Sustainable agricultural landscapes seek to improve environmental, societal and economic outcomes locally and internationally. They depend on functionally biodiverse agricultural systems, i.e., systems that include diversity in plants and/or crops and ma
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These events can provide spaces for research presentations and discussions on theory and methodology and address political issues and emerging challenges. Also, opening our events to traditional ways of communication through more sensorial channels (music, poetry, exhibitions of objects, traditional art, ...
We constructed a framework to elucidate the coupling mechanism of EWP and NU from the perspective of systems theory. We quantified the levels of NU and EWP utilizing the entropy weighting method and the super-efficient SBM method, respectively. Furthermore, we assessed the degree of coupling ...
摘要:Cities and urbanized regions are complex, dynamic, and highly integrated systems linking social, ecological, and technical infrastructure domains in ways that create deep challenges for good governance, policymaking, and planning. The combination of impacts from climate change in cities, air polluti...
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“an ecological theory of meaning”. According to Costall (2012, 87), Gibson had written “a remarkable, though largely forgotten, chapter on meaning, in his first book, The perception of the visual world (1950)”, which “anticipated the concept (of affordan...
A reason for this might be that one of the prominent factors social-ecological systems need to adapt to is climate change and water management is a key area for climate change adaptation. 3.2. Prominent features of adaptive governance theory Table 1 presents the distribution of articles in terms...
“shapes, creates and transforms social relationships, practices and institutional arrangements”130,131. Recent scholarly work integrating complex adaptive systems thinking with the governance of sustainability transitions recognizes the need for a concept of power-relations that is based not only in the ...