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Schiavoni, Alexandra Elizabeth. "The Causeway: Bridging Disaster Relief, Recovery, and Climate Adaptation in the Anton Ruiz Watershed." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91404.

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The impact of natural disasters is often exacerbated by a disparity between resources for relief and recovery. When the barrio of Punta Santiago in Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria in September of 2017, many of its residents lived in the remains of their homes for over a year while they rebuilt from wind damage and flood waters that rose over 6 feet. As climate change leads to an even more constrained timeline for response with increasingly frequent and intense storms, the future of Punta Santiago and other coastal communities worldwide will necessitate strategies ranging from nat

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Sanmartí, Boixeda Neus. "Biological interactions and resilience of seagrass ecosystems." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672259.

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Our world is subjected to a panoply of drivers of change. In this context, the understanding on how our biosphere resists, absorbs or is altered by the changes, appears as a hot question in ecology. In this respect, two ecological concepts appear as essential, resilience and biotic interactions. Resilience is related to how ecosystems persist under stress or suffering disturbances. Interactions among species are to a large part responsible for the delivery of ecosystem functions, and form the architecture of biodiversity. Moreover, a substantial part of ecosystem resilience is founded on speci

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Barros, Ceres. "Etude de la stabilité des écosystèmes à plusieurs échelles spatiales et trophiques." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAV013/document.

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Dans un contexte de changement global qui continue de menacer les espèces et l’intégrité des écosystèmes à travers le monde, l’étude de la stabilité des écosystèmes n’a jamais été aussi importante. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, la plupart des études sur la stabilité des écosystèmes se sont centrées sur des écosystèmes simples et des perturbations individuelles, en focalisant généralement sur le comportement de propriétés écosystémiques particulières, comme les indices de productivité et de diversité. Cependant, les écosystèmes sont soumis simultanément à de multiples perturbations. De plus, à grande éc

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Oswald, David. "Estimating resilience of Amazonian ecosystems using remote sensing." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18801.

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A model for ecological resilience of Amazonian ecosystems was developed integrating processes such as atmosphere-biosphere coupling with disturbance factors such as fire and climate change. The focus of the study was on the status of ecosystems in the state of Mato Grosso and the possibility of forest to savannah transition was examined using remote sensing data. There was a consistent reduction in EVI during the dry season in Mato Grosso – May through August of each year. The 2005 drought demonstrated a greater dry-season reduction in EVI than normal and there was also a higher frequency of

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Oh, Yu Kyung. "Climate change adaptation in London through resilient ecosystem services management." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/climate-change-adaptation-in-london-through-resilient-ecosystem-services-management(c1b8b3aa-04d5-4151-83da-9971ed59f95f).html.

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As urban populations continue to grow around the world, cities and their residents become increasingly vulnerable to climate change risks. Detrimental impacts on natural ecosystems have been observed in the built environment, as well as poorer quality of life. As urban areas are characterised by complex adaptive systems, the concept of ecosystem services represents an important tool for the management of urban socio-environmental quality and can be applied to climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. This thesis investigates London’s potential resilience to climate changes through e

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Milton, Ashley D. "Forest resilience for livelihoods and ecosystem services." Thesis, George Mason University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3720748.

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<p> Deforestation in the Congo Basin is altering the natural functioning and services of the ecosystem and adversely impacting highly vulnerable human populations who rely on their proper functioning. There is currently no framework that comprehensively addresses the historical and cultural complexities that are persistent in Central African societies and that also include, from a micro scale, the detailed voices of local communities. Without such a holistic framework, it is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness or harmfulness associated with current management strategies in responding to de

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Maxwell, Paul Stuart. "Ecological Resilience Theory : Application and Testing in Seagrass Ecosystems." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365921.

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In response to growing global impact on ecosystems, we design programs for conservation and restoration to maintain and enhance biodiversity, productivity and ecosystem resilience. To ensure the greatest return for these programs, there is an implicit requirement for identifying and understanding the complex non-linear relationships that can exist between impact gradients, ecosystem structure and the processes that mediate the two. Ecological resilience theory has developed as one of the fundamental explanations of this complexity. The application of ecological resilience theory in a local man

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Davis, Zachary Edward. "Toward A Healthcare Services Ecosystem." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82853.

