Abstract:
:Given the heightened pace and extent of human interactions with landscapes, there is increasing recognition of the interdependence of hydrogeomorphological, ecological, and human systems in understanding human-landscape interactions. There is also widespread agreement for greater integration across disciplinary boundaries to generate new knowledge urgently needed for theory building to understand, predict, and respond to rapidly changing human-landscape systems. The development of new conceptual frameworks, methods, tools, and collaborations linking across the natural and social sciences are key elements to such integration. In an effort to contribute to a broader conceptual framework for human-landscape systems, this paper describes how environmental policy research has contributed to four integrative themes--thresholds and tipping points; spatial scales and boundaries; feedback loops; and time scales and lags--developed by participants in an NSF-sponsored interdisciplinary workshop. As a broad and heterogeneous body of literature, environmental policy research reflects a diversity of methodological and theoretical approaches around institutions, actors, processes, and ideas. We integrate across multiple subfields and research programs to help identify complementarities in research that may support future interdisciplinary collaborative work. We conclude with a discussion of future research questions to help advance greater interdisciplinary research around human-landscape systems.
journal_name
Environ Managejournal_title
Environmental managementauthors
Gerlak AKdoi
10.1007/s00267-013-0068-ysubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-01-01 00:00:00pages
67-75issue
1eissn
0364-152Xissn
1432-1009journal_volume
53pub_type
杂志文章abstract::This article describes a template for implementing an integrated community sustainability plan. The template emphasizes community engagement and outlines the components of a basic framework for integrating ecological, social and economic dynamics into a community plan. The framework is a series of steps that support a...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-009-9315-7
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A study of water quality, land use, and population variations over the past three decades was conducted in eastern Massachusetts to examine the impact of urban sprawl on water quality using geographic information system and statistical analyses. Since 1970, eastern Massachusetts has experienced pronounced urban sprawl...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-006-0097-x
更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::National Pollution Discharge Elimination Permit (NPDES)-driven effluent toxicity tests using Ceriodaphnia dubia and fathead minnows were conducted for more than 20 years to assess and monitor the effects of wastewaters at the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12 Complex) in Oa...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-011-9679-3
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Implementing effective conservation requires an understanding of factors affecting deforestation and forest degradation. Previous studies have investigated factors affecting deforestation, while few studies have examined the determinants of both of deforestation and forest degradation for more than one period. To addr...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-012-9968-5
更新日期:2013-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The dominant environmental determinants of aquatic communities have been a persistent topic for many years. Interactions between natural and anthropogenic characteristics within the aquatic environment influence fish communities in complex ways that make the effect of a single characteristic difficult to ascertain. Re...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-015-0611-0
更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Western North America is experiencing a dramatic expansion of piñon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) (P-J) trees into shrub-steppe communities. Feature extracted data acquired from remotely sensed imagery can help managers rapidly and accurately assess this land cover change in order to manage rangeland ecosy...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-011-9634-3
更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::A numerical water quality criterion in the U.S. consists of three components representing magnitude, duration, and frequency. While magnitude and duration are well defined and conceptually unambiguous, the meaning of the frequency component is often debatable. We interpret the frequency component as a tool for account...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-015-0493-1
更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Desert springs, often the sole sources of water for wildlife and cattle, support wetland and wetland/upland transition ecosystems including rare and endemic species. In the basin and range province in Nevada, USA, springs in the Great Basin and Mojave deserts are sustained by interconnected deep carbonate and shallow ...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-007-9035-9
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::/ The quality and sustainability of the natural environment is a matter of inestimable value and is critical to public health and welfare. All species have a purpose, and they exist for the betterment of other species. It is, therefore, incumbent on all humans to do their part in the preservation of this vast, diverse...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01205978
更新日期:1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Management of many African game reserves is today often still an art based on experience and intuition, rather than a science. Decision-making is based on an informal integration of accumulated individual knowledge and keen field observations. Data are generally poorly captured and curated. Until fairly recently, deno...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s002670010231
更新日期:2001-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::An agricultural watershed, situated on an island of the Aegean archipelago, was studied in order to gain insight into the structure and the design of a typical terrestrial ecosystem of the Mediterranean region. Fieldwork was focused on the comparative study of seasonal patterns of inorganic nutrients, organic nitrogen...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s002670010110
更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study was aimed at determining, under field conditions, early interactions between planted cypress seedlings and their associated shrubs in a mesic area of Andean Patagonia and, in a nursery, the effects of increasing light availability on cypress performance when soil water was not a limiting factor. The field e...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-014-0363-2
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Agroforestry systems (AFSs) have an important role in capturing above and below ground soil carbon and play a dominant role in mitigation of atmospheric CO(2). Attempts has been made here to identify soil organic matter fractions in the cacao-AFSs that have different susceptibility to microbial decomposition and furth...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-011-9642-3
