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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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Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Large and severe wildfires are an observable consequence of an increasingly arid American West. There is increasing consensus that human communities, land managers, and fire managers need to adapt and learn to live with wildfires.
Christopher J. C. Dunn, Christopher D. O’Connor, J. Abrams, Matthew P. Thompson, D. Calkin, J. D. Johnston, Richard D. Stratton, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day   +7 more
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Variation in grouping patterns, mating systems and social structure: what socio-ecological models attempt to explain [PDF]

, 2013
Socio-ecological models aim to predict the variation in social systems based on a limited number of ecological parameters. Since the 1960s, the original model has taken two paths: one relating to grouping patterns and mating systems and one relating to ...
Andreas Koenig, Bearder SK, Brandon C. Wheeler, Carola Borries, Charles-Dominique P, Clara J. Scarry, Crook JH, Di Fiore A, Janson CH, Janson CH, Koenig A, Ménard N, Noldus Information Technology, Nunn CL, Rubenstein DI, Thierry B, van Hooff JARAM, van Schaik CP, van Schaik CP, Vogel ER   +19 more
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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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Insight, part of a Special Feature on A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems Social-ecological system framework: initial changes and continuing challenges

, 2014
The social-ecological system (SES) framework investigated in this special issue enables researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds working on different resource sectors in disparate geographic areas, biophysical conditions, and temporal domains to
M. McGinnis, E. Ostrom
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Exploring the social-ecological systems discourse 20 years later

Ecology and Society, 2019
This paper explores the 20-year evolution of the social-ecological systems framework (SESs). Although a first definition of SES dates back to 1988, Berkes and Folke more thoroughly used the concept ...
J. Colding, Stephan Barthel
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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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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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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.
Jones, Julia P.G., Keane, Aidan M., Milner-Gulland, E. J., St. John, Freya A.V.   +3 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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