The sugar-cane landscape of the Caribbean islands: resilience, adaptation and transformation of the plantation social–ecological system
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Abstract
The plantation sugar-cane landscape has been the most distinctive cultural landscape in a number of Caribbean islands since colonisation, surviving in its basic form for over 500 years. We regard it as the physical manifestation of a well-defined social–ecological system that has demonstrated remarkable resilience – defined as 'the capacity of a system to experience shocks while retaining essentially the same function, structure, feedback and, therefore, identity' (Walker et al., 2006). While the landscape has survived in its general form for centuries, the plantation system it reflects has undergone dynamic changes in space and time that have facilitated resilience, changes that have included a transition from the system's most notorious feature – slavery – to the current period of rationalisation and decline. This chapter illustrates how one can understand the sugar-cane landscape through the lens of resilience thinking – and through reference to the heuristics of adaptive cycles and panarchy, in particular. It also offers interpretations of different forms of sugar-cane landscape as cultural landscapes, and illustrates how this perspective can be combined with resilience thinking to enrich our understanding of landscape character and change.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".