Technological systems contain messy, complex, problem-solving components. They are
both socially constructed and society shaping. 1 Among the components in technological …

Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent
bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages. We analyzed …

… , Agatha Chipley Hughes, counseled me and edited the original version of the manuscript.
Subsequently, my daughter, Agatha Heritage Hughes, and my son, Lucian Hughes, to whom …

Ecological extinction caused by overfishing precedes all other pervasive human disturbance
to coastal ecosystems, including pollution, degradation of water quality, and anthropogenic …

The diversity, frequency, and scale of human impacts on coral reefs are increasing to the
extent that reefs are threatened globally. Projected increases in carbon dioxide and …

The worldwide decline of coral reefs calls for an urgent reassessment of current management
practices. Confronting large-scale crises requires a major scaling-up of management …

… Among recent books in which other historians discuss technology as systems are Hugh
Aitken, … This analysis of Edison's method of inventing systems is taken in part from Hughes, "…

Many coral reefs have been degraded over the past two to three decades through a
combination of human and natural disturbances. In Jamaica, the effects of overfishing, hurricane …

Social and ecological vulnerability to disasters and outcomes of any particular extreme
event are influenced by buildup or erosion of resilience both before and after disasters occur. …

During 2015–2016, record temperatures triggered a pan-tropical episode of coral bleaching,
the third global-scale event since mass bleaching was first documented in the 1980s. Here …