Publications
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The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda
Published on January 1, 2017
To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place theory and methods provide a rich source of insights that, like the socia... -
`The intrusion therefore of cattle is by itself sufficient to produce the extirpation of the native race': social ecological systems and ecocide in conflicts between Hunter-Gatherers and commercial stock farmers in Australia
Published on January 1, 2017
This contribution attempts to discuss unintended, neglectful, or willful manipulations of Social Ecological Systems (SESs) by commercial stock farmers as part of an attempt to drive Aboriginal people from their lands into the hinterland thereby accep... -
Misreading a pastoral property regime in the Logone floodplain, Cameroon
Published on January 1, 2017
This is a response to an article by Haller et al. (2013) in Ecology and Society titled How fit turns into misfit and back: institutional transformations of pastoral commons in African floodplains. In this response, I argue that Haller et al.'s descri... -
The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Human Responses in a Land Degradation-Affected Region: The Messara Valley Crete, Greece
Published on January 1, 2017
This paper applies a resilience- and assemblage-based methodology to study the socio-ecological dynamics of human responses in the land degradation-affected Messara Valley (Crete, Greece) socio-ecological system, from 1950 to 2010. It posits that the... -
Evaluation of a new method for assessing resilience in urban aquatic social-ecological systems
Published on January 1, 2017
Urban aquatic social-ecological systems (SESs) comprise socio-technical elements, the built environment and its management, and natural elements (water bodies) that provide ecosystem services. Changed hydrology, poor stormwater quality, and the modif... -
Quantifying urban ecological governance: A suite of indices characterizes the ecological planning implications of rapid coastal urbanization
Published on January 1, 2017
Urban ecosystems in China have undergone a surge of rapid urbanization leading to phenomenal socioecological transformation. To mitigate the regional ecological and environmental impacts, cross-scale ecological governance has not been well establishe... -
SYNERGETIC APPROACH TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN ECONOMY STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Published on January 1, 2017
Urgency of the research. Identification of the green economy influence on the stimulation of comprehensive reforms, which are realized at the regional level and established the baseline of sustainable development, is burning issues of modern economic... -
Exploring urban resilience in practice: a century of vacant sites mapping in Dublin, Edinburgh and Philadelphia
Published on January 1, 2017
Urban resilience can be understood as the application of social-ecological systems thinking to the city in order to build adaptive capacity to change in urban systems. Vacant sites can become the focus of explorations into how to adapt and do things ... -
Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic
Published on January 1, 2017
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which subs... -
Where are Ecology and Biodiversity in Social-Ecological Systems Research? A Review of Research Methods and Applied Recommendations
Published on January 1, 2017
Understanding social-ecological systems (SES) is critical for effective sustainability and biodiversity conservation initiatives. We systematically reviewed SES research to examine whether and how it integrates ecological and social domains and gener... -
The connotations of botho philosophy and its potential contribution towards environmental conservation: the case of Tlokoeng community in Lesotho
Published on January 1, 2017
This paper explores innovative environmental education strategies to conserve biodiversity in a rural-based context, in Lesotho. A case study approach was employed to investigate the community's conception of botho philosophy and how it might promote... -
Moving Towards a New Urban Systems Science
Published on January 1, 2017
Research on urban ecosystems rapidly expanded in the 1990s and is now a central topic in ecosystem science. In this paper, we argue that there are two critical challenges for ecosystem science that are rooted in urban ecosystems: (1) predicting or ex... -
Culturally Grounded Indicators of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Published on January 1, 2017
Measuring progress toward sustainability goals is a multifaceted task. International, regional, and national organizations and agencies seek to promote resilience and capacity for adaptation at local levels. However, their measurement systems may be ... -
A call to action: strong long-term limnological changes in the two largest Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes, Abaya and Chamo
Published on January 1, 2017
The 2 largest Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes, Abaya and Chamo, are dominant socioecological systems with important potential for ecotourism because of their attractive setting with Nechisar National Park. We report on changes in water quality in these l... -
Analysis and management of multiple ecosystem services within a social-ecological context
Published on January 1, 2017
The assessment of ecosystem services (ESS) requires approaches that are capable to deal with the complexity of social-ecological systems (SES). A new viewpoint is proposed, in which the social-ecological perspective of Ostrom's SES framework is used ... -
Using qualitative models to define sustainable management for the commons in data poor conditions
Published on January 1, 2017
Nearly 50 years after Hardin's tragedy of the commons we have not yet found predictive tools to guide us towards sustainable management of common-pool resources (CPR). We often have a good understanding of the qualitative relationships between the pr... -
Assessment of rivers as social-ecological systems: a response to The imperative need for nationally coordinated bioassessment of rivers and streams
Published on January 1, 2017
Nichols et al. in Marine and Freshwater Research (https://doi.org/10.1071/MF15329) call for a reinvestment in national-scale bioassessment in Australia. With recent transition back to single-impact and subcatchment-level assessment, Nichols et al. (2... -
Assessing temporal couplings in social-ecological island systems: historical deforestation and soil loss on Mauritius Indian Ocean
Published on January 1, 2017
Temporal couplings, such as historical interactions between deforestation and soil loss, are responsible for the current state of a wide range of ecosystem services of the social-ecological system on Mauritius. Islands are suitable study sites for un... -
Projected Changes in Temperature Extremes in China Using PRECIS
Published on January 1, 2017
Temperature extremes can cause disastrous impacts on ecological and social economic systems. China is very sensitive to climate change, as its warming rate exceeds that of the global mean level. This paper focused on the spatial and temporal changes ... -
The social structural foundations of adaptation and transformation in social-ecological systems
Published on January 1, 2017
Social networks are frequently cited as vital for facilitating successful adaptation and transformation in linked social-ecological systems to overcome pressing resource management challenges. Yet confusion remains over the precise nature of adaptati...
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