更新日期:2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the United States, the Clean Water Act requires mitigation for wetlands that are negatively impacted by dredging and filling activities. During the mitigation process, there generally is little effort to assess function for mitigation sites and function is usually inferred based on vegetative cover and acreage. In ...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-006-0212-z
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Proponents of the scientific adaptive management approach argue that it increases knowledge acquisition rates, enhances information flow among policy actors, and provides opportunities for creating shared understandings. However, evidence from efforts to implement the approach in New Brunswick, British Columbia, Canad...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01474647
更新日期:1996-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article presents a review of major empirical research on environmental justice. Forty-two empirical research studies spanning three decades were evaluated and categorized on the basis of how well they meet reasonable scientific standards. Twelve of those studies are described and critiqued in detail, and an overv...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1007/s00267-001-0037-8
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::/ Much information is available on changes that occur in natural resources from both spatially-explicit data on environmental conditions and models of the interactions of these conditions and resources with human activities. The strategy for assessing land-use impacts on natural resources developed in this paper provi...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s002679900097
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Depletion of vegetation by overgrazing in arid environments has long-lasting effects on the environmental quality over extended geographic areas. An adequate inspection of habitat changes requires scaled up procedures that would allow assessing end-points of environmental status in broad areas that would be based on p...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-002-2725-4
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::An index based method is developed that ranks the subwatersheds of a watershed based on their relative impacts on watershed response to anticipated land developments, and then applied to an urbanizing watershed in Eastern Pennsylvania. Simulations with a semi-distributed hydrologic model show that computed low- and hi...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-008-9202-7
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although pharmaceuticals treat illnesses and prevent diseases in humans and animals, ironically, they are now among the emerging pollutants in the environment. As individuals continue to consume medicines, households can become a primary source of pharmaceutical pollutants. This paper explains relevant Malaysian law a...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-019-01199-y
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Tidal marshes are increasingly vulnerable to degradation or loss from eutrophication, land-use changes, and accelerating sea-level rise, making restoration necessary to recover ecosystem services. To evaluate effects of restoration planting density and sea-level rise on ecosystem function (i.e., nitrogen removal), we ...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-020-01410-5
更新日期:2021-01-11 00:00:00
abstract::Fragmentation of the forests affects forest ecosystems by changing the composition, shape, and configuration of the resulting patches. Subsequently, the prevailing conditions vary between patches. The exposure to the sun decreases from the patch boundary to the patch interior and this forms core and edge areas within ...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-015-0558-1
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::We critically evaluate some of the key ecological assumptions underpinning the use of nutrient replacement as a means of recovering salmon populations and a range of other organisms thought to be linked to productive salmon runs. These assumptions include: (1) nutrient mitigation mimics the ecological roles of salmon,...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-015-0538-5
更新日期:2015-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::/ Each year damage to forests caused by snow and wind causes high economic losses. In Sweden, approximately 4 million m3 are damaged annually by snow and wind, roughly corresponding to a value of US$150 million, and in Europe, the damage amounts to hundreds of millions of US dollars each year. To help to reduce these ...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s002679900227
更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ecosystem-based approaches to aquaculture integrate environmental concerns into planning. Social-ecological systems research can improve this approach by explicitly relating ecological and social dynamics of change at multiple scales. Doing so requires not only addressing direct effects of aquaculture but also conside...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-014-0295-x
更新日期:2014-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Implementation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has always a step-zero, i.e., an initial phase when the idea is incepted, communicated and negotiated among stakeholders. What happens during this phase is likely to have an impact later on. If not done right, the management of the MPA may encounter problems at later sta...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-010-9587-y
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Brazil's Samuel Dam, which formed a 540-km2 reservoir in the state of Rondônia in 1988, provides lessons for development decisions throughout Amazonia and in other tropical areas. The decision to build the dam was heavily influenced by its role in the political strategies of key decision makers. Samuel illustrates bot...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-004-0100-3
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Rehabilitated riparian zones in agricultural landscapes enhance environmental integrity and provide environmental services such as carbon (C) sequestration. This study quantified differences in organic matter input, soil biochemical characteristics, and soil respiration in a 25-year-old rehabilitated (RH), grass (GRS)...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-014-0410-z
更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Red sesbania is an invasive South American shrub that has rapidly expanded its range along California waterways, emphasizing the need to prioritize eradication sites at a regional scale. To accomplish this, we updated baseline location data in summer 2010 using field surveys throughout the state. We collected relevant...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-013-0063-3
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is protected by conservation policy throughout its range. Efforts to protect the species from further decline demand detailed understanding of its habitat requirements, which have not yet been rigorously defined. Current methods of identifying gopher tortoise habitat typically...
journal_title:Environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00267-013-0210-x
更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00