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

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

Ecosystems 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, Maraja Riechers, Louis Celliers, Sebastian C. A. Ferse   +3 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, Ricardo Ontillera-Sánchez, Pau Sanosa, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Victoria Reyes-García, José A. González   +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, Marina García-Llorente, José A. González   +2 more
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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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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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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, Susan C, Caplow, Paul W, Leslie   +2 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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Protected areas as social‐ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social‐ecological systems theory

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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