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This research examines the healthcare services ecosystem and the impact and role service interventions made by providers and patients have on this ecosystem. Each area has an important role in contributing to the value and sustainability of the ecosystem. Healthcare, as a community service, requires a minimum of two counterparts: the providers and the customers, in this case the patients. Healthcare is a unique ecosystem because often the customers are not conscious of the interplay of the ecosystem but are reliant upon the system for their health and wellbeing. The first section of this

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Leftwich, Samuel Joseph. "The resilience of forests to the urban ecosystem." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1631645306327862.

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Ford, Paulette Louise. "Scale, ecosystem resilience, and fire in shortgrass steppe." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289192.

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Consideration of scale and ecosystem resilience is integral to any conceptual model of the effects of disturbance on ecosystems. Organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems are differentially affected by disturbance based on the scale at which they occupy the landscape. Scale of observation influences perceptions about ecosystem resilience. There is no single correct scale at which ecological phenomena should be studied, and management decisions require the interfacing of phenomena that occur on very different scales of space and time. Fire disturbance affects a variety of ecosystem fa

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Berg, Alicia. "Empowering the Steel Industry as a Stakeholder : Environmental Management and Communication through a Social-Ecological Approach." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91102.

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This paper explores a case study of a Swedish tool steel company undergoing a transition from traditional environmental management practices to an enterprise identifying its place as part of a social-ecological system. The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) was utilized by the company to begin this process by focusing on ecosystem services to determine how an ESR approach contributes to environmental management in practice. What resulted moved beyond the ESR to a tailored methodology, the internalization of a systems perspective, and a proposed new environmental management system. The r

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Peter, Hannes. "Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning : Redundancy and Resilience in Freshwater Bacterial Communities." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Limnologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-160780.

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Bacteria are immensely diverse and hold key-positions in essentially all biogeochemical cycles. In freshwater ecosystems, bacteria degrade and mineralize organic compounds, linking the pool of dissolved organic matter to higher trophic levels. Aware of the global biodiversity loss, ecologists have started identifying the relationship of diversity and ecosystem functioning. Central to this is the question if species can functionally replace other species, hence being functionally redundant. Functional redundancy might allow communities to maintain functioning when diversity is lost. Due to thei

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Uy, Noralene Menchavez. "Ecosystem-based Adaptation Planning to Strengthen Disaster Resilience in Infanta, Philippines." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/175209.

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Strunz, Sebastian [Verfasser], and Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Baumgärtner. "Ecosystem resilience as an economic insurance / Sebastian Strunz. Betreuer: Stefan Baumgärtner." Lüneburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1034194852/34.

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Rosenberg, Barbro. "The Role of Ecosystem Services for a Resilient Urban Agriculture System : Case Studies from the Stockholm Region." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-299522.

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Just like in the rest of the world, the urban population in Sweden is increasing each year, which means that cities are becoming increasingly densified and natural green areas are claimed and used for built environment. As a result, biodiversity in cities is often low and inhabitants risk facing losses of ecosystem services of various kinds. As a counterforce to these challenges linked to urbanization, urban agriculture has become an increasingly popular and growing phenomenon in Sweden in recent years. Researchers have begun to recognize the potential of urban agriculture to address the issue

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Duncan, C. A. "Mangrove forest ecosystem services : biodiversity drivers, rehabilitation and resilience to climate change." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1553177/.

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Mangrove forests provide a significant contribution to human well-being; particularly through climate change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA) due to disproportionately high carbon sequestration and coastal protection from tropical storms. However, mangrove community structure drivers of these ecosystem services (ES), rehabilitation potential for high CCMA ES delivery, and their resilience to climate change impacts remain poorly understood and monitored. This thesis uses field- and satellite remote sensing-based methods and a dual focus at a Philippines-specific and West Africa to South Asian-s

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Kjellberg, Eric, and Daniel Oldenmark. "Ecosystem Goal Alignment and Institutional Change : Increasing Resilience and Competitiveness in Värmland." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85432.

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Economy professor Kjell Nordström argued at the Nordic Business forum Sweden, that regions such as Värmland would turn into wastelands in the aftermath of digitalization and urbanization. Digitalization has rapidly changed service provision effecting the provider-user interaction and service options available. To stay competitive, a sustainability report on the region recommends local actors to find common goals to enhance the value-proposition providing advantages not offered by larger elsewhere controlled or e-commerce actors. Previous studies regarding value co-creation conclude that due to

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Moore, Jonathan Richard. "Aspects of land surface modelling : role of biodiversity in ecosystem resilience to environmental change and a robust ecosystem demography model." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22649.

