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An Empty Donut Hole: the Great Collapse of a North American Fishery
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bailey, Kevin M.; Alaska Fisheries Science Center; Kevin.Bailey@NOAA.gov.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Aleutian Basin; Bering Sea; Commercial fisheries; Conservation; North Pacific; Theragra chalcogramma; Walleye pollock.
Ano: 2011

Global Water Governance in the Context of Global and Multilevel Governance: Its Need, Form, and Challenges
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gupta, Joyeeta; Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam; UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education; J.Gupta@uva.nl.
To complement this Special Feature on global water governance, we focused on a generic challenge at the global level, namely, the degree to which water issues need to be dealt with in a centralized, concentrated, and hierarchical manner. We examined water ecosystem services and their impact on human well-being, the role of policies, indirect and direct drivers in influencing these services, and the administrative level(s) at which the provision of services and potential trade-offs can be dealt with. We applied a politics of scale perspective to understand motivations for defining a problem at the global or local level and show that the multilevel approach to water governance is evolving and inevitable. We argue that a centralized overarching governance...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Global governance; Multilevel governance; Scale; Water governance.
Ano: 2013

Introduction to exploring opportunities for advancing collaborative adaptive management (CAM): integrating experience and practice
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Galat, David L.; Department of Fisheries &amp; Wildlife Sciences, University of Missouri; GalatD@missouri.edu; Berkley, Jim; U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; berkley.jim@epa.gov.
This Special Feature of Ecology and Society seeks to communicate a practitioner&amp;#8217;s perspective on the application of collaborative adaptive management (CAM) to contemporary natural resource management problems. One goal is to create an ongoing mechanism for dialogue that can connect practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. The core 15 papers are grouped into 3 categories that: (1) describe lessons learned through the practice of applying CAM principles to a specific project or generalizing principles from outcomes of a specific project; (2) summarize lessons learned from the author&amp;#8217;s extensive CAM experiences; and (3) seek to be instructive of one or more CAM principles through a survey, evaluation, or comparison of multiple...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Case studies; Collaborative adaptive management; Collaborative Adaptive Management Network; Experiential learning; Lessons learned; Natural resource practitioners; Science-policy dialogue.
Ano: 2014

Public Fisheries
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Eagle, Josh; University of South Carolina School of Law; josh.eagle@yahoo.com; Kuker, Amanda; University of South Carolina School of Law; kuker@mailbox.sc.edu.
There is almost universal agreement that the most effective solution to open-access natural resource problems lies in some form of ownership.  Authors disagree on the secondary question of which ownership form, i.e., private, community, or government, will produce the most efficient or equitable results under particular conditions.  There has been little attention paid to the fact that government ownership, that is, regulation, is certain to produce results that all interested subsets of the public will view as inefficient and inequitable. Dissatisfaction flows inevitably from the requirements and realities of democratic decision-making structures and constraints.  In other words, a democracy puts more emphasis on fair process and the incorporation of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Commons; Fisheries; Fisheries law; Law and policy; United States.
Ano: 2010

The Tribal Perspective of Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests&amp;#8212;Its History
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Yazzie, Victoria; Ecological Restoration Institute; College of Menominee Nation; vyazzie@menominee.edu.
Anyone who has not lived in &amp;#8220;Indian country&amp;#8221; cannot understand just how extensively the United States government and its laws affect Native Americans and their natural resource management. These effects are sobering, and touch upon sensitive issues that all Native Americans hold within us. In this article, I outline the historic cycle of tribal entities, and characterize today&amp;#8217;s tribal self-determination in forest management. I provide an historical account from the &amp;#8220;colonial&amp;#8221; period and its use of the Doctrine of Discovery to the relations between the United States government and Native Americans from the 18th through the 20th centuries, during which time Native Americans struggled to establish their legal...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2007

Past, Present, and Future Old Growth in Frequent-fire Conifer Forests of the Western United States
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Abella, Scott R.; Public Lands Institute and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Scott.Abella@unlv.edu; Covington, W. Wallace; Ecological Restoration Institute; Northern Arizona University School of Forestry; wally.covington@nau.edu; Lentile, Leigh B.; Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho; lentile@uidaho.edu; Morgan, Penelope; Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho; pmorgan@uidaho.edu.
Old growth in the frequent-fire conifer forests of the western United States, such as those containing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi), giant sequoia (Sequioa giganteum) and other species, has undergone major changes since Euro-American settlement. Understanding past changes and anticipating future changes under different potential management scenarios are fundamental to developing ecologically based fuel reduction or ecological restoration treatments. Some of the many changes that have occurred in these forests include shifts from historically frequent surface fire to no fire or to stand-replacing fire regimes, increases in tree density, increased abundance of fire-intolerant trees, decreases in understory productivity,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Ecological restoration; Evolutionary environment; Mixed conifer; Management; Pinus jeffreyi; Pinus ponderosa; Range of variability; Sequoia giganteum.
Ano: 2007

Resilience in Transboundary Water Governance: the Okavango River Basin
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Green, Olivia O.; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; green.olivia@epa.gov; Cosens, Barbara A.; University of Idaho College of Law; bcosens@uidaho.edu; Garmestani, Ahjond S.; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; garmestani.ahjond@epa.gov.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; International water law; Okavango; Resilience; Transboundary water governance; Treaty design.
Ano: 2013

Ecosystem service trade-offs and land use among smallholder farmers in eastern Paraguay
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Grossman, Jake J.; University of Minnesota: Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; gross679@umn.edu.
The trade-off between economically critical provisioning services and environmentally sustaining supporting services often seems absolute. Yet, when land use is inefficient, managers may be able to increase provision of both economically and ecologically sustaining services. To explore such sustainable "win-win" outcomes, I present a model of predicted trade-offs of provisioning and supporting services on smallholder farms in eastern Paraguay. The spatially implicit model simulates smallholder parcels as mosaics of subsistence agriculture, cattle pasture, eucalyptus plantations, and/or natural forest cover, and predicts provisioning and supporting service supply depending on the relative abundance of each land-use type per parcel. I represent provisioning...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Agroforestry; Biodiversity; Cash crops; Efficiency frontier; Eucalyptus; Plantation forestry.
Ano: 2015

Urban Ecology in Cape Town: South African Comparisons and Reflections
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cilliers, Sarel S; North-West University (Potch); Sarel.Cilliers@nwu.ac.za; Siebert, Stefan J; North-West University (Potch); Stefan.Siebert@nwu.ac.za.
Little urban ecological research has been done in South Africa. The papers  in the Ecology and Society special feature  Urban Ecological and Social-Ecological Research in the City of Cape Town make, therefore, an important contribution to the development of urban ecology locally and globally. Different approaches have been used in the study of urban ecology of different urban areas in South Africa. Cape Town is situated in a biodiversity hotspot and is the only South African city which includes a national park. As a result the urban ecological studies were mainly driven by urban nature conservation concerns. In other cities such as Durban, open space planning and environmental management were the major issues which focused ecological studies on urban areas...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Urban ecology; South Africa; Urban nature conservation; Urban environmental management.
Ano: 2012

The Penobscot River, Maine, USA: a Basin-Scale Approach to Balancing Power Generation and Ecosystem Restoration
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Opperman, Jeffrey J; The Nature Conservancy; jopperman@tnc.org; Royte, Joshua; The Nature Conservancy; capse@tnc.org; Banks, John; Penobscot Indian Nation; John.Banks@penobscotnation.org; Rose Day, Laura; Penobscot River Restoration Trust; laura@penobscotriver.org; Apse, Colin; The Nature Conservancy; jroyte@tnc.org.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Atlantic salmon; Dam removal; Hydropower; River restoration.
Ano: 2011

Puntacana Ecological Foundation and the Scaling of Sustainable Tourism Development
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Uzzo, Stephen M.; New York Hall of Science; New York Institute of Technology; suzzo@nyscience.org.
The terms &amp;#8220;sustainable tourism,&amp;#8221; &amp;#8220;ecotourism,&amp;#8221; &amp;#8220;sustainable development,&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;sustainability&amp;#8221; have all been applied to various aspects of the global tourism industry to indicate that operators in those industries have accounted for the environmental, social, and economic impacts of their endeavors on the geographical regions within which they function. However, there has been increasing criticism that models for sustainable tourism do not account well for the long-term impacts of resort operations and how they scale in terms of local and regional economies, environmental footprint, and effect on local culture. The case of the Puntacana Ecological Foundation is cited here as a...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Caribbean; Conservation; Environmental studies; Sustainable development; Sustainable tourism.
Ano: 2013

From Community-Based Resource Management to Complex Systems: The Scale Issue and Marine Commons
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Berkes, Fikret; University of Manitoba; berkes@cc.umanitoba.ca.
Most research in the area of common and common-pool resources in the past two or three decades sought the simplicity of community-based resource management cases to develop theory. This was done mainly because of the relative ease of observing processes of self-governance in simple cases, but it raises questions related to scale. To what extent can the findings of small-scale, community-based commons be scaled up to generalize about regional and global commons? Even though some of the principles from community-based studies are likely to be relevant across scale, new and different principles may also come into play at different levels. The study of cross-level institutions such as institutions of co-management, provides ways to approach scale-related...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Common property theory; Community-based resource management; Complex adaptive systems; Marine commons; Scale.
Ano: 2006

