Publications
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Identifying the dynamic evolution and feedback process of water resources nexus system considering socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food security: A practical tool for sustainable water use
Published on December 21, 2021
The accelerated consumption of water resources caused by the rapid increase in population and urbanization is intensifying the complex interactions across water resources, socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food security (WSEF), wh... -
The coupled socio-ecohydrological evolution of river systems: Towards an integrative perspective of river systems in the 21st century
Published on December 20, 2021
River systems have undergone a massive transformation since the Anthropocene. The natural properties of river systems have been drastically altered and reshaped, limiting the use of management frameworks, their scientific knowledge base and their abi... -
Local And Telecoupling Coordination Degree Model Of Urbanization And The Eco-environment Based On Rs And Gis: A Case Study In The Wuhan Urban Agglomeration
Published on December 18, 2021
With the development of globalization, telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions between distant places) is proposed as a relatively new concept. On this basis, the coupling of urbanization and the ecoenvironment (UE) has a new defin... -
Building Climate Resilience in Rainfed Landscapes Needs More Than Good Will
Published on December 16, 2021
Rainfed smallholder farming is particularly vulnerable to climate change, which can greatly exacerbate existing poverty and livelihood challenges. Understanding the complexity of the systems that connect the environment, society and people can help u... -
Formal Tests for Resistance-Resilience in Archaeological Time Series
Published on December 13, 2021
The study of resilience is a common pathway for scientific data to inform policy and practice towards impending climate change. Consequently, understanding the mechanisms and features that contribute towards building resilience is a key goal of much ... -
The evolution of knowledge processing and the sustainability conundrum
Published on December 9, 2021
Non-technical summary Our time seems to be trapped in a paradox. On the one hand, the capacity to master information has tremendously increased, but on the other hand the capacity to use the knowledge humanity produces seems at stake. There is a gap ... -
Reflections on Enhancing the Impact of Climate Risk Management Through Transformative Adaptation
Published on December 8, 2021
Climate risk management is part of the response to the threat of climate change. Much effort has focused on the promotion on climate-resilient agriculture. There continues to be undue focus on technology solutions per se and not enough attention on t... -
Understanding the co-evolutionary relationships between Indigenous cultures and non-native species can inform more effective approaches to conservation: the example of pigs pua'a; Sus scrofa in Hawai'i
Published on December 8, 2021
Indigenous resource management (IRM) is dynamic and ever evolving, in part because it is based on co-evolutionary relationships between Indigenous cultures and the biodiversity around them. Forms of conservation imposed on Indigenous people and place... -
Marine heatwave challenges solutions to human-wildlife conflict
Published on December 8, 2021
Despite the increasing frequency and magnitude of extreme climate events, little is known about how their impacts flow through social and ecological systems or whether management actions can dampen deleterious effects. We examined how the record 2014... -
Beyond the Tree-Line: The C3-C4 Grass-Line Can Track Global Change in the World's Grassy Mountain Systems
Published on December 7, 2021
von Humboldt's tree-line concept has dominated mountain ecology for almost two hundred years, and is considered a key indicator for monitoring change in biome boundaries and biodiversity shifts under climate change. Even though the concept of life zo... -
Grand Challenges in Environmental Systems Engineering
Published on December 6, 2021
The world is facing multiple environmental challenges simultaneously, such as environmental pollution, climate change, energy security, resource availability, ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss. Tackling these challenges has become increasi... -
A study on livelihood resilience in the small-scale fisheries of Ghana using a structural equation modelling approach
Published on December 1, 2021
Livelihood resilience is one of the social-ecological concepts with importance for development, policy and research as crises from human-environment interactions are becoming intense and widespread. Nevertheless, measuring livelihood resilience is a ... -
Assessing organizational readiness to adapt to climate change in a regional protected areas context: lessons learned from Canada
Published on December 1, 2021
Parks and other forms of protected areas worldwide face significant threats from rapid climatic and associated ecological change. While the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change on biodiversity is widely acknowledged, and the extant literatu... -
Integrated landscape approaches to building resilience and multifunctionality in the Kailash Sacred Landscape, China
Published on December 1, 2021
Climate warming-induced rangeland degradation in arid and semiarid steppe imposes substantial threats to the livelihoods of people. But this dilemma can be solved by combining all sectors of agriculture, animal husbandry and tourism through their com... -
Facing the Forecaster's Dilemma: Reflexivity in Ocean System Forecasting
Published on December 1, 2021
Unlike atmospheric weather forecasting, ocean forecasting is often reflexive; for many applications, the forecast and its dissemination can change the outcome, and is in this way, a part of the system. Reflexivity has implications for several ocean f... -
Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS
Published on December 1, 2021
Companies play a decisive role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, most of the world's sustainable development challenges are interconnected and systemic in their nature. How can companies ensure that their strategies effe... -
Building adaptive capacity in a changing Arctic by use of technology
Published on December 1, 2021
Rapid Arctic warming, manifested as thawing permafrost, loss of coastal sea ice, sea level rise, and climate-related extreme events, is particularly challenging for Indigenous people relying on wild food to sustain their livelihood and culture. The a... -
Coupling and Coordinating Relationship between Tourism Economy and Ecological Environment-A Case Study of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Published on December 1, 2021
The tourism environment is the basis of sustainable development in the tourism economy. Exploring the coupling relationship between tourism economy and ecological environment systems can promote not only ecology-based tourism, but also contribute to ... -
Of Animal Husbandry and Food Production-A First Step towards a Modular Agent-Based Modelling Platform for Socio-Ecological Dynamics
Published on December 1, 2021
Agent-based models provide detailed, bottom-up approaches to investigate complex socio-ecological systems. This study presents a first step towards a modular agent-based simulation that is based upon empirical data, as well as environmental suitabili... -
Mapping eucalypts trees using high resolution multispectral images: A study comparing WorldView 2 vs. SPOT 7
Published on December 1, 2021
Invasive alien plants are considered as a major threat to many ecological and socio-economic systems. Nevertheless, the management of some of these plants is often controversial due to the positive socioeconomic and ecosystem roles they play. This ne...
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