"resilience"

Linking seed networks and crop diversity contributions to people: A case study in small-scale farming systems in Sahelian Senegal

CONTEXT Small farms rely on a range of nature's contributions to people (NCPs) provided by crop diversity, covering both material and immaterial dimensions that are crucial for livelihoods and well-being. The maintenance of these NCPs over time, …

La resilienza nei sistemi ecologici e sociali: connettività, diversità e retroazione

I cambiamenti economici, sociali e ambientali hanno, al giorno d’oggi, velocità e scala senza precedenti. Essi sono principalmente dovuti ai progressi tecnologici che hanno portato a una notevole crescita in tutti i campi, e hanno aperto la …

Socioecosistemas y resiliencia. fundamentos para un marco analítico

El mundo de hoy está caracterizado por cambios a una velocidad y escala sin precedentes. Estos cambios se deben principalmente a los avances tecnológicos que han llevado a un crecimiento económico y demográfico sin paralelo en la historia de la …

Boundary object or bridging concept? A citation network analysis of resilience

Many recent studies observe the increasing importance, influence, and analysis of resilience as a concept to understand the capacity of a system or individual to respond to change. The term has achieved prominence in diverse scientific fields, as …

Irrigation experiments in the lab: Trust, environmental variability, and collective action

Research on collective action and common-pool resources is extensive. However, little work has concentrated on the effect of variability in resource availability and collective action, especially in the context of asymmetric access to resources. …

Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations

Faced with numerous seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, many scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in understanding how to actively engage and transform the existing systems holding such problems in place. …

Landscape connectivity and predator–prey population dynamics

Landscapes are increasingly fragmented, and conservation programs have started to look at network approaches for maintaining populations at a larger scale. We present an agent-based model of predator–prey dynamics where the agents (i.e. the …