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Understanding protected area resilience: a multi-scale, social-ecological approach [PDF]

, 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., Biggs, Duan, Cumming, David H. M., Cumming, Graeme S., Biggs, Harry C., Cumming, David H.M., Allen, Craig, Ban, Natalie C., Cumming, Graeme S, Mathevet, Raphael, Ban, Natalie C, Schoon, Michael, Biggs, Harry, Allen, Craig R, Nenadovic, Mateja, Cumming, David HM, Cumming, David H M, Cumming, G. S., Ban, Natalie, Epstein, Graham, Biggs, Harry C, Moore, Christine, Etienne, Michel, De Vos, Alta, Maciejewski, Kristine   +24 more
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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, Katja Malmborg, Line Gordon, Kate Brauman, Fabrice DeClerck   +4 more
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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, Reyes-García, Victoria   +1 more
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Heterogeneity of demands for nature’s contributions to people and nature’s values by farmers: insights from the Kilimanjaro social-ecological system

Ecology and Society
Farmers 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, Milena Gross, Tuyeni H Mwampamba, Jasmine Pearson, Jennifer K Sesabo, Maraja Riechers, Neema R Kinabo, Viviane Krail, Berta Martín-López   +8 more
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Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: the case of transhumance in Mediterranean Spain

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, Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Berta Martín-López, Tobias Plieninger, Esther González Martín, José A. González   +5 more
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Flowers in the dark: The contribution of rooftop urban agriculture to human well-being in the Ein El-Hilweh Refugee Camp, Lebanon

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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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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The Role of Bridging Organizations in Enhancing Ecosystem Services and Facilitating Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems

, 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., Odom Green, Olivia, Marmar Nekoro, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Schultz, Lisen,, Nekoro, Marmar,, Olivia Odom Green, Lisen Schultz   +7 more
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National ecosystem restoration pledges are mismatched with social-ecological enabling conditions

Communications Earth & Environment
Ecosystem restoration is widely recognized as a key strategy to address social-ecological challenges. National governments have pledged to restore millions of hectares of land.
Felipe Benra, Maria Brück, Emily Sigman, Manuel Pacheco-Romero, Girma Shumi, David J. Abson, Marina Frietsch, Joern Fischer   +7 more
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa, Shinya Sugimoto, Toshiro Sato   +2 more
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