Publications
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Towards a combined human-natural system approach in the Northern Red Sea Region: Ecological challenges, sustainable development, and community engagement
Published on May 16, 2024
The northern Red Sea coastal ecosystem is one of the most diverse coastal ecosystems in the world. Fortunately, it has shown extraordinary resilience against climate change and is predicted to survive global warming during the coming decades. -
Risks associated with global warming of 1.5 to 4 °C above pre-industrial levels in human and natural systems in six countries
Published on May 15, 2024
The Topical Collection “Accrual of Climate Change Risk in Six Vulnerable Countries” provides a harmonised assessment of risks to human and natural systems due to global warming… -
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - Complex relationships between soybean trade destination and tropical deforestation
Published on July 12, 2023
Using data for soybean-producing municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, between 2004 and 2017, we evaluated the relationships between forest cover change and the annual soybean trade destination. -
How to identify transitional geospace in mountainous areas? An approach using a transitional index from the perspective of coupled human and natural systems
Published on May 15, 2023
The coupling of humans and nature differs in terms of distribution and intensity, thus producing a gradient of synthetic geographical environments. -
Knowledge-Informed Data-Driven Modeling of Coupled Human-Built-Natural Systems: The Case of Hurricane-Induced Debris
Published on May 15, 2023
Debris is one of the most challenging cascading effects posed by hurricane events, causing large financial and logistical burdens to coastal communities. -
A Coupled Human and Natural Systems Framework to Characterize Emerging Infectious Diseases-The Case of Fibropapillomatosis in Marine Turtles
Published on May 15, 2023
In a fast-changing world, it is highly important to consider the possible consequences of human-driven effects that can alter natural ecosystems. In this review, we built a framework focused on risk factors associated with new wildlife diseases, such... -
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait
Published on May 14, 2023
Numerous narrow marine passages around the world serve as essential gateways for the transportation of goods, the movement of people, and the migration of fish and wildlife. These global gateways facilitate human–nature interactions across distant re... -
Coupling strength of human-natural systems mediates the response of ecosystem services to land use change
Published on May 14, 2023
Addressing the dynamics of human-natural systems (HNS) driven by land use change (LC) is a key challenge for the sustainable development of ecosystem services (ES). However, how changes to the HNS coupling relationships affect ES is rarely repo... -
Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems
Published on May 13, 2023
Macrosystems are integrated human–natural systems, in recognition of the fact that virtually every natural system on Earth influences and is influenced by human activities, even over long distances. It is therefore crucial to incorporate inherent pro... -
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event
Published on May 13, 2023
In October 2011, the Halloween Nor'easter produced unusually early and heavy snowfall while leaves were still on the trees, causing extensive damage throughout the northeastern United States. This storm is an example of winter weather whiplash, in wh... -
Challenges and opportunities for modeling coupled human and natural systems
Published on May 13, 2023
With the growing recognition of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), modeling CHANS with two-way feedbacks has become a frontier research area and a critical tool to achieve sustainability. The challenges in CHANS modeling and opportunities to ... -
Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research - Legacy Readings with Commentaries
Published on March 19, 2023
News about our interactions with the environment hits us daily, from pandemics following zoonotic transmission to community displacement due to climate change to species extinctions after deforestation. -
Water Allocation, Return Flows, and Economic Value in Water-Scarce Environments: Results from a Coupled Natural-Human System Model
Published on May 15, 2022
In many parts of the world including the western United States, the allocation of water is governed by complex water laws that dictate who receives water, how much they receive, and when. Because these rules are generally based on the seniority of wa... -
Can Neo-Rural Initiatives Bolster Community Resilience in Depopulated Coupled Human and Natural System?: Insights From Stakeholder Perceptions in Central Spain
Published on May 15, 2022
Preindustrial era agro-sylvopastoral land uses have influenced structure, function and disturbance in Mediterranean type mountainous landscapes for millennia. -
Development of a graphical resilience framework to understand a coupled human-natural system in a remote arid highland of Baja California Sur
Published on May 15, 2022
Hydrological systems are important to society as water resources and effective management requires an understanding of how water and humans influence each other. -
Current and future water balance for coupled human-natural systems - Insights from a glacierized catchment in Peru
Published on May 15, 2022
Study region Santa River basin, Peru. Study focus -
Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling
Published on May 15, 2022
The Earth system and the human system are intrinsically linked. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have led to the climate crisis, which is causing unprecedented extreme events and could trigger Earth system tipping elements. Physical and social ... -
ANEMI_Yangtze v1.0: a coupled human-natural systems model for the Yangtze Economic Belt - model description
Published on May 15, 2022
The Yangtze Economic Belt (hereafter, the Belt) is one of the most dynamic regions in China in terms of population growth, economic progress, industrialization, and urbanization. It faces many resource constraints (land, food, energy) and environment... -
An investigation of coupled natural human systems using a two-way coupled agent-based modeling framework
Published on May 15, 2022
Improving the understanding of coupled natural human systems (CNHS) can better inform environmental policymaking. We investigated the co-evolution (i.e., bidirectional interactions) issues in CNHS via two-way coupling RiverWare (RW; a river-reservoir... -
The Effects of Model Complexity on Model Output Uncertainty in Co-Evolved Coupled Natural-Human Systems
Published on May 15, 2022
Studies have recently focused on using coupled natural-human systems to inform policymaking. However, model uncertainty can increase with model complexity and affect the variance of the model outcomes.
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