Cumulative Effects Assessment: Linking Social, Ecological, and Governance Dimensions
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Weber, Marian; Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures; marian.weber@albertainnovates.ca; Krogman, Naomi; Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta; naomi.krogman@ualberta.ca; Antoniuk, Terry; Salmo Consulting Inc.; terry@salmoconsult.com.
Setting social, economic, and ecological objectives is ultimately a process of social choice informed by science.  In this special feature we provide a multidisciplinary framework for the use of cumulative effects assessment in land use planning. Forest ecosystems are facing considerable challenges driven by population growth and increasing demands for resources. In a suite of case studies that span the boreal forest of Western Canada to the interior Atlantic forest of Paraguay we show how transparent and defensible methods for scenario analysis can be applied in data-limited regions and how social dimensions of land use change can be incorporated in these methods, particularly in aboriginal communities that have lived in these ecosystems for generations....
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Cumulative effects; Forest ecosystems; Governance; Scenario models; Social indicators.
Ano: 2012

Reconnecting Social and Ecological Resilience in Salmon Ecosystems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bottom, Daniel L.; NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Dan.Bottom@noaa.gov; Jones, Kim K.; Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; kim.jones@oregonstate.edu; Simenstad, Charles A; University of Washington; simenstd@u.washington.edu; Smith, Courtland L; Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University; csmith@oregonstate.edu.
Fishery management programs designed to control Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) for optimum production have failed to prevent widespread fish population decline and have caused greater uncertainty for salmon, their ecosystems, and the people who depend upon them. In this special feature introduction, we explore several key attributes of ecosystem resilience that have been overlooked by traditional salmon management approaches. The dynamics of salmon ecosystems involve social&amp;#8211;ecological interactions across multiple scales that create difficult mismatches with the many jurisdictions that manage fisheries and other natural resources. Of particular importance to ecosystem resilience are large-scale shifts in oceanic and climatic regimes or in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Fishery management; Pacific Northwest; Pacific salmon; Resilience; Salmon ecosystem.
Ano: 2009

Monitoring Old Growth in Frequent-fire Landscapes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fiedler, Carl E.; College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana; carl.fiedler@umontana.edu; Friederici, Peter; School of Communication, Northern Arizona University; peter.friederici@nau.edu; Petruncio, Mark; Forestry Program, Yakama Nation; petruncio@yakama.com.
In this article, we discuss how to monitor the structural and functional attributes of old growth, as well as its associated plant communities and wildlife, both to determine the possible need for treatment and to assess post-treatment progress toward desired conditions. Monitoring can be used to detect conditions (or agents) that threaten existing old growth and also to document indicators of healthy, functioning old-growth systems.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Disturbance agents; Monitoring; Physiological/functional indicators; Risk assessment; Structural indicators.
Ano: 2007

Considering Background Condition Effects in Tailoring Tropical Forest Management Systems for Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hammond, David S; NWFS Consulting; dhammond@nwfs.biz; Zagt, Roderick J; Tropenbos International; Roderick.Zagt@tropenbos.org.
Systems devised for managing tropical forests sustainably have yet to prove successful. In many instances, they have fallen short of initial prospects, but the reasons for these shortfalls are often not apparent. Here, we explore factors that can shape the likelihood of success, collectively referred to as background conditions, which are not always adequately considered prior to selecting a suitable management system. We examine the ability of one background condition, geologic terrane, to explain crude spatial variation in a number of trailing indicators of varying forest land use. Forest areas on Precambrian and Phanerozoic terranes show significant differences in production of fossil hydrocarbons, gold, and tropical roundwood, among other indicators,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Enabling conditions; Tropical forest management; Geologic terrane; Climate; Sustainable development.
Ano: 2006

Agricultural Abandonment, Suburban Growth, and Forest Expansion in Puerto Rico between 1991 and 2000
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gould, William A; International Institute of Tropical Forestry - USDA Forest Service; wgould@fs.fed.us; Aide, T. Mitchell; University of Puerto Rico; tmaide@yahoo.com.
The response of local economies to the globalization process can have a large effect on population and land-use dynamics. In countries with a high population density and relatively high levels of education, the globalization process has resulted in a shift in the local economy from agriculture to manufacturing, technology, and service sectors. This shift in the economy has impacted land-use dynamics by decreasing agricultural lands, increasing urban growth, and in some cases, increasing forest cover. This process of economic and forest transition has been well documented in Puerto Rico for the period 1950 to 1990, but some authors predicted that poor planning and continued urban growth would eliminate the gains in forest cover. To investigate the impacts...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Agriculture decline; Forest expansion; Forest transition; Globalization; Land use-cover change; Suburban population growth; Puerto Rico.
Ano: 2008

Sharing as risk pooling in a social dilemma experiment
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cherry, Todd L.; Appalachian State University; Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO); cherrytl@appstate.edu; Howe, E. Lance; University of Alaska Anchorage; elhowe@uaa.alaska.edu; Murphy, James J.; University of Alaska Anchorage; Nankai University; Chapman University; murphy@uaa.alaska.edu.
In rural economies with missing or incomplete markets, idiosyncratic risk is frequently pooled through informal networks. Idiosyncratic shocks, however, are not limited to private goods but can also restrict an individual from partaking in or benefiting from a collective activity. In these situations, a group must decide whether to provide insurance to the affected member. We describe results of a laboratory experiment designed to test whether a simple sharing institution can sustain risk pooling in a social dilemma with idiosyncratic risk. We tested whether risk could be pooled without a commitment device and, separately, whether effective risk pooling induced greater cooperation in the social dilemma. We found that even in the absence of a commitment...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Collective action; Experimental economics; Idiosyncratic risk; Income smoothing; Insurance; Lab experiment; Public goods; Resource sharing; Risk pooling; Social dilemma; Social-ecological systems; Team production.
Ano: 2015

A boundary-spanning organization for transdisciplinary science on land stewardship: The Stewardship Network
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fischer, A. Paige; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; apfisch@umich.edu.
Although people and organizations in the Great Lakes region, USA take seriously their role as stewards of natural resources, many lack capacity to fulfill that role in a meaningful way. Stepping into that gap, The Stewardship Network (TSN) envisions &amp;#8220;a world of empowered, connected communities caring for land and water, now and forever,&amp;#8221; and fulfills that vision through its mission to &amp;#8220;connect, equip, and mobilize people and organizations to care for land and water in their communities.&amp;#8221; TSN uses a scalable model of linked local and regional capacity building, science communication, civic engagement, and on-the-ground stewardship activities to achieve these goals. The model engages local and regional groups in an...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Great Lakes; Restoration; Social learning; Stewardship.
Ano: 2015

Of Fish and Fishermen: Shifting Societal Baselines to Reduce Environmental Harm in Fisheries
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lam, Mimi E; University of British Columbia, Fisheries Centre, Policy and Ecosystem Restoration in Fisheries; University of New Mexico, Department of Biology; mimibethlam@gmail.com.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Collaborative fisheries governance; Common heritage of mankind principle; Conservation; Disincentives to overcapitalize and overfish; Ecological damage; Environmental ethics; Environmental protection; Fishing harm; Harm principle; Law of nuisance; Marine stewardship; Precautionary principle; Public trust doctrine; Sustainable fisheries.
Ano: 2012

The relationship between ecological restoration and the ecosystem services concept
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Alexander, Sasha; University of Western Australia; sashaalexander108@gmail.com; Aronson, James; Restoration Ecology Group, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS-UMR 5175); Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden; ja42014@gmail.com; Whaley, Oliver; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; o.whaley@kew.org; Lamb, David; School of Agriculture and Food Science, The University of Queensland; david.lamb@uq.edu.au.
Ecological restoration and the mainstreaming of the concept of ecosystem services will be critical if global society is to move toward sustainability. Conference of the Parties 21 (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and COP12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity should help foster support for vastly increased investment in the better management and restoration of natural capital. Large-scale restoration demonstrably improves ecological functioning to sustain both biodiversity and human well-being. However, much progress is needed to improve the effectiveness and cost efficiency of any restoration. The ecosystem services concept provides a framework for identifying the types of restorative interventions needed to target...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Climate change; Ecosystem services; Land degradation; Land use; Large-scale ecological restoration; Restoring natural capital  rural communities  sustainable development.
Ano: 2016

Policymakers&amp;#8217; Reflections on Water Governance Issues
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gupta, Joyeeta; ; j.gupta@uva.nl; Akhmouch, Aziza; ;; Cosgrove, William ; ;; Hurwitz, Zachary ; ;; Maestu, Josefina ; ;.
The two cultures theory argues that policy makers and scientists have different cultures and difficulty in communicating with each other. Others argue that there is increasing co-production of knowledge. This essay aims to assess the concerns of policy makers based on our policy work, policy-related research work, and our day-to-day experiences in terms of three questions: What are the perceived major issues for water governance? What are the major challenges in the structure of the existing global water governance approach? What is the vision for improving global water governance? This essay combines views from governmental, hybrid, inter- and non-governmental policy makers. It argues that water covers so many issues, aspects, and sectors that a key...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Coordination mechanism; Drivers; Global governance; Global water governance; Outside water box; World water scenarios.
Ano: 2013

The Role of Old-growth Forests in Frequent-fire Landscapes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Binkley, Daniel; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute; Binkley@WarnerCNR.colostate.edu; Sisk, Tom; Northern Arizona University, Environmental Sciences; ForestERA; Thomas.Sisk@nau.edu; Chambers, Carol; Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry; Carol.Chambers@nau.edu; Springer, Judy; Ecological Restoration Institute; judith.springer@nau.edu; Block, William; U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station; wblock@fs.fed.us.
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy ecosystem. Patches of old growth interspersed with younger growth and open, grassy areas provide a wide variety of habitats for animals, and have a higher level of biodiversity. Fire suppression is detrimental to these forests, and eventually destroys all old growth. The reintroduction of fire into degraded frequent-fire, old-growth forests, accompanied by appropriate thinning, can restore a balance to these ecosystems. Several areas require further research and study: 1) the ability...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Ecological processes; Evolutionary adaptations; Historic range of variation (HRV); Human values; Knowledge gaps; Resilience; Understory vegetation.
Ano: 2007

