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Social Capital and Longitudinal Change in Sustainability Plans and Policies: U.S. Cities from 2000 to 2010
Pierce, John; Lovrich, Nicholas; Johnson, Bonnie; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2013) 1, pp. 136-157
This study examines changes from 2000 to 2010 in the adoption of sustainability plans and policies in a sample of U.S. cities. The study’s framework posits sustainability initiatives as communitarian outcomes intended to meet the needs of both current and future generations. We hypothesize,...
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Measuring Sprawl across the Urban Rural Continuum Using an Amalgamated Sprawl Index
Kew, Barry; Lee, Brian D. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 5, pp. 1806-1828
Urban sprawl is rapidly transforming the landscape of Kentucky’s prime farmland from a dominant agricultural land use … sprawl is concentrated in metropolitan areas that are often encroaching into these rural areas. Authors have argued for and … against urbanization patterns generally understood to be sprawl on the basis of social, economic, and biophysical …
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Resilience Assessment of Lowland Plantations Using an Ecosystem Modeling Approach
Wu, Chia-Hsin; Lo, Yueh-Hsin; Blanco, Juan A.; Chang, … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 3801-3822
:1 camphor laurel/ash density ratio. From an ecological resilience point of view, rotation length was more important than stand …
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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest
Hale, James D.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sadler, Jon P.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4600-4624
tensions more explicit, allowing them to be used to test the decadal-scale resilience of urban street trees. Our analysis …
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Evolutionary Plant Breeding in Cereals—Into a New Era
Döring, Thomas F.; Knapp, Samuel; Kovacs, Geza; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 10, pp. 1944-1971
populations to deal with stressful, variable, and unpredictable environments. This resilience of evolving plant populations is …
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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States
Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181
In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...
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Emergency Managers Confront Climate Change
Labadie, John R. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 8, pp. 1250-1264
Emergency managers will have to deal with the impending, uncertain, and possibly extreme effects of climate change. Yet, many emergency managers are not aware of the full range of possible effects, and they are unsure of their place in the effort to plan for, adapt to, and cope with those...
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Sustaining Sanak Island, Alaska: A Cultural Land Trust
Reedy-Maschner, Katherine L.; Maschner, Herbert D. G. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4406-4427
Sanak Island is the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands and was inhabited by the Aleut (Unangan) peoples for nearly 7000 years. The past few centuries of Sanak Island life for its Aleut residents can be summarized from ethnohistoric documents and extensive interviews with former residents as...
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Adaptation to and Recovery from Global Catastrophe
Maher, Timothy M.; Baum, Seth D. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1461-1479
proceed and makes connections to several lines of research. Research on resilience theory is considered in detail and used to … method can help identify options for increasing survivor resilience and promoting successful adaptation and recovery. A key …
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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 …
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