As the largest inland river basin of China, Tarim River Basin (TRB), known for its various natural resources and fragile environment, has an increased risk ecological crisis due to intensive exploitation utilization water land resources. Since Ecological Water Diversion Project (EWDP), which was implemented in 2001 save endangered desert vegetation, there been growing evidence improvement local...

Currently, urban expansion has been an important means of economic development, but the coercive impact its rapid on ecological vulnerability region become increasingly issue that restricts sustainable development. This paper uses a SWOT analysis method to analyze this phenomenon, and then proposes solutions based problem in order better grasp future lead development new type city is low-carbon...

Background: Population characteristics can be used to infer vulnerability of communities COVID-19, or the likelihood high levels vaccine hesitancy.  Communities harder hit by virus, at risk being so, stand benefit from greater resource allocation than their population size alone would suggest. This study reports a simple but efficacious method ranking small areas England relative that are linke...

This paper focuses on how food web structure and interactions among species affects the vulnerability, due to environmental variability, to extinction of species at different positions in model food webs. Vulnerability is here not measured by a traditional extinction threshold but is instead inspired by the IUCN criteria for endangered species: an observed rapid decline in population abundance....

Abstract  Spatial prioritization techniques are applied in conservation-planning initiatives to allocate conservation resources. Although typically they are based on ecological data (e.g., species, habitats, ecological processes), increasingly they also include nonecological data, mostly on the vulnerability of valued features and economic costs of implementation. Nevertheless, the effectivenes...

identification and analysis of farmers’ vulnerability associated with their risk aversion degree is one of the necessary requirements for planning and reducing impacts of drought in iran. so, this study was investigated three risk vulnerability parameters (economic, social and technical) among wheat farmers categorized in accordance with their risk aversion degree in the mashhad county (iran) b...

Taking departure in the theory of resilience in social-ecological systems, we present an analysis and discussion of how resilience theory can be applied to agroecosystems. Building on the premise that agroecosystems are too complex for resilience to be measured in any precise manner, we delineate behavior-based indicators of resilience within agroecosystems. Based on a review of relevant litera...