After the Cap: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Disaster Recovery
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: McCormick, Sabrina; George Washington University; sabmc@gwu.edu.
I used the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to examine how crowdsourcing is used as a new form of citizen science that provides real time assessments of health-related exposures. Assessing risks of an oil spill, or disasters more generally, is a challenge complicated by the situated nature of knowledge-generation that results in differential perceptions and responses. These processes are critical in the case of the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf Coast since the identification of risks promises to have ramifications for multiple social actors, as well as the health status and long-term resilience of communities in the area. Qualitative interviews, ethnographic observations, and video data were collected with local social movement organizations,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Deepwater Horizon; Citizen science; Health; Oil spill.
Ano: 2012

Defining Old Growth for Fire-adapted Forests of the Western United States
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Kaufmann, Merrill R.; U.S. Forest Service (retired); mkaufmann@fs.fed.us; Binkley, Daniel; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute; dan@cnr.colostate.edu; Johnson, Marlin; U.S. Forest Service, Southwest Region; majohnson02@fs.fed.us; Stephens, Scott L.; University of California Berkeley; stephens@nature.berkeley.edu; Swetnam, Thomas W.; Lab of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona; tswetnam@ltrr.arizona.edu.
There are varying definitions of old-growth forests because of differences in environment and differing fire influence across the Intermountain West. Two general types of forests reflect the role of fire: 1) forests shaped by natural changes in structure and species makeup&amp;#8212;plant succession&amp;#8212;that are driven by competitive differences among species and individual trees and by small-scale disturbances, and 2) forests where plant succession processes are disrupted by major biological disturbances (fire, insects, wind, or drought) extending across larger areas. Some case examples of old-growth forests where fire was historically frequent are used. The examples sketch out the typical biophysical settings, fire regime, natural disturbance...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Fire-adapted forests; Fire frequency; Fire intensity; Fire interval; Fire severity; Old-growth forests; Old-growth landscapes; Old-growth patches; Old-growth stands.
Ano: 2007

How does social support enhance resilience in the trauma-exposed individual?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Sippel, Lauren M.; National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Clinical Neurosciences Division, VA Connecticut Healthcare System; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; lauren.sippel@yale.edu; Pietrzak, Robert H.; National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Clinical Neurosciences Division, VA Connecticut Healthcare System; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; rhpietrzak@gmail.com; Charney, Dennis S,; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; dennis.charney@mssm.edu; Mayes, Linda C.; Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine; linda.mayes@yale.edu; Southwick, Steven M.; National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Clinical Neurosciences Division, VA Connecticut Healthcare System; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; steven.southwick@yale.edu.
Although most resilience science has focused on individual-level psychosocial factors that promote individual resilience, theorists and researchers have begun to examine neurobiological and systems-level factors implicated in resilience. In this commentary we argue that the development of effective interventions to enhance resilience necessitates understanding that resilience in the individual is dependent on multiple layers of society. Further, we suggest that there is a bidirectional relationship between systems-level resilience (i.e., resilience of romantic partners, family members, neighborhoods, and larger social contexts) and individual resilience. We suggest directions for future research and interventions, with the goal of stimulating research...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Individual resilience; Neurobiology; Social support; Systems resilience.
Ano: 2015

Could Payments for Ecosystem Services Create an "Ecosystem Service Curse"?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Kronenberg, Jakub; Department of International Economics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz; kronenbe@uni.lodz.pl; Hubacek, Klaus; Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park; Hubacek@umd.edu.
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have received much praise and are increasingly perceived as a promising tool to ensure the protection of global ecosystems as well as being able to help alleviate poverty in areas rich in ecosystem services. Given current trends, the scale of payments is likely to grow, creating new circumstances within which ecosystem services will be managed. In this dynamic context, following a precautionary approach, one should focus on establishing systems to handle the risks involved. Based on an analogy to resources that have long been included in the system of market transactions, we suggest that the rapid development of PES can negatively influence regional and potentially national economies. Resource revenues are highly...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Aid curse; Ecosystem services; Global PES; Payments for ecosystem services; PES; Resource curse.
Ano: 2013

Sprawl and the Resilience of Humans and Nature:  an Introduction to the Special Feature
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Allen, Craig R.; USGS - Nebraska Cooperative Fish &amp; Wildlife Unit, University of Nebraska; allencr@unl.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2006

Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Barthel, Stephan; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Department of History, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; stephan.barthel@historia.su.se; Crumley, Carole L.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden; crumley@live.unc.edu; Svedin, Uno; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden ; uno.svedin@gmail.com.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Biocultural refugia; Diversity; Ecosystem restoration; Resilience; Small holders; Stewardship.
Ano: 2013

A matter of ephemerality: the study of Kel Tadrart Tuareg (southwest Libya) campsites via quantitative spatial analysis
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Biagetti, Stefano; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics group; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities; School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand; stefano.biagetti@upf.edu; Crema, Enrico R.; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics group; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities; UCL Institute of Archaeology; enrico.crema@upf.edu.
We examined the settlement structure from the Kel Tadrart Tuareg, a small pastoral society from southwest Libya. Our objective was to apply spatial analysis to establish the statistical significance of specific patterns in the settlement layout. In particular, we examined whether there is a separation between domestic and livestock spaces, and whether particular residential features dedicated to guests are spatially isolated. We used both established statistical techniques and newly developed bespoke analyses to test our hypotheses, and then discuss the results in the light of possible applications to other case studies.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Campsites; Kel Tadrart Tuareg; Settlement layout; Spatial analysis.
Ano: 2016

Book Review: Goldstein, B. E.  2012. Collaborative Resilience: Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Schultz, Lisen; Stockholm Resilience Centre and Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University; lisen.schultz@stockholmresilience.su.se.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2012

Scale mismatches and reflexive law
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cumming, Graeme S.; University of Cape Town, South Africa; graeme.cumming@uct.ac.za.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Democracy; Institution; Law; Reflexivity; Scale.
Ano: 2013

Revolt and Remember: How the Shimshal Nature Trust Develops and Sustains Social-Ecological Resilience in Northern Pakistan
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Abidi-Habib, Mehjabeen; Government College University Lahore; mamie@wol.net.pk; Lawrence, Anna; Oxford University; anna.lawrence@eci.ox.ac.uk.
The Shimshal Nature Trust is an indigenous institution rooted in a thriving and dynamic culture that links the local ecology and society. It has deployed identity, traditional knowledge, science, and institutional innovation to adapt to outside challenges without destroying local commons management. This paper reviews scholarly debate on natural resource management and uses resilience theory to examine this complex adaptive system. Two disturbances to Shimshal resilience prompted by a national park and a new road are traced. Shimshali responses include social processes of learning, knowledge systems, and renewal. Ways in which adaptive renewal cycles involve Revolt, a short, fast reaction, and Remember, a larger, slower cascade, are put in perspective....
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Pakistan; Indigenous institution; Local commons management; Ecological resilience; Complex adaptive systems; Social learning; Renewal; National park; New road; Community participation.
Ano: 2007

Lessons Learned from the First Decade of Adaptive Management in Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: LoSchiavo, Andrew J.; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; andrew.j.loschiavo@usace.army.mil; Best, Ronnie G.; United States Geological Survey; Ronnie_Best@usgs.gov; Burns, Rebecca E.; Atkins Global - North America; Rebecca.Burns@atkinsglobal.com; Gray, Susan; South Florida Water Management District; sgray@sfwmd.gov; Harwell, Matthew C.; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Harwell.Matthew@epamail.epa.gov; Hines, Eliza B.; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Eliza_Hines@fws.gov; McLean, Agnes R.; Everglades National Park ; Agnes_McLean@nps.gov; St. Clair, Tom; RESPEC; Tom.stclair@respec.com; Traxler, Steve; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Steve_Traxler@fws.gov; Vearil, James W.; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; James.W.Vearil@usace.army.mil.
Although few successful examples of large-scale adaptive management applications are available to ecosystem restoration scientists and managers, examining where and how the components of an adaptive management program have been successfully implemented yields insight into what approaches have and have not worked. We document five key lessons learned during the decade-long development and implementation of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) Collaborative Adaptive Management Program that might be useful to other adaptive management practitioners. First, legislative and regulatory authorities that require the development of an adaptive management program are necessary to maintain funding and support to set up and implement adaptive...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision-making; Everglades; Monitoring; Restoration.
Ano: 2013

Intelligent Tinkering: the Endangered Species Act and Resilience
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Benson, Melinda Harm; University of New Mexico; mhbenson@unm.edu.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most powerful and controversial environmental laws in the United States.  As a result of its uncompromising position against biodiversity loss, the ESA has become the primary driver of many ecological restoration efforts in the United States. This article explains why the ESA has become the impetus for so many of these efforts and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the ESA as a primary driver from a resilience-based perspective.  It argues that in order to accommodate resilience theory, several changes to ESA implementation and enforcement should be made. First and foremost, there is a need to shift management strategies from a species-centered to a systems-based approach. Chief among the shifts required...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Endangered Species Act; Governance; Resilience; Social-ecological systems.
Ano: 2012

An Update on the Scholarly Networks on Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptation within the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Janssen, Marco A; Arizona State University; Marco.Janssen@asu.edu.
In Janssen et al. (2006), we presented a bibliometric analysis of the resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation knowledge domains within the research activities on human dimensions of global environmental change. We have updated the analysis because 2 years have gone by since the original analysis, and 1113 more publications can now be added to the database. We analyzed how the resulting 3399 publications between 1967 and 2007 are related in terms of co-authorship and citations.  The rapid increase in the number of publications in the three knowledge domains continued over the last 2 years, and we still see an overlap between the knowledge domains. We were also able to identify the &amp;#8220;hot&amp;#8221; publications of the last 2 years.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Bibliometric analysis; Citations; Resilience; Vulnerability.
Ano: 2007