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Earth's species are disappearing at a rate unprecedented in human history, yet whether this loss will make the ecosystem "services" that support our civilisation more vulnerable to environmental change is poorly understood. This thesis investigates two different aspects of land surface modelling. It firstly models the role of biodiversity in ecosystem resilience using the Lotka-Volterra and single resource models to model diversity using competition coeffcients, stochastic noise and evolution inspired trait diffusion and then examines if higher diversity makes these simple models more resistan

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Clay, Larry Clinton Jr. "Integrative Ecosystem Management: Designing Cities and Co-creating the Flourishing Ecosystem." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case162584034740029.

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Pessot, Olivier. "Small Businesses and how they connect to the Sustainable City : A list of actions for the transformation to a sustainable Paris." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61674.

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The City relies on Nature‟s products and services for its wellbeing and its very existence. Smallbusinesses, the socio-economic fabric of the City, are mostly mainstream and not engaged insustainability. From their point of view, how do they connect to the Sustainable City?In one of the most competitive areas of central Paris, mainstream businesses and also frontrunners, thelatter already engaged in sustainability, were interviewed as a pilot to further explore transformationinto the Sustainable City. All were asked to reflect on their experience in managing change. They werethen encouraged to

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Jiménez, de Duarte Yalimay Mercedes. "Microbial ecosystems of Shark Bay embayments: assessing their functionality and resilience to potential petroleum contamination." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85089.

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Shark Bay is a protected area which is under risk to be affected by a petroleum spill. An Experimental approach was used to simulate this potential scenario in hypersaline microbial mats from this region. This study has provided new insights and evidence of their biological features that contribute to their ecological resilience and resistance in terms of their microbial composition and functionalities, under short- and long-term petroleum disturbances.

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Katycheva, Anna. "From Brownfields to Green Infrastructure : A resilience thinking approach to brownfield transformation." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-256313.

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Brownfields have the potential to be transformed to offer green infrastructure to cities and bottom up environmental stewardship approaches can be a creative and dynamic way of providing much needed ecosystem services to the urban environment. The following study explores how the transformation of a contaminated site to a community garden in Stockholm can contribute to providing ecosystem services and improving general resilience. Through aqualitative method including literature review, interviews and observations; the results showed elements contributing to resilience including an increase in

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Rajarshi, Dasgupta. "Enhancing Coastal Community's Disaster and Climate Resilience in the Mangrove Rich Indian Sundarban." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215362.

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Evans, Paul M. "Dynamics of forest ecosystem properties and resilience in a temperate woodland undergoing dieback." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2018. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30829/.

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Given that woodland disturbance events are expected to become more frequent and severe in the future, it is crucial to understand how fundamental underlying ecosystem properties (EPs) including biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services will be impacted. Currently, this knowledge is severely limited, but is essential for future management of forests at both stand and landscape scales. The impact of such disturbances on EPs can be quantified through the use of ecological resilience and its associated concepts. Resilience relates to either the amount of disturbance an ecosystem can

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Vizzarri, Matteo. "Towards the "resilience thinking": the effects of forest management on ecosystem services provision." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi del Molise, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11695/66291.

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Negli ultimi decenni, gli effetti dell’uomo sui sistemi terrestri hanno crescentemente minacciato la disponibilità dello stock e dei flussi di capitale naturale. Gli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici, le trasformazioni nell’uso e copertura del suolo, e le pratiche di gestione non sostenibile hanno fortemente ridotto la resilienza, la resistenza e la stabilità degli ecosistemi, compromettendo così la conservazione della biodiversità e l’approvvigionamento dei servizi ecosistemici. In particolare, le risorse forestali si sono confrontate con disturbi esterni, stress e impatti, riducendo così la

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Eklöf, Johan S. "Anthropogenic Disturbances and Shifts in Tropical Seagrass Ecosystems." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Systems Ecology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7285.

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<p>Seagrasses constitute the basis for diverse and productive ecosystems worldwide. In East Africa, they provide important ecosystem services (e.g. fisheries) but are potentially threatened by increasing resource use and lack of enforced management regulations. The major aim of this PhD thesis was to investigate effects of anthropogenic distur-bances, primarily seaweed farming and coastal fishery, in East African seagrass beds. Seaweed farming, often depicted as a sustainable form of aquaculture, had short- and long-term effects on seagrass growth and abundance that cascaded up through the foo

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Venâncio, Cátia Alexandra Ribeiro. "Salinization effects on coastal terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22806.

