Thus, we shall enter into a socio-ecological transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference

This is an opportunity for starting a socio-ecological transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference

More resilient socio-ecological systems are able to absorb larger shocks without collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous perspectives and resilience of the Arctic] Reference

‘On designing socio-ecological indicators’, in U. Svedin and Bhagerhall-Aniansson (Eds.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tools and methods for integrated analysis and assessment of sustainable development] Reference

So if we get our socio-ecological, Solartopian house in order the likelihood of war will go way down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia] Reference

A transition to sustainability requires new thinking on demography and on the socio-ecological transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference

Mappae mundi: humans and their habitats in a long-term socio-ecological perspective: myths, maps and models.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of History] Reference

Yet, they also span different geographic settings, environmental conditions, governance systems, and socio-ecological dynamics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding and assessing climate change vulnerabilities in the Arctic through case studies] Reference

Much more attention needs to be paid to the need for adaptive crafting of institutions that fit the socio-ecological system of interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Governing the commons in the new millennium~ A diversity of institutions for natural resource management] Reference

It is a systems property; in this case, a property of the linked system of humans and nature, or socio-ecological systems, in the Arctic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous perspectives and resilience of the Arctic] Reference

The fundamental units of analysis of a new sustainability science are socio-ecological systems, as they form and interact from the community to planetary levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Transition~ How Do We Get There] Reference

He is interested in past and ongoing socio-ecological transition processes and contributes to the development of a biophysical understanding of industrialization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributor: Fridolin Krausmann] Reference

Are we on the contrary on the verge of a socio-ecological transition that will reduce energy and material use in the rich economies even if this implies economic de-growth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference

Participatory research has become increasingly common in arctic research on socio-ecological changes, as evident throughout this assessment and a number of other projects e.g.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methods and models for climate change vulnerability analysis in the Arctic] Reference

Now is the time for a permanent socio-ecological transition to lower levels of energy and materials use, including a decrease in the HANPP (human appropriation of net primary production).    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference

Now it is the moment to substitute GDP by social and environmental indicators at the macro-level and to trace progress towards a socio-ecological transition by the behaviour of such indicators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference

Yet BP's spill may just be a blessing in disguise: Obama now has access to a 'crisis' vehicle, charged with enough political muscle to implement stringent socio-ecological regulations and safeguards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regulating The Offshore Oil Catch] Reference

The approach used by normal science to manage complex social and biophysical systems as if they were simple scientific exercises has brought us to our present mixture of intellectual triumph and socio-ecological peril.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Normal Science] Reference

He has studied the changing relation of land use and social metabolism on various scales from local to global and applied and advanced socio-ecological methods such as material - and energy flow accounting, HANPP and the ecological footprint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributor: Fridolin Krausmann] Reference

This begs the question of what socio-ecological factors favor the evolution of altruism.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Such radical negative socio-ecological regime shifts are often referred to as collapses (1, 2, 4, 30).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

Such crises are best viewed as an opportunity to redesign a socio-ecological regime better adapted to the changing conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

Rather, decline is linked to a brittle "socio-ecological regime", or the response a society is able to mount to ecological crises.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

The extent to which we can (or cannot) reproduce historical behavior in socio-ecological systems determines the confidence we can place in future projections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Captive primates in particular thrive in conditions that mimic the complex socio-ecological challenges they have been faced with in the wild for millions of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

Effectively adapting to potential collapse requires a thorough realignment of the way we view and interact with our surroundings-what has been called a socio-ecological '' regime shift '' (18).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

Current date: Saturday October 24, 2009 - emen has turned into a very problematic and confusing Middle Eastern entity with multiple open political, socio-ecological, economic and security battlefields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yemen RSS News Feed - Yemen Times] Reference

Variants that more favorably interact with the socio-ecological context generally increase in their frequency within the population, while those that are less favorable generally decrease in frequency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

The present nature and complexity of socio-ecological systems are heavily contingent on the past; we cannot fully appreciate the present condition without going back decades, centuries or even millennia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Changes in our current interconnected worldviews, institutions, and technologies (our socio-ecological regime) are needed to achieve a lifestyle better adapted to current and future environmental realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

Our current socio-ecological regime is founded on a worldview that emerged during a period-the early Industrial Revolution-when the world was still relatively empty of humans and their built infrastructure (33).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

Thus, the present nature and complexity of socio-ecological systems are heavily contingent on the past; we cannot fully understand the present condition without going back centuries or even millennia into the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

It will require integrated, systems-level redesign of our entire socio-ecological regime, focused explicitly and directly on the goal of sustainable quality of life rather than the proxy of unlimited material growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

The history of human-dominated socio-ecological systems is one of successive climbs to regional prominence followed by crises that were either successfully addressed, leading to sustainability, or not, leading to decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

But since buildings exist as "open systems" relative to the surrounding socio-ecological environment, this form of design, following the Second Law of Thermodynamics, increases the entropy of this environment outside of its walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference

In human systems, it is possible to adapt this concept to develop a taxonomy or list of functions required and / or present in a socio-ecological community, such as "food production," "food composting and recycling," and "shelter," as examples.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference

Noa Olchovsky, campaign coordinator on the fence for Green Action, an Israeli environmental group that advocates “socio-ecological change,” said the proposed border zone threatens Israel’s ecological system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questioning The Ecological Impact of the Security Barrier | Jewschool] Reference