Publications
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Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia
Published on January 1, 2018
Either meeting the UNFCCC Paris agreement to limit global average warming below the 2-1.5 degrees C threshold, or going beyond it entails huge challenges in terms of institutional innovation and transformation. This research describes a participatory... -
Change detection: how has urban expansion in Buenos Aires metropolitan region affected croplands
Published on January 1, 2018
Cropland is one of the essential elements of our ecological systems for producing agricultural products. In developing countries, urban expansion is a frequently appearing phenomena, which is a type of land cover land use (LCLU) change. This change c... -
The role of co-evolutionary development and value change debt in navigating transitioning cultural landscapes: the case of Southern Transylvania
Published on January 1, 2018
Cultural landscapes and their social-ecological values are threatened by changing lifestyles, policies and land-use practices, making their appropriate management a key sustainability challenge. Drawing on five years of interdisciplinary research in ... -
More money, more family: the relationship between higher levels of market participation and social capital in the context of adaptive capacity in Samoa
Published on January 1, 2018
It is important to understand the effects of higher levels of market participation on the resilience of mixed-subsistence communities to climate change. Climate models predict that the Pacific Islands and other regions with mixed-subsistence communit... -
The relationship between adaptive management of social-ecological systems and law: a systematic review
Published on January 1, 2018
Adaptive management has been considered a valuable approach for managing social-ecological systems involving high levels of complexity and uncertainty. However, many obstacles still hamper its implementation. Law is often seen as a barrier for moving... -
Collaborative science and learning as tools for climate change adaptation planning
Published on January 1, 2018
Anticipated impacts from climate change act as stressors that motivate adaptation strategy development. And, while climate science projections extend from the global to regional scale, they can leave significant uncertainty at the local scale. In man... -
Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Environments: Modeling Challenges for Resource and Environmental Economists
Published on January 1, 2018
Analysis of coastal climate change adaptation requires combining environmental and resource economics with other disciplines. Sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification, and increased storminess threaten to alter or intensify biophysical coastal... -
The vulnerability evaluation and influencing factors of the socio-ecological system of China's marine fisheries.
Published on January 1, 2018
Analyzing the vulnerability of marine fisheries under multiple disturbances from the perspective of the socio-ecological system is very helpful to solve the problem of sustainable development of marine fisheries in China. Based on the three dimension... -
Collaborative freshwater planning: changing roles for science and scientists
Published on January 1, 2018
Collaborative approaches to freshwater planning are increasingly popular. In principle, collaborative processes allow wider access to all forms of knowledge, referencing the socio-ecological system and stakeholder values. Relevant science must be mor... -
The impacts of rural tourism on the vulnerability of farmers' livelihood: from the perspective of coupled social-ecological system
Published on January 1, 2018
Based on the perspective of social-ecological coupling analysis, regard rural tourism destinations as local socio-ecological systems, tourism activities as disturbances to the system, and participation in tourism as adaptive livelihood strategies und... -
Linking marine conservation and Indigenous cultural revitalization: First Nations free themselves from externally imposed social-ecological traps
Published on January 1, 2018
Continuity of coastal Indigenous cultures relies on healthy ecosystems and opportunity to fulfill cultural practices. Owing to resource stewardship practice over millennia, Indigenous nations possess Indigenous knowledge that positions them as leader... -
Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus
Published on January 1, 2018
An integrated understanding of both social and ecological aspects of environmental issues is essential to address pressing sustainability challenges. An integrated social-ecological systems perspective is purported to provide a better understanding o... -
On the modern conception of environment
Published on January 1, 2018
Currently a large number of, geographers and representatives of related sciences claim to have created integrated environmental concepts . This applies, in particular, to the concepts of environmental science, sociogeosystems, anthropogenic landscape... -
Inequality, uncertainty, and vulnerability: Rethinking governance from a disaster justice perspective
Published on January 1, 2018
In conceptualizing and addressing problems of risk society, significant strands of theorization address key problems of modernity in the anthropocene world focusing on issues of science, technocracy, reflexivity, social organization, conflict and the... -
Preparing the next generation of sustainability scientists
Published on January 1, 2018
Graduate programs emerging in universities over recent decades support the advanced study of sustainability issues in complex socio-environmental systems. Constructing the problem-scope to address these issues requires graduate students to integrate ... -
Designing policy robustness: outputs and processes
Published on January 1, 2018
Faced with growing policy complexity and environmental uncertainty, policymakers are increasingly concerned with ensuring that policy processes retain functionality amidst shock and uncertainty. In this paper, we seek to address the ways in which rob... -
Complex Rangeland Systems: Integrated Social-Ecological Approaches to Silvopastoralism
Published on January 1, 2018
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, particularly between social and ecological sciences, challenges those seeking to contribute to solving complex and multidimensional environmental problems on rangelands. In this Special Issue we present a set of 13 p... -
Social-ecological resilience in indigenous coastal edge contexts
Published on January 1, 2018
Cultural edges, as sites of encounter and interaction between two or more cultural groups, tend to result in increased access to knowledge, skills, and material goods. First proposed more than a decade ago as an elaboration of the ecological edge con... -
A systems approach to risk and resilience analysis in the woody-biomass sector: A case study of the failure of the South African wood pellet industry
Published on January 1, 2018
Currently more than 600 million of the 800 million people in SSA are without electricity, and it is estimated that an additional 2500 GW of power is required by 2030. Although the woody-biomass market in the developed world is relatively mature, only... -
When push comes to shove in recreational fishing compliance, think 'nudge'
Published on January 1, 2018
Enforcing compliance with rules and regulations in recreational fisheries has proved difficult due to factors such as the high number of participants and costs of enforcement, the absence of regular monitoring of recreational fishing activity, and th...
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