seen as the disruptors of the ecosystem but as an essential part of a linked social-ecological system. As part of this paradigm shift strategies like community participation and holistic management approaches have been promoted. Nonetheless, in order to assess the performance of …
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Migration decision-making under environmental change: Place utility, mobility and ecosystem services in highland Peru
… degradation. This thesis investigates the social and environmental mechanisms that lead to individuals adopting migration as an adaptation to environmental change. It argues that the use of migration as a response to environmental change depends on the ecosystem services available at …
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The values underpinning Iceland's food system risk : implications for resilience planning
… change threatens to exacerbate these food system weaknesses. Yet Iceland has no contingency plan, and adaptation measures are absent from national climate change reports. While this gap could be perceived as negligence, to do so assumes a universalistic framework for risk and resilience -- …
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Human environment interactions and collaborative adaptive capacity building in a resilience framework
… dominance is significantly impacting the earth's systems, my research objective was in response to the concern and call of the National Science Foundation and of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change that humanity needs to develop new strategies to tackle …
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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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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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