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Doutoramento em Biologia<br>The projections made by the International Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) until the year 2100 foresee scenarios of increased sea level rise and extreme weather events. As a consequence of these changes it is anticipated that coastal ecosystems (both terrestrial and freshwater) will suffer from seawater (SW) intrusions and, consequently, become impacted with salinization. Such salinization, caused by SW intrusion, may occur through surface flooding (for example due to violent storms, which may lead to pulses of SW intrusion with high peaks of salinity that, most prob

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BARAVIKOVA, ALIAKSANDRA. "Dealing with conceptual ambiguity on the ground: how practitioners in Europe operationalise the international policy rhetoric on urban climate adaptation." Doctoral thesis, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12571/9962.

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In recent decades, adaptation to the impacts of climate change has become a key agenda for cities around the globe. A growing body of literature has already illustrated how cities are a key driver of climate change, its main victim and a promising site for action. Meanwhile, climate change has brought not only new responsibilities but also a new lexicon for urban practitioners. Concepts such as urban climate resilience and the idea of nature’s benefits for climate adaptation, embodied in the “green concepts” – nature-based solutions (NbS), ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and blue-green

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Wilkinson, Cathy. "Social-ecological resilience and planning: an interdisciplinary exploration." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Systemekologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78977.

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Despite considerable expansion in the scope and function of the state with respect to environmental protection, the world’s biological diversity and ecosystem services continue to deteriorate. Finding ways to better govern human-nature relations in cities is an important part of addressing this decline. The aim of this thesis is to explore the potential of social-ecological resilience to inform urban governance in theory and practice, through a focus on strategic spatial planning. Resilience has become an increasingly important urban policy discourse and much hope is placed in its potential to

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Kristensen, Nadiah Pardede. "Goal functions and ecosystem contraints : thermodynamic goal functions, local stability, maximal resilience, and permanence /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18700.pdf.

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Longo, Marcos. "Amazon Forest Response to Changes in Rainfall Regime: Results from an Individual-Based Dynamic Vegetation Model." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11268.

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The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, and thus plays a major role on global water, energy, and carbon cycles. However, it is still unknown how the Amazon forest will respond to the ongoing changes in climate, especially droughts, which are expected to become more frequent. To help answering this question, in this thesis I developed and improved the representation of biophysical processes and photosynthesis in the Ecosystem Demography model (ED-2.2), an individual-based land ecosystem model. I also evaluated the model biophysics against multiple data sets for multiple for

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Ahmadi, Behzad. "On the Drought Recovery and Resiliency: How Terrestrial and Riverine Ecosystems Recover from Agricultural and Hydrological Droughts." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4834.

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Climate extremes, in particular droughts are significant driving forces towards riverine and terrestrial ecosystems disturbance. Drought impacts on stream ecosystems include losses that can either be direct (e.g. destruction of habitat for aquatic species) or indirect (e.g. deterioration of water quality, soil quality, and increased chance of wildfires). This study investigates hydrological and agricultural droughts and their recovery durations. For the riverine ecosystems, this study combines hydrologic drought and water quality changes during droughts and represents a multi-stage framework t

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McDonald, M. Christine, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture. "Ecosystem resilience and the restoration of damaged plant communities : a discussion focusing on Australian case studies." THESIS_FAH_HOR_McDonald_M.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/683.

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An examination was undertaken of the literature and restoration cases for 4 major Australian vegetation types (sclerophyll; rainforest; grassland; and wetland) to explore the proposition that ecological resilience may govern recovery after anthropogenic damage, and/or provide a fundamental guide and measure of success for ecological restoration. Also, primary data were collected from highly degraded sites (5 sclerophyll, 3 rainforest, and 4 grassy sites) to assess recovery after restoration treatment. These were supplemented with questionnaire data from practitioners working at a wider range o

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Waters, James. "The role of ecosystem services and adaptive capacity in the resilience of poor urban areas." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48094/.

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This thesis aims to understand the important features of resilience for individuals living in poor urban areas. There is currently little understanding of the role of ecosystem services, or the key components of adaptive capacity in these areas. As urbanisation continues apace, it is of utmost importance that we understand how to build resilience in slums and informal settlements. This thesis contributes to this challenge by finding determinants of adaptive capacity, the degree to which ecosystem services are used, and significant heterogeneities in slum adaptive capacity. The research is base

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Lindström, Robin. "Flexibility or coerced resilience: Analysing the role of flex crops in the global production ecosystem." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194678.

