Correspondence: [email protected] Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract As cities grow, certain neighborhoods experience a particularly high demand for housing, resulting in escalating rents. Despite far-reaching socioeconomic consequences, it remains difficult to predict when and where urba...

Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as "world-involving," indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment is frequently left ill-described, however, and provides a challenge for such approaches, particularly, it is noted here, for the enactive approach which emphasizes this co...

Adolescent societies-whether arising from weak, short-term classroom friendships or from close, long-term friendships-exhibit various levels of network clustering, segregation, and hierarchy. Some are rank-ordered caste systems and others are flat, cliquish worlds. Explaining the source of such structural variation remains a challenge, however, because global network features are generally trea...

1 Ecology Department, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany, 2 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 3 Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 4 Research and Development Center for Marine, Coastal and Small Islands, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia, 5 Theoretical Ecology and Modelling D...

Increasingly, companies use interorganizational information systems to conduct joint business processes, such as automatic replenishment systems and other supply chain initiatives, invoicing and payments, insurance claims processing and numerous other interorganizational processes. Inter-firm networking in turn increases the visibility of information generated and used by business partners. The...

In some ways, sustainable engineering may be thought of as the operational arm of industrial ecology: first use the methodologies of industrial ecology, such as life-cycle assessment, materials flow accounting, or product and process matrix analysis, to determine relevant social and environmental considerations; then use sustainable engineering methods to integrate that knowledge into process, ...

Introduction Human ontogeny may be viewed as a course of transitions through informational states. This paper is an attempt to model the informational niches through which some individuals pass in American society. The individual modeled is an essentialized European American middle-class male energy producer. The framework adopted is based predominately on social psychological principles as app...

Urban designers, ecologists, and social scientists have called for closer links among their disciplines. We examine a promising new tool for promoting this linkage—the metaphor of “cities of resilience.” To put this tool to best use, we indicate how metaphor fits with other conceptual tools in science. We then present the two opposing definitions of resilience from ecology, and give reasons why...