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Drylands are regions encompassing hyperarid, arid, semiarid, or subhumid climatic conditions (see also Chap. 1). They include cold and warm subtropical deserts, savannas, and the Mediterranean environments. Our focus here is on warm drylands, which are gen ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2019

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This policy brief suggests five factors and describes use cases to guide and inspire attempts to develop resilience-based insurance solutions and to enhance a positive feedback between insurance and resilience. ...

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A conceptual framework to study the dynamics of routine practice transitions

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Actors from academia, politics, and the civil society increasingly acknowledge that to address our current unsustainable regimes of resource and energy demand, we need to redefine our ways of being and doing. Everyday practices are a key driver of energy a ...

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A generalized definition of reactivity for ecological systems and the problem of transient species dynamics

Andrea Rinaldo, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

Perturbations to an ecosystem's steady state can trigger transient responses of great ecological relevance. Asymptotic stability determines whether a generic perturbation will fade out in the long run, but falls short of characterizing the dynamics imme ...

Wiley2017

3D water quality modelling of a eutrophic lake

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In an environment subject to anthropogenic pressures, the understanding of lakes is crucial as they are essential for ecosystems and represent a source of the scarce accessible freshwater existing on Earth. Water quality management is especially designed t ...

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Societal impacts through participation: a critical investigation of participation as an enabler of societal impact of sustainability research

Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In this contribution we focus on the interlinkages between participatory knowledge production and sustainability transformations by proposing an empirical enquiry into transdisciplinary (TD) research projects. With hindsight to (un)sustainability the limit ...

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Modelling socio-ecological systems with MAIA: A biogas infrastructure simulation

Reinier Verhoog, Amineh Ghorbani

Similar to other renewable energy technologies, the development of a biogas infrastructure in the Netherlands is going through social, institutional and ecological evolution. To study this complex evolutionary process, we built a comprehensive agent-based ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Geomorphic controls on elevational gradients of species richness

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt

Elevational gradients of biodiversity have been widely investigated, and yet a clear interpretation of the biotic and abiotic factors that determine how species richness varies with elevation is still elusive. In mountainous landscapes, habitats at differe ...

Natl Acad Sciences2016

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