CHANS-Net: The International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems

• The effect of anthropogenic and environmental factors in coupled human‐natural systems: Evidence from Lake Zürich

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Exploiting a rich data set including both individual fishing activities and ecology, we study how eutrophication and climate warming influence plankton biodiversity in Lake Zürich and the consequent effects on fishers’ behavior and fishery yield.

• Assessing resilience and sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system

  Published on May 17, 2024
  This book contains 14 articles selected from a special issue on the assessment of resilience and sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system. This effort is supported in part by a U. S. National Science Foundation ...

• A practical guide for managing interdisciplinary teams: Lessons learned from coupled natural and human systems research

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Interdisciplinary team science is essential to address complex socio-environmental questions, but it also presents unique challenges.

• Inclusive non-market valuation in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): a motivating theory

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Selectively focusing non-market valuation studies for operational changes in singular stretches or components of complex, coupled human and natural systems ignores important social and cultural dimensions of value.

• A spatial evaluation of global wildfire-water risks to human and natural systems

  Published on May 17, 2024
  The large mediatic coverage of recent massive wildfires across the world has emphasized the vulnerability of freshwater resources.

• A coupled human–natural systems framework of community resilience

  Published on May 17, 2024
  This article compares and contrasts resilience frameworks to identify commonalities and gaps.

• Structuring and evaluating decision support processes to enhance the robustness of complex human–natural systems

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Decision-making in the context of complex human–natural systems requires a transition towards robust model-based inferences which are effective despite uncertainties of human and climate driven change.

• Impacts of REDD+ payments on a coupled human-natural system in Amazonia

  Published on May 17, 2024
  We used a hybrid optimization-agent-based model to simulate REDD+ payment scenarios to farm households in the old deforestation frontier of Rondônia, Brazil.

• Understanding the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system: Research methods, challenges, and prospects

  Published on May 17, 2024
  A pressing question facing the Mississippi River Delta, like many deltaic communities around the world, is: Will the system be sustainable in the future given the threats of sea level rise, land loss, natural disasters, and depleting natural re...

• From concept to practice to policy: modeling coupled natural and human systems in lake catchments

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Recent debate over the scope of the U.S. Clean Water Act underscores the need to develop a robust body of scientific work that defines the connectivity between freshwater systems and people.

• Causal inference in coupled human and natural systems

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are complex, dynamic, interconnected systems with feedback across social and environmental dimensions.

• Adapting to the challenges of international and interdisciplinary research of coupled human and natural systems

  Published on May 17, 2024
  We examine the collaborative practices of an interdisciplinary research team working across Cameroon and the United States to study the dynamics of a floodplain fishery as a coupled social-ecological system.

• Towards Human-Wildlife Coexistence through the Integration of Human and Natural Systems The Case of Grey Wolves in the Rocky Mountains, USA

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Wildlife conservation in the Anthropocene means there is a pressing need to find ways for wildlife and humans to share landscapes.

• Structure, function, and dynamic mechanisms of coupled human–natural systems

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Many integrated interdisciplinary studies have been conducted to coupling human and natural systems, in which concepts such as human–natural systems, human–environment systems, and socio-ecological systems are prevalent.

• Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty

  Published on May 17, 2024
  Modeling is a crucial approach for understanding the past and exploring the future of coupled human-natural systems.

• Impacts of REDD+ payments on a coupled human-natural system in Amazonia

  Published on May 17, 2024
  We used a hybrid optimization-agent-based model to simulate REDD+ payment scenarios to farm households in the old deforestation frontier of Rondônia, Brazil.

• Integrating social and ecological data to model metapopulation dynamics in coupled human and natural systems

  Published on May 16, 2024
  Understanding how metapopulations persist in dynamic working landscapes requires assessing the behaviors of key actors that change patches as well as intrinsic factors driving turnover. Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research uses a multid...

• Complexity of the Socio-Ecological Dynamics in Hong Ha Commune in the Vietnamese Highland-A Review through the Coupled Human and Natural Systems Framework

  Published on May 16, 2024
  In Vietnam, government policies have led to improvements in the national forest cover and poverty situation. However, numerous recent case studies in the Vietnamese highland found that socio-ecological dynamics were highly complex on a local scale, r...

• Seven Approaches to Manage Complex Coupled Human and Natural Systems: A Sustainability Toolbox

  Published on May 16, 2024
  Since the publication of the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, there have been numerous studies on sustainability.

• Early Successional Forest Management on Private Lands as a Coupled Human and Natural System

  Published on May 16, 2024
  Facilitating voluntary conservation on private lands is a crucial element of policies that seek to mitigate forest habitat loss and fragmentation around the world. Previous research emphasizes the role of social factors (e.g., landowner characteristi...