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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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Indigenous and Local Knowledge Contributions to Social-Ecological Systems' Management [PDF]
, 2023 Social-ecological systems are complex and adaptive, for which their governance requires holistic understanding of the different components of the system and their relations, capacity to respond to change and uncertainty, and well-functioning ...
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals +1 more
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Understanding protected area resilience: a multi-scale, social-ecological approach
, 2015 Protected areas (PAs) remain central to the conservation of biodiversity. Classical PAs were conceived as areas that would be set aside to maintain a natural state with minimal human influence. However, global environmental change and growing cross-scale
Allen, Craig R. +24 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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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 +5 more
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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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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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Ecology and SocietyFarmers are not a homogeneous social actor group, particularly regarding their demands for nature’s contributions to people (NCP) and how they value nature.
John Sanya +8 more
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, 2015 The nested nature of social-ecological systems across scales requires a multi-scale approach for monitoring and response. However, in many cases this flow is hindered by hierarchical structures and bureaucratic procedures.
Garmestani, Ahjond G. +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.
Milner-Gulland, E. J. +9 more
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