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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,472 Views
27 Pages

Integrating Biophysical and Sociocultural Methods for Identifying the Relationships between Ecosystem Services and Land Use Change: Insights from an Oasis Area

  • Hejie Wei,
  • Weiguo Fan,
  • Nachuan Lu,
  • Zihan Xu,
  • Huiming Liu,
  • Weiqiang Chen,
  • Sergio Ulgiati,
  • Xuechao Wang and
  • Xiaobin Dong

Identifying the relationships between ecosystem services (ESs) and land use change is crucial for ES management and sustainable regional development. The Manas region in China has witnessed dramatic reclamation activities in its desert areas that res...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,894 Views
16 Pages

A Systematic Review of Nursing Competencies: Addressing the Challenges of Evolving Healthcare Systems and Demographic Changes

  • Ippolito Notarnicola,
  • Alketa Dervishi,
  • Blerina Duka,
  • Eriola Grosha,
  • Giovanni Gioiello,
  • Sara Carrodano,
  • Gennaro Rocco and
  • Alessandro Stievano

5 February 2025

Background/Objectives: The nursing profession is expected to undergo substantial transformations in the coming years due to rapidly evolving sociocultural, environmental, and technological changes. Defining and assessing nursing competencies are esse...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,121 Views
9 Pages

Obesity, Mediterranean Diet, and Public Health: A Vision of Obesity in the Mediterranean Context from a Sociocultural Perspective

  • Francesc Xavier Medina,
  • Josep M. Solé-Sedeno,
  • Anna Bach-Faig and
  • Alicia Aguilar-Martínez

Obesity is a disease that straddles medico-nutritional, psychological, and socio-cultural boundaries. There is a clear relationship between lifestyle and obesity, and today the Mediterranean diet in the Mediterranean area may represent an interesting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,148 Views
12 Pages

Factors Affecting Traditional Medicinal Plant Knowledge of the Waorani, Ecuador

  • Holger Weckmüller,
  • Carles Barriocanal,
  • Roser Maneja and
  • Martí Boada

17 August 2019

This paper explores how medicinal plant knowledge of the Waorani (Ecuador) varies with socio-economic and demographic factors. Medicinal plant knowledge was compared at individual and community levels. Semi-structured interviews were performed with 5...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,057 Views
30 Pages

18 January 2025

This study tracks changes in commercial buildings in Yeonnam-dong that have undergone commercial transformation, examining these shifts within the context of urban organization and their relationships with economic and socio-cultural flows. It also a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,300 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2021

Teacher professional learning occurs across various contexts. Previous studies on teacher learning and changes in practice have focused on either classroom contexts or learning communities outside of school, but have rarely investigated teacher learn...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
73 Citations
12,644 Views
8 Pages

This Special Issue deals with the topic of how people and social groups face problems in an increasingly complex and globalized society. The topics included in the call for papers were the interaction of psychosocial well-being and mental health with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,372 Views
36 Pages

1 December 2025

Ongoing urbanization, biodiversity decline, and intensifying climate change increasingly challenge the sustainability of urban green spaces (UGS) dominated by conventional, intensively maintained lawns. Although widespread across cities worldwide, la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,525 Views
28 Pages

31 May 2021

This paper uses a typological approach as a tool to establish an analytical framework from a physical perspective to understand ‘place‘ and to identify key spatial characteristics that could adapt to local needs to deliver socio-cultural sustainabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
667 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2025

Under global warming, the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events have markedly increased. As one of the most climate-sensitive and ecologically fragile regions in the world, the Tibetan Plateau faces mounting environmental and demographic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,034 Views
13 Pages

25 March 2021

Migration has produced many ethnic minority communities worldwide owing to sea-borne trade, religious evangelicalism, and colonialism. For centuries, these communities have existed alongside other cultures, creating multiethnic societies. However, ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,114 Views
16 Pages

5 December 2019

This study aimed to quantitatively determine the sociocultural adaptation profiles of ethnic minority senior high school students in mainland China. A large-scale questionnaire survey of 1873 Grade 12 students from 31 interior ethnic boarding schools...

  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
13,889 Views
21 Pages

Anthropogenic Modifications and River Ecosystem Services: A Landscape Perspective

  • Anjana Ekka,
  • Saket Pande,
  • Yong Jiang and
  • Pieter van der Zaag

27 September 2020

The process of development has led to the modification of river landscapes. This has created imbalances between ecological, economic, and socio-cultural uses of ecosystem services (ESs), threatening the biotic and social integrity of rivers. Anthropo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,600 Views
26 Pages

Rural communities in West Africa have long adopted a variety of coping and adaptation strategies to periods of climate variability and risks. These strategies have mostly been shaped by prevailing indigenous knowledge systems and shared understanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,426 Views
13 Pages

The Sociocultural Adaptation Scale (SCAS) measures the degree of sociocultural competence in new cultural settings, and, despite its popularity, research aiming at evaluating its dimensionality is lacking and has incongruent results. Moreover, the di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,701 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2022

Island communities and fishing villages in South Korea have been affected by changes in policy and environmental conditions. This paper presents an overview of and potential solutions to sustainability challenges confronting Korea’s island comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,662 Views
45 Pages

