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Xiaoyan Zhu and Guangyao Wang
Agricultural cooperatives greatly influence agricultural and rural modernization in China. Based on 381 farmer samples in the arid Tarim River Basin, this empirical study aimed to construct an index system for the exploration of the relationship between ...
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David Mfitumukiza, Gordon Y. Mwesigwa, Ellen J. Kayendeke and Vincent B. Muwanika
Climate change impacts threaten sustainable development efforts. The magnitude of the impacts, however, varies with the socio-ecological characteristics of locations. This is the reason there is consensus on the necessity for climate change adaptive capa...
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Somayeh Emami and Hossein Dehghanisanij
The recent problems of Lake Urmia (LU) are caused by extensive and complex socio-ecological factors that require a comprehensive approach to consider the relationships between users and identify failure factors at the basin level. For this purpose, an ag...
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Leila Mosleh, Masoud Negahban-Azar and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Stormwater Green infrastructure (SWGI) is seen as an approach to increase the climate resilience of urban areas, because they can buffer precipitation changes brought on by climate...
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David J. Brunckhorst and E. Jamie Trammell
Urban systems include complex interactions and interdependencies with adjoining landscapes and regions. The pressures of change are complex, constant, and increasing. Declining biodiversity, ecosystem function, social institutions, and climate change und...
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Francisco Javier López-Andreu, Juan Antonio López-Morales, Zaida Hernández-Guillen, Juan Antonio Carrero-Rodrigo, Marta Sánchez-Alcaraz, Joaquín Francisco Atenza-Juárez and Manuel Erena
The Mar Menor is a coastal lagoon of great socio-ecological and environmental value; in recent years, different localized episodes of hypoxia and eutrophication have modified the quality of its waters. The episodes are due to a drop in dissolved oxygen l...
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Steven M. Ostoja, Hyeyeong Choe, James H. Thorne, Pelayo Alvarez, Amber Kerr, Jennifer Balachowski and Julian Reyes
On a global scale, rangelands occupy approximately half of the world?s land base surface; have a critical role in carbon sequestration and biodiversity; and support a diverse and critical economy, but at the same time, are under threat by many factors, i...
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Francis K. Wiese and R. John Nelson
The abundance and distribution of marine fishes is influenced by environmental conditions, predator?prey relationships, multispecies interactions, and direct human impacts, such as fishing. The adaptive response of the system depends on its structure and...
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Cristina Hernandez-Santin, Marco Amati, Sarah Bekessy and Cheryl Desha
Built environment practitioners currently seek options and opportunities to respond to the biodiversity emergency. Biodiversity Inclusive Design (BID) is an approach to design that seeks to foster functional ecological systems, enable species? persistenc...
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Xingping Yang, Xiaoai Dai, Wenyu Li, Heng Lu, Chao Liu, Naiwen Li, Zhengli Yang, Yuxin He, Weile Li, Xiao Fu, Lei Ma, Yunfeng Shan and Youlin Wang
With the social and economic development in recent years, human activities have been more extensive and intensified. As a result, ecosystems are damaged to varying degrees, and regional ecological environments tend to be weaker. The socio-ecological syst...
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