Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society

R Biggs, HS Clements, GS Cumming… - Ecosystems and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as an important area of
sustainability science, informing and supporting pressing issues of transformation towards …

A conceptual framework for understanding social-ecological systems

C Du Plessis - … Science—A Southern African Perspective; Burns …, 2008 - books.google.com
Sustainability science has not emerged out of a vacuum, but rather is a product of its time. It
responds to the most critical challenge today, which is the transition of society towards a …

The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS)–a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus

AV Norström, B Agarwal, P Balvanera… - Ecosystems and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in
2011, and is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research …

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

SR Carpenter, C Folke, A Norström, O Olsson… - Current Opinion in …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS), a new initiative within the ICSU
global change programs, aims to integrate research on the stewardship of social–ecological …

Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex social-ecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa

R Bowd, NW Quinn, DC Kotze - Ecology and Society, 2015 - JSTOR
Consideration of biophysical impacts has historically dominated environmental impact
assessment (EIA) practice. Despite the emergence of social impact assessment, the …

[PDF][PDF] Editorial overview: Sustainability science: Social–environmental systems (SES) research: How the field has developed and what we have learned for future …

H Mooney - Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain, 2016 - academia.edu
The rapidly changing natural and social world calls for an accelerated development of
knowledge that prepares society for meeting the challenges ahead. This knowledge must be …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability of complex social-ecological systems: methods, tools, and approaches

AK Gain, C Giupponi, FG Renaud… - Regional Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Social-ecological systems (SES) are nested, multilevel systems in which ecological and
social elements interoperate through regular bidirectional interactions and feedback loops …

Key features for more successful place-based sustainability research on social-ecological systems: a Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) …

P Balvanera, TM Daw, TA Gardner, B Martín-López… - Ecology and …, 2017 - JSTOR
The emerging discipline of sustainability science is focused explicitly on the dynamic
interactions between nature and society and is committed to research that spans multiple …

Social-ecological systems insights for navigating the dynamics of the Anthropocene

B Reyers, C Folke, ML Moore, R Biggs… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform
sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four …

Balancing community livelihoods and biodiversity conservation of protected areas in East Africa

F Wei, S Wang, B Fu, L Zhang, C Fu… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•PAs are SES in which ES align biodiversity conservation and people's
interests.•Bidirectional coupling between social and ecological systems (drivers & …