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Learning from pandemics: Applying resilience thinking to identify priorities for planning urban settlements

Syal, Shruti - In: Journal of Urban Management 10 (2021) 3, pp. 205-217

lens to examine the socio-ecological resilience of human settlements. This narrative literature review applies the … conceptual framework for resilience developed for complex systems to identify five planning and policy issues critical to disease … of resilience thinking also evokes the need to study cities as social-ecological systems …

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'Protein' Industry Convergence and its Implications for Resilient and Equitable Food Systems

Howard, Philip H.; Ajena, Francesco; Yamaoka, Marina; … - In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (2021)

resilience of food systems has the potential to be weakened as these strategies tend to reduce organizational diversity, as well … for these trends to further jeopardize food system resilience and equity, and we make recommendations for avoiding these …

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Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: Analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in Southern Indiana

Fleischman, Forrest D.; Boenning, Kinga; Garcia-Lopez, … - In: Ecology and Society 15 (2010) 4

We develop an analytic framework for the analysis of robustness in social-ecological systems (SESs) over time. We argue that social robustness is affected by the disturbances that communities face and the way they respond to them. Using Ostrom's ontological framework for SESs, we classify the...

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Framing the search for a theory of land use

Turner, B. L. II; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Kuemmerle, Tobias; … - In: Journal of Land Use Science 15 (2020) 4, pp. 489-508

Land system science and affiliated research linked to sustainability require improved understanding and theorization of land and its change as a social-ecological system (SES). The absence of a general land-use theory, anchored in the social subsystem but with explicit links to the environmental...

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An ecological basic income? Examining the ecological credentials of basic income through a review of selected pilot interventions

Langridge, Nicholas - 2021

While basic income (BI) has long been advocated for its social benefits, some scholars also propose it in response to the ecological crises. However, the empirical evidence to support this position is lacking and the principles of an 'ecological basic income' (EBI), one with the potential to...

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Enough!: A Modest Political Ecology for an Uncertain Future

Lawhon, Mary; McCreary, Tyler - 2023

Enough! insists there is enough for all. Creating such a future is not about producing more or living with less. Instead, it starts with rethinking our politics, economics and approach to livelihoods. Mary Lawhon and Tyler McCreary develop a "modest approach" to justice and sustainability,...

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Can numerical models estimate indirect land-use change?

Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012

Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...

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Oil Palm Boom and Land-Use Dynamics in Indonesia: The Role of Policies and Socioeconomic Factors

Gatto, Marcel; Wollni, Meike; Qaim, Matin - 2014

We investigate land-use dynamics in Jambi, Sumatra, one of the hotspots of Indonesia' recent oil palm boom. Data from a structured village survey are used to analyze the role of socioeconomic and policy factors. Oil palm is partly grown on large plantations, but smallholders are also involved...

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Drivers of households' land-use decisions - A critical review of micro-level studies in tropical regions

Hettig, Elisabeth; Lay, Jann; Sipangule, Kacana - 2015

This paper reviews 70 recent empirical and theoretical studies that analyse land-use change at the farm-household level. The review builds on a conceptual framework of land-use change drivers and conducts a meta-analysis. It turns out that the most frequently analysed scenario is the conversion...

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Ecosystem functions of oil palm plantations - a review

Dislich, Claudia; Keyel, Alexander C.; Salecker, Jan; … - 2015

Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in the last decades. This large-scale land-use change has had great impacts on both the areas converted to oil palm and their surroundings. Howev-er, research on the impacts of oil palm agriculture is scattered and patchy, and no clear overview ex-ists....

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