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Restoring coasts and floodplains - Conclusions and recommendations for enabling action across science, policy, and practice [PDF]

Nature Conservation
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Ute Susanne Kaden, Sophia Schmid, Simone Wulf, Katrina Marsden, Carla Klusmann, Aletta Bonn, Klement Tockner, Mathias Scholz, Simon Duffield   +8 more
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Applying social-ecological system resilience principles to the context of woody vegetation management in smallholder farming landscapes of the Global South

Ecosystems and People
Woody vegetation diversity is declining due to human-induced land-use changes, mainly agricultural expansion and intensification, deforestation, forest degradation and urbanisation.
Girma Shumi, Jacqueline Loos, Joern Fischer   +2 more
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Social-ecological analysis of climate induced changes in biodiversity – outline of a research concept [PDF]

, 2011
The interactions of changes in climate and biodiversity with societal actions, structures and processes are a priority topic within the international scientific debate – and thus, a relevant subject matter for BiKF’s work.
Hummel, Diana, Jahn, Thomas, Schramm, Engelbert   +2 more
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Livelisystems: a conceptual framework integrating social, ecosystem, development and evolutionary theory [PDF]

, 2014
Human activity poses multiple environmental challenges for ecosystems that have intrinsic value and also support that activity. Our ability to address these challenges is constrained, inter alia, by weaknesses in cross disciplinary understandings of ...
Dorward, Andrew
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Indigenous and Local Communities’ initiatives have transformative potential to guide shifts toward sustainability in South America

Communications Earth & Environment
Addressing current environmental crises requires a fundamental shift in our relationship with nature. Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities can guide diverse pathways towards sustainable and just futures, rooted in ancestral knowledge and relational ...
A. Jiménez-Aceituno, A. Burgos-Ayala, E. Cepeda-Rodríguez, D. P. M. Lam, B. Martín-López   +4 more
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Can web crawlers revolutionize ecological monitoring? [PDF]

, 2009
Despite recent advances, ecosystem service monitoring is limited by insufficient data, the complexity of social-ecological systems, and poor integration of information that tracks changes in ecosystems and economic activities.
Amato-Gauci A, Beatrice Crona, Danielsen F, Magnus Nyström, Per Olsson, Tim Daw, Victor Galaz, Örjan Bodin   +7 more
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Broadening the Justifications for Inclusive Conservation: Values Associated With Nature's Contributions to People

Conservation Letters
Overlooking the diverse values associated with Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) undermines conservation efforts. To examine this underresearched association, we combined the NCP and plural valuation frameworks to investigate how values are ...
Milena Gross, Henrik von Wehrden, Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba, John Sanya, Jasmine Pearson, Jennifer Kasanda Sesabo, Maraja Riechers, Ugo Arbieu, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, Berta Martín‐López   +9 more
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Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives

People and Nature
Gender equity is considered to be a key element for the agroecological transitions of agri‐food systems and sustainable transformation of socioecological systems. Many women have recently become agroecological farmers.
Beatriz Vizuete, Marina García‐Llorente, Irene Pérez‐Ramírez, Elisa Oteros‐Rozas   +3 more
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Animal board invited review: A biocultural perspective of animal farming systems in Europe

Animal
Europe’s landscapes have evolved through the intricate interplay of natural processes and human activities, one of which is animal farming; thus, historically creating biocultural landscapes rich in biological and cultural diversity.
C. Heindorf, B. Altmann, E. Varela, N. Zafra-Calvo, G. Cortés Capano, L.M. Kmoch, L. Flinzberger, M.C. Camporese, A.B. Polas, T. Guo, T. Plieninger   +10 more
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Disentangling gender and social difference for just and transformative biocultural approaches

People and Nature
Advancing research and practice that recognize diverse worldviews, knowledge systems, and value orientations is essential to enable transformative change towards sustainability.
Isabel Díaz‐Reviriego, Mario Torralba, Beatriz Vizuete, Stefan Ortiz‐Przychodzka, Jasmine Pearson, Claudia Heindorf, Aymara LLanque Zonta, Elisa Oteros‐Rozas   +7 more
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