Coupled Human and Natural Systems

@inproceedings{Liu2007CoupledHA,
  title={Coupled Human and Natural Systems},
  author={Jianguo Liu and Thomas Dietz and Stephen R. Carpenter and Carl Folke and Marina Alberti and Charles L. Redman and Stephen Henry Schneider and E. Ostrom and Alice N. Pell and Jane Lubchenco and William W. Taylor and Zhiyun Ouyang and Peter J. Deadman and Timothy K. Kratz and William Provencher},
  booktitle={Ambio},
  year={2007}
}
Abstract Humans have continuously interacted with natural systems, resulting in the formation and development of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). Recent studies reveal the complexity of organizational, spatial, and temporal couplings of CHANS. These couplings have evolved from direct to more indirect interactions, from adjacent to more distant linkages, from local to global scales, and from simple to complex patterns and processes. Untangling complexities, such as reciprocal effects… 
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Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework
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A brief overview of the impact of the paper on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) is offered and how the paper has inspired some later work such as telecoupling (Liu et al. 2013) and metacoupling(Liu 2017).
Structure, function, and dynamic mechanisms of coupled human–natural systems
Cross-Site Synthesis of Complexity in Coupled Human and Natural Systems
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Explanation and Intervention in Coupled Human and Natural Systems
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Degradation of rangeland ecosystems in the developing world: tragedy of breaking coupled human-natural systems
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Causal inference in coupled human and natural systems
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To examine the relevance of interference in CHANS, a stylized simulation of a marine CHANS with shocks that can represent policy interventions, ecological disturbances, and technological disasters is developed.
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