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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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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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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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Exploring non-linear transition pathways in social-ecological systems. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Tipping point dynamics are fundamental drivers for sustainable transition pathways of social-ecological systems (SES). Current research predominantly analyzes how crossing tipping points causes regime shifts, however, the analysis of potential transition
Mathias JD, Anderies JM, Baggio J, Hodbod J, Huet S, Janssen MA, Milkoreit M, Schoon M.   +7 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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Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems

, 2004
. The concept of resilience has evolved considerably since Holling’s (1973) seminal paper. Different interpretations of what is meant by resilience, however, cause confusion.
B. Walker, C. S. Holling, S. Carpenter, A. Kinzig   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stakeholders in Social-Ecological Systems

Ecology and Society, 2003
Barry R. Noon
doaj   +2 more sources