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Photovoice for mobilizing insights on human well-being in complex social-ecological systems: case studies from Kenya and South Africa

Masterson, V. A., S. L. Mahajan, and M. Tengö

2018 - Journal / article

 The value of diverse perspectives in social-ecological systems research and transdisciplinarity is well recognized. Human well-being and how it is derived from dynamic ecosystems is one area where local knowledge and perspectives are critical for designing interventions for sustainable pathways out of poverty. However, to realize the potential to enrich the understanding of complex dynamics for sustainability, there is a need...

Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research: Linking care, knowledge and agency

Enqvist, J.P., West, S., Masterson, V., Haider, J.L., Svedin, U., Tengö, M.

2018 - Journal / article

Current sustainability challenges – including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change – require new ways of understanding, acting in and caring for the landscapes we live in. The concept of stewardship is increasingly used in research, policy and practice to articulate and describe responses to these challenges. However, there are multiple meanings and framings of stewardship across this wide user base that reflect di...

The undisciplinary journey: early-career perspectives in sustainability science

Haider, L.J., Hentati-Sundberg, J., Giusti, M. et al.

2017 - Journal / article

The establishment of interdisciplinary Master’s and PhD programmes in sustainability science is opening up an exciting arena filled with opportunities for early-career scholars to address pressing sustainability challenges. However, embarking upon an interdisciplinary endeavor as an early-career scholar poses a unique set of challenges: to develop an individual scientific identity and a strong and specific methodological skill...

Competing Place Meanings in Complex Landscapes: A Social–Ecological Approach to Unpacking Community Conservation Outcomes on the Wild Coast, South Africa

Mastersson, V., Tengö, M., Spierenburg, M.

2017 - Journal / article

Despite a general awareness of the social–ecological complexities within which conservation interventions are embedded, approaches to understanding a diversity of local perspectives of heterogeneous landscapes and how they matter for the outcomes of these interventions are seldom demonstrated. We apply a social–ecological approach to exploring the multiple place meanings related to key landscape elements around a proposed comm...