31 August 2012

Natural systems undergo processes, flows, and rhythms that differ from those of urban sociocultural systems. While the former takes place over eras or many generations, the latter may occur within years or even months. Natural systems change includes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,273 Views
21 Pages

19 December 2022

Colonial education and missionary discourse of modernity intensified struggles for continuity and change among the followers of Hinduism and Christianity in nineteenth century India. While missionary modernity was characterised by an emphasis on soci...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,586 Views
11 Pages

Spiritual Elasticity and Crisis: From Non-Religiosity to Transreligiosity—An Introduction

  • Anastasios Panagiotopoulos,
  • Eugenia Roussou and
  • Silvia Rivadossi

21 March 2024

From the socio-economic and political crisis in southern Europe during the last few decades, to the more recent global healthcare crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary societies have faced and are still under the impact of considerabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,025 Views
23 Pages

Terroir in Transition: Environmental Change in the Wisconsin Artisanal Cheese and New England Oyster Sectors

  • Kathryn Teigen De Master,
  • James LaChance,
  • Sarah Bowen and
  • Lillian MacNell

24 May 2019

Even as the concept of terroir becomes more salient in diverse cultural and national contexts, climate-driven environmental change threatens to alter the ecologies that contribute to the distinctive terroir of place-based products. Yet few studies ex...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,192 Views
2 Pages

In September 2021, the Special Issue “Evidence-based Behaviour Change Interventions in Healthcare” was proposed as the manifestation of a will to compile multidisciplinary works of academic research focused on the effect of health educati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,573 Views
9 Pages

21 April 2016

Food and cooking techniques play key roles in preserving cultural sustainability and individual identity. Everything people eat becomes a part of not only their biological being, but also represents and identifies a part of a community’s sociocultura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,799 Views
33 Pages

The research questions of the current study include: “Is it beneficial for countries, local governments, and autonomous districts with a high level of e-government to become smarter cities with the electronic, digital, and smart introduction of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,281 Views
30 Pages

Modeling Acequia Irrigation Systems Using System Dynamics: Model Development, Evaluation, and Sensitivity Analyses to Investigate Effects of Socio-Economic and Biophysical Feedbacks

  • Benjamin L. Turner,
  • Vincent Tidwell,
  • Alexander Fernald,
  • José A. Rivera,
  • Sylvia Rodriguez,
  • Steven Guldan,
  • Carlos Ochoa,
  • Brian Hurd,
  • Kenneth Boykin and
  • Andres Cibils

13 October 2016

Agriculture-based irrigation communities of northern New Mexico have survived for centuries despite the arid environment in which they reside. These irrigation communities are threatened by regional population growth, urbanization, a changing demogra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,765 Views
21 Pages

24 January 2022

Reconstruction of historical deforestation helps to understand the dynamics of forest cover change and provides a basis for the further study of human-nature interactions over the long term. Significant agriculture-driven deforestation occurred in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,659 Views
17 Pages

31 January 2018

In light of climate change and global commitments, a great amount of programs and policies have been implemented by governments targeting the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. Successful diffusion relies on the understanding, persuasion and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,907 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2021

Public open spaces services have been shown to be profoundly affected by rapid urbanization and environmental changes, and in turn, they have influenced socio-cultural relationships and human well-being. However, the impact of these changes on public...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,503 Views
23 Pages

1 February 2025

By developing a conceptual framework that integrates the use of fire in agricultural activities, the occurrence of wildfires, and the perception of wildfire risk, this article examines the interplay among these three elements within both wet and dry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,570 Views
17 Pages

Socio-cultural patterns and communication styles differ from culture to culture. As such, the way in which people deal with a crisis situation is also culture-dependent. The COVID-19 pandemic has pointed, once more, to the cultural diversity of the w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,722 Views
20 Pages

When Is a Park More Than a Park? Rethinking the Role of Parks as “Shared Space” in Post-Conflict Belfast

  • Ian Mell,
  • John Sturzaker,
  • Alice Correia,
  • Mary Gearey,
  • Neale Blair,
  • Luciana Lang and
  • Fearghus O’Sullivan

20 September 2022

With the signing of the Belfast Agreement, Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) entered a new phase of urban development. Moving away from notions of division, Belfast City Council envisaged an inclusive and accessible city. Over a 20-year period, there ha...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,770 Views
10 Pages

What is proposed is the construction of a gender agenda in the implementation of climate adaptation projects for Latin America, whose fundamental characteristic is the consideration of a double transversalization between gender equality and adaptatio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
12,818 Views
22 Pages

A Synopsis of Farmland Abandonment and Its Driving Factors in Nepal

  • Suresh Chaudhary,
  • Yukuan Wang,
  • Amod Mani Dixit,
  • Narendra Raj Khanal,
  • Pei Xu,
  • Bin Fu,
  • Kun Yan,
  • Qin Liu,
  • Yafeng Lu and
  • Ming Li

16 March 2020

Farmland abandonment is considered as an important phenomenon for changing eco-environmental and sociocultural landscapes of mountainous rural landscape. Many studies have analyzed farmland abandonment, its driving factors, geophysical processes and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,074 Views
20 Pages

