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Book ; Online: Encyclopedia of environmental management

Fath, Brian D. / Jorgensen, Sven Erik

2021

Author's details	edited by Brian D. Fath, Sven Erik Jorgensen
Language	English
Dates of publication	2021-9999
Size	6 volumes
Edition	Second edition
Publisher	CRC Press
Publishing place	Boca Raton
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Book ; Online
HBZ-ID	HT020591363
Database	ZB MED Catalogue: Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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Book ; Online ; E-Book: A new ecology

Nielsen, Søren Nors / Fath, Brian D. / Bastianoni, Simone / Marques, João Carlos / Müller, Felix / Patten, Bernard C. / Ulanowicz, Robert E. / Jørgensen, Sven Erik / Tiezzi, Enzo

systems perspective

2020

Author's details	Søren Nors Nielsen, Brian D. Fath, Simone Bastianoni, João Carlos Marques, Felix Müller, Bernard C. Patten, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sven E. Jørgensen, Enzo Tiezzi
Keywords	Ecology ; Nature/Effect of human beings on
Subject code	577
Language	English
Size	1 Online-Ressource (ix, 259 Seiten), Illustrationen
Edition	Second edition
Publisher	Elsevier
Publishing place	Amsterdam
Publishing country	Netherlands
Document type	Book ; Online ; E-Book
Note	Includes bibliographical references and index
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HBZ-ID	HT020200948
ISBN	978-0-444-63764-2 ; 9780444637574 ; 0-444-63764-8 ; 0444637575
Database	ZB MED Catalogue: Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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Article ; Online: Participatory approach for assessing institutional resilience: a case study of crises in Austria.

Abduragimova, Patricia / Fath, Brian D / Gulas, Christian / Katzmair, Harald

Environment, development and sustainability

2022 , Page(s) 1–25

Abstract: This paper outlines the procedure of employing novel software tools within a series of participatory workshops designed for measuring and monitoring the resilience of Austria's socioeconomic system based on network analysis and systems research. This ... ...

Abstract	This paper outlines the procedure of employing novel software tools within a series of participatory workshops designed for measuring and monitoring the resilience of Austria's socioeconomic system based on network analysis and systems research. This study employs the principles of the four-stage adaptive cycle to quantify the perspectives of major stakeholders regarding resilience readiness in Austrian society and to explore the implications. At the Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10668-022-02430-3.
Language	English
Publishing date	2022-05-21
Publishing country	Netherlands
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2015291-7
ISSN	1573-2975 ; 1387-585X
ISSN (online)	1573-2975
ISSN	1387-585X
DOI	10.1007/s10668-022-02430-3
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Article ; Online: Using desirable urban states to understand key linkages between resilience subsystems

Wu, Wenhao / Huang, Yanyan / Fath, Brian D. / Schwarzfurtner-Lutnik, Katharina / Harder, Marie K.

Journal of Cleaner Production

2024 Volume 436

Abstract: Interdisciplinary research is called for to model integrated urban resilience across separate urban subsystems (infrastructure, governance, resources, socio-economic), and for chartering pathways toward an urban ‘desirable state’. A core challenge is to ... ...

Abstract	Interdisciplinary research is called for to model integrated urban resilience across separate urban subsystems (infrastructure, governance, resources, socio-economic), and for chartering pathways toward an urban ‘desirable state’. A core challenge is to determine the linkages between the subsystems. In this work, we demonstrate a novel approach by first constructing profiles of a desirable state, based on human shared values obtained empirically, and then use those to identify linkages naturally occurring between associated subsystems. We demonstrate the approach in two contrasting cities, Shanghai and Vienna, using WeValue InSitu methods to crystallize shared values and explore perspectives of urban disruption. The Desirable States of both cities provide elements with intrinsic strong linkages between urban subsystems, which can be represented with system dynamics mapping. These results reveal that this values-based approach contributes to modeling and studies of integrated urban resilience, for theory building and for applications.
Keywords	Desirable state ; Ecological resilience ; Integrated resilience ; Shared values ; Urban resilience ; WeValue InSitu
Subject code	710
Language	English
Publishing country	nl
Document type	Article ; Online
ISSN	0959-6526
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Article: Prototype of social-ecological system’s resilience analysis using a dynamic index

Oliveira, Bruno M. / Boumans, Roelof / Fath, Brian D. / Othoniel, Benoit / Liu, Wei / Harari, Joseph

Ecological indicators. 2022 Aug., v. 141

2022

Abstract: Resilience is understood as a social-ecological system (SES) property that embodies nature and society and a research perspective with high potential to be applied in reaching sustainability goals. A system’s property is composed of ecological and social ...

