Article
Environmental Sciences
Richard Takyi, Badr El Mahrad, Francis Kofi Ewusie Nunoo, Richard Adade, Mohamed ElHadary, John Essandoh
Summary: Human activities in coastal lagoons have had a significant impact on their ecology and the ecosystem services they provide. This research in Ghana assessed eleven lagoons using a socio-ecological framework and found that activities such as fishing and farming have led to environmental changes, ultimately affecting human welfare. Therefore, sustainable management of these lagoons is of great importance.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kieran Findlater, Robert Kozak, Shannon Hagerman
Summary: Climate change poses risks to the benefits of forest-dependent communities worldwide. The use of genomics-based assisted migration may help protect these benefits, but it also generates new risks and uncertainties. Different stakeholders have different perspectives on the risks and uncertainties associated with this strategy. The health and integrity of the forest ecosystem is considered the highest priority in forest management.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
A. Mencio, E. Madaula, W. Meredith, X. Casamitjana, X. D. Quintana
Summary: Coastal lagoons can be both sinks and sources of various substances, including nutrients and pollutants. Nitrogen plays a more critical role than phosphorus in limiting primary production in these ecosystems, making them highly vulnerable to nitrate pollution.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Gijs G. Hendrickx, Jose A. A. Antolinez, Peter M. J. Herman
Summary: In recent years, coastal management has faced new challenges due to socio-economic growth and climate change. Predictive tools such as process-based models are necessary for testing and quantifying the resilience of coastal systems to projected changes. However, these models are computationally expensive, hence alternative techniques like input and model reduction and empirical models have been used. This paper proposes a hybrid workflow that combines statistical and machine learning with a process-based numerical model to provide sensitivity analyses on complex systems, using salt intrusion in estuaries as an example.
COASTAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Jiaxin Wu, Pingfeng Wang
Summary: This study proposes a restoration framework based on mixed-integer linear programming using heterogeneous dispatchable agents; scenario-based stochastic optimization technique is used to deal with uncertainties in disaster recovery processes; CVaR risk measure is implemented to address the temporal sparsity of decision making.
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chengyi Tu, Paolo D'Odorico, Samir Suweis
Summary: One of the main challenges in complexity science and engineering is understanding high-dimensional networked systems and their susceptibility to transitions to undesired states. The authors propose an analytical framework to collapse complex N-dimensional networked systems into a lower-dimensional manifold, which can simplify the study of system dynamics and help in identifying optimal strategies in the design or management of networked systems.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Justin D. Brookes, Peisheng Huang, Sherry Y. Zhai, Matthew S. Gibbs, Qifeng Ye, Kane T. Aldridge, Brendan Busch, Matthew R. Hipsey
Summary: Freshwater flows to estuaries have significant impacts on habitat, nutrient transport, and water quality. This study quantifies the positive effects of environmental flows on a coastal lagoon system in South Australia, showing that maintaining river flow can prevent salt intrusion and increase suitable habitat for key fish species.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Lindsay Beevers, Melissa Bedinger, Kerri McClymont, Annie Visser-Quinn
Summary: This paper explores the use of catchment resilience as a unifying concept for managing and regulating catchments, emphasizing the ability of complex catchment systems to bounce back, absorb, and transform. It introduces six main complexity concepts that frame the evaluation of catchment resilience, highlighting the need to consider interactions between natural, social, and technical aspects, spatial and time scales, and uncertainty. The paper also identifies gaps in current practice and suggests future methodological approaches that should incorporate a linking systems or interaction analysis to enhance catchment resilience.
Article
Engineering, Marine
Juan Soria, Rebeca Perez, Xavier Soria-Pepinya
Summary: Coastal lagoons are an important priority habitat in the European environment due to their diverse biological communities. They are relatively recent geological formations that are susceptible to rapid disappearance if environmental conditions change. In the Mediterranean basin, 37 coastal lagoons with a surface area greater than 10 km(2) have been identified. However, most of these lagoons are facing pollution and eutrophication issues, impacting their ecological condition. It is crucial to protect and preserve the cultural values associated with these lagoons.
