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Pohjanmies, T., M. Trivino, E. Le Tortorec, A. Mazziotta, T. Snall, M. Monkkonen. 2017. Impacts of forestry on boreal forests: an ecosystem services perspective. Ambio 46(7): 743-755.
Forests are widely recognized as major providers of ecosystem services, including timber, other forest products, recreation, regulation of water, soil and air quality, and climate change mitigation. Extensive tracts of boreal forests are actively managed for timber production, but actions aimed at increasing timber yields also affect other forest functions and services. Here, we present an overview of the environmental impacts...
Nykvist, B., S. Borgström, E. Boyd. 2017. Assessing the adaptive capacity of multi-level water governance: ecosystem services under climate change in Mälardalen region, Sweden. Regional Environmental Change 17(8): 2359-2371.
Adaptive and multi-level governance is often called for in order to improve the management of complex issues such as the provision of natural resources and ecosystem services. In this case study, we analyse the contemporary multi-level governance system that manages water resources and its ecosystem services in a fresh water lake in Sweden. We assess the relative importance and barriers of three commonly highlighted components...
Norström, A.V., P. Balvanera, M. Spierenburg, M. Bouamrane. 2017. Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society: knowledge for sustainable stewardship of social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 22(1): 47.
The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) is an international research program with a focus on social-ecological systems and how we can transform them towards sustainable pathways. PECS has emerged in a time where many advances in sustainability science and practice are being inspired by social-ecological research (Fischer et al. 2015). While work on the interplay between nature and society has a long history and mu...
Mazziotta, A., J. Vizentin-Bugoni, A.P. Tottrup, H.H. Bruun, O. Fritz, J. Heilmann-Clausen. 2017. Interaction type and intimacy structure networks between forest-dwelling organisms and their host trees. Basic and Applied Ecology 24: 86-97.
Species interact in many ways. Potentially, the type of interaction, e.g. mutualistic, commensalistic or antagonistic, determines the structure of interaction networks, but this remains poorly tested. Here we investigate whether epiphytes and wood decomposers, having different types of interaction with their host trees, show different network properties. We also test whether the traits of host trees affect network architecture...
Lansing, J.S., S. Thurner, N.N. Chung, A. Coudurier-Curveur, C. Karakas, K.A. Fesenmyer, L.Y. Chew. 2017. Adaptive self-organization of Bali's ancient rice terraces. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, USA 114(25): 6504-6509.
Spatial patterning often occurs in ecosystems as a result of a self-organizing process caused by feedback between organisms and the physical environment. Here, we show that the spatial patterns observable in centuries-old Balinese rice terraces are also created by feedback between farmers’ decisions and the ecology of the paddies, which triggers a transition from local to global-scale control of water shortages and rice pests....
Lade, S.J., L.J. Haider, G. Engström, M. Schlüter. 2017. Resilience offers escape from trapped thinking on poverty alleviation. Science Advances 3(5): 1603043.
The poverty trap concept strongly influences current research and policy on poverty alleviation. Financial or technological inputs intended to “push” the rural poor out of a poverty trap have had many successes but have also failed unexpectedly with serious ecological and social consequences that can reinforce poverty. Resilience thinking can help to (i) understand how these failures emerge from the complex relationships betwe...
Kronenberg, J., E. Andersson, P. Tryjanowski. 2017. Connecting the social and the ecological in the focal species concept: case study of White Stork. Nature Conservation-Bulgaria 22: 79-105.
In this article we provide an overview of five case studies of initiatives using the image of White Stork as a focal species. Our case studies are preceded by a short overview of existing approaches to achieve broader environmental goals through species conservation and a review of the social, ecological and social-ecological importance of White Stork. With the use of the above, we investigate linkages, complementarity and fri...
Andre, K., J. Baird, A.G. Swartling, G. Vulturius, R. Plummer. 2017. Analysis of Swedish forest owners’ information and knowledge-sharing networks for decision-making: insights for climate change communication and adaptation. Environmental Management 59(6): 885-897
To further the understanding of climate change adaptation processes, more attention needs to be paid to the various contextual factors that shape whether and how climate-related knowledge and information is received and acted upon by actors involved. This study sets out to examine the characteristics of forest owners' in Sweden, the information and knowledge-sharing networks they draw upon for decision-making, and their percep...
Padmanaban, R., Bhowmik, A.K., Cabral, P. 2017. A Remote Sensing Approach to Environmental Monitoring in a Reclaimed Mine Area. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2017, 6(12), 401; doi:10.3390/ijgi6120401
Mining for resources extraction may lead to geological and associated environmental changes due to ground movements, collision with mining cavities, and deformation of aquifers. Geological changes may continue in a reclaimed mine area, and the deformed aquifers may entail a breakdown of substrates and an increase in ground water tables, which may cause surface area inundation. Consequently, a reclaimed mine area may experience...
Tidball, K.G, Metcalf, S., Bain, M., Elmqvist, T. 2017. Community-led reforestation: cultivating the potential of virtuous cycles to confer resilience in disaster disrupted social–ecological systems. Sustain Sci https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0506-5
Human relationships with trees can result in widespread citizen-led reforestation projects that catalyze social–biological-reinforcing feedback loops and set in motion virtuous cycles that restore perturbed social–ecological systems. These virtuous cycles confer resilience in such systems that counterbalance the tendency for vicious cycles to be triggered by destructive behavior and neglect. Given this argument, we ask: how do...
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