Tourism and climate conditions in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000-2010
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Terrasa-Soler, Jose J.; Planning and Development Office, Puerto Rico Tourism Company; jterrasa@me.com; Seguinot, Tatiana; University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, Graduate School of Public Health ; tatiana.seguinot@upr.edu.
The general behavior of the tourism sector in Puerto Rico, with its marked seasonality, hints at a close relationship between tourism activities and climate conditions. Even if weather condition is only one of many variables considered by travelling tourists, climate conditions weigh heavily in the majority of the decisions. The effect of climate variability on the environment could be manifested in warmer temperature, heat waves, and changes in the frequency of extreme weather events, such as severe storms and hurricanes, floods, and sea level rise. These conditions affect different sectors of society, among them public health and the economy. Therefore, our research has two main objectives: to establish a tourism climate index (TCI) for Puerto Rico and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Climate variability; Puerto Rico; Tourism; Tourism climate index.
Ano: 2014

Impacts of Climate Variability on Latin American Small-scale Fisheries
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Defeo, Omar; UNDECIMAR, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay; DINARA, Montevideo, Uruguay; odefeo@dinara.gub.uy; Ortega, Leonardo; DINARA, Montevideo, Uruguay; leogortega@gmail.com; Kuhn, Angela M.; Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ; angela.kuhn@gmail.com.
Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) are social-ecological systems that play a critical role in terms of food security and poverty alleviation in Latin America. These fisheries are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic and climatic drivers acting at multiple scales. We review the effects of climate variability on Latin American SSFs, and discuss the combined effects of two additional human drivers: globalization of markets and governance. We show drastic long-term and large-scale effects of climate variability, e.g., sea surface temperature anomalies, wind intensity, sea level, and climatic indices, on SSFs. These variables, acting in concert with economic drivers, have exacerbated stock depletion rates in Latin American SSFs. The impact of these drivers varied...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2013

EU Water Governance: Striking the Right Balance between Regulatory Flexibility and Enforcement?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Green, Olivia O; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; green.olivia@epa.gov; Garmestani, Ahjond S.; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; garmestani.ahjond@epa.gov; van Rijswick, Helena F. M. W.; Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, Utrecht University; H.vanRijswick@law.uu.nl; Keessen, Andrea M.; Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, Utrecht University; a.m.keessen@uu.nl.
Considering the challenges and threats currently facing water management and the exacerbation of uncertainty by climate change, the need for flexible yet robust and legitimate environmental regulation is evident. The European Union took a novel approach toward sustainable water resource management with the passage of the EU Water Framework Directive in 2000. The Directive promotes sustainable water use through long-term protection of available water resources, progressively reduces discharges of hazardous substances in ground and surface waters, and mitigates the effects of floods and droughts. The lofty goal of achieving good status of all waters requires strong adaptive capacity, given the large amounts of uncertainty in water management.  Striking the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Environmental law; European Union; Resilience; Water Framework Directive.
Ano: 2013

Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Olsson, Per; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; per.olsson@stockholmresilience.su.se; Galaz, Victor; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; victor.galaz@stockholmresilience.su.se; Boonstra, Wiebren J; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; wijnand.boonstra@stockholmresilience.su.se.
Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger focus on social-ecological systems, can contribute to existing studies of sustainability transformations. First, we responded to two major points of critique: the claim that resilience theory is not useful for addressing sustainability transformations, and that the role of &amp;#8220;power&amp;#8221; in transformation processes has been underplayed by resilience scholars. Second, we highlighted promising work that combines insights from different theoretical strands, a strategy that strengthens our understanding of sustainability transformations. We elaborated three research...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Agency; Innovation; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability transformation.
Ano: 2014

Navigating Trade-Offs: Working for Conservation and Development Outcomes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Campbell, Bruce M; CGIAR Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS); brca@life.ku.dk; Sayer, Jeffrey A; IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature ; jeff.sayer@iucn.org; Walker, Brian; CSIRO - Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization ; Brian.Walker@csiro.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Governance; ICDP; Institutions; Integrated conservation and development; Land-use planning; Local knowledge; Participatory modeling; Participatory research; Resilience perspective.
Ano: 2010

Managing for Old Growth in Frequent-fire Landscapes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fiedler, Carl E.; College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana; carl.fiedler@umontana.edu; Friederici, Peter; School of Communication, Northern Arizona University; peter.friederici@nau.edu; Petruncio, Mark; Forestry Program, Yakama Nation; petruncio@yakama.com; Denton, Charles; Ecological Restoration Institute; Charles.Denton@nau.edu; Hacker, W. David; Forestry Department, New Mexico Highlands University; david_hacker@nmhu.edu.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to managing frequent-fire, old-growth forests. However, there are general guidelines to follow: 1) set objectives for both structure (tree density, diameter distribution, tree species composition, spatial arrangement, amount of coarse woody debris) and function (nutrient cycling, desired tree species regeneration); 2) prioritize treatments according to ecological, economic, and social needs and risks; 3) identify the potential treatments (natural fire, prescribed fire, silvicultural cutting) that best meet the objectives and scale of the project; and 4) implement the treatment(s). We discuss each of these guidelines in this article.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Fire; Forest management; Function; Silvicultural treatments; Structure; Thinning.
Ano: 2007

Collaborative Adaptive Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Scarlett, Lynn; Resources for the Future; lynnscarlett@comcast.net.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaboration; Collaborative adaptive management; Conservation; Science and decision making.
Ano: 2013

Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Regulation? Evidence on Oil Spill Prevention
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Frynas, Jedrzej G; Middlesex University Business School; g.frynas@mdx.ac.uk.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Corporate Social Responsibility; Oil spill prevention; Oil spills; Petroleum; Regulation; Voluntary regulation.
Ano: 2012

Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hargrove, Eugene C; University of North Texas; hargrove@unt.edu; Arroyo, Mary T. K.; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; southern@uchile.cl; Raven, Peter H; Missouri Botanical Garden; peter.raven@mobot.org; Mooney, Harold; Stanford University; hmooney@stanford.edu.
The biocultural conservation and research initiative of Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve was born in a remote part of South America and has rapidly expanded to attain regional, national, and international relevance. The park and the biosphere reserve, led by Ricardo Rozzi and his team, have made significant progress in demonstrating the way academic research supports local cultures, social processes, decision making, and conservation. It is a dynamic hive of investigators, artists, writers, students, volunteers, and friends, all exploring ways to better integrate academia and society. The initiative involves an informal consortium of institutions and organizations; in Chile, these include the University of Magallanes,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity conservation; Sustainable development; Environmental ethics; Philosophy; Chile; Cape Horn.
Ano: 2008

Assessing Ecological Risks at the Landscape Scale: Opportunities and Technical Limitations
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Kapustka, Lawrence A; ecological planning and toxicology, inc.; Larry_Kapustka@golder.com.
There is a growing awareness that ecological risk assessments (ERAs) could be improved if they made better use of ecological information. In particular, landscape features that determine the quality of wildlife habitat can have a profound influence on the estimated exposure to stressors incurred by animals when they occupy a particular area. Various approaches to characterizing the quality of habitat for a given species have existed for some time. These approaches fall into three generalized categories: (1) entirely qualitative as in suitable or unsuitable, (2) semiquantitative as in formalized habitat suitability index models, or (3) highly quantitative site-specific characterization of population demographic data such as matrix population models or...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Landscape ecology; Wildlife habitat characterization; Habitat suitability index models; Ecological risk assessments.
Ano: 2005

Evaluating Safeguards in a Conservation Incentive Program: Participation, Consent, and Benefit Sharing in Indigenous Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Krause, Torsten; Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability; torsten.krause@lucid.lu.se; Collen, Wain; International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics; awcollen@gmail.com; Nicholas, Kimberly A.; Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies; kimberly.nicholas.academic@gmail.com.
Critics suggest that Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) may not generate improvements in well-being for participating stakeholders, and may in fact undermine indigenous rights. To ensure positive social benefits from REDD+ projects, the United Nations REDD Programme has proposed core safeguards, including local stakeholder participation; free, prior, and informed consent; and equitable distribution of benefits. However, there is little experience to date in implementing and evaluating these safeguards. We apply these core safeguards as a framework to study how people in indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon perceive and benefit from Programa Socio Bosque, a conservation incentive program in Ecuador&amp;#8217;s...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Benefit distribution; Deforestation; Ecuador; Forest governance; Payment for Ecosystem Services; Programa Socio Bosque; REDD+; Safeguards.
Ano: 2013

Editorial on Global Water Governance
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gupta, Joyeeta; Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies,  Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research,  University of Amsterdam; UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft ; j.gupta@uva.nl; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; University of Osnabrueck, Germany; pahl@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Governance processes; Governance scenarios; Water ethics; Water governance; Water law.
Ano: 2013

