Publications
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Why Count Trees? Volunteer Motivations and Experiences with Tree Monitoring in NewYork City
Published on March 1, 2018
Volunteer programs can benefit from a deeper understanding of the motivations and experiences of people engaged in citizen science. Research to date has studied motivations of citizen scientists and tree-planting volunteers. Less work has focused on ... -
The chronology of community participation in Indian forest management
Published on March 1, 2018
The paper discusses the chronological changes in Indian participatory forest management from the perspectives of forest conservation and the impact of participatory forest management approach in the context of socio-economic issues of native dwellers... -
Indicators of overfishing of snapper Lutjanidae populations on the southwest shelf of Cuba
Published on March 1, 2018
Spawning aggregations are critical for the resilience of some coral reef fish populations and for the sustainability of many coastal fisheries. However, overexploitation of these aggregations is leading to a rapid decline of fish stocks. The fish agg... -
Agroecology for the Shrinking City
Published on March 1, 2018
Many cities are experiencing long-term declines in population and economic activity. As a result, frameworks for urban sustainability need to address the unique challenges and opportunities of such shrinking cities. Shrinking, particularly in the U.S... -
Global leadership for social design: theoretical and educational perspectives
Published on March 1, 2018
The rapid change of technological, social, and cultural structures is challenging universities to offer new educational programs. The Global Leader Program for Social Design and Management (GSDM) of the University of Tokyo can be seen as a forerunner... -
Street trees as cultural elements in the city: Understanding how perception affects ecosystem services management in Porto, Portugal
Published on March 1, 2018
Processes shaping urban ecosystems reflect and influence the cultural context in which they emerge, bearing implications for ecosystem services (ES) planning and management. Investigating the perception of benefits and losses / costs delivered by a s... -
Claiming Sustainability: Requirements and Challenges
Published on March 1, 2018
Despite the strong desire to find solutions that enable sustainable development, understanding of the requirements that methods must satisfy to guide technological development toward sustainability is still quite limited. We address this challenge ba... -
The business perspective in ecological restoration: issues and challenges
Published on March 1, 2018
Much of the practice of restoration is conducted by businessescontractors, consultants, designers, engineers. Restoration businesses interact with a variety of stakeholders to complete projects on time and on budget, and to achieve ecological and bus... -
Social Innovation Systems for Building Resilient Communities
Published on March 1, 2018
Social innovation-while not a new practice in itself-has re-emerged since the global financial crisis in 2008 as an approach to solving our collective intractable global challenges. Despite its renewed popularity, there is no common definition for th... -
Megacity Dhaka: 'water security syndrome' and implications for the scholarship of sustainability
Published on March 1, 2018
The potentials of the scholarship of sustainability present new possibilities for integrated analysis to address syndromes in human-environment systems. A syndrome here means a big-picture complex problem or issue with sustainability implications, su... -
System Properties Determine Food Security and Biodiversity Outcomes at Landscape Scale: A Case Study from West Flores, Indonesia
Published on March 1, 2018
The food-biodiversity nexus is a concept that defines and characterizes the complex interactions between agricultural systems and biodiversity conservation. Here we use a social-ecological systems approach that combines fuzzy cognitive mapping and gr... -
Social learning through rural communities of practice: Empirical evidence from farming households in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Published on March 1, 2018
The social-ecological systems of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD) are under stress driven by accelerating impacts of climate change, upstream hydropower development, and local flood management policies. These combined complexities have prompted the ... -
Governing fisheries through the critical decade: the role and utility of polycentric systems
Published on March 1, 2018
The next 10 years are considered a critical decade for fisheries. Declining fish stocks in combination with mounting climate pressure are likely to lead to significant and adverse socio-ecological impacts, threatening sustainability. Responding to th... -
Disciplinary diversity in marine sciences: the urgent case for an integration of research
Published on March 1, 2018
Recent events and trends in international relations are making it necessary for scientists to design their projects in ways that can integrate disciplinary perspectives and learn how to communicate their results in governance processes. Some examples... -
The socioeconomic factors that facilitate or constrain restoration management: Watershed rehabilitation and wet meadow bofedal restoration in the Bolivian Andes
Published on March 1, 2018
Restoration ecology holds promise for addressing land degradation in impoverished rural environments, provided the approach is adapted to rural development settings. While there is a need for increased integration of social dynamics in land restorati... -
The Transformation of Organizational Partnership in the Management of Common-pool Resource: A Case Study of Marine Protected Areas in Green Island, Taiwan
Published on March 1, 2018
The oceans, as a common-pool resource, are facing an ever increasing number of crises and challenges, and the promotion of marine protected area (MPA) management is viewed as the best path to resolving such issues. This paper takes MPA management in ... -
Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases
Published on February 21, 2018
Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries -
Fishermen Follow Fine-Scale Physical Ocean Features for Finance
Published on February 19, 2018
The seascapes on which many millions of people make their living and secure food have complex and dynamic spatial features-the figurative hills and valleys-that influence where and how people work at sea. Here, we quantify the physical mosaic of the ... -
Breaking Resilience for a Sustainable Future: Thoughts for the Anthropocene
Published on February 16, 2018
Strong resilience of a system usually enables the protection of a status quo. Most resilience studies assume that resilience-building is the central objective of sustainability work. Even though transformation has become a central theme in developmen... -
Impacts Of Bakken Shale Oil Development On Regional Water Uses And Supply
Published on February 12, 2018
The Bakken shale play in western North Dakota is one of the largest unconventional oilfields in the United States, but published research about impacts on the region's water resources is rare. In this study, besides examining North Dakota water manag...
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