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Masterson, V., Tengö, M., Spierenburg, M. 2017.Competing Place Meanings in Complex Landscapes: A Social–Ecological Approach to Unpacking Community Conservation Outcomes on the Wild Coast, South Africa. Society & Natural Resources, Published online: 04 Aug 2017. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2017.1347975
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...
Österblom, H., Jouffray, J.-B., Folke, C., Rockström, J. 2017. Emergence of a global science-business initiative for ocean stewardship. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA.
The ocean is under considerable pressure originating from diverse human activities on land and in the water. While substantial literature has focused on how science interacts with policy, relatively little is known about interactions between science and business. Here, we describe: ( i ) the process of identifying “keystone actors” in marine ecosystems, namely globally operating corporations engaged in fisheries and aquacultu...
Bodin, Ö., Barnes, M.L., McAllister, R.R.J., Rocha, J.C., Guerrero, A. M. 2017. Social–Ecological Network Approaches in Interdisciplinary Research: A Response to Bohan et al. and Dee et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Published online: June 27, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.06.003
In two recent articles, Bohan et al. and Dee et al. develop conceptual arguments for the benefits of applying an interdisciplinary social–ecological network approach to the study of human–nature systems in general, and ecosystem services in particular. We agree. Network approaches can account for the interdependencies between complex human and ecological dynamics that underpin many important environmental problems. As such, th...
Henriksson, P.J.G., M. Dickson, A.N. Allah AN, D. Al-Kenawy, M. Phillips. 2017. Benchmarking the environmental performance of best management practice and genetic improvements in Egyptian aquaculture using life cycle assessment. Aquaculture doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture. 2016.09.051.
Egyptian aquaculture is gaining importance as an affordable and nutritious source of animal protein among Egyptians. Nile tilapia dominates production (77% of total production), followed by carps (17%) and mullets (11%). Egyptian tilapia farmers are, however, facing challenges with regards to financial viability and poor water quality. Fish farms are also contributing towards water pollution and other environmental impacts. In...
Österblom, H., B.I. Crona, C. Folke, M. Nyström, M. Troell. 2017. Marine ecosystem science on an intertwined planet. Ecosystems doi:10.1007/s10021-016-9998-6.
Marine ecosystem science has developed since the 1940s, when humans obtained the ability to spend substantial time underneath the surface of the ocean. Since then, and drawing on several decades of scientific advances, a number of exciting research frontiers have emerged. We find: Understanding interacting drivers of change, Identifying thresholds in ecosystems, and Investigating social-ecological dynamics to represent particu...
Rockström, J., J. Williams, G. Daily, A. Noble, N. Matthews, L. Gordon, H. Wetterstrand, F. DeClerck, M. Shah, P. Steduto, C. de Fraiture, N. Hatibu, O. Unver, J. Bird, L. Sibanda, J. Smith. 2017. Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability. Ambio doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0793-6.
There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now be defined—at all scales—in the context of rapidly rising global environmental changes in the Anthropocene, while focusing on eradic...
Stafford-Smith, M., D. Griggs, O. Gaffney, F. Ullah, B. Reyers, N. Kanie, B. Stigson, P. Shrivastava, M. Leach, D. O’Connell. 2017. Integration: The key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability Science doi:10.1007/s11625-016-0383-3.
On 25 September, 2015, world leaders met at the United Nations in New York, where they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 targets set out an agenda for sustainable development for all nations that embraces economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection. Now, the agenda moves from agreeing the goals to implementing and ultimately achieving them. Across the goals, 42 targets focus ...
Van Holt, T., B. Crona, J.C. Johnson, S. Gelcich. 2017. The consequences of landscape change on fishing strategies. Science of the Total Environment doi.org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.052.
We show how land-use change can affect fisher-harvesting behavior. We test whether fisher harvesting behavior can be predicted by landscape change patterns at local (~ 200 km) and regional (~ 1200 km) levels. Our data suggest that fishers harvesting in areas near tree plantations reduced benthic-invertebrate harvests in favor of demersal and pelagic finfish that are usually located further offshore. Fishers' management areas, ...
Peña, T.S., Watson, J.R., González-Guzmán, L.I. et al. 2017. Step-wise drops in modularity and the fragmentation of exploited marine metapopulations. Landscape Ecol. doi:10.1007/s10980-017-0532-9
Many nearshore species are distributed in habitat patches connected only through larval dispersal. Genetic research has shown some spatial structure of such metapopulations and modeling studies have shed light onto possible patterns of connectivity and barriers. However, little is known about human impact on their spatial structure and patterns of connectivity. We examine the effects of fishing on the spatial and temporal dyna...
Ives, C.D., Giusti, M., Fischer, J. et.al. 2017. Human–nature connection: a multidisciplinary review. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volumes 26–27, June 2017, Pages 106–113
In sustainability science calls are increasing for humanity to (re-)connect with nature, yet no systematic synthesis of the empirical literature on human–nature connection (HNC) exists. We reviewed 475 publications on HNC and found that most research has concentrated on individuals at local scales, often leaving ‘nature’ undefined. Cluster analysis identified three subgroups of publications: first, HNC as mind, dominated by th...
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