Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2011, Volume and Issue: 40(7), P. 762 - 780

Published: Oct. 5, 2011

Language: Английский

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Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2016, Volume and Issue: 283(1824), P. 20152592 - 20152592

Published: Feb. 10, 2016

Interactions between multiple ecosystem stressors are expected to jeopardize biological processes, functions and biodiversity. The scientific community has declared stressor interactions—notably synergies—a key issue for conservation management. Here, we review ecological literature over the past four decades evaluate trends in reporting of interactions (synergies, antagonisms additive effects) highlight implications importance conservation. Despite increasing popularity, ever-finer terminologies, find that synergies (still) not most prevalent type interaction, practitioners need appreciate manage all interaction outcomes, including antagonistic effects. However, it will be possible identify effect every on organism's physiology function because number stressors, their potential interactions, growing rapidly. Predicting may near-future, using meta-analyses, conservation-oriented experiments adaptive monitoring. Pending a general framework predicting management should enact interventions robust uncertainty continue bolster resilience stressful world.

Language: Английский

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Resilience (Republished)

Ecology and Society, Journal Year: 2016, Volume and Issue: 21(4)

Published: Jan. 1, 2016

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that serves platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. is about cultivating capacity sustain development face expected surprising change diverse pathways potential thresholds between them. The evolution resilience coupled social-ecological systems truly intertwined human-environment planet. persistence, adaptability, transformability complex adaptive focus, clarifying dynamic forward-looking nature concept. emphasizes systems, from individual, community, society whole, are embedded biosphere. biosphere connection an essential observation if sustainability be taken seriously. In continuous advancement there efforts aimed at capturing finding ways people institutions govern dynamics improved human well-being, local, across levels scales, global. Consequently, thinking, issues planet, framed context understanding governing part

Language: Английский

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Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective

Ecology and Society, Journal Year: 2014, Volume and Issue: 19(4)

Published: Jan. 1, 2014

Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead to transformations toward sustainability.We explored how resilience thinking, a stronger focus on social-ecological systems, can contribute existing studies of sustainability transformations.First, we responded two major points critique: claim theory is not useful for addressing transformations, role "power" transformation has been underplayed by scholars.Second, highlighted promising work combines insights from different theoretical strands, strategy strengthens our understanding transformations.We elaborated three research areas which such combined perspectives could focus: innovation social-ecological-technological systems interactions, patterns transformation, agency transformation.

Language: Английский

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2011, Volume and Issue: 40(7)

Published: Oct. 5, 2011

Language: Английский

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Multiple threats imperil freshwater biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Current Biology, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 29(19), P. R960 - R967

Published: Oct. 1, 2019

Language: Английский

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Assessing tourism's global environmental impact 1900–2050

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal Year: 2015, Volume and Issue: 23(5), P. 639 - 659

Published: March 12, 2015

This paper pioneers the assessment of tourism's total global resource use, including its fossil fuel consumption, associated CO2 emissions, fresh water, land, and food use. As tourism is a dynamic growth system, characterized by rapidly increasing tourist numbers, understanding past, current, future contributions to use central requirement for sustainable assessments. The introduces concept intensities (RUIs), which represent needs per unit consumption (e.g. energy guest night). Based on estimates RUIs, first emissions provided period 1900–2050, utilizing Peeters Global Tourism Transport Model. Results indicate that current (2010) system may require c.16,700 PJ energy, 138 km3 62,000 km2 39.4 Mt food, also causing 1.12 Gt CO2. Despite efforts implement more forms tourism, analysis indicates overall grow between 92% (water) 189% (land use) in 2010–2050. To maintain consequently requires growing inputs, while simultaneously becoming increasingly vulnerable disruptions flows.

Language: Английский

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Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Journal Year: 2014, Volume and Issue: 12(10), P. 557 - 564

Published: Dec. 1, 2014

The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and agricultural development. A landscape management framework that incorporates all systems, across spectrum degrees alteration, provides a fuller set options for how when to intervene, uses limited resources effectively, increases chances achieving goals. That many ecosystems have departed so substantially from their historical trajectory they defy conventional restoration not dispute. Acknowledging novel need constitute threat existing policy approaches. Rather, development an integrated approach interventions can provide are tune with current rapid change.

Language: Английский

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Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene

Global Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2015, Volume and Issue: 32, P. 211 - 218

Published: April 30, 2015

Language: Английский

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Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?

BioScience, Journal Year: 2010, Volume and Issue: 60(8), P. 576 - 589

Published: Sept. 1, 2010

Environmentalists have argued that ecological degradation will lead to declines in the well-being of people dependent on ecosystem services. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment paradoxically found human has increased despite large global most We assess four explanations these divergent trends: (1) measured incorrectly; (2) is food services, which are increasing, and not other services declining; (3) technology decoupled from nature; (4) time lags may future well-being. Our findings discount first hypothesis, but elements remaining three appear plausible. Although ecologists convincingly documented decline, science does adequately understand implications this decline for Untangling how as conditions critical guiding management services; we propose research areas help achieve goal.

Language: Английский

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