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Using a social-ecological approach to examine system disturbance, restoration, and management
Citation:
Balogh, S. Using a social-ecological approach to examine system disturbance, restoration, and management. Chesapeake Bay Program Office Special Presentation, Annapolis, Maryland, September 20, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
This talk describes research underway in the Narragansett lab with social-ecological systems as the common theme. I define a Social-Ecological Systems approach and describe methods and tools used to incorporate this approach into research, management, and restoration.
Description:
The objective of EPA’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities National Research Program is to illuminate the many connections between the built, natural, and social components of ecosystems and their connections to environmental quality and human well-being. This talk describes projects underway in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Cape Cod, Massachusetts that use a social-ecological systems (SES) perspective to conceptualize and model the impact of management and restoration projects on the state of the ecosystem and quality of life in the local community. Through these collaborative efforts, researchers, stakeholders, and managers clarify the decision context, enumerate and anticipate beneficial impacts on human health and well-being through the delivery of ecosystem services, and gain insight into community sustainability and the long-term viability of restoration projects.