Abstract	Resilience is understood as a social-ecological system (SES) property that embodies nature and society and a research perspective with high potential to be applied in reaching sustainability goals. A system’s property is composed of ecological and social limits representing boundaries that, if trespassed, result in the system’s regime change with increasing uncertainties. These changes can impact the reliability of delivering a set of desired ecosystem services, and consequently, society’s wellbeing can be negatively affected. Thus, modeling a complex and adaptive SES, with feedback, nonlinearities, and path–dependence becomes a crucial tool to inform building a responsible governance behavior that tackles SES resilience. This work built a prototype model of SES resilience for a case study in a Brazilian coastal city with the following aims: 1) to formalize the principles underpinning resilience into a dynamic index, 2) to assess the extent to which this understanding highlights system interdependencies and tradeoffs, and 3) to learn about the benefits of making quantitative assessments of such socio–institutional principles. Multiscale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services – MIMES (Boumans et al., 2015; Oliveira et al., 2022) is a SES modeling framework using System Dynamics that embraces complexities’ attributes in an interdisciplinary and integrated model. Constructing a causal loop diagram embracing the social sphere represented by the seven resilience principles proposed by Biggs et al. (2015), revealed the necessity to include social goals in the model. It was considered that the Homo economicus represents the most common social perspective and determinant for those goals. Ten different types of ecosystem services were extracted from the ecological part of the simulation (Oliveira et al. 2022) and then combined with those seven resilience principles into the Dynamic Resilience Index (DRI) using a Cobb Douglas–like production function. The numerical simulation produced four insights about resilience that are described and discussed: 1st insight: resilience of what to what? The resilience of the whole system in providing a set of Ecosystem Services against changes in slow variables; 2nd insight: resilience presents seasonal variations; 3rd insight: the system is operating as if it is in the K phase during ecological succession; 4th insight: not all resilience principles have the same weight in resilience. Conclusions point out that resilience can present seasonal variations, and that response diversity and functional redundancy are leverage principles with higher influence in resilience.
Keywords	Homo ; case studies ; ecological succession ; ecosystems ; governance ; mathematical models ; production functions ; prototypes ; society
Language	English
Dates of publication	2022-08
Publishing place	Elsevier Ltd
Document type	Article
ZDB-ID	2036774-0
ISSN	1872-7034 ; 1470-160X
ISSN (online)	1872-7034
ISSN	1470-160X
DOI	10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109113
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Article: Socio-ecological systems modelling of coastal urban area under a changing climate – Case study for Ubatuba, Brazil

Oliveira, Bruno M. / Boumans, Roelof / Fath, Brian D. / Harari, Joseph

Ecological modelling. 2022 June, v. 468

2022

Abstract: Understanding the complex dynamics between society and nature is a critical contribution of ecological modelling. Integrated views of human-nature relations as well as tools and frameworks for studying these relations are gaining ground. A socio- ... ...

Abstract	Understanding the complex dynamics between society and nature is a critical contribution of ecological modelling. Integrated views of human-nature relations as well as tools and frameworks for studying these relations are gaining ground. A socio-ecological systems (SES) perspective therefore embraces both social and environmental factors that uses nonlinearities, feedbacks, models, and multi-level networks for understanding and studying those phenomena. When undesired drivers as climate change are also taken into account, the most urgent question is how these critical socio–ecological systems will behave given the stresses they endure. This work had the objective of creating a new simulation of a coastal SES from Brazil that is able to integrate several climatic and social variables through a dynamic and coupled model, and forecast its behavior in the future according to scenarios. Specifically, a systems dynamics simulation model using MIMES (Multiscale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services) was developed for Ubatuba, a coastal city highly dependent and influenced by tourism. Results showed good correspondence between the model and the data when testing several environmental inputs (wind speed and direction, cloud cover, sea surface temperature, precipitation patterns). The model simulated the population dynamics of 15 biological groups from 2010 to 2100 under different scenarios. Climate change will reduce most of populations in a range from −0.13% (± 0.0%) to −10.31% (± 0.0%). There are groups where the influence of climate change is not significant (Bivalve, Brachyuran, pelagic feeding fish and benthic feeding fish) with variations from 0 to 2% and others with moderate significance (Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, and Enterococcus) with variations >2%. Tourists reacting to water quality degradation is very relevant in Enterococcus population (with a reduction of 34%). Results show the urban activities strongly influencing the biological populations and that these impacts depend on the scenario context. This suggests a policy that limits the number of tourists and increases the water quality at the same time. Therefore, the model's spatial simulation of this complex socio-ecological system can be used to develop an integrative decision-making tool to help the city manage its natural capital and adapt to its changes.
Keywords	Bivalvia ; Enterococcus ; case studies ; climate ; climate change ; cloud cover ; decision support systems ; ecosystems ; fish ; issues and policy ; natural capital ; phytoplankton ; population dynamics ; simulation models ; social environment ; surface water temperature ; tourism ; urban areas ; water quality ; wind speed ; zooplankton ; Brazil
Language	English
Dates of publication	2022-06
Publishing place	Elsevier B.V.
Document type	Article
ZDB-ID	191971-4
ISSN	0304-3800
ISSN	0304-3800
DOI	10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.109953
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Article: Consistence of structural changes in food nitrogen consumption between rural and urban residents in the context of rapid urbanization

