Stephen R Carpenter, Carl Folke, Albert Norström, Olof Olsson, Lisen Schultz, Bina Agarwal, Patricia Balvanera, Bruce Campbell, Juan Carlos Castilla, Wolfgang Cramer, Ruth DeFries, Pablo Eyzaguirre, Terry P Hughes, Stephen Polasky, Zainal Sanusi, Robert Scholes, Marja Spierenburg, Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 134-138, ISSN 1877-3435, 10.1016/j.cosust.2012.01.001
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—ecologicalsystems, the services they generate, and the relationships among natural capital, human wellbeing, livelihoods, inequality and poverty. The vision of PECS is a world where human actions have transformed to achieve sustainable stewardship of social—ecolo...