Publications
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Effectiveness of Costa Rica's Conservation Portfolio to Lower Deforestation, Protect Primates, and Increase Community Participation
Published on November 5, 2020
Common approaches to reverse the trend of tropical deforestation and loss of wildlife include systems of protected areas (PAs) such as national parks, payments for ecosystem services programs (PES) that provide financial reward to landowners protecti... -
How do sustainable livelihoods influence environmental non- migration aspirations?
Published on November 1, 2020
Every individual strives to improve their quality of life, and therefore, adopts strategies to cope with the adverse situation of their livelihood. The decision to migrate (i.e. migration) or to stay (i.e. non-migration) is one such strategy to comba... -
Simulating emerging coastal tourism vulnerabilities: an agent-based modelling approach
Published on November 1, 2020
Coastal tourism destinations face a range of climate-related changes. Prevailing challenges include understanding emerging changes and future uncertainties. A dynamic vulnerability approach is a promising way to analyse emerging socio-ecological vuln... -
The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification
Published on November 1, 2020
Context The global trend of landscape simplification for industrial agriculture is known to cause losses in biodiversity and ecosystem service diversity. Despite these problems being widely known, status quo trajectories driven by global economic gro... -
Analyzing Land-Use Change Scenarios for Ecosystem Services and their Trade-Offs in the Ecological Conservation Area in Beijing, China
Published on November 1, 2020
It is generally believed that land-use changes can affect a variety of ecosystem services (ES), but the relationships involved remain unclear due to a lack of systematic knowledge and gaps in data. In order to make rational decisions for land-use pla... -
Extensive aircraft activity impacts subsistence areas: acoustic evidence from Arctic Alaska
Published on November 1, 2020
Aircraft activity is expanding across Arctic Alaska, potentially changing social-ecological systems. Arctic communities report that aircraft disturb wildlife and negatively influence harvest practices and experiences. Limited data have restricted kno... -
One and a half century of avalanche risk to settlements in the upper Maurienne valley inferred from land cover and socio-environmental changes
Published on November 1, 2020
Changes in mountain landscape can affect avalanche activity, causing changes in risk, potentially enhanced by a transition of the socio-environmental system and its underlying dynamics. Thus, integrative approaches combining biophysical and social sc... -
Scientific and local ecological knowledge, shaping perceptions towards protected areas and related ecosystem services
Published on November 1, 2020
Context Most protected areas are managed based on objectives related to scientific ecological knowledge of species and ecosystems. However, a core principle of sustainability science is that understanding and including local ecological knowledge, per... -
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making
Published on November 1, 2020
Co-production between scientific and Indigenous knowledge has been identified as useful to generating adaptation pathways with Indigenous peoples, who are attached to their traditional lands and thus highly exposed to the impacts of climate change. H... -
Exploring synergies and trade-offs among the sustainable development goals: collective action and adaptive capacity in marginal mountainous areas of India
Published on November 1, 2020
Global environmental change (GEC) threatens to undermine the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Smallholders in marginal mountainous areas (MMA) are particularly vulnerable due to precarious livelihoods in challenging environments. Acting collecti... -
A hard-to-keep promise: Vegetation use and aboveground carbon storage in silvopastures of the Dry Chaco
Published on November 1, 2020
In dry woodland regions, silvopastures have emerged as a promising option to balance cattle production, carbon storage and biodiversity. However, one of the major challenges in these systems, particularly when implemented in a matrix of natural veget... -
Forest cover dynamics and its drivers of the Arba Gugu forest in the Eastern highlands of Ethiopia during 1986 - 2015
Published on November 1, 2020
Change in forest cover can affect both ecological and socio-economic systems. In order to understand the dynamics of this process, accurate and spatially explicit information is urgently required. Quantifying the past forest cover change of Arba Gugu... -
Towards sustainable small-scale fisheries in China: A case study of Hainan
Published on November 1, 2020
China is one of the most important marine fishery countries, yet little is known about its small-scale fisheries (SSFs). This paper uses Hainan Province of China as a case study to examine the present situation, predicaments, and future changes of th... -
Improving Drought Preparedness Among Utah Cattle Ranchers
Published on November 1, 2020
Because drought impacts are accelerating due to climate change, drought preparedness on western range-lands matters now more than ever. Range professionals perceive, however, that many Utah ranchers remain ill-equipped for drought. The main research ... -
Integration Of A Local Fish Market In Namibia With The Global Seafood Trade: Implications For Fish Traders And Sustainability
Published on November 1, 2020
Within the last decades, globalization has changed the international seafood trade, allowing low-income countries to access markets in high-income countries and vice versa. Nevertheless, the effects of globalization are controversial and in particula... -
Systems perspectives on water security: An applied review and conceptual framework
Published on November 1, 2020
This article proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the resilience of water security at the scale of a river basin, thereby contributing to the ongoing scholarship on water security. Based on literature review, we apply systems thinking an... -
Major storms, rising tides, and wet feet: Adapting to flood risk in the Philippines
Published on November 1, 2020
This research examines flood risk and adaption to it, including the possibility of out-migration, in two flood-prone coastal locations in the Philippines through the lens of Protection Motivation Theory. Much of the country is at risk of coastal floo... -
Cultural Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific: Re-focusing UNESCO Designation on Community Participation
Published on November 1, 2020
World Heritage Sites, designated by UNESCO, are a growing phenomenon in global governance. Sites are nominated for their Outstanding Universal Values with the objective of protecting against potential threats from man-made or natural causes. This art... -
Are freshwater systems in lower Mekong basin southeast Asia resilient? A synthesis of social-ecological system
Published on November 1, 2020
Social-ecological resilience of freshwater systems in lower Mekong basin in southeast Asia is largely unknown. Over the recent past, the freshwater ecosystems in the region have gone through severe environmental stress. Climate change, sea level rise... -
How resilient is the labour market against natural disaster? Evaluating the effects from the 2010 earthquake in Chile
Published on November 1, 2020
Natural disasters are one of the main channels through which ecological and socio-economic systems interact. In particular, the severe impacts of earthquakes could disrupt activities in the labour market. However, the literature barely researched the...
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