A network perspective of human-nature interactions in dynamic and fast-changing landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Increasing and intensifying the use of land represents a prominent sustainability challenge of particular importance in regions undergoing rapid change while at the same time exhibiting large natural and anthropocentrically induced variability. To reconcile the needs for both human prosperity and healthy ecosystems, a more integrated understanding of key biophysical and adaptation processes is paramount in such dynamic and deeply entangled social and environmental contexts. Interdisciplinary research utilizing a network perspective provides a novel methodological and theoretical approach to that end. We review and synthesize recent network-centric studies, and use this network perspective to show how rangeland managers in a dynamic pastoral region in the Qinghai Province of China form soci

SUBMITTER: Bodin O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10232045 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature