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Journal / article | 2015
Reyers, B., J.L. Nel, P.J. O’Farrell, N. Sitas, D.C. Nel. 2015. Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into disaster risk reduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 112: 7362–7368.
Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an avenue to navigate this complexity together with the beneficiaries and managers of ecosystem services. We develop and apply a knowledge coproduction approach based on social–ecological systems...
Rammig, A., M. Wiedermann, J.F. Donges, F. Babst, W. Von Bloh, D. Frank, K. Thonicke, M.D. Mahecha. 2015. Coincidences of climate extremes and anomalous vegetation responses: Comparing tree ring patterns to simulated productivity. Biogeosciences 12: 373–385.
Climate extremes can trigger exceptional responses in terrestrial ecosystems, for instance by altering growth or mortality rates. Such effects are often manifested in reductions in net primary productivity (NPP). Investigating a Europe-wide network of annual radial tree growth records confirms this pattern: we find that 28% of tree ring width (TRW) indices are below two standard deviations in years in which extremely low preci...
Pickering, K., R. Plummer, T. Shaw, G. Pickering. 2015. Assessing the adaptive capacity of the Ontario wine industry for climate change adaptation. International Journal of Wine Research 7: 13–27.
Background: Wine regions throughout the world are experiencing climate change characterized by the gradual alterations in growing seasons, temperature, precipitation, and the occurrences of extreme weather events that have significant consequences for quality wine production. Adapting to these new challenges depends largely on the present and future adaptive capacity of the grape growers, winemakers, and supporting institution...
van den Bergh, J., C. Folke, S. Polasky, M. Scheffer, W. Steffen. 2015. What if solar energy becomes really cheap? A thought experiment on environmental problem shifting. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 14: 170–179.
Solving one environmental problem may often invoke or intensify another one. Such environmental problem shifting (EPS) is a neglected topic in global sustainability research. Indeed, it is difficult to study as it requires the merging of insights from various research areas. Here we identify relevant studies, and provide an illustration and guidelines for the systematic study of EPS. As a modest thought experiment to illustr...
Ulmanen, J., Å. Gerger Swartling, O. Wallgren. 2015. Climate adaptation in Swedish forestry: Exploring the debate and policy process, 1990-2012. Forests 6: 708–733.
This paper explores how climate change adaptation concerns were integrated into the Swedish forestry debate and policy process during the period of 1990–2012, and draws lessons on barriers and opportunities identified in this process. Using a framework focusing on “advocacy coalitions”, we analyze how the adaptation debate in the forestry sector evolved over the period; who the main advocates for and against adaptation were;...
Tuvendal, M., J. Elmberg. 2015. A handshake between markets and hierarchies: Geese as an example of successful collaborative management of ecosystem services. Sustainability 7: 15937–15954.
An important task in research about natural resource management is to communicate the utility of different approaches from various settings. Using ecosystem services as a conceptual frame, we study a local solution to alleviate goose-human conflicts in an agricultural region in Sweden. Increasing goose numbers and crop damage led to the foundation of a goose management group (GMG), comprising landowners, farmers, hunters, or...
Treml, E.A., P.I.J. Fidelman, S. Kininmonth, J.A. Ekstrom, Ö. Bodin. 2015. Analyzing the (mis)fit between the institutional and ecological networks of the Indo-West Pacific. Global Environmental Change 31: 263–271.
Critical to improving environmental governance is understanding the fit (alignment) between institutional arrangements and key ecological processes. This is particularly true for biodiversity hotpots and ecologically sensitive areas that are subject to significant impacts from human activities. Here, we have developed an innovative approach to quantify ecological-institutional alignment across an environmentally and politicall...
Sutherland, W.J., M. Clout, M. Depledge, L.V. Dicks, J. Dinsdale, A.C. Entwistle, E. Fleishman, D.W. Gibbons, B. Keim, F.A. Lickorish, K.A. Monk, N. Ockendon, L.S. Peck, J. Pretty, J. Rockström, M.D. Spalding, F.H. Tonneijck, B.C. Wintle. 2015. A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2015. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30: 17–24.
This paper presents the results of our sixth annual horizon scan, which aims to identify phenomena that may have substantial effects on the global environment, but are not widely known or well understood. A group of professional horizon scanners, researchers, practitioners, and a journalist identified 15 topics via an iterative, Delphi-like process. The topics include a novel class of insecticide compounds, legalisation of rec...
Sun, A.Y., J. Chen, J. Donges. 2015. Global terrestrial water storage connectivity revealed using complex climate network analyses. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 22: 433–446
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) exerts a key control in global water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles. Although certain causal relationship exists between precipitation and TWS, the latter quantity also reflects impacts of anthropogenic activities. Thus, quantification of the spatial patterns of TWS will not only help to understand feedbacks between climate dynamics and the hydrologic cycle, but also provide new insights a...
Subramaniyam, N.P., J. Hyttinen, J.F. Donges. 2015. Signatures of chaotic and stochastic dynamics uncovered with ε-recurrence networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science 471: 20150349.
An old and important problem in the field of nonlinear time-series analysis entails the distinction between chaotic and stochastic dynamics. Recently, ε-recurrence networks have been proposed as a tool to analyse the structural properties of a time series. In this paper, we propose the applicability of local and global ε-recurrence network measures to distinguish between chaotic and stochastic dynamics using paradigmatic model...
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