The notion of sewage as waste: a study of infrastructure change and institutional inertia in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Vancouver, Canada
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Merlinsky, Maria G.; University of Buenos Aires; merlinsk@retina.ar; LaValle, Alicia; University of British Columbia; av_lavalle@yahoo.com; Morales, Margaret; University of British Columbia; margaret.c.morales@gmail.com; Tobias, Melina M.; University of Buenos Aires; melina.tobias@gmail.com.
The need for a radical shift to more iterative and adaptive solutions in sewage management is increasingly recognized, but our ability to achieve such a shift is constrained by inertia to change. Here, we describe planning in two metropolitan areas that are upgrading their sewage systems, based on interviews with central actors and official documents. Using new institutionalism and concentrating on changes in normative, regulative, and cognitive patterns, we analyze if obstacles to the uptake of innovations can be understood in light of how these patterns counteract institutional change. Our aim is to understand obstacles to reformers implementing a wider vision of sewage management. Our study suggests that even though both Buenos Aires and Vancouver...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Inertia to change; Sewage management; Waste vs. resource; Wastewater; Water management.
Ano: 2014

Introduction to Special Feature on Catastrophic Thresholds, Perspectives, Definitions, and Applications
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Washington-Allen, Robert A; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&amp;M University; washington-allen@tamu.edu; Briske, David D.; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&amp;M University; dbriske@tamu.edu; Shugart, Herman H.; W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences &amp; Director, Center for Regional Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; hhs@virginia.edu; Salo, Lucinda F.; Sage Ecosystem Science; csalo11@hotmail.com.
The contributions to this special feature focus on several conceptual and operational applications for understanding non-linear behavior of complex systems with various ecological criteria at unique levels of organization. The organizing theme of the feature emphasizes alternative stable states or regimes and intervening thresholds that possess great relevance to ecology and natural resource management. The authors within this special feature address the conceptual models of catastrophe theory, self-organization, cross-scale interactions and time-scale calculus; develop operational definitions and procedures for understanding the occurrence of dynamic regimes or multiple stable states and thresholds; suggest diagnostics tools for detection of states and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Catastrophe theory; Complex systems science; Dynamical systems analysis; Ecological resilience; Non-equilibrium ecology; Self-organization; Thresholds; Time-scale calculus.
Ano: 2010

Transformational change: creating a safe operating space for humanity
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: McAlpine, Clive A.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; c.mcalpine@uq.edu.au; Seabrook, Leonie M.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; l.seabrook@uq.edu.au; Ryan, Justin G.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; justin.ryan@uq.edu.au; Feeney, Brian J.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; bjfeeney@gmail.com; Ripple, William J.; Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; bill.ripple@oregonstate.edu; Ehrlich, Anne H.; Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; aehrlich@stanford.edu; Ehrlich, Paul R.; Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; pre@stanford.edu.
Many ecologists and environmental scientists witnessing the scale of current environmental change are becoming increasingly alarmed about how humanity is pushing the boundaries of the Earth&amp;#8217;s systems beyond sustainable levels. The world urgently needs global society to redirect itself toward a more sustainable future: one that moves intergenerational equity and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda, and to the core of personal and societal belief systems. Scientific and technological innovations are not enough: the global community, individuals, civil society, corporations, and governments, need to adjust their values and beliefs to one in which  sustainability becomes the new global paradigm society. We argue that the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Behavioral change; Connectedness; Innovative leadership; Societal values; Transformational change; Transition management.
Ano: 2015

Managing Surprises in Complex Systems: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Resilience
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Longstaff, P. H.; Syracuse University; phlongst@syr.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Resilience.
Ano: 2009

The Energy&amp;#8211;Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hussey, Karen; Senior Lecturer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University; karen.hussey@anu.edu.au.
Water and energy are each recognized as indispensable inputs to modern economies. And, in recent years, driven by the three imperatives of security of supply, sustainability, and economic efficiency, the energy and water sectors have undergone rapid reform. However, it is when water and energy rely on each other  that the most complex challenges are posed for policymakers. Despite the links and the urgency in both sectors for security of supply, in existing policy frameworks, energy and water policies are developed largely in isolation from one another&amp;#8212;a degree of policy fragmentation that is seeing erroneous developments in both sectors. Examples of the trade-offs between energy and water security include: the proliferation of desalination...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Energy policy; Energy&amp;#8211; Water nexus; Integrated planning; Policy integration; Water policy.
Ano: 2012

Priming the Governance System for Climate Change Adaptation: The Application of a Social-Ecological Inventory to Engage Actors in Niagara, Canada
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Baird, Julia; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; jbaird@brocku.ca; Plummer, Ryan; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; Stockholm Resilience Centre; ryan.plummer@brocku.ca; Pickering, Kerrie; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; kpickering@brocku.ca.
Climate change adaptation presents a challenge to current top-down governance structures, including the tension between provision of public goods and actions required by diverse stakeholders, including private actors. Alternative governance approaches that facilitate participation and learning across scales are gaining attention for their ability to bring together diverse actors across sectors and to foster adaptive capacity and resilience. We have described the method and outcomes from the application of a social-ecological inventory to &amp;#8220;prime,&amp;#8221; i.e., hasten the development of, a regional climate change adaptation network. The social-ecological inventory tool draws on the social-ecological systems approach in which social and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Climate change adaptation; Local knowledge; Social-ecological system.
Ano: 2014

Living among Frequent-fire Forests: Human History and Cultural Perspectives
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Murphy, Alexandra; ; smurphy@gmavt.net; Abrams, Jesse; Ecological Restoration Institute; jesse.abrams@nau.edu; Daniel, Terry; Department of Psychology, University of Arizona; tdaniel@u.arizona.edu; Yazzie, Victoria; College of Menominee Nation;.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2007

Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Andersson, Erik; Stockholm University; erik.andersson@ecology.su.se.
Ecological research targeting sustainable urban landscapes needs to include findings and methods from many lines of ecological research, such as the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function, the role of humans in ecosystems, landscape connectivity, and resilience. This paper reviews and highlights the importance of these issues for sustainable use of ecosystem services, which is argued to be one aspect of sustainable cities. The paper stresses the need to include social and economic factors when analyzing urban landscapes. Spatially explicit data can be used to assess the roles different green areas have in providing people with ecosystem services, and whether people actually have access to the services. Such data can also be used to assess...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem function; Landscape scale; Sustainable development; Urban ecology.
Ano: 2006

Achieving ecological restoration by working with local people: a Chinese scholar seeks win-win paths
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Zheng, Heran; College of Economic Management, Beijing Forestry University; zhengheran@foxmail.com; Wang, Guosheng; China Law Society; gshwang@126.com.
Environmental degradation and poverty are linked, and this means that conservation and poverty reduction must be tackled together. However, finding a successful integrated strategy has been an elusive goal. We describe the career of a Chinese scholar, Shixiong Cao, whose persistent efforts to find and follow win-win paths have led to ecological restoration accompanied by long-term benefits for local residents. Cao&amp;#8217;s story illustrates how development that combines environmental and economic perspectives can both help people to escape the poverty trap and restore degraded environments. His experience demonstrates that when environmental managers find solutions that can mitigate or eliminate poverty through the development of green enterprises, they...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Environmental conservation; Environmental policy; Poverty trap; Scientific philosophy; Socioeconomic development.
Ano: 2014

Science for the Poor: How One Woman Challenged Researchers, Ranchers, and Loggers in Amazonia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Shanley, Patricia; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); p.shanley@cgiar.org.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Communication; Forestry; Impact; Nontimber forest products (NTFPs); Poverty; Social change; Women.
Ano: 2006

Sustaining Europe&amp;#8217;s seas as coupled social-ecological systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Mee, Laurence; ;; Cooper, Philip; University of Bath; p.cooper@bath.ac.uk; Kannen, Andreas; Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Department Human Dimensions in Coastal Areas; Andreas.Kannen@hzg.de; Gilbert, Alison J; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam; alison.gilbert@vu.nl.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem approach; Marine Strategy Framework Directive; Regional seas; Social-ecological systems.
Ano: 2015

Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: von Korff, Yorck; Lisode; Cemagref / Irstea UMR G-EAU; yorck.von-korff@lisode.com; Daniell, Katherine A; The Australian National University; Cemagref / Irstea UMR G-EAU; k.a.daniell@gmail.com; Moellenkamp, Sabine; University of Osnabrueck; sabine.moellenkamp@gmx.de; Bots, Pieter; Delft University of Technology; p.w.g.bots@tudelft.nl; Bijlsma, Rianne M; University of Twente; Deltares; r.m.bredenhoff@gmail.com.
Many current water planning and management problems are riddled with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and conflict, so-called &amp;#8220;messes&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;wicked problems.&amp;#8221; The realization that there is a need to consider a wide variety of values, knowledge, and perspectives in a collaborative decision making process has led to a multitude of new methods and processes being proposed to aid water planning and management, which include participatory forms of modeling, planning, and decision aiding processes. However, despite extensive scientific discussions, scholars have largely been unable to provide satisfactory responses to two pivotal questions: (1) What are the benefits of using participatory approaches?; (2) How exactly...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative decision making; Evaluation; Interactive planning; Participatory modeling; Participatory research; Process design; Public participation; Social learning; Stakeholder participation; Water resources management.
Ano: 2012

Fifteen Weddings and a Funeral: Case Studies and Resilience-based Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Anderies, John M; Arizona State University; m.anderies@asu.edu; Walker, Brian H; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems; Brian.Walker@csiro.au; Kinzig, Ann P; Arizona State University; Ann.Kinzig@asu.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Resource management.
Ano: 2006

Opportunities and challenges for multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Moller, Henrik; Centre for Sustainability (CSAFE), University of Otago, New Zealand; ecosyst@ihug.co.nz; Noe, Egon; Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark; egon.noe@agro.au.dk.
The focus of the Special Feature on &amp;#8220;Multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability&amp;#8221; is on the complex challenges of making and communicating overall assessments of food systems sustainability based on multiple and varied criteria. Four papers concern the choice and development of appropriate tools for making multicriteria sustainability assessments that handle built-in methodological conflicts and trade-offs between different assessment objectives.  They underscore the value of linking diverse methods and tools, or nesting and stepping their deployment, to help build resilience and sustainability. They conclude that there is no one tool, one framework, or one indicator set that is appropriate for the different purposes and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Food systems; Multiple perspectives; Performance-based vs. values-based approaches; Sustainability assessment; Sustainability transformation; Tool choice.
Ano: 2016

Cultural Resilience of Social-ecological Systems in the Nenets and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, Russia: A Focus on Reindeer Nomads of the Tundra
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Forbes, Bruce C.; Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland; bforbes@ulapland.fi.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Climate change; Hydrocarbon extraction; Nomadism; Rangifer tarandus; Siberia; Stewardship; West Siberian Tundra.
Ano: 2013

Haida Marine Planning: First Nations as a Partner in Marine Conservation
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Jones, Russ; Haida Fisheries Program; russ.jones@haidanation.net; Rigg, Catherine; Haida Fisheries Program;; Lee, Lynn; School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University ;.
The Haida Nation is involved in an integrated marine planning initiative in northern British Columbia, Canada. The Haida continue to occupy traditional territory in and around Haida Gwaii, or the Queen Charlotte Islands, and are engaged in a larger planning process for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA). This initiative is in the early planning stage, focused on capacity building and creating enabling conditions for co-governance. Court decisions, government policies, and a modern treaty process are driving short- and long-term efforts to resolve issues of Aboriginal ownership and resource access, both on land and in the ocean. As a result, the PNCIMA process is being led by two levels of government, First Nations and federal,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Aboriginal rights; Fisheries management; Indigenous peoples; Integrated coastal management; Marine planning; Oceans governance.
Ano: 2010

Natural Length Scales of Ecological Systems: Applications at Community and Ecosystem Levels
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnson, Craig R; ; craig.johnson@utas.edu.au.
The characteristic, or natural, length scales of a spatially dynamic ecological landscape are the spatial scales at which the deterministic trends in the dynamic are most sharply in focus. Given recent development of techniques to determine the characteristic length scales (CLSs) of real ecological systems, I explore the potential for using CLSs to address three important and vexing issues in applied ecology, viz. (i) determining the optimum scales to monitor ecological systems, (ii) interpreting change in ecological communities, and (iii) ascertaining connectivity between species in complex ecologies. In summarizing the concept of characteristic length scales as system-level scaling thresholds, I emphasize that the primary CLS is, by definition, the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Attractor reconstruction; Characteristic length scale; Community change; Connectivity; Monitoring; Natural length scale; Scaling threshold.
Ano: 2009

How fit turns into misfit and back: Institutional Transformations of Pastoral Commons in African Floodplains
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Haller, Tobias; University of Bern, Institute of Social Anthropology; haller@anthro.unibe.ch; Fokou, Gilbert; NCCR North-South, University of Bern, Switzerland University of Yaounde, Cameroon; gilbertfokou@yahoo.fr; Mbeyale, Gimbage; Soikoine University, Tanzania; gimbage@yahoo.com; Meroka, Patrick; University of Zurich, Switzerland; meroka2004@yahoo.de.
We enlarge the notion of institutional fit using theoretical approaches from New Institutionalism, including rational choice and strategic action, political ecology and constructivist approaches. These approaches are combined with ecological approaches (system and evolutionary ecology) focusing on feedback loops and change. We offer results drawn from a comparison of fit and misfit cases of institutional change in pastoral commons in four African floodplain contexts (Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania (two cases). Cases of precolonial fit and misfit in the postcolonial past, as well as a case of institutional fit in the postcolonial phase, highlight important features, specifically, flexible institutions, leadership, and mutual economic benefit under specific...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: African floodplains; Governance; Institutional change; Institutional fit; New Institutionalism; Pastoral commons.
Ano: 2013

Evolving hunting practices in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation interventions
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Schleicher, Judith; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, S Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK; schleicher.judith@gmail.com; Hymas, Olivier; Human Ecology Research Group, Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK; ohymas@onetel.com; Coad, Lauren; Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, UK; Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia; lauren.coad@ouce.ox.ac.uk.
Addressing today&amp;#8217;s environmental challenges is intimately linked to understanding and improving natural resource governance institutions. As a result conservation initiatives are increasingly realizing the importance of integrating local perspectives of land tenure arrangements, natural resource rights, and local beliefs into conservation approaches. However, current work has not sufficiently considered the dynamic nature of natural resource governance institutions over time and the potential implications for current conservation interventions. We therefore explored how and why hunting governance has changed since the precolonial period in two ethnic hunting communities in Gabon, Central Africa, integrating various ethnographic methods with...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Bushmeat; Gabon; Historical ecology; Hunting; Natural resource governance.
Ano: 2015

The Right Connections: How do Social Networks Lubricate the Machinery of Natural Resource Governance?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Crona, Beatrice; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; beatrice.crona@stockholmresilience.su.se; Hubacek, Klaus; Department of Geography, University of Maryland; Hubacek@umd.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Governance; Natural resources; Social network analysis; Social relations; Structure.
Ano: 2010

Developing Adaptation and Adapting Development
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lemos, Maria Carmen; James Martin 21st Century School Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.; lemos@umich.edu; Boyd, Emily; James Martin 21st Century School Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QY; emily.boyd@ouce.ox.ac.uk; Tompkins, Emma L; James Martin 21st Century School Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QY; emma.tompkins@ouce.ox.ac.uk; Osbahr, Henny; Tyndall Centre Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QY; henny.osbahr@ouce.ox.ac.uk; Liverman, Diana; Director, Environmental Change Institute, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QY; diana.liverman@eci.ox.ac.uk.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Development; Resilience.
Ano: 2007

The Social Construction of Fishing, 1949
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Finley, Carmel; Department of History, Oregon State University; carmel.finley@oregonstate.edu.
The theoretical construction known as maximum sustained yield (MSY) exists in three realms: as science, as policy, and as a legal concept. Despite substantial criticism by scientists and economists, MSY remains at the heart of fisheries science and fisheries management. This paper suggests that its institutional resilience springs more from its policy and legal roles than from its scientific strength. Maximum sustained yield was adopted as the goal of American fisheries policy in 1949. Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for its adoption internationally. In this paper, I first look briefly at the relationship between fishing and foreign policy goals during this period. Second, I look at how fishing was understood during 1949, when the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Fisheries history; Fisheries management; Milner B. Schaefer; Salmon; Surplus production theory; Wilbert M. Chapman; William C. Herrington.
Ano: 2009

Pacific Canada&amp;#8217;s Rockfish Conservation Areas: using Ostrom&amp;#8217;s design principles to assess management effectiveness
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lancaster, Darienne; School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria; dlancaster@live.ca; Haggarty, Dana R; Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia; danahaggarty@gmail.com; Ban, Natalie C; School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria; nban@uvic.ca.
International declines in marine biodiversity have lead to the creation of marine protected areas and fishery reserve systems.  In Canada, 164 Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCAs) were implemented between 2003 and 2007 and now cover 4847.2 km&amp;#178; of ocean.  These reserves were created in response to widespread concern from fishers and nongovernmental organizations about inshore rockfish (genus Sebastes) population declines. We used the design principles for effective common-pool resource management systems, originally developed by Elinor Ostrom, to assess the social and ecological effectiveness of these conservation areas more than 10 years after their initial implementation. We assessed the relative presence or absence of each design principle within...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Design principles; Management effectiveness; Marine protected areas (MPAs); Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCAs).
Ano: 2015

Geo-engineering, Governance, and Social-Ecological Systems: Critical Issues and Joint Research Needs
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Galaz, Victor; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; victor.galaz@stockholmresilience.su.se.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Earth stewardship; Geo-engineering; Global environmental governance; Innovation; Planetary boundaries; Resilience thinking.
Ano: 2012

Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Golden, Jay S.; Nicholas School of the Environment and Nicholas Institute, Duke University Durham, North Carolina. ; Jay.Golden@Duke.edu; Dooley, K. J.; Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University;; Anderies, J. M.; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; m.anderies@asu.edu; Thompson, B. H.; Woods Institute for the Environment; Stanford Law School, Stanford University;; Gereffi, G.; Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness,  Duke University;; Pratson, L; Energy and Environment Program, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University;.
There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability.  Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manner; this had led to many early successes. However, we believe that if policy concerning product sustainability is also managed in this way, negative unintended consequences are likely to occur. Thus, we propose a social&amp;#8211;ecological systems approach to policy making concerning product sustainability that will lead to more rapid and meaningful progress toward improving the environmental and social impacts of consumer products.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Consumer products; Ecolabeling; Sustainable indexing; Sustainability.
Ano: 2010

A Systems Approach for Sustainable Development in Coastal Zones
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Newton, Alice; CIMA, UAlg, Portugal; NILU, Norway; anewton@ualg.pt.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Coastal zone development.
Ano: 2012

Integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Science in Natural Resource Management: Perspectives from Australia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bohensky, Erin L.; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; erin.bohensky@csiro.au; Butler, James R. A.; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; james.butler@csiro.au; Davies, Jocelyn; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; Jocelyn.Davies@csiro.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Australia; Indigenous knowledge; Knowledge integration; Natural resource management; Resilience.
Ano: 2013

National Parks and Protected Areas and the Role for Employment in Tourism and Forest Sectors: a Swedish Case
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fredman, Peter; ETOUR; Mittuniversitetet; Peter.Fredman@etour.se; Sandell, Klas; Karlstad University; Stockholm University; klas.sandell@kau.se.
The development of national parks and other protected areas has been widely promoted because of its potential for regional development in peripheral and sparsely populated areas. The argument is that the economic and social benefits seen in national parks in the USA and UK will also occur in the Swedish context in the form of an increased tourism-related labor market. Our aim was to analyze the possibility of such a development both in light of the policy visions of positive regional and local development and from the adversary point of view that protection of land is making it more difficult for 15 sparsely populated mountain municipalities in Sweden to prosper. We used a database covering the entire population of the area for 1991 to 2001. Our results...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Employment; Forest sector; Forestry; GIS; Restructuring in peripheral areas; Tourism.
Ano: 2010

Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics:  Is Everything in Order but the Patient Still Dying?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Nasi, Robert; CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research); r.nasi@cgiar.org; Frost, Peter G. H.; Center for International Forestry Research; p.frost@cgiar.org.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Sustainable forest management; Tropical forests.
Ano: 2009

Editorial:  Special Feature on Scenarios for Ecosystem Services
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Carpenter, Stephen R; University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; srcarpen@wisc.edu; Bennett, Elena M.; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; elena.bennett@mcgill.ca; Peterson, Garry D; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; garry.peterson@mcgill.ca.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Ambiguity; Ecological change; Ecosystem services; Poverty reduction; Regime shift; Resilience; Scenarios.
Ano: 2006

Effects of selective logging on large mammal populations in a remote indigenous territory in the northern Peruvian Amazon
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bowler, Mark; San Diego Zoo Global Institute for Conservation Research; marktbowler@icloud.com; Puertas, Pablo E; FundAmazonia; Center for International Forestry Research; puertas118@hotmail.com; Kirkland, Maire; FundAmazonia; maire.kirkland@hotmail.co.uk; Bodmer, Richard; FundAmazonia; Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent; R.Bodmer@kent.ac.uk.
We examined the effects of selective timber logging carried out by local indigenous people in remote areas within indigenous territories on the mammal populations of the Yavari-Mirin River basin on the Peru-Brazil border. Recent findings show that habitat change in the study area is minimal, and any effect of logging activities on large mammal populations is highly likely to be the result of hunting associated with logging operations. We used hunting registers to estimate the monthly and yearly biomass extracted during timber operations and to calculate the catch per unit effort (CPUE) in subsistence hunting in the community of Esperanza 2 to 5 years before logging activities started and 4 to 7 years after logging began. We also used line transects and the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Catch per unit effort; Hunting; Mammal density; Timber logging.
Ano: 2015

Ecosystem service trade-offs across global contexts and scales
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; University of Minnesota; cavender@umn.edu; King, Elizabeth; University of Georgia; egking@uga.edu; Polasky, Stephen; Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota; Institute on Environment, University of Minnesota; polasky@umn.edu.
Meeting human needs while sustaining the planet&amp;#8217;s life support systems is the fundamental challenge of our time. What role sustenance of biodiversity and contrasting ecosystem services should play in achieving a sustainable future varies along philosophical, cultural, institutional, societal, and governmental divisions. Contrasting biophysical constraints and perspectives on human well-being arise both within and across countries that span the tropics and temperate zone. Direct sustenance of livelihoods from ecosystem services in East Africa contrasts with the complex and diverse relationships with the land in Mexico and the highly monetary-based economy of the United States. Lack of understanding of the contrasting contexts in which...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Biophysical constraints; Cultural contexts; Ecosystem services; Empirical case studies; Human preferences; Sustainability framework; Trade-offs.
Ano: 2015

From Subsistence to Commercial Hunting: Technical Shift in Cynegetic Practices Among Southern Cameroon Forest Dwellers During the 20th Century
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dounias, Edmond; IRD; CIFOR; edmond.dounias@ird.fr.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2016

Ecological Conservation, Cultural Preservation, and a Bridge between: the Journey of Shanshui Conservation Center in the Sanjiangyuan Region, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Shen, Xiaoli; Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park; xlshen.pku@gmail.com; Tan, Jiaxin; Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, Sweden; jiaxintam@hotmail.com.
The Sanjiangyuan region is located on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in western China and encompasses the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Mekong rivers. It is also home to 300,000 Tibetan pastoralists. The area is characterized by its significant ecological service, unique culture, and fragile ecosystems, and has undergone a rapid degradation over the past several decades. Traditional Tibetan culture offers alternative knowledge and perspectives that facilitate the environmental conservation throughout the region, but have yet to be recognized or adopted by the Chinese government. Beginning in 2007, the local environmental NGO, Shanshui Conservation Center, has initiated a journey to bridge Tibetan communities with the outside scientific community,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Conservation concession; Grassland; Traditional ecological knowledge; Traditional Tibetan practices; Western China.
Ano: 2012

Introduction: Where in Law is Social-Ecological Resilience?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ebbesson, Jonas; Department of Law, Stockholm University; jonas.ebbesson@juridicum.su.se; Hey, Ellen; Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam; School of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney; hey@law.eur.nl.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: EU; International law; Justice; Law; Property; Public participation; Resilience.
Ano: 2013

A Framework for Spatial Risk Assessments: Potential Impacts of Nonindigenous Invasive Species on Native Species
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Allen, Craig R; USGS  Nebraska Cooperative Fish &amp; Wildlife Research Unit, University of Nebraska; allencr@unl.edu; Johnson, Alan R; Clemson University; alanj@clemson.edu; Parris, Leslie; Clemson University; leslie.parris@us.army.mil.
Many populations of wild animals and plants are declining and face increasing threats from habitat fragmentation and loss as well as exposure to stressors ranging from toxicants to diseases to invasive nonindigenous species. We describe and demonstrate a spatially explicit ecological risk assessment that allows for the incorporation of a broad array of information that may influence the distribution of an invasive species, toxicants, or other stressors, and the incorporation of landscape variables that may influence the spread of a species or substances. The first step in our analyses is to develop species models and quantify spatial overlap between stressor and target organisms. Risk is assessed as the product of spatial overlap and a hazard index based...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Declining species; Invasive species; Nonindigenous species; Risk assessment; Spatial risk.
Ano: 2006

Panarchy and the Law
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ruhl, J. B.; Vanderbilt University Law School; jb.ruhl@vanderbilt.edu.
Panarchy theory focuses on improving theories of change in natural and social systems to improve the design of policy responses. Its central thesis is that successfully working with the dynamic forces of complex adaptive natural and social systems demands an active adaptive management regime that eschews optimization approaches that seek stability. This is a new approach to resources management, and yet no new theory of how to do things in environmental and natural resources management, particularly one challenging entrenched ways of doing things and the interests aligned around them, is likely to gain traction in practice if it cannot gain traction in the form of endorsement and implementation through specific laws and regulations. At some point, that...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Environmental law; Panarchy theory.
Ano: 2012

Measuring resilience is not enough; we must apply the research. Researchers and practitioners need a common language to make this happen.
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Glandon, Douglas M; ; douglas.glandon@gmail.com.
This article is contributed by a practitioner in the area of country-level health systems strengthening who also has a background in resilience research. The intent of the article is to offer constructive reflection on the disconnect between the insights of resilience research and the application of those insights through development assistance. The primary reason for the existence of this communication block is that resilience research findings are not often translated in a format that is useful to those implementing resilience promotion projects. As a result, implementers do not usually review relevant research to guide their interventions. Resilience researchers and practitioners need a common language, one that arises from effective community engagement.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Community resilience; Development assistance; Research to action.
Ano: 2015

Exploring the Contribution of Fiscal Transfers to Protected Area Policy
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Borie, Maud; UMR 5175 CEFE CNRS, Montpellier; maud.borie@gmail.com; Mathevet, Rapha&amp;#235;l; UMR 5175 CEFE CNRS, Montpellier; raphael.mathevet@cefe.cnrs.fr; Ring, Irene; UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; irene.ring@ufz.de; Thompson, John D.; UMR 5175 CEFE CNRS, Montpellier; john.thompson@cefe.cnrs.fr.
Biodiversity payments have become an increasingly proposed tool to promote conservation measures. An unexplored issue concerns the potential role of fiscal transfers between the state and infra-national authorities potentially as direct financial incentives for biodiversity conservation. We explore how protected areas can be taken into account in a redistributive fiscal transfer system between the state and local authorities, i.e., municipalities. Different simulations were made in the Mediterranean region of southern France, a major biodiversity hotspot subject to increasing threats. We examined two methods for fiscal transfer: first, a &amp;#8220;per hectare&amp;#8221; method, based on the surface of the protected area within the boundaries of the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Conservation policy; Ecological solidarity; Fiscal transfer; Protected areas; Public funding.
Ano: 2014

The role of game mammals as bushmeat In the Caatinga, northeast Brazil
Provedor de dados: 7
Although the use of wild mammals as a source of food has been better studied in tropical forest environments, their importance as a source of protein for human communities in semiarid environments is little known. In the latter, the availability of wild animal meat is limited in comparison to other environments. In the semiarid regions of northeastern Brazil, hunting wild mammals for their meat is traditional, playing a crucial role in the livelihoods and food security of various rural and urban communities, especially during the annual drought seasons. In this study, we investigated the role of wild mammals as bushmeat in 10 communities within the Caatinga biome in northeast Brazil. We used key-informant interviews, household surveys, and questionnaires...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Conservation; Ethnozoology; Hunting practices; Local ecological knowledge; Mammals; Semiarid region.
Ano: 2016

Deforestation and the Social Impacts of Soy for Biodiesel: Perspectives of Farmers in the South Brazilian Amazon
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Skutsch, Margaret; Centro de Investigaciones en Geografia Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; mskutsch@ciga.unam.mx.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Biodiesel; Deforestation; Family farmers; Social impacts; Soy.
Ano: 2011