Yang, Meng / Zhang, Xiaolin / Zhang, Yan / Fath, Brian D.

Ecological modelling. 2022 June 18,

2022

Abstract: As one of the important sources of nitrogen pollution in cities, food consumption has major ramifications for the global nitrogen cycle, making researches about food nitrogen and its urban optimization management of great significance. Taking Beijing as ... ...

Abstract	As one of the important sources of nitrogen pollution in cities, food consumption has major ramifications for the global nitrogen cycle, making researches about food nitrogen and its urban optimization management of great significance. Taking Beijing as an example, we analyzed the differences in urban and rural characteristics of residents' food nitrogen consumption on the time scale from 1979 to 2019, then used the logarithmic mean divisia index (LMDI) to construct a brand-new factor decomposition model and identify the driving factors. The results showed that overall food nitrogen consumption in Beijing exhibited an increasing trend, from 37 Gg in 1979 to 70.77 Gg in 2019. Rural and urban residents showed the same direction of changing dietary habits, switching to a high nitrogen animal consumption pattern. GDP per capita was the most critical pulling factor, followed by the population. On the other hand, the factors that always showed inhibition are food price level and Engel's coefficient. The results provide a scientific reference for the coordinated development of urban and rural areas and urban nitrogen management and a scientific basis for residents to reasonably plan their food nitrogen input.
Keywords	animals ; food consumption ; food prices ; models ; nitrogen ; nitrogen cycle ; pollution ; urbanization ; China
Language	English
Dates of publication	2022-0618
Publishing place	Elsevier B.V.
Document type	Article
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ZDB-ID	191971-4
ISSN	0304-3800
ISSN	0304-3800
DOI	10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110057
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Article: Tracking urban metabolism flows through the lifecycle of buildings, infrastructure, and durable goods at material, product, and sector levels

Fu, Chenling / Fath, Brian D. / Daigo, Ichiro / Zhang, Yan / Deng, Tianjie

Journal of cleaner production. 2022 Feb. 15, v. 336

2022

Abstract: The functional roles and environmental effects of long-lived buildings, infrastructure, and durable goods can determine both the benefits to natural environment and a city's human residents. However, their overall lifecycle metabolic processes are ... ...

Abstract	The functional roles and environmental effects of long-lived buildings, infrastructure, and durable goods can determine both the benefits to natural environment and a city's human residents. However, their overall lifecycle metabolic processes are complicated and previous studies mainly considered specific materials or products. Here, we provide a more comprehensive picture of flows and stocks for Beijing's materials, products (61), and sectors (9). Based on a multi-level material stock–flow network model, we obtained insights into the city's material inputs and outputs of each urban sector, the cumulative flows of materials and products, and the waste sources for end-of-life products. From 2000 to 2018, the total system throughflow increased from 269 to 435 Mt by 2007, then decreased to 317 Mt. Beijing's main sector of consumed resources and discharged wastes both shifted from Fabrication and Manufacturing to Construction. The local extraction and production weights decreased by half, whereas the inflows to the Construction and Transportation sectors increased greatly, mainly (92%) as imports (from regions other than Beijing). The main destinations of these materials were buildings and pipelines, which were also main waste sources. Notably, resource demand and waste discharge from vehicles and railways increased greatly. Although Beijing's recycling increased, it must increase further to meet final waste generation, which has increased 5-fold, to 52 Mt in 2018 during the city's socioeconomic development. Additional actions should be taken to reduce waste streams and promote reuse and recycling to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Keywords	humans ; material flow analysis ; models ; socioeconomic development ; sustainable development ; China
Language	English
Dates of publication	2022-0215
Publishing place	Elsevier Ltd
Document type	Article
ISSN	0959-6526
DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.130402
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Article: Analysis of anthropogenic nitrogen and its influencing factors in Beijing

Zhang, Xiaolin / Fath, Brian D / Zhang, Yan

Journal of cleaner production. 2020 Jan. 20, v. 244

2020

Abstract: Human activities have changed the global nitrogen cycle and are continuing to do so at an alarming rate. Cities are particularly important nitrogen sinks due to the concentration of human activities, and have attracted widespread attention. However, ... ...

