Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop ...

Discovering relatedness outside of a topical issue helps diverse groups to overcome differences and develop action for social ...

A foundational idea in self-determination theory is that we have three basic psychological needs: for autonomy, competence ...

The analytic framework of this article is predicated on social ecological theory (Bronfenbrenner 1979), which provides a way to view the problem of prescription drug misuse contextually and ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce its 2025 Fellows. The Society’s fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research, ...

Social ecology, as Albert, Étienne and Midrez (2024) point out, is based on the idea that ecological and social challenges are inseparable. Social workers are mediators, facilitating not only the ...

Social determinants of health impact behavior The social-ecological model examined in the study is very much woven into a contemporary concept in health known as social determinants of health.

ABSTRACT. In this paper we compare 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. We limited ourselves to frameworks that were explicitly designed to be used by a wider community ...

Research published in the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications finds that just in the United States, trillions of dollars are wasted on things that do not improve the quality of ...

Currie, Thomas E., Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Fogarty, Laurel, Schlüter, Maja, Folke, Carl, Haider, L. Jamila, Caniglia, Guido, Tavoni, Alessandro , Jansen, Raf E.V., Jørgensen, Peter Søgaard and ...

An ecological theory may help to explain why segregation is so widespread and persistent in US cities, according to a paper published today in Buildings and Cities. The new way of framing ...