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 …

An integral approach to address socio-ecological systems sustainability and their uncertainties

J Martinez-Fernandez, I Banos-Gonzalez… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The analysis of the sustainability should be addressed with a holistic approach that
facilitates an integral analysis of the social, economic, institutional and environmental factors …

[PDF][PDF] What are social-ecological systems and social-ecological systems research?

R Biggs, H Clements, A de Vos, C Folke… - … handbook of research …, 2021 - library.oapen.org
4 phones we use every day. While this connectivity has brought about impressive
improvements to many people in terms of the distribution of food and other resources around …

Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

J Fischer, TA Gardner, EM Bennett, P Balvanera… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•The concept of social–ecological systems highlights the interlinked dynamics of
environmental and societal change.•Further mainstreaming this concept promises major …

Contributions of place-based social-ecological research to address global sustainability challenges

B Martín-López, P Balvanera, R Manson… - Global …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Humanity depends on nature for life support, but human activities are changing ecosystems
around the world in profound ways (Díaz et al., 2019). In parallel, this enterprise has …

Dynamic properties of complex adaptive ecosystems: implications for the sustainability of service provision

TP Dawson, MDA Rounsevell… - Biodiversity and …, 2010 - Springer
Predicting environmental change and its impacts on ecosystem goods and services at local
to global scales remains a significant challenge for the international scientific community …

What do we talk about when we talk about social-ecological systems? A literature review

C Herrero-Jáuregui, C Arnaiz-Schmitz, MF Reyes… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, probably in response to global changes and the environmental crisis, the
use of the term “social-ecological system”(SES) in scientific literature has grown. This is …

[PDF][PDF] Against mono-consequentialism: Multiple outcomes and their drivers in social–ecological systems

A Agrawal, A Chhatre - Global Environmental Change, 2011 - researchgate.net
One of the most exciting areas of research in the social sciences concerns the analysis of
the interactions between social and ecological/biophysical processes. The goal of many of …

Harnessing insights from social-ecological systems research for monitoring sustainable development

O Selomane, B Reyers, R Biggs, M Hamann - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The United Nations' Agenda 2030 marks significant progress towards sustainable
development by making explicit the intention to integrate previously separate social …

Disentangling intangible social–ecological systems

Ö Bodin, M Tengö - Global Environmental Change, 2012 - Elsevier
Contemporary environmental challenges call for new research approaches that include the
human dimension when studying the natural environment. In spite of the recent …