Abstract	Human activities have changed the global nitrogen cycle and are continuing to do so at an alarming rate. Cities are particularly important nitrogen sinks due to the concentration of human activities, and have attracted widespread attention. However, researchers disagree about the sink size and the underlying socioeconomic factors. Taking Beijing as an example, we developed an anthropogenic nitrogen index to characterize the sink size and the effects of socioeconomic factors, then we used empirical coefficients for the nitrogen content of materials to calculate the total anthropogenic nitrogen consumption and analyzed its structural characteristics. We used the logarithmic mean divisia index to construct a factor decomposition model and analyze the factors affecting anthropogenic nitrogen consumption and their contribution and direction (promotion or inhibition). Beijing’s anthropogenic nitrogen consumption increased from 1995 to 2010 in response to increasing consumption of energy, food, and fertilizer nitrogen. Energy nitrogen accounted for the largest proportion of the total (≥33%) and increased greatly. The proportion of food nitrogen increased from 10% to 21% during the study period. Subsequent decreases in anthropogenic nitrogen mainly resulted from decreased fertilizer nitrogen consumption (to 20% of the total consumption) from 2010 to 2015. Of the influencing factors, the inhibitory effect of material intensity on Beijing’s anthropogenic nitrogen consumption increased from 22% to 37% during the study period; the promoting effect of per capita GDP gradually weakened, but its contribution remained >30% of the total. By analyzing the dynamics of Beijing’s urban anthropogenic nitrogen consumption, we identified the main socioeconomic drivers, thereby providing scientific support for exploring nitrogen consumption patterns during different urban development stages and for the activities required to regulate nitrogen consumption.
Keywords	cities ; energy ; models ; nitrogen ; nitrogen content ; nitrogen cycle ; nitrogen fertilizers ; socioeconomic factors ; urban development ; China
Language	English
Dates of publication	2020-0120
Publishing place	Elsevier Ltd
Document type	Article
ISSN	0959-6526
DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118780
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Article ; Online: Regenerative economics at the service of islands: Assessing the socio-economic metabolism of Samothraki in Greece

Zisopoulos, Filippos K. / Noll, Dominik / Singh, Simron J. / Schraven, Daan / de Jong, Martin / Fath, Brian D. / Goerner, Sally / Webster, Ken / Fiscus, Dan / Ulanowicz, Robert E.

Journal of Cleaner Production. 2023 Apr. 17, p.137136-

2023 , Page(s) 137136–

Abstract: For many islands, the answer to the question "why a locally, self-sustaining, and regenerative economy is needed?" is clear. The struggle often lies in the "how". Here, we argue that tools from regenerative economics, which follow an island economy-as-an- ...

Abstract	For many islands, the answer to the question "why a locally, self-sustaining, and regenerative economy is needed?" is clear. The struggle often lies in the "how". Here, we argue that tools from regenerative economics, which follow an island economy-as-an-organism analogy, offer valuable and complementary insights to socio-metabolic research. Indicators from flow-based and information-based ecological network analysis can quantify properties of an island's socio-economic metabolism (SEM) which are related to cycling, resilience, and degree of mutualism, among others. To illustrate the applicability of these methods, we select Samothraki in Greece as a case study. Results show that over the years the island became very efficient in streamlining imported resources, experiencing physical growth as indicated by a substantial increase in its total material throughput. This growth was attributed to a high degree of order (i.e., network efficiency) endowed by the constraining (ordered) part of the linear structure of the island's SEM. The disordered part of its SEM which is related to resilience, played a much smaller role which became progressively more important over the years, albeit to a limited degree. While the island exhibits an increasing trend in its robustness, its value over the years studied was well below what is typically observed for healthy natural ecosystems, and its current SEM has a very low ability to generate internal flow activity and cycling of resources per unit input. This limited robustness is due to the island's dependency on imports but also due to its linear SEM which had a very small number of feedback loops in its network. A scenario analysis showed that a reticulated network structure would theoretically endow the island with increased resilience, and hence robustness, by allowing for more internal resource flow activity to be circulated as regenerative re-investment. This article highlights that methods from regenerative economics can be used as diagnostic tools to assess and monitor the impact of strategies related to circular economy interventions on network properties, and to illuminate their effect on the regenerative potential of islands.
Keywords	case studies ; circular economy ; metabolism ; mutualism ; socioeconomics ; Greece ; Ascendency analysis ; Ecological network analysis ; Resilience ; Robustness ; Island metabolism
Language	English
Dates of publication	2023-0417
Publishing place	Elsevier Ltd
Document type	Article ; Online
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DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137136
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