Ecological systems
Towards quantitatively understanding the complexity of social ecological systems—from connection to consilience
... network systems, both node activity states and connections between nodes may change over ...social-ecological systems, both node activity states and network topology keep changing because of ...
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Bark beetles as agents of change in social–ecological systems
... social–ecological systems (SES) affected by bark beetle ...and ecological dimensions of beetle disturbances as inherently one entity, and not simply as the interaction of two independ- ent ...
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Designing transformative spaces for sustainability in social-ecological systems
... was designed to create radical stories of positive futures in the region that focused on increasing the difference of these stories from the present. Reflections from the participants showed that this process was ...
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De-individualising the ‘NEET problem’ : an ecological systems analysis
... Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (1979) however, we can see that the reasons behind this failure of provision do not necessarily lie only at the institutional ...
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Modelling sustainability performance to achieve absolute reductions in socio-ecological systems
... The toy model simplifies assumptions by considering only the most relevant variables in a model’s formulation. Simplicity is seen in recent models for analysing the effect of trade on biodiversity (Polasky et al, 2004) ...
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Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond
... modelling ecological systems provides a powerful representation of the interactions among species (Bastolla et ...2013). Ecological networks may be viewed as a set of different species (nodes) and ...
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Examining the work home interface: an ecological systems perspective
... They argue that flexible work scheduling, representing the most popular of organisational initiatives in their research, does little to change the essential culture of an organisation. Additionally, the first three ...
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Title: Continuing wetland degradation dissociates socio-ecological systems and affects
... local ecological knowledge could provide qualitative baseline information for fast-tracking identification of important wetlands and creating inventories to initiate wetland conservation and ...
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Natural length scales of ecological systems: Applications at community and ecosystem levels
... in ecological systems have been recognized for over five decades ...of ecological systems (Tyre et ...into ecological models with these properties ...real ecological ...
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Ecological Systems Theory of Asian American Mental Health Service Seeking
... Within the present review, the researcher utilizes Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory (1992) of human development (macrosystem, exosystem, mesosystem, and microsystem) to organiz[r] ...
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Governing large-scale social-ecological systems: lessons from five cases
... Our results from synthesizing findings across these five cases suggest that two conditions may consistently play a role in the success or failure of large- scale social-ecological governance: clearly-defined ...
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Scaling and power laws in ecological systems
... or ecological systems, wherein energy acquisition, allocation and transformation is carried out through complex webs of interacting ...complex ecological systems, two major approaches have ...
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Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems
... as ecological) boundaries at the planetary scale ...of ecological processes that co-exist within regional social-ecological systems, using the terms ‘social foundation’ and ‘environmental ...
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Determining natural scales of ecological systems
... real ecological systems, we might expect the primary CLS to indicate the most appropriate scale for monitoring system dynamics, and therefore the scale that most efficiently identifies mean- ingful trends ...
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Linking social and ecological systems to sustain coral reef fisheries
... social-ecological systems approach that better understands and incorporates the socioeconomic factors that shape the ways that societies interact with reefs ...
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Spatial resilience in social-ecological systems
... This book represents a personal landmark along a path that I have been following for close to 15 years. Along the way I have spent considerable amounts of time debating and pondering with friends and colleagues over the ...
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Tourism and water inequity in Bali: A social ecological systems analysis
... As demonstrated from the above reinterpretation, the socio-ecological conceptual model can be practical for analyzing how tourism and broader socio-ecological features can affect water equality in a popular ...
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Energy intensities, interdependence, and value in ecological systems: a linear programming approach
... These applications are important contributions to our understanding of interdependence in ecological sys- tems, but they suffer from reliance on “single commodity” [r] ...
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A general accounting framework for ecological systems: a functional taxonomy for connectivist ecology
... If, as we have just assumed, the stock change is a flow across the time boundary of the system, what about the change of stock due to the natural decay and [r] ...
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Pattern Formation, Spatial Externalities and Regulation in Coupled Economic Ecological Systems
... reaction-diffusion systems which are of dimension higher than one can generate patterns even without the impact of economic forces, they are much more suitable not only for analyzing real ecosystems but also for ...
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