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Incorporating basic needs to reconcile poverty and ecosystem services

Chaigneau, T., Coulthard, S., Brown, K., Daw, T., Schulte-Herbrüggen, B. 2018. Incorporating basic needs to reconcile poverty and ecosystem services. Conservation Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13209

2018 - Journal / article

Conservation managers frequently face the challenge of protecting and sustaining biodiversity without producing detrimental outcomes for (often poor) human populations that depend upon ecosystem services for their wellbeing. However, win‐win solutions are often elusive and can mask trade‐offs and negative outcomes for the wellbeing of particular groups of people. To deal with such trade‐offs, approaches are needed to identify ...

Mind the mind: How to effectively communicate about cognition in social–ecological systems research

Bercht, A.L. and Wijermans, N., 2018. Mind the mind: How to effectively communicate about cognition in social–ecological systems research. Ambio, pp. 1-15, doi: 10.1007/s13280-018-1099-7 (online first)

2018 - Journal / article

Social–ecological systems (SES) research underlines the tremendous impact of human behaviour on planet Earth. To enable a sustainable course of humanity, the integration of human cognition in SES research is crucial for better understanding the processes leading to and involved in human behaviour. However, this integration is proving a challenge, not only in terms of diverging ontological and epistemological perspectives, but ...

Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system

Galaz, F., Crona, B., Dauriach, A., Scholtens, B., Steffen, W. 2018. Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system. Global Environmental ChangeVolume 53, November 2018, Pages 296-302. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.09.008

2018 - Journal / article

Financial actors and capital play a key role in extractive economic activities around the world, as well as in current efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Here, in contrast to standard approaches in finance, sustainability and climate change, we elaborate in what ways financial actors affect key biomes around the world, and through this known “tipping elements” in the Earth system. We combine Earth system and sustainabi...

Advancing urban green infrastructure in Europe: Outcomes and reflections from the GREEN SURGE project

Pauleit, S., Ambrose-Oji, B., Andersson, E., Anton, B., Buijs, A., Haase, D., Elands, B., Hansen, R., Kowarik, I., Kronenberg, J., Mattijssen, T., Stahl Olafsson, A., Rall, E. and van der Jagt, A. P. N. 2018. ‘Advancing Urban Green Infrastructure in Europe: outcomes and reflections from the GREEN SURGE project’, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, in press. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2018.10.006.

2018 - Journal / article

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is a promising concept when developing multifunctional green space systems to address major challenges of urbanization such as increasing social cohesion, promoting the transition to a green economy, adaptation to climate change and conservation of biodiversity. In response to the European Commission’s Communication on Green Infrastructure from 2013, the GREEN SURGE project aimed to further adv...

On the other side of the ditch: exploring contrasting ecosystem service coproduction between smallholder and commercial agriculture

Malinga, R. H., Jewitt, G., Lindborg, R., Andersson, E. and Gordon, L. 2018. ‘On the other side of the ditch: exploring contrasting ecosystem service coproduction between smallholder and commercial agriculture’, Ecology and Society, 23(4):9. doi: 10.5751/ES-10380-230409.

2018 - Journal / article

Managing for increased multifunctionality of agricultural landscapes is a crucial step toward a sustainable global agriculture. We studied two contrasting agricultural landscapes that exist in parallel on two sides of a ditch in the South African Drakensberg Mountains. The large-scale commercial and smallholder farmers operate within a similar biophysical context but have different farming intensities, management practices, so...

Social-Ecological systems insights for navigating the dynamics of the Anthropocene

Reyers, B., Folke, C., Moore, M-L., R. Biggs, Galaz. V. 2018. Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2018. 43:267–89. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-085349

2018 - Journal / article

Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four insights from contemporary SES literature on (a) intertwined SES, (b) cross-scale dynamics, (c) systemic tipping points, and (d) transformational change are explored. Based on these insights, shifts in sustainable development practice are suggested to recog...

Nitrogen fixation does not axiomatically lead to phosphorus limitation in aquatic ecosystems

van Gerven, L.P.A, Kuiper, J., Mooij, W.M., et.al. 2018. Nitrogen fixation does not axiomatically lead to phosphorus limitation in aquatic ecosystems. OIKOS, DOI: 10.1111/oik.05246

2018 - Journal / article

A long‐standing debate in ecology deals with the role of nitrogen and phosphorus in management and restoration of aquatic ecosystems. It has been argued that nutrient reduction strategies to combat blooms of phytoplankton or floating plants should solely focus on phosphorus (P). The underlying argument is that reducing nitrogen (N) inputs is ineffective because N2‐fixing species will compensate for N deficits, thus perpetuatin...

Socioeconomic dynamics of the Ghanaian tuna industry: a value-chain approach to understanding aspects of global fisheries

Drury O’Neill, E., N.K., Asare, D.W., Aheto. 2018. Socioeconomic dynamics of the Ghanaian tuna industry: a value-chain approach to understanding aspects of global fisheries. African Journal of Marine Science, 40:3, 303-313, DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2018.1513866

2018 - Journal / article

This study investigated how an industrial tuna fishery functions in terms of procedures, practices, governance and finance in the context of Ghana, West Africa. Tuna is Ghana’s biggest seafood export, contributing significantly to the domestic fisheries sector. A case-study approach was used to analyse relevant social and economic factors at the local scale to better understand how the global seafood industry operates in a low...

Who benefits from seafood trade? A comparison of social and market structures in small-scale fisheries

Drury O'Neill, E., B. Crona, A. J. G. Ferrer, R. Pomeroy, and N. S. Jiddawi. 2018. Who benefits from seafood trade? A comparison of social and market structures in small-scale fisheries. Ecology and Society 23(3):12.https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10331-230312

2018 - Journal / article

We examine the benefits flowing from a coastal seascape through seafood trade to various social groups in two distinct small-scale fishery case studies. A knowledge gap currently exists in relation to how benefits from a fishery, and the associated trade, are ultimately distributed, specifically, how market structures and relations, and the combined dynamics of the local fishing society, can mediate these flows. Previous resea...

Transformation is feasible - How to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals within Planetary Boundaries

Transformation is feasible - How to achieve the SustainableDevelopment Goals within Planetary Boundaries. 2018. Written by Randers, J., Rockström, J., Stoknes, P.E., Golüke, U., Collste, D., Cornell, S. A report to the Club of Rome from Stockholm Resilience Centre and BI Norwegian Business School

2018 - Report

The dual adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) together with the Paris Climate Agreement, both in 2015, represents a global turning point. We have never before had such a universal development plan for people and planet. For the first time in human history the world has agreed on a democratically adopted roadmap for humanity’s future, which aims at attaining socially inclusive and highly aspirational socio-e...