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Land use dynamics in the dehesas in the Sierra Morena (Spain): the role of diverse management strategies to cope with the drivers of change
Schröder Christoph - In: European Countryside 3 (2011) 2, pp. 11-28
The dehesa in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula represents both a unique agrosilvopastoral land-use and a rural social …-ecological system. Over the last 60 years, the dehesa has experienced profound modifications of its overall structure, affecting the … resilience of the system. Based on land change analysis combined with interviews with land managers, the paper gives insights on …
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Sustainable agricultural land use in mountain regions under climate change: Insights from modelling studies in the ‹Mountland› project
Robert, Huber - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
Mountain regions provide essential ecosystem goods and services (EGS). Global change however endangers the capacity of mountain ecosystems to provide key services. The ‹Mountland› project is focusing on three case study regions in the Swiss Alps and aims at proposing land-use practices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125233
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Deforestation or development : exploring the actors, practices and drivers of forest loss on Zambia's Central Plateau
Parduhn, David - 2017
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Thresholds in Ecological and Social-Ecological Systems: A Developing Database
Walker, Brian H.; Meyers, Jacqueline A. - 2004
"Increasing interest in regime shifts in ecological and linked social-ecological systems (SESs) has placed a strong focus on the thresholds of change. However, research into this topic has been hampered by a lack of empirical data. This paper describes a developing database established to...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285652
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613356
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The economics of resilience
Li, Chuan-Zhong; Crépin, Anne-Sophie; Folke, Carl - In: International review of environmental and resource economics 11 (2017) 4, pp. 309-353
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Understanding the effects of institutional diversity on irrigation systems dynamics
Shin, Hoon C.; Vallury, Sechindra; Abbott, Joshua K.; … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 191 (2022), pp. 1-11
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Julian Simon, the problem of socio-ecological resilience and the "ultimate resource" : a reinterpretation
Aligică, Paul Dragoş; Ciobanu, Robert Gabriel - In: The review of Austrian economics 35 (2022) 3, pp. 283-301
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A Method for Gauging Landscape Change as a Prelude to Urban Watershed Regeneration: The Case of the Carioca River, Rio de Janeiro
Schlee, Mônica Bahia; Tamminga, Kenneth R.; Tangari, … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 9, pp. 2054-2098
respond to change and disturbance is fundamental to building appropriate management strategies and fostering resilience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010675928