Socio-Cultural Values of Ecosystem Services from Oak Forests in the Eastern Himalaya

  • Tshewang Dorji,
  • Justin D. Brookes,
  • José M. Facelli,
  • Robin R. Sears,
  • Tshewang Norbu,
  • Kuenzang Dorji,
  • Yog Raj Chhetri and
  • Himlal Baral

15 April 2019

Identification and assessment of socio-cultural values of ecosystem services are increasingly important for the planning and management of forest resources. Key information necessary is how different forest user groups perceive and prioritize differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,496 Views
15 Pages

8 April 2025

This article, including the Introduction and Conclusion, consists of five parts. The first part discusses the role of the catechist in the early Church and its significance in the process of faith education, particularly during the preparation for re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,699 Views
13 Pages

19 December 2017

In this paper, we explore the potential for integrating university campuses in a global sustainability agenda for a closer reconnection of urban residents to the biosphere. This calls for a socio-cultural transition that allows universities and colle...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,583 Views
29 Pages

This article presents a literature review of Transition Experiments applied to the Sustainable Urban Mobility context from a critical and operative point of view. The moment of transformation that we are living through determines concerns about the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
12,571 Views
22 Pages

An important “architectural type” in Iranian history is the Yazd courtyard house. This historic building type features a walled boundary that contains a complex pattern of open (to the sky), semi-enclosed and enclosed spaces. The planning of the cour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
11,713 Views
21 Pages

Digitalization is a keyword in the discourse of educational science, but it is often linked to technological challenges, although digital changes occur throughout society. Therefore, STEM teachers are required to cope with technological changes in th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,919 Views
28 Pages

14 October 2010

In this paper, we review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Scenarios and their assumptions on biodiversity conservation, using a framework based on the cultural theory (CT) perspectives. We explored...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,624 Views
27 Pages

Operability, Multiscalarity, Diversity, and Complexity in the UNESCO Heritage Regulatory Framework

  • Adrián Rodríguez-Segura,
  • Mar Loren-Méndez and
  • José María Galán-Conde

The historical genealogy of the heritage regulatory framework, spanning from the 20th century to the present day, provides insights into the continuous socio-cultural transformations within communities. It also sheds light on the successive expansion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,740 Views
16 Pages

Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Mistrust during Pandemic Decline: Findings from 2021 and 2023 Cross-Sectional Surveys in Northern Italy

  • Verena Barbieri,
  • Christian J. Wiedermann,
  • Stefano Lombardo,
  • Giuliano Piccoliori,
  • Timon Gärtner and
  • Adolf Engl

8 February 2024

This study examines vaccine agreements in South Tyrol, Italy, within distinct socio-cultural and linguistic contexts. Using data from the 2021 and 2023 “COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring” extended surveys, we assessed changes in attitudes towa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,945 Views
18 Pages

Sociocultural Dimension of Land–Sea Interactions in Maritime Spatial Planning: Three Case Studies in the Baltic Sea Region

  • Tarmo Pikner,
  • Joanna Piwowarczyk,
  • Anda Ruskule,
  • Anu Printsmann,
  • Kristīna Veidemane,
  • Jacek Zaucha,
  • Ivo Vinogradovs and
  • Hannes Palang

15 February 2022

Spatial planning faces challenges in addressing interactions between land and sea. This paper elaborates on land–sea interfaces, which can integrate certain socio-cultural values and related tensions into maritime spatial planning (MSP). In thi...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,757 Views
12 Pages

Do Individual Differences in Perception Affect Awareness of Climate Change?

  • Enrico Cipriani,
  • Sergio Frumento,
  • Simone Grassini,
  • Angelo Gemignani and
  • Danilo Menicucci

One significant obstacle to gaining a widespread awareness of the ongoing climate change is the nature of its manifestations in relation to our perception: climate change effects are gradual, distributed, and sometimes seemingly contradictory. These...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,936 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2024

Indigenous people in northern Canada have relied on sustained and safe access to traditional foods for millennia. Today, however, they experience higher rates of food insecurity than non-Indigenous people or Indigenous people living in urban settings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,810 Views
22 Pages

Are the Rural Electrification Efforts in the Ecuadorian Amazon Sustainable?

  • Sarah Feron,
  • Harald Heinrichs and
  • Raúl R. Cordero

In this paper, we assess the sustainability of rural electrification programs in Ecuador, paying special attention to programs targeting small indigenous communities in the Amazon basin. Our assessment considers four dimensions of sustainability (ins...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,666 Views
5 Pages

Post-Work Socio-Cultural Life System

  • Meida Rachmawati,
  • Cecep Sukrisna and
  • Mohamad Rahimi Mohamad Rosman

Many people think that retirement life will turn into a worrying situation. The reality of retirement is not as bad as imagined. On the contrary, many positive things can be done in retirement. Some make retirement a beautiful form of further service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,462 Views
16 Pages

9 June 2021

This article analyses the business community in Poland and their views on climate change and the objectives of the European Green Deal (EGD). The authors focus on the analysis of the attitude of entrepreneurs towards the cultural and ideological ster...

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