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A Social-Ecological Systems Inquiry for Understanding Environmental Change in Los Angeles Outer-Ring Suburbs.

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Title/Author:	A Social-Ecological Systems Inquiry for Understanding Environmental Change in Los Angeles Outer-Ring Suburbs./
Author:	Kamyab, Farnaz.
Description:	1 online resource (264 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
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ISBN:	9798382646879

A Social-Ecological Systems Inquiry for Understanding Environmental Change in Los Angeles Outer-Ring Suburbs.
Kamyab, Farnaz.

A Social-Ecological Systems Inquiry for Understanding Environmental Change in Los Angeles Outer-Ring Suburbs. - 1 online resource (264 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Clemson University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

As part of a city's green infrastructure, urban and suburban green coverage, whether public or privately owned, provides significant health, economic, and ecological benefits (James et al. 2009) and is a key element in advancing sustainability and promoting resilience in human settlements. Yet, as suburban green coverage becomes threatened in the presence of other competing urban land uses and/or weak built-environment governance, its loss and/or degradation is problematic (Ramos-Santiago et al. 2014). This dissertation implements a systematic and relational ontology to document and better understand the underlying causes of green coverage disappearance in outer-ring suburbs of Los Angeles.Knowledge domains from city planning, which has historically provided spatial and societal guidance; urban economics, which provides explicit theoretical models of neighborhood change; and environmental literature associated with ecology, ecosystem services, and 'green' ecological city planning, and designunderpin an overarching Social-Ecological System Theory (SES) framework. SES is a meta-theory that allows inter- and trans-disciplinary explorations of complex phenomena and provides an ideal framework for better understanding of potential associations between socio-economic trends and green coverage loss in outer-ring suburban neighborhoods. And can enhance theoretical understanding and policy guidance for sustainable city planning.The overall research design is based on a case study of an extraordinarily diverse megacity, Los Angeles (LA), that harbors a diverse set of builtenvironments, ethnicities, ecoregions, and outer-ring suburbs that are the basic unit of analysis. Methods are mixed, QUAN-qual, and mostly rely on longitudinal multivariate and hierarchical statistical models (probit and generalized linear) in exploring associations between socio-economic trends and green coverage change, and in testing hypotheses. The research design, larger sampling of neighborhoods, and implementation of recent methods and measures in GIS platforms seek to overcome limitations of previous studies.Results indicate that socio-economic trends associated with a decline in LA's outer-ring suburbs are significant and statistically associated with loss of green coverage; that outer-ring suburbs in LA area amenable to SES analysis and register SES processes associated with Adaptive Cycles and Panarchy. As such, they are a sub-type of social-ecological systems. Findings and insights extend and contribute to SES theory, ecological city planning, and urban economics literature of neighborhood change by explicitly documenting and integrating green coverage as a key semi-natural component in suburban contexts. Models developed in this study can also be used in monitoring neighborhood and green coverage change in cities; and the predictive power of the models developed in this study could be improved in the future and inform discussions on preemptive policies geared to management, adaptation, re-introduction and/or transformation of private and public green areas as essential components of suburban and metropolitan areas' green infrastructure in pursuit of more resilient and sustainable cities in the United States and beyond.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382646879Subjects--Topical Terms:

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