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A social–ecological analysis of the global agrifood system [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 Significance The failure to end hunger and the environmental deterioration underpinning food systems have prompted a paradigm shift around food security. We propose a social–ecological approach and carry out a quantitative analysis of 43 indicators of food sovereignty and 28 indicators of the sociodemographic, social wellbeing, and ...
Elisa Oteros-Rozas +4 more
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Feedbacks between Conservation and Social‐Ecological Systems [PDF]
Conservation Biology, 2012 Abstract: Robust ways to meet objectives of environmental conservation and social and economic development remain elusive. This struggle may in part be related to insufficient understanding of the feedbacks between conservation initiatives and social–ecological systems, specifically, the ways in which ...
Brian W, Miller +2 more
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Traditional ecological knowledge among transhumant pastoralists in Mediterranean Spain
Ecology 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
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Participatory Mapping of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Madrid: Insights for Landscape Planning
Land, 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
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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 +3 more
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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 +9 more
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Ecological Applications, 2017 AbstractConservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize that natural resource management is both an outcome and a driver of social, economic, and ecological dynamics. Protected areas offer a fundamental approach to conserving ecosystems, but they are also social‐ecological systems whose ecological management and sustainability are ...
Cumming, Graeme S., Allen, Craig R.
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Mapping Social Ecological Systems Archetypes
Environmental Research Letters, 2018 Abstract While sustainable development goals are by their nature global, their achievement requires local action and thus targeting and monitoring sustainable solutions tailored to different social and ecological contexts. Ostrom stressed that there are no panaceas or universal solutions to environmental problems, and developed a social-
Juan Rocha +4 more
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Rangelands as Social–Ecological Systems [PDF]
, 2017 A social–ecological system (SES) is a combination of social and ecological actors and processes that influence each other in profound ways. The SES framework is not a research methodology or a checklist to identify problems. It is a conceptual framework designed to keep both the social and ecological components of a system in focus so that the ...
Tracy Hruska +6 more
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Social learning for resilience in social–ecological systems [PDF]
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2017 Fostering of social learning is generally considered an important governance instrument to build resilience in social-ecological systems. Empirical studies addressing the contribution of social learning to resilience are scarce however, and do not provide direct evidence but infer this contribution from the impacts of social learning on system ...
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