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Large parts of Earth’s natural ecosystems have been converted into simplified production system. These production systems, named the Global Production Ecosystems (GPE) are characterised by homogenised and industrial production, that delivers predictable yields of biomass and is highly connected through global trade. The anthropogenic inputs required to keep this predictability is likely to cause environmental degradation and could cause novel risks in the long term. The rise of flex crops is a phenomenon that is likely to further promote this homogenisation and industrialisation. These are cro

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Kalk, Hannah June. "The role of coastal plant community response to climate change: implications for restoring ecosystem resiliency." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/742.

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Accelerated sea-level rise and increased intensity of tropical storm events have challenged the conventional approaches to conservation and restoration of coastal ecosystems. In coastal communities, where survival will depend largely on the ability of species to adapt to rapidly shifting conditions or become established farther inland, historic assemblages may be lost. Seed banks may be an important component of resilience and recovery in response to altered inundation regimes, should they contain species able to adapt or migrate inland. This study assess the ability of seed banks to act as

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De, Luca Claudia <1988&gt. "Greening the city: an ecosystem-based framework to support planning towards urban sustainability and resilience." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/9723/3/De%20Luca%20Claudia%20Tesi%2033%20ciclo.pdf.

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Cities are small-scale complex socio-ecological systems, that host around 60% of world population. Ecosystem Services (ES) provided by urban ecosystems offer multiple benefits necessary to cope with present and future urban challenges. These ES include microclimate regulation, runoff control, as well as opportunities for mental and physical recreation, affecting citizen’s health and wellbeing. Creating a balance between urban development, land take containment, climate adaptation and availability of Urban Green Areas and their related benefits, can improve the quality of the lives of the inhab

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Ernstson, Henrik. "In Rhizomia : Actors, Networks and Resilience in Urban Landscapes." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Systemekologiska institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8137.

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With accelerating urbanization it is crucial to understand how urban ecosystems play a part in generating ecosystem services for urban dwellers, such as clean water, spaces for recreation, stress relief and improved air quality. An equally important question relate to who gets to enjoy these benefits, i.e. the distribution of ecosystem services, and how issues of power and equity influence the management of ecosystems. Through case studies from the urban landscape of Stockholm, this doctoral thesis engages with these perspectives through combining ecological theory with social theory, includin

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Sadauskis, Rolands. "Building resilience to climate-driven regime shifts." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-64551.

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There is increasing concern about potential climate-driven regime shifts– large abrupt shifts in social-ecological systems that could have large impacts onecosystems services and human well-being. This paper aims to synthesize the potentialpathways for building resilience to such regime shifts. Ten examples from the RegimeShift Database provided the cases for analysis. Causal loop diagrams were used toanalyze feedback mechanisms at different scales and identify “leverage points” –places to intervene in the system in order to build resilience. Sixteen of these leveragepoints were identified, mo

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Bodin, Örjan. "A network perspective on ecosystems, societies and natural resource management." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Systems Ecology, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-844.

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<p>This thesis employs a network perspective in studying ecosystems and natural resource management. It explores the structural characteristics of social and/or ecological networks and their implications on societies’ and ecosystems’ ability to adapt to change and to cope with disturbances while still maintaining essential functions and structures (i.e. resilience).</p><p>Paper I introduces terminology from the network sciences and puts these into the context of ecology and natural resource management. Paper II and III focus on habitat fragmentation and how it affects an agricultural landscape

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Snyman, Elaine. "An exploration of the socio-ecological antecedents of youth resilience : a visual study / Elaine Snyman." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10360.

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The purpose of this study was to identify and understand the social-ecological resources which encouraged resilient Basotho youth in the rural areas of the Thabo Mofutsanyana district of the Free State province towards positive adjustment in the face of poverty and underdevelopment. Positive adjustment, or resilience, is the focus of the International Community-University Research Alliance (ICURA) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) funded project, called Pathways to Resilience. My study forms part of this broader resilience study. Resilience, or positive adjustment to hardshi

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Liebergesell, Mario, Björn Reu, Ulrike Stahl, et al. "Functional resilience against climate-driven extinctions." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-204141.

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Future global change scenarios predict a dramatic loss of biodiversity for many regions in the world, potentially reducing the resistance and resilience of ecosystem functions. Once before, during Plio-Pleistocene glaciations, harsher climatic conditions in Europe as compared to North America led to a more depauperate tree flora. Here we hypothesize that this climate driven species loss has also reduced functional diversity in Europe as compared to North America. We used variation in 26 traits for 154 North American and 66 European tree species and grid-based co-occurrences derived from distri

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Mäkelä, Anni. "Diversity and functioning of Arctic benthic ecosystems and their resilience to climate change driven alterations in food supply." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231760.

