Sorption-desorption processes control soil-pollutant interactions. These processes determine the extent of pyrene transport in soils. Understanding sorption characteristics of pyrene is necessary in ascertaining its fate in soil. Laboratory batch experiments were conducted to study the sorptions-desorption of pyrene on eight soils from varying tropical agro-ecological zones (AEZs). The results ...

Humans live in close relationship to the environment, which they directly and indirectly use and depend on for food resources, building materials, protection, relaxation, to mention but a few examples. Recent years have seen depletion of the health of many natural environments leading to a stronger focus on natural resource based management approaches. While in earlier decades management was dr...

The goal of this article is to propose Game World Design and Analysis for Socio-Ecological Systems (GAS), a framework the design analysis game worlds through socio-ecological systems lenses. invites designers structured reflection their choices regarding world correspondence with real or fictional reference system (assessed accuracy, comprehensiveness, balance) consistency. spells out main elem...

Ecological risk assessment requires the integration of a wide range of data on anthropogenic processes, ecological processes and on processes related to environmental fate and transport. It is a major challenge to assemble a simulation system that can successfully capture the dynamics of complex ecological systems and an even more serious challenge to be able to adapt such a simulation to shift...

Conventional notions of ‘natural resources’ and ‘management’ are problematic because of their history, and they need to be reconceptualised. The term ‘resource’ carries a sense of ‘free goods’, human-centric use and commodification of nature; it can be revised to include the protection of ecosystem services for human well-being. The term ‘management’ implies domination of nature, efficiency, si...

The Ostrom social-ecological system (SES) framework offers an interdisciplinary tool for studies of linked human-natural systems. However, its origin in the social sciences belies the effectiveness of its interdisciplinary ambitions and undermines its ability to cope with ecological complexity. To narrow the gap between inherently dynamic ecological systems and the SES framework, we need to exp...