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Identifying past social-ecological thresholds to understand long-term temporal dynamics in Spain [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2019
A thorough understanding of long-term temporal social-ecological dynamics at the national scale helps to explain the current condition of a country's ecosystems and to support environmental policies to tackle future sustainability challenges. We aimed to
Fernando Santos-Martín   +10 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
Addressing ecosystem destruction and unsustainable development requires appropriate frameworks to comprehensively investigate social-ecological systems. Focusing on woody plant management in southwestern Ethiopia, we combined social-ecological resilience
Girma Shumi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drivers of ecosystem service specialization in a smallholder agricultural landscape of the Global South: a case study in Ethiopia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
The global shift toward agricultural specialization in the 20th century led to unprecedented ecological and socioeconomic changes, both positive and negative, in rural landscapes.
Maria Brück   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Installing Flower Strips to Promote Pollinators in Simplified Agricultural Landscapes: Comprehensive Viability Assessment in Sunflower Fields

open access: yesLand, 2022
The installation of flower strips in simplified agricultural landscapes has been promoted as a tool to improve pollination services. While the effectiveness of flower strips in increasing pollinator visitation and yield is well-established, the social ...
Jorge Ortega-Marcos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity

open access: yesCommunications Biology, 2023
This Perspective piece outlines potential avenues to support ecosystem restoration projects into the future.
Marina Frietsch   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anticipating and transforming futures: a literature review on transdisciplinary coastal research in the Global South

open access: yesEcosystems and People, 2023
Anticipation of futures using transdisciplinary approaches is critical to provide the basis for appropriate action to cope with current and future risks and to foster sustainability transformations.
Lilly Baumann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community Self-Organisation from a Social-Ecological Perspective: ‘Burlang Yatra’ and Revival of Millets in Odisha (India) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, I focus on the revival of an Indigenous community seed festival known locally as Burlang Yatra (‘Indigenous Biodiversity Festival’) in the district of Kandhamal in Odisha (India).
Saxena, Lopamudra Patnaik
core   +1 more source

Traditional ecological knowledge among transhumant pastoralists in Mediterranean Spain

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Mobility is a millenary human strategy to deal with environmental change. An outstanding example of mobility is transhumance, an ancient pastoralist practice consisting of the seasonal migration of livestock between ecological regions following peaks in ...
Elisa Oteros-Rozas   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory Mapping of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Madrid: Insights for Landscape Planning

open access: yesLand, 2020
Cultural ecosystem services are gaining increasing attention in the scientific literature, despite the conceptual and methodological difficulties associated with their assessment.
Víctor García-Díez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosis for ecological intensification of maize-based smallholder farming systems in the Costa Chica, Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Enhanced utilization of ecological processes for food and feed production as part of the notion of ecological intensification starts from location-specific knowledge of production constraints.
Flores-Sanchez, D.   +6 more
core   +9 more sources

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