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Climate change is rapidly reducing the Arctic Ocean summer sea ice cover, consequently altering the patterns of primary production, with reducing ice algal-, but increasing phytoplankton primary production. As benthic consumers rely on the sinking phytodetritus for food, changes to food availability could render the benthos vulnerable if they prefer ice algae as a food source. The aim this thesis was to investigate the benthic macroinfaunal dietary reliance on ice algae and phytoplankton in North Water Polynya (NOW) and Lancaster Sound (LS) in Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and how a shift from

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Boltemo, Edholm Jenny. "How can Ecosystem Services be implemented in local Climate Adaptation? : A case study of Arjeplog." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekoteknik- och hållbart byggande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36856.

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Ecosystem services are essential for human climate adaptation. As climate change is a direct driver of change for ecosystem service provisioning, it is of importance to care for our ecosystems to be able to cope with future challenges. Local governance has a central role in climate adaptation due to its responsibility in physical planning. To be able to plan for changes driven by climate change, a flexible, adaptive strategy is necessary. Ecosystem-based Adaptation, EbA, can provide this flexibility to an overall adaptation strategy. In this case study, the potential of EbA to help Nature-base

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Sundler, Sofie Inger. "Ecosystem Services in Spatial Planning : Towards Sustainable Development in the Swedish Physical Planning Process." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-19823.

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This thesis aims at defining the connection between the increasingly popular ecosystem services theory and its practical implications for sustainable development in Swedish physical spatial planning. A literature study was made to summarize the ecosystem services and resilience thinking concepts (with an emphasis on ecosystem services), their definitions and potential uses in physical spatial planning. This overview was then applied in choosing a concept framework to be tested in a case-study: the possible changes in ecosystem services and their values in a land-use trade off situation. To gat

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Laliberté, Etienne. "Land-Use Intensification in Grazing Systems: Plant Trait Responses and Feedbacks to Ecosystem Functioning and Resilience." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Forestry, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5109.

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Land-use change is the single most important global driver of changes in biodiversity. Such changes in biodiversity, in turn, are expected to influence the functioning of ecosystems and their resilience to environmental perturbations and disturbances. It is widely recognised that the use of functional traits and functional diversity is best for understanding the causes and functional consequences of changes in biodiversity, but conceptual development has outpaced empirical applications. This thesis explores these ideas in grazing systems, which are expected to undergo rapid intensification of

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McDonald, M. Christine. "Ecosystem resilience and the restoration of damaged plant communities : a discussion focusing on Australian case studies." Thesis, View thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:683.

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An examination was undertaken of the literature and restoration cases for 4 major Australian vegetation types (sclerophyll; rainforest; grassland; and wetland) to explore the proposition that ecological resilience may govern recovery after anthropogenic damage, and/or provide a fundamental guide and measure of success for ecological restoration. Also, primary data were collected from highly degraded sites (5 sclerophyll, 3 rainforest, and 4 grassy sites) to assess recovery after restoration treatment. These were supplemented with questionnaire data from practitioners working at a wider range o

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McDonald, M. Christine. "Ecosystem resilience and the restoration of damaged plant communities : a discussion focusing on Australian case studies /." View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030625.095246/index.html.

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Middle, Isaac Samuel. "Planning Public Parks under Resilience Theory: A Framework for Negotiating Ecosystem Services and Organised Community Sport." Thesis, Curtin University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1941.

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This thesis presents a novel theoretical framework for integrating the environmental and recreation functions of public parks into a coherent planning approach. This framework, which combines insights from urban ecological and human health resilience theory, is firstly applied to discuss how parks can best facilitate key ecosystem services. Using a case study in Perth’s outer suburbs, the framework is then used to investigate how opportunities for community sport might be best provided alongside these services.

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Fall, Ababacar. "Le Ferlo sénégalais : approche géographique de la vulnérabilité des anthroposystèmes sahéliens." Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131028.

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L’anthroposystème pastoral du Ferlo sénégalais évolue dans un milieu historiquement négligé par les politiques agricoles en raison de ses caractéristiques biophysiques particulières, peu favorables à l’agriculture et à une forme de mise en valeur autre que l’élevage extensif, incluant une transhumance. Celui-ci permet d’exploiter des ressources très variables dans l’espace et dans le temps. Cette primauté de l’élevage itinérant est de nos jours de plus en plus contestée par le développement de l’agriculture dans un contexte marqué par l’amélioration des conditions de la pluviosité dans tout le

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