Adaptive Capacity (Other Keyword)

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A Simple Model of Long-term Population Expansion and Recession (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Freeman.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Human Population Dynamics, Innovation, and Ecosystem Change" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 12,000 years human populations have expanded and transformed critical earth systems. Yet, a key unresolved question in the environmental and social sciences remains: Why did human populations grow and, sometimes, decline in the first place? Our research builds on 20 years of intense...


Using Adaptive Capacity to Assess the Water Management System of Koh Ker, Cambodia (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Klassen. Terry Lustig. Damian Evans.

Further research to understand what makes agricultural and water management systems resilient is critical for the continued existence and growth of sustainable communities today, especially in urban contexts. Resiliency is a very useful concept for understanding how complex systems, but can be difficult to operationalize. In this paper, we argue that adaptive capacity can be used as a middle-range theory that allows archaeologists to engage in interdisciplinary discourses of system-level...