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Participatory Scenario Planning for Protected Areas Management under the Ecosystem Services Framework: the Doñana Social-Ecological System in Southwestern Spain

Ecology and Society, 2011
Conservation and development visions in and around protected areas generate confrontation and uncertainty that damage the biodiversity and ecosystem services which maintain human well-being.
Ignacio Palomo, Berta Martín-López, Cesar López-Santiago, Carlos Montes   +3 more
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Mainstreaming revisited: Experiences from eight countries on the role of National Biodiversity Strategies in practice

Earth System Governance, 2023
Global biodiversity targets have not been met due to weak implementation at the national level. National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) are central for mainstreaming biodiversity by translating global ambition into national policies ...
E.M. Cardona Santos, F. Kinniburgh, S. Schmid, N. Büttner, F. Pröbstl, N. Liswanti, H. Komarudin, E. Borasino, E.B. Ntawuhiganayo, Y. Zinngrebe   +9 more
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Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]

, 2017
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A., Fauchald, Per, Hausner, Vera, Schmidt, Jennifer   +3 more
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Resistance and resilience of social–ecological systems to recurrent typhoon disturbance on a subtropical island: Taiwan [PDF]

, 2018
Tropical cyclones (TCs) have major effects on ecological and social systems. However, studies integrating the effects of TCs on both social and ecological systems are rare, especially in the northwest Pacific, where the frequency of TCs (locally named ...
Atalah E. H., Bell R. G., Burt C. C., Chang R. C., Chuang L. C., Esser K., Fan C., Force H. S. R. T., Holling C. S., Kuo C. Y., Lin K. W., Longshore D., Nowacki G. J., Sheng Z. F., Sheng Z. F., Wang L. J., Wen J. C., Yang W. F.   +17 more
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Convergence science in the Anthropocene: Navigating the known and unknown [PDF]

, 2019
Rapidly changing ecological and social systems currently pose significant societal challenges. Navigating the complexity of social-ecological change requires ap- proaches able to cope with, and potentially solve, both foreseen and unforeseen societal ...
Futuyama D. J., Gaughan R., Ghaemi N. S., Holiday R., Jamison K. R., Roberts R. M., The Telegraph, Zohar D.   +7 more
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Robust study design is as important on the social as it is on the ecological side of applied ecological research [PDF]

, 2014
1. The effective management of natural systems often requires resource users to change their behaviour. This has led to many applied ecologists using research tools developed by social scientists.
Jones, Julia P.G., Keane, Aidan M., Milner-Gulland, E. J., St. John, Freya A.V.   +3 more
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MOESM4 of Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the effectiveness of mining mitigation measures on socialâ ecological systems in Arctic and boreal regions: a systematic map protocol

, 2019
Additional file 4. Benchmark list of relevant articles for comprehensiveness checking of search strategy.
Haddaway, Neal, Cooke, Steven, Lesser, Pamela, Macura, Biljana, Nilsson, Annika, Taylor, Jessica, Raito, Kaisa   +6 more
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Generalized modeling of empirical social-ecological systems

, 2017
Modeling social-ecological systems is difficult due to the complexity of ecosystems and of individual and collective human behavior. Key components of the social-ecological system are often over-simplified or omitted.
Lade, Steven J., Niiranen, Susa
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Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: the case of transhumance in Mediterranean Spain

Ecology and Society, 2014
The ecosystem services approach has been proposed as a powerful tool for the analysis of coupled social-ecological systems. This approach is particularly useful for the evaluation of cultural landscapes, which represent the joint evolution of humans and ...
César A. López-Santiago, Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Berta Martín-López, Tobias Plieninger, Esther González Martín, José A. González   +5 more
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Flowers in the dark: The contribution of rooftop urban agriculture to human well-being in the Ein El-Hilweh Refugee Camp, Lebanon

World Development Sustainability, 2023
Securing the livelihoods of disadvantaged social groups such as refugees is a decisive part of sustainable development globally. In Lebanon, Palestinian and Syrian-Palestinian refugees are marginalized groups facing aggravating hardships in the light of ...
Anisja Tarchahani, Jacqueline Loos
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