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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"social-ecological systems"”.
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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 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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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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The Impacts of Biofuel Expansion on the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems in Ethiopia
… expansion as a disturbance to the resilience of social-ecological systems. Examining this issue through a resilience framework illustrates the dynamics of such systems, identifying potential trade-offs and regime shifts. Additionally, this research highlights the differentiated impacts for actors …
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Consequences of Spatial Exploitation in Complex Adaptive Social-Ecological Systems: Managing for Sustainable Freshwater Fisheries
Freshwater fisheries are complex adaptive social-ecological systems structured by coupled feedbacks between fish and people (e.g., anglers). For example, fishing quality influences angler site choices, and anglers reciprocally impact fish populations at chosen sites through size-selective harvest, …
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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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Climate variability in social-ecological systems of the Southern Cape: integrating farming and fishing perspectives
… in the South Africa’s terrestrial and marine ecosystems, where it is difficult to predict how different habitats may respond to these changes in natural systems, particularly at local levels. For example, the highly complex nature of climate variability in the southern Cape and on the Agulhas …
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Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation
… for relationships between natural components, social and natural components, and within society itself. These incoherencies have distracted the ecosystem services concept away from its initial grounds: the reliance of humans upon the natural world. The faults of these three arenas are reviewed …
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Modes of production, metabolism and resilience: toward a framework for the analysis of complex social-ecological systems
… the terrain of sociological theory and practice. Systems-based approaches to the study of human society, located at the interface between the natural and social sciences have since yielded to a fragmentary body of theory and practice. Subsequent developments such as the emergence of actor network …
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Understanding the complexity and dynamics of mangrove social-ecological systems through the use of a resilience approach in Unguja, Zanzibar
… to achieving sustainable management of mangrove systems in Unguja Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania. However, this concern, and responses to the perceived threat to date, do not appear to be informed by a clear understanding of the complexity and capacity of mangrove Social-Ecological Systems (SES) at …
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From conceptual diagrams to semi-quantitative models of social-ecological systems: exploring fuzzy cognitive mapping for a coastal fisheries system in the Southern Cape, South Africa
… the resilience and adaptability of marine social-ecological systems is crucial for achieving long-term conservation success, necessitating systems-based, inclusive, and communicable approaches. Qualitative modelling, particularly fuzzy-logic cognitive mapping (FCM), offers a promising …
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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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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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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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Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Governance of the Colombian Amazon in a Post-Peace Accord Scenario A Social Ecological Study with Cacua People
… of sustainability and conservation, Traditional Ecological Knowledge – the system of beliefs and practices Indigenous Peoples hold about their relationships with their surroundings – has significance for the Indigenous Peoples in the Colombian Amazon in navigating the shifts of social-ecological …
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Sustainable development: Why is it not delivering on its promises?
… factors affect sustainability in complex coupled social-ecological systems. Furthermore, it analyses the role of power relations and imbalances between economic and conservation forces with regard to sustainable development. The original contribution to knowledge of this thesis is based on one …
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Conservation and resilience to drought: a social-ecological perspective on conservation areas 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 remote sensing to investigate two …
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Climate Change Vulnerabilities in Loíza: The Role of Transportation in Enhancing Resilience
… in Loíza are prevalent in both physical and social dimensions. The social-ecological systems indicate that a change in one component will trigger an effect in the other regardless if physical or not, suggesting that the examination of vulnerabilities cannot be done overlooking one dimension. …
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A socio-ecological systems approach to understanding development in a dynamic world : a case study of traditional agriculture in Pondoland, South Africa
… sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice. These issues all come to a head in the rural smallholder agricultural regions of "underdeveloped" Africa .In these settings climate change and food security are but two of the many challenges faced on a daily basis, compounded by the …
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