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Resilience Theory and Wicked Problems
Published on December 1, 2020
This Article posits, first, that resilience theory offers important insights into our understanding of wicked problems and, second, that to understand the value of resilience theory to wicked problems, we should start by going back to the context of ... -
Environmental governance theories: a review and application to coastal systems
Published on December 1, 2020
This article synthesizes and compares environmental governance theories. For each theory we outline its main tenets, claims, origin, and supporting literature. We then group the theories into focused versus combinatory frameworks for comparison. The ... -
Climate Change and Health Impacts in Urban Areas: Towards Hybrid Evaluation Tools for New Governance
Published on December 1, 2020
The shift towards the new paradigm, that is, the ecological and humanistic paradigm, introduced by the United Nations in the Agenda 2030, and the current period of health emergency due to COVID-19 place the human dimension at the centre of the develo... -
The role of collaborative research in learning to incorporate values of the public in social ecological system governance: case study of bushfire risk planning
Published on December 1, 2020
Values of the public are a key and dynamic component of bushfire governance SES. Learning to work with these values is a significant challenge for government and environmental managers and an important aspect of policy transition in many contexts. Du... -
Profiling resilience and adaptation in mega deltas: A comparative assessment of the Mekong, Yellow, Yangtze, and Rhine deltas
Published on December 1, 2020
River deltas and estuaries are disproportionally-significant coastal landforms that are inhabited by nearly 600 M people globally. In recent history, rapid socio-economic development has dramatically changed many of the World's mega deltas, which hav... -
The Digital Exclusion of Vulnerable Children: Challenge for Sustainability Issues in Czech Social Work Practice
Published on December 1, 2020
The aims of this study are (1) to draw attention to the digital exclusion of vulnerable children as a systemic (socio-ecological) problem that is gaining momentum during emergencies; (2) to reflect the subjectively perceived readiness of social worke... -
Using socioeconomic system analysis to define scientific needs: a reverse engineering method applied to the conversion of a coal-fired to a wood biomass power plant
Published on December 1, 2020
One of the greatest challenges when addressing issues in complex social-ecological systems (SES), is the need for an efficient interdisciplinary framework when large-magnitude social and ecological disturbances occur. Teams comprising of scientists f... -
Forests and urban green areas as tools to address the challenges of sustainability in Latin American urban socio-ecological systems
Published on December 1, 2020
One sustainability challenge is confronting the process of global urbanization considering wellbein g and environmental justice. Integrating different disciplines to describe and analyze the relationships of urban socio-ecological systems gives us us... -
Livelihoods with multiple stressors: Gendered youth decision-making under global change in rural Northwest Mexico
Published on December 1, 2020
Livelihoods in rural communities have become increasingly complex due to rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental forces, with differing impacts on and responses by female and male youth. This study contributes to feminist political ecology ... -
Getting Our Heads Above Water: Integrating Bird Conservation in Planning, Science, and Restoration for a More Resilient Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Published on December 1, 2020
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is an important region for bird conservation in California, particularly as part of a large, productive estuary on the Pacific Flyway. The Delta currently provides habitat to an abundant, diverse community of birds, b... -
Resilience applied to farming: organic farmers' perspectives
Published on December 1, 2020
The increasingly uncertain and changing agricultural context raises questions about the resilience, i.e., ability to cope with disturbances, of farms to climate change and other disturbances. To date, the resilience concept has been discussed mainly ... -
Monitoring tourists' specialisation and implementing adaptive governance is necessary to avoid failure of the wildlife tourism commons
Published on December 1, 2020
Wildlife tourism (WT) is an important economic sector globally, which can sustain national and local economies. These activities have been reconceptualised as consumptive because of their impacts on the wildlife, and the problem of managing WT as a c... -
The Human Element of Restoration Success: Manager Characteristics Affect Vegetation Recovery Following InvasiveTamarixControl
Published on December 1, 2020
We investigated the relative role of manager traits and decisions for explaining the impact of riparian restoration. To do this, we used the difference in vegetation between post-restoration and controls for 243 pairs of sites to create a success ind... -
The adaptive cycle and the ecosystem services: a social-ecological analysis of Chiloe Island, southern Chile
Published on December 1, 2020
We used the adaptive cycle as a heuristic to conceptualize the changes in ecosystem services between its phases (growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization) for Chiloe Island (southern Chile), analyzed as a social-ecological system. We genera... -
Theorizing Public Participation and Local Governance in Urban Resilience: Reflections on the Provincializing Urban Political Ecology Thesis
Published on December 1, 2020
Urban political ecology (UPE) infuses Marxism with poststructuralism and constructivism to explore the dialectic relationship between nature and society in urban environments as well as the economic aspect of an urban socioecological system. Neverthe... -
Stories from The Front Lines Prawns, justice, and relationships of care in Stilbaai, South Africa
Published on December 1, 2020
This story is concerned with the intersection of governance, stewardship, care taking, and extraction. It is centred on insights gained through repeated encounters with bait prawns during 7years of fieldwork in Stilbaai, South Africa. These prawns ar... -
Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world
Published on December 1, 2020
The emerging field of socio-hydrology is a special case of social-ecological systems research that focuses on coupled human-water systems, exploring how the hydrologic cycle and human cultural traits coevolve and how such coevolutions lead to phenome... -
Intervener trustworthiness predicts cooperation with conservation interventions in an elephant conflict public goods game
Published on December 1, 2020
Conservation conflicts exist in complex socio-ecological systems and are damaging to both people and wildlife. There is much interest in designing interventions to manage them more effectively, but the importance of who does the intervening remain... -
Which species perform best in carbon sequestration and storage in planted forests? A review of the potential of Pinus and Eucalyptus
Published on December 1, 2020
The carbon market has been attracting attention as an additional source of revenue associated with growing planted forests. In addition to the economic importance, planted forests play an essential role in mitigating climate change due to their high ... -
Studying human-nature relationships through a network lens: A systematic review
Published on December 1, 2020
Understanding the complex interlinkages between humans and nature is crucial for developing strategies to effectively manage natural resources and to enhance resilience of social-ecological systems (SES). Network analysis bears great potential to ...
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