In brief, the results show that the landscape of the study area has become more fragmented due mostly to effects of continuous human disturbances and agricultural improvement during the study period. Overall, the landscape is today characterised by the predominance of agricultural use and the sparse...
Urban ecosystem services that support human well-being are thus derived from multiple and diverse biophysical, social, technological, and economic features that vary with spatial scale16 across the landscape17,18. Biophysical and social heterogeneity of landscapes determines the connectivity of ecosystem ...
The theoretical model was developed in view of the relationship between the people demand and use of the resources in a landscape of the Himalayas of India. The outcome of model was evaluated based on socioeconomic and ecological indicators. Concurrently, we have projected the need to handle the...
The section which follows explores the changing landscape as readers construct meaning with and from digital and online texts. Show moreView chapterExplore book Resilience by design in Mexico City: A participatory human-hydrologic systems approach Sarah St. George Freeman, ... Frederick Boltz, in ...
in that it includes aspects of “beliefs, emotions and behavioural commitments” to a locality (Jorgensen & Stedman, 2006: 316), or what Lew (2017: 449) summarized as “how a culture group imprints its values, perceptions, memories, and traditions on a landscape and gives meaning to geograph...
Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables? Socioeconomic changes in many areas in the tropics have led to increasing urbanization, abandonment of agriculture, and forest re-growth. Although these pa... Crk,Uriarte...
Urban heat islands and landscape heterogeneity: linking spatiotemporal variations in surface temperatures to land-cover and socioeconomic patterns 喜欢 0 阅读量: 108 作者:Alexander,BuyantuyevJianguo,Wu 摘要: The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon is a common environmental problem in urban landscapes ...
investments in the landscapes of other nearby valleys such as the middle Serpis (with large-scale storage, monumental earthworks, and presumably extensive field clearance) made them the preferred centers of social and economic power, population, and the focus of subsequent large-scale landscape ...
Philip James, in Landscape and Urban Planning, 2007 The importance of considering human-social systems when studying urban ecological systems has been emphasised (Groffman and Likens, 1994; Grimm et al., 2000; Zipperer et al., 2000; Kinzig and Grove, 2001; Yli-Pelkonen and Niemelä, 2005;...
9 February 2024 Policy and institutional perspectives in advancing the socio-economic embeddedness of the circular economy In the ever-evolving landscape of sustainable development, the circular economy (CE) stands as a beacon for transformative change (Suárez-Eiroa et al., 2019). Although there is...