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Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems. [PDF]
Ecol Soc, 2021 Managing social-ecological systems toward desirable regimes requires learning about the system being managed while preparing for many possible futures. Adaptive management (AM) and scenario planning (SP) are two systems management approaches that separately use learning to reduce uncertainties and employ planning to manage irreducible uncertainties ...
Herrmann DL +5 more
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Group size in social-ecological systems. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018 SignificanceWhat is the size of human groups for successful cooperation? Theoretically, the larger the group, the more difficult it is to sustain cooperation. We studied hundreds of villages in the Alps that harvested common property resources for almost six centuries.
Casari M, Tagliapietra C.
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Mapping social-ecological systems archetypes
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Achieving sustainable development goals requires targeting and monitoring sustainable solutions tailored to different social and ecological contexts. A social-ecological systems (SESs) framework was developed to help diagnose problems, identify complex ...
Juan Rocha +4 more
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A social-ecological systems approach for environmental management [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Management, 2016 Urgent environmental issues are testing the limits of current management approaches and pushing demand for innovative approaches that integrate across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Practitioners, scholars, and policy-makers alike call for increased integration of natural and social sciences to develop new approaches that address the range of ...
Arika Virapongse +2 more
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Ecology 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
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Ecology 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
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Groundwater Connections and Sustainability in Social‐Ecological Systems
Groundwater, 2023 Abstract Groundwater resources are connected with social, economic, ecological, and Earth systems. We introduce the framing of groundwater‐connected systems to better represent the nature and complexity of these connections in data collection, scientific investigations ...
Xander Huggins +5 more
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Land, 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
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Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity
Communications Biology, 2023 This Perspective piece outlines potential avenues to support ecosystem restoration projects into the future.
Marina Frietsch +4 more
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ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS [PDF]
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2005 ▪ Abstract We explore the social dimension that enables adaptive ecosystem-based management. The review concentrates on experiences of adaptive governance of social-ecological systems during periods of abrupt change (crisis) and investigates social sources of renewal and reorganization.
Folke, Carl +3 more
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