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
S. Belga Fedeli, Y. Fyodorov, J. R. Ipsen
Summary: The study found that as long as the origin remains stable, the system will be surrounded by a resilience gap with no other fixed points within a radius r(*) > 0. When the origin loses local stability, the radius r(*) disappears, leading to the system becoming less resilient.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dominique Munaron, Bastien Merigot, Valerie Derolez, Nathalie Tapie, Helene Budzinski, Annie Fiandrino
Summary: This study assessed the risk of pesticide mixtures in lagoon waters using integrative passive samplers and concentration addition toxicological models. The findings revealed varying compositions and concentrations of dissolved pesticides over the year, with certain substances and transformation products posing a chronic toxicity risk for phytoplankton, crustaceans, and fish. The study suggests a need to review the current EU Water Framework Directive's risk-assessment method.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Melika Amirzadeh, Saeideh Sobhaninia, Ayyoob Sharifi
Summary: Considering the rapid urbanization trends and increasing consequences of climate change, this study aims to clarify the concept of urban resilience through a comprehensive review and comparison of different perspectives. The study identifies three dimensions of urban resilience - systems, agents, and institutions, as well as three approaches - recovery, adaptation, and transformation. The conceptual framework provided by this study helps scholars and policymakers make better-informed decisions regarding urban resilience.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Sonia Refulio-Coronado, Katherine Lacasse, Tracey Dalton, Austin Humphries, Suchandra Basu, Hirotsugu Uchida, Emi Uchida
Summary: The review and analysis of 98 studies applying the SES framework to coastal and marine environments over the last two decades revealed progress in understanding key SES properties, such as resilience, adaptive capacity, vulnerability, and governance. However, methods and data for providing causal evidence of non-linearities and thresholds within SES are yet to be identified. Greater alignment and consistency are needed in models to fully utilize the SES framework and enhance coastal and marine management.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiangyu Ma, Huijie Zhou, Zhiyi Li
Summary: This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on the application of complex network theories in resilience evaluation and enhancement of modern power systems. It decomposes resilience into structural and operational aspects, discussing structural resilience through graph modeling and analyzing static and dynamic characteristics, and investigating operational resilience through the progression of preventive, corrective, and restorative strategies in extreme events. It also extends the discussion to multilayer networks as modern power systems are increasingly interconnected with communication networks and other energy carriers. Overall, complex network theories are found to be effective in understanding and improving the structural and operational resilience of modern power systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Eric D. Stein, Eleanor M. Gee, Janine B. Adams, Katie Irving, Lara Van Niekerk
Summary: The science behind managing environmental flows in temporarily closed estuaries and coastal lagoons is not as advanced as it is for rivers and large bays. Research priorities include improving understanding of ecological responses to altered flow regimes, developing models that account for watershed and ocean forcing at appropriate scales, quantifying stress-response relationships, and enhancing tools for ecosystem function assessment and monitoring to guide management actions aimed at reducing potential impacts of hydrologic alteration and climate change.
Article
Environmental Studies
Ali Madanipour, Mark Shucksmith, Elizabeth Brooks
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of spatial justice to examine the EU's policy of territorial cohesion, highlighting three key dimensions that distinguish it from social justice. The analysis suggests that the EU's approach has shifted towards addressing spatial imbalances and intra-regional development, but has not fully integrated distributive and procedural justice or effectively tackled inter-regional and intra-regional inequality.
EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Geography
Elizabeth Brooks, Katalin Kovacs
Summary: This article examines the governance of the LEADER Programme from the perspective of autonomy and local democracy. While most authors identify a positive correlation between democracy and enhanced local autonomy, the study also reveals that the scope of 'LEADER democracy' is limited, restricting participation to certain social groups. Case studies conducted in England and Hungary show a decline in autonomy and participation in the latest iteration compared to the previous programming cycle. Additionally, the research suggests that the British institutional system allows for more top-down intervention and less autonomy for LAGs compared to the recentralized Hungarian context.
Editorial Material
Geography
Ruth Machen, Simin Davoudi, Elizabeth Brooks
Article
Geography
Mark Shucksmith, Elizabeth Brooks, Ali Madanipour
Summary: This paper examines the contribution of LEADER to local action and spatial justice through a case study in England, highlighting the tension between network and hierarchy modes of governance. The study suggests that apparent localism may be constrained by 'government at a distance,' impacting the ability of LAGs to pursue spatial justice. Further research is needed to explore the realization or frustration of this potential across Europe's diverse political contexts.
SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS
(2021)
Article
Economics
Simin Davoudi, Elizabeth Brooks
Summary: This paper proposes a new conceptualization of scale as performative imaginary and examines the issues of scalar fixing using city-regionalization in England as a case study. Despite the alignment between enacted scale, scalar imaginary and neoliberal political project, institutionalization of this imaginary has not been successful, resulting in variable geometries of subnational governance.
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Geoff Vigar, Susannah Gunn, Elizabeth Brooks
TOWN PLANNING REVIEW
(2017)
Proceedings Paper
Regional & Urban Planning
Susannah Gunn, Elizabeth Brooks, Geoff Vigar
Reconsidering Localism
(2015)
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Elizabeth Brooks, Andrew Law, Lingjiang Huang
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Elizabeth Brooks, Simin Davoudi
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Simin Davoudi, Elizabeth Brooks, Abid Mehmood
PLANNING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
(2013)
