Essays about: "social-ecological cascades"
Found 2 essays containing the words social-ecological cascades.
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1. Unearthing the social-ecological cascades of the fall armyworm invasion: A computer-assisted text analysis of digital news articles
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : Understanding the complex nature of social-ecological cascades, or chain reactions of events that lead to widespread change in a system, is crucial for navigating the challenges they present. Emerging pests and pathogens, such as the fall armyworm, provide an opportunity to study these cascades in greater detail. READ MORE
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2. An idea whose time has come : an innovation perspective on Marine Spatial Planning
University essay from Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : This study considers the emergence of Marine Spatial Planning as a tool for ecosystem-basedmanagement using an innovation diffusion perspective that combines elements of classical diffusionof innovations theory with a consideration of individual and networked agency and cross-scaledynamics in the context of a social-ecological systems perspective. The main findings are that thediffusion of Marine Spatial Planning does not follow a linear, technologically deterministic process asindicated by many diffusion of innovation studies but instead the diffusion process can becharacterised by a hybrid diffusion system that cascades over a series of phases and where individualsembedded in informal networks play a key role in driving the emergence of Marine Spatial Planningacross scales. READ MORE