Publications
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Co-evolutionary dynamics of the human-environment system in the Heihe River basin in the past 2000 years
Published on September 1, 2018
There is limited quantitative understanding of interactions between human and environmental systems over the millennial scale. We aim to reveal the co-evolutionary dynamics of the human-environment system in a river basin by simulating the water use ... -
AFEL-REC: A Recommender System for Providing Learning Resource Recommendations in Social Learning Environments arXiv
Published on August 14, 2018
In this paper, we present preliminary results of AFEL-REC, a recommender system for social learning environments. AFEL-REC is build upon a scalable software architecture to provide recommendations of learning resources in near real-time. Furthermore,... -
The use of context-based environmental indicators in corporate reporting
Published on August 10, 2018
The purpose of this paper is explore the extent to which environmental indicators disclosed in corporate sustainability reports address the broader 'sustainability context' in which companies operate. This was achieved by analyzing the types of envir... -
Global standardization and local complexity. A case study of an aquaculture system in Pampanga delta, Philippines
Published on August 1, 2018
International standards result from global policies formulated primarily to address issues on food safety, traceability, environmental impact as well as social accountability. As in other agro-food industries, these rules increasingly regulate aquacu... -
Balancing community livelihoods and biodiversity conservation of protected areas in East Africa
Published on August 1, 2018
Balancing biodiversity conservation and community livelihoods is a major challenge for sustainable management of protected areas (PAs) in East Africa. Considering PAs as typical sociale-cological systems (SES), here we construct a generic conceptual ... -
Vulnerability and risk of deltaic social-ecological systems exposed to multiple hazards
Published on August 1, 2018
Coastal river deltas are hotspots of global change impacts. Sustainable delta futures are increasingly threatened due to rising hazard exposure combined with high vulnerabilities of deltaic social-ecological systems. While the need for integrated mul... -
Governing the human-environment relationship: systemic practice
Published on August 1, 2018
In attending to contemporary breakdown in human-environment relations rarely is a co-evolutionary-dynamics framing employed. Framings in terms of (i) praxis, or theory informed practical action, and (ii) systems and cybernetic intellectual traditions... -
A connectivity-based assessment framework for river basin ecosystem service management
Published on August 1, 2018
Conflicts between increasing ecosystemservices (ESs) demand and limited or even decreased natural capital hinders the sustainable development of river basins worldwide. The main reason for the conflicts is that human interventions have seriously deco... -
Pathways to Coastal Resiliency: The Adaptive Gradients Framework
Published on August 1, 2018
Current and future climate-related coastal impacts such as catastrophic and repetitive flooding, hurricane intensity, and sea level rise necessitate a new approach to developing and managing coastal infrastructure. Traditional hard or grey engineerin... -
Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management - Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest cases
Published on August 1, 2018
Ecosystems around the world generate a wide range of services. Often, there are trade-offs in ecosystem service provision. Managing such trade-offs requires governance of interdependent action situations. We distinguished between (1) enhancing action... -
What do We Talk about When We Talk about Social-Ecological Systems? A Literature Review
Published on August 1, 2018
In the last decade, probably in response to global changes and the environmental crisis, the use of the term social-ecological system (SES) in scientific literature has grown. This is certainly a sign that the need and importance of transdisciplinary... -
Can Riparian Forest Buffers Increase Yields From Oil Palm Plantations?
Published on August 1, 2018
Forests on tropical floodplains across Southeast Asia are being converted to oil palm plantations. Preserving natural riparian forest corridors along rivers that pass through oil palm plantations has clear benefits for ecological conservation, but th... -
Navigating multi-level natural resource governance: an analytical guide
Published on August 1, 2018
A plethora of terms are used to describe the form of governance of complex social-ecological systems, such as multi-level governance, polycentricity and network governance. This plethora of terms is associated with a diffuse literature from which it ... -
Unravelling Stakeholder Perceptions to Enable Adaptive Water Governance in Dryland Systems
Published on August 1, 2018
Adaptive water governance seeks to increase a social-ecological system's adaptive capacity in the face of uncertainty and change. This is especially important in non-linear dryland systems that are already exposed to water scarcity and increasing deg... -
Urban Social-ecological Innovation: Implications for Adaptive Natural Resource Management
Published on August 1, 2018
The urban landscape, as home to the majority of the global population, has been the scene of significant and lasting ecological degradation. Consequently, modern cities rely on distant and geographically vast areas for the provision of a range of imp... -
Twelve Questions for the Participatory Modeling Community
Published on August 1, 2018
Participatory modeling engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representations of reality and has evolved into a field of study as well as a practice. Participatory modeling researchers and practiti... -
Linking water research with the sustainability of the human-natural system
Published on August 1, 2018
The sustainability of the coupled human-natural system under continuous global warming has been capturing increasing research interest. Water is among the most critical elements, not only for the natural system but also for social-economic developmen... -
Local reflections on low-carbon energy systems: A systematic review of actors, processes, and networks of local societies
Published on August 1, 2018
Local population actions determine the level of renewability of local energy systems in the context of energy transition goals. Local population makes energy choices based on the availability of different territorial resources and limits, i.e. natura... -
Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Published on August 1, 2018
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal extinctions in New Zealand b... -
Simulating Sustainable Urban Development by Incorporating Social-ecological Risks into a Constrained CA Model
Published on August 1, 2018
A key solution to urban and global sustainability is effective planning of sustainable urban development, for which geo-techniques especially cellular automata (CA) models can be very informative. However, existing CA models for simulating sustainabl...
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