Dynamics and resilience of rangelands and pastoral peoples around the globe

RS Reid, ME Fernández-Giménez… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Rangelands cover more of Earth's land surface than any other type of land. They have
variable and harsh climates, are sparsely populated and remote from markets, produce …

Risk management and decision making in relation to sustainable development

M Hurlbert, J Krishnaswamy, FX Johnson… - 2019 - diva-portal.org
Executive summary Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in
continued permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased …

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

FT Maestre, R Salguero-Gómez… - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drylands occupy large portions of the Earth, and are a key terrestrial biome from the socio-
ecological point of view. In spite of their extent and importance, the impacts of global …

Livelihood vulnerability to drought: A case of rural Iran

M Keshavarz, H Maleksaeidi, E Karami - International Journal of Disaster …, 2017 - Elsevier
Agriculture as the main source of livelihood for rural residents of the developing countries is
inherently sensitive to climate variability and change. Among different climatic events …

The Global-DEP conceptual framework—research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability

B Fu, M Stafford-Smith, Y Wang, B Wu, X Yu… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the increasing speed and intensity of ongoing climate change and human
interventions, more systematic research is needed to realize the Sustainable Development …

[PDF][PDF] 社会—生态系统适应性治理视角下绿地空间恢复力的演化——广州旧城区更新案例

付迎春, 郭碧云, 王敏, 覃小玲 - 自然资源学报, 2022 - jnr.ac.cn
旧城区绿地作为关键的社会—生态系统载体, 是城市高质量发展与转型治理亟需关注的问题.
构建广州旧城区绿地服务基本单元, 引入适应性循环理论的潜力—连通度—恢复力三维框架 …

Caatinga, the Brazilian dry tropical forest: can it tolerate climate changes?

MG Santos, MT Oliveira, KV Figueiredo… - … and Experimental Plant …, 2014 - Springer
Our review focuses on the projections of climate change in the Brazilian semiarid region, the
Caatinga, based on recent publications about global climate change and biology. We found …

Intermediate human activities maximize dryland ecosystem services in the long-term land-use change: Evidence from the Sangong River watershed, northwest China

B Chen, X Jing, S Liu, J Jiang, Y Wang - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human activities cause widespread changes in landscape composition, which can affect
ecosystem services produced by these landscapes. It is usually believed that ecosystem …

A review of social-ecological system resilience: Mechanism, assessment and management

T Li, Y Dong, Z Liu - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Social-ecological system (SES) resilience involves the large information and complex
relationships of nature, society and economy. To promote multi-disciplinary integration to …

Social-ecological innovation in remote mountain areas: Adaptive responses of forest-dependent communities to the challenges of a changing world

M Melnykovych, M Nijnik, I Soloviy, A Nijnik… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
To better understand how constantly changing human-environment interactions could be
better organized to respond to current challenges, we examined the Ukrainian Carpathians …