Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 50(4), P. 834 - 869

Published: March 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding responding to such change global sustainability resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of current situation where people nature are dynamically intertwined embedded biosphere, placing shocks extreme events as part this dynamic; humanity become major force shaping future Earth system whole; scale pace human dimension have caused climate change, loss biodiversity, growing inequalities, resilience deal with uncertainty surprise. Taken together, actions challenging biosphere foundation prosperous development civilizations. Anthropocene reality-of rising system-wide turbulence-calls transformative towards sustainable futures. Emerging technologies, social innovations, broader shifts cultural repertoires, well diverse portfolio active stewardship support highlighted essential parts transformations.

Language: Английский

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Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches

Ecology and Society, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 23(4)

Published: Jan. 1, 2018

Preiser, R., R. Biggs, A. De Vos, and C. Folke. 2018. Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods approaches. Ecology Society 23(4):46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10558-230446

Language: Английский

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Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 45(1), P. 331 - 386

Published: Aug. 4, 2020

This review synthesizes diverse approaches that researchers have brought to bear on the challenge of sustainable development. We construct an integrated framework highlighting union set elements and relationships those shown be useful in explaining nature–society interactions multiple contexts. Compelling evidence has accumulated should viewed as a globally interconnected, complex adaptive system which heterogeneity, nonlinearity, innovation play formative roles. The long-term evolution cannot predicted but can understood partially guided through dynamic interventions. Research identified six capacities necessary support such interventions guiding development pathways toward sustainability. These are ( a) measure development, b) promote equity, c) adapt shocks surprises, d) transform into more pathways, e) link knowledge with action, f) devise governance arrangements allow people work together exercising other capacities.

Language: Английский

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Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 119(7)

Published: Feb. 7, 2022

Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help explain challenges achieving thus also point toward solutions. The are as follows: 1) Meanings values socially constructed contested; 2) systems exhibit complex behaviors with abrupt, hard-to-predict changes; 3) irreversible changes path dependence common features systems; 4) some uses a small footprint but very large impacts; 5) drivers impacts land-use change globally interconnected spill over distant locations; 6) humanity lives on used planet where all provides benefits societies; 7) usually entails trade-offs between different benefits—"win–wins" rare; 8) tenure claims often unclear, overlapping, 9) burdens from unequally distributed; 10) users multiple, sometimes conflicting, ideas what social environmental justice entails. implications for governance, do not provide fixed answers. Instead they constitute set core principles which can guide scientists, policy makers, practitioners meeting use.

Language: Английский

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Promoting Geography for Sustainability

Geography and sustainability, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 1(1), P. 1 - 7

Published: March 1, 2020

The discipline of geography encompasses both natural and social sciences has the advantage enabling study sustainability from a transdisciplinary perspective. There are great opportunities for geographers to participate in research. However, while have set goals, they rarely clarified details reaching those goals. Current knowledge on relationship between humans environment methodologies studying this inadequate solve questions science. Five research areas: geographical processes; ecosystem services human wellbeing; human-environmental systems; sustainable development; geo-data modelling proposed as needed help achieve sustainability. key objective promoting is reveal mechanisms system dynamics. This depends understanding processes systems their mutual feedback well clarifying relationships structures, functional characteristics interactions at multiple scales. advancement its technologies will provide more profound future. Geographers responsibility pathway carrying towards

Language: Английский

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Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development

Nature Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 4(8), P. 1011 - 1019

Published: July 20, 2020

Language: Английский

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Evolution and effects of the social-ecological system over a millennium in China’s Loess Plateau

Science Advances, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 6(41)

Published: Oct. 7, 2020

The evolutionary phases of the social-ecological system in China’s Loess Plateau over a millennium are identified.

Language: Английский

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Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS

Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 30(8), P. 3703 - 3720

Published: May 25, 2021

Abstract Companies play a decisive role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, most of world's sustainable development challenges are interconnected and systemic their nature. How can companies ensure that strategies effectively contribute to development? This interdisciplinary paper draws from social‐ecological systems, corporate sustainability, sustainability sciences literatures, order introduce nexus approach sustainability. A induces assess manage positive negative interactions with SDGs—which may arise directly indirectly—in an integrated manner. Instead treating SDGs as isolated silos, aims advance multiple simultaneously (creating “co‐benefits”) while reducing risk contributions one SDG undermine progress on another (avoiding “trade‐offs”). Through managing between SDGs, enables improve societal environmental impacts. is step towards developing theory management helps impacts development. Such sorely needed drive safeguard “SDG‐washing.”

Language: Английский

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Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions

Global Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 63, P. 102097 - 102097

Published: June 16, 2020

Faced with accelerating environmental challenges, research on social-ecological systems is increasingly focused the need for transformative change towards sustainable stewardship of natural resources. This paper analyses potential rapid, large-scale socio-political as a window opportunity resources governance. We hypothesize that shocks at higher levels social organization may open up opportunities transformation into new pathways development. However, to be carefully navigated otherwise transformations stall or lead system in undesirable directions. investigate (i) under which circumstances has been used by actors initiating resource governance, (ii) how different (landscape, regime and niche) interact pave way such (iii) key features (cognitive, structural agency-related) get mobilized transformation. achieved through analyzing governance regimes countries have subject political change: water South Africa Uzbekistan coastal fisheries Chile. In economic end apartheid resulted while after breakdown Soviet Union both scales within remained superficial. Chile democratization process Pinochet era was transform fisheries. The concludes important insight capacities needed navigate biosphere stewardship. study also contributes more nuanced view relationship between collapse renewal.

Language: Английский

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The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development

Nature Sustainability, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 5(8), P. 657 - 664

Published: May 12, 2022

Language: Английский

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