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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"social-ecological systems (SES)"”.
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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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Exploring Power in the Theory and Practice of Resilience
This thesis explores the question of how social power is accounted for in the theory and practice of resilience. Beginning with a critical assessment of the social ecological systems (SES) perspective that underpins much of the theory and study of resilience, this thesis develops a framework, based …
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Tangled lines : Examining Western and Central Pacific Tuna Social-ecological Systems
… re-conceptualise the way in which oceans and the SESs they support are understood and governed. Contrary to traditional fisheries management frameworks, this thesis focusses on developing and testing an integrated transdisciplinary framework to examine SES networks. Western and Central Pacific …
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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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Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery
… Africa’s southern Cape coast, informed by social-ecological systems (SES) thinking, and directed by a participatory action research approach, the work facilitated the co-development of a series of applied responses to local challenges identified by research participants including commercial …
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Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Engage Stakeholders in the Search for Solutions to Emerging Environmental Challenges
… supplies around the world. This body of work focuses on the Occoquan Reservoir in Northern Virginia and uses fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) to characterize stakeholder understanding of the social-ecological system (SES) for freshwater salinization in the Occoquan. A total of thirty-five stakeholders …
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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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Development of a scenario-based approach for responding to change in fishery systems: a case study in the small-scale fisheries of South Africa's Southern Cape
… challenges brought on by change in their marine social-ecological systems (SES). The resulting complexity and uncertainty hamper their ability to achieve sustainability while holding implications for decision-making at various scales: fishers need to respond proactively to change at smaller …
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The equity and efficiency of incentives to manage ecosystem services for natural resource conservation and rural development Case studies from Lombok, Indonesia and Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil
… institutions align with the local biophysical, social, economic, and political dimensions of the social-ecological systems (SES) in which they are implemented. The thesis examines the ways in which incentives are used to manage ecosystem services and their institutional effectiveness to alter …