Water Governance in Chile and Canada: a Comparison of Adaptive Characteristics
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hurlbert, Margot A.; University of Regina; margot.hurlbert@uregina.ca; Diaz, Harry; University of Regina; Harry.Diaz@uregina.ca.
We compare the structures and adaptive capacities of water governance regimes that respond to water scarcity or drought in the South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) of western Canada and the Elqui River Basin (EB) in Chile.  Both regions anticipate climate change that will result in more extreme weather events including increasing droughts.  The SSRB and the EB represent two large, regional, dryland water basins with significant irrigated agricultural production but with significantly different governance structures.  The Canadian governance situation is characterized as decentralized multilevel governance with assigned water licenses; the Chilean is characterized as centralized governance with privatized water rights. Both countries have action at all...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Climate change; Extreme weather; Water governance.
Ano: 2013

Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cash, David W.; Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs; david.cash@state.ma.us; Adger, W. Neil; University of East Anglia; N.Adger@uea.ac.uk; Berkes, Fikret; University of Manitoba; berkes@cc.umanitoba.ca; Garden, Po; Chiang Mai University; po@sea-user.org; Lebel, Louis; Chiang Mai University; llebel@loxinfo.co.th; Olsson, Per; Stockholm University; potto@system.ecology.su.se; Pritchard, Lowell; National Wildlife Federation; pritchard@nwf.org; Young, Oran; University of California; young@bren.ucsb.edu.
The empirical evidence in the papers in this special issue identifies pervasive and difficult cross-scale and cross-level interactions in managing the environment. The complexity of these interactions and the fact that both scholarship and management have only recently begun to address this complexity have provided the impetus for us to present one synthesis of scale and cross-scale dynamics. In doing so, we draw from multiple cases, multiple disciplines, and multiple perspectives. In this synthesis paper, and in the accompanying cases, we hypothesize that the dynamics of cross-scale and cross-level interactions are affected by the interplay between institutions at multiple levels and scales. We suggest that the advent of co-management structures and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Scale; Level; Cross-scale dynamics; Boundary organization; Co-management.
Ano: 2006

Restoring Riverine Landscapes: The Challenge of Identifying Priorities, Reference States, and Techniques
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Naiman, Robert J; University of Washington; naiman@u.washington.edu.
This special issue of Ecology and Society on restoring riverine landscapes draws together nine presentations from the Second International Symposium on Riverine Landscapes, convened in August 2004 in Storforsen, Sweden. We summarize three themes related to river restoration: (1) setting priorities, (2) identifying relevant reference conditions, and (3) choosing appropriate techniques. We discuss ways of developing river restoration and provide examples of future needs in sustaining functioning river ecosystems that can support human societies.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Reference conditions; Restoration objectives; Restoration techniques; River restoration.
Ano: 2007

Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: van der Horst, Dan; University of Edinburgh; dan.vanderhorst@ed.ac.uk; Bieling, Claudia; University of Freiburg; claudia.bieling@landespflege.uni-freiburg.de.
Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and tend to neglect the social-ecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many environments. Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated unique cultural landscapes, but these are under pressure from agricultural intensification, land abandonment, and urbanization. In recent years, the cultural landscapes concept has been broadly adopted in science, policy, and management. The interest in both outstanding and vernacular landscapes finds expression in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, the European Landscape Convention, and the IUCN Protected Landscape Approach. These policies promote the protection, management, planning, and governance of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Cultural landscapes; Driving forces; Ecosystem services; Landscape management; Socio-cultural valuation.
Ano: 2014

Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Robinson , Guy  M; Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia; Guy.Robinson@unisa.edu.au; Carson, Doris A; Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia; doris.carson@unisa.edu.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Australia; Landscape science; Modeling; Natural resource management (NRM); Stakeholder integration.
Ano: 2013

Overfishing Drivers and Opportunities for Recovery in Small-Scale Fisheries of the Midriff Islands Region, Gulf of California, Mexico: the Roles of Land and Sea Institutions in Fisheries Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Duberstein, Jennifer N.; School of Natural Resources and the Environment, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona; jnduby@email.arizona.edu; Torreblanca, Esteban; Pronatura Noroeste, A.C.; etorreblanca@hotmail.com.
Institutions play an important role in shaping individual incentives in complex social-ecological systems, by encouraging or discouraging resource overuse. In the Gulf of California, Mexico, there is widespread evidence of declines in small-scale fishery stocks, largely attributed to policy failures. We investigated formal and informal rules-in-use regulating access and resource use by small-scale fishers in the two most important fishing communities of the Midriff Islands region in the Gulf of California, which share several target species and fishing grounds. The Midriff Islands region is a highly productive area where sustainable use of fisheries resources has been elusive. Our study aimed to inform policy by providing information on how management and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2014

A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Walker, Brian; CSIRO; Brian.Walker@csiro.au; Gunderson, Lance; Emory Universitry; lgunder@emory.edu; Kinzig, Ann; Arizona State University; Ann.Kinzig@asu.edu; Folke, Carl; Stockholm University; calle@system.ecology.su.se; Carpenter, Steve; University of Wisconsin; srcarpen@wisc.edu; Schultz, Lisen; Stockholm University; lisen@ecology.su.se.
This paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in social-ecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We call them &amp;#8220;propositions&amp;#8221; because, although they are useful in helping us understand and compare different social-ecological systems,  they are not sufficiently well defined to be considered formal hypotheses.  These propositions were developed in two workshops, in 2003 and 2004, in which participants compared the dynamics of 15 case studies in a wide range of regions around the world. The propositions raise many questions, and we present a list of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Change; Propositions; Synthesis; Theory; Adaptatability; Transformability.
Ano: 2006

Assessing Management Regimes in Transboundary River Basins: Do They Support Adaptive Management?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Raadgever, G.T. (Tom); Centre for River Basin Administration, Delft University of Technology; G.T.Raadgever@tudelft.nl; Mostert, Erik; Centre for River Basin Administration, Delft University of Technology; E.Mostert@tudelft.nl; Kranz, Nicole; Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy; Kranz@ecologic.de; Interwies, Eduard; InterSus - Sustainability Services; Interwies@intersus.eu; Timmerman, Jos G.; RWS Centre for Water Management; J.G.Timmerman@riza.rws.minvenw.nl.
River basin management is faced with complex problems that are characterized by uncertainty and change. In transboundary river basins, historical, legal, and cultural differences add to the complexity. The literature on adaptive management gives several suggestions for handling this complexity. It recognizes the importance of management regimes as enabling or limiting adaptive management, but there is no comprehensive overview of regime features that support adaptive management. This paper presents such an overview, focused on transboundary river basin management. It inventories the features that have been claimed to be central to effective transboundary river basin management and refines them using adaptive management literature. It then collates these...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Management regime; Orange; Rhine; River basin; Transboundary.
Ano: 2008

Old-growth Policy
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Vosick, Diane; Ecological Restoration Institute; Diane.Vosick@nau.edu; Ostergren, David M; Northern Arizona University School of Forestry; david.ostergren@nau.edu; Murfitt, Lucy; ;.
Most federal legislation and policies (e.g., the Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, National Forest Management Act) fail to speak directly to the need for old-growth protection, recruitment, and restoration on federal lands. Various policy and attitudinal barriers must be changed to move beyond the current situation. For example, in order to achieve the goal of healthy old growth in frequent-fire forests, the public must be educated regarding the evolutionary nature of these ecosystems and persuaded that collaborative action rather than preservation and litigation is the best course for the future of these forests. Land managers and policy makers must be encouraged to look beyond the single-species management paradigm toward managing natural...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Diameter caps; Federal employee liability; Institutional barriers; Mexican spotted owl; Northern goshawk; Preservationist philosophy; Public education; Wildland fire use.
Ano: 2007

Environmental Governance as Stochastic Belief Updating: Crafting Rules to Live by
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bromley, Daniel W.; University of Wisconsin-Madison and  Humboldt University zu Berlin; dbromley@wisc.edu.
The idea that humans can &amp;#8220;manage&amp;#8221; nature is a modernist conceit. Natural systems and social (human) systems are always in the process of becoming. In this setting of unknowable dynamic emergence, it is not possible to design institutional arrangements&amp;#8212;rules to live by&amp;#8212;that permit an activity called &amp;#8220;management.&amp;#8221; The more fundamental challenge to the conceit of management is that humans are never sure what we want until we are put in a situation of having to work it out. We learn what we want by learning about what it might be possible for us to have. Science, properly engaged with the public, can contribute to this learning process. But science cannot hold itself up as an activity that produces...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Belief updating; Governance; Meaning; Reasonable.
Ano: 2012

Resources Management in Transition
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; University of Osnabrueck, Germany; pahl@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de; Sendzimir, Jan; International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); sendzim@iiasa.ac.at; Jeffrey, Paul; School of Water Sciences, Cranfield University; p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Climate change; Interdisciplinary research; Social learning; Water resources.
Ano: 2009

Sayer, J. A., and B. M. Campbell. 2004. The Science of Sustainable Development. Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Schultz, Lisen; Stockholm University; lisen@ecology.su.se.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2005

Assessing Risks to Wildlife Populations from Multiple Stressors: Overview of the Problem and Research Needs.
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Munns, Jr., Wayne R.; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; munns.wayne@epa.gov.
Wildlife populations are experiencing increasing pressure from human-induced changes in the landscape. Stressors including agricultural and urban land use, introduced invasive and exotic species, nutrient enrichment, direct human disturbance, and toxic chemicals directly or indirectly influence the quality and quantity of habitat used by terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. Governmental agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are required to assess risks to wildlife populations, in its broadest definition, that result from exposure to these stressors, yet considerable uncertainty exists with respect to how such assessments should be conducted. This uncertainty is compounded by questions concerning the interactive effects of co-occurring...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Ecological risk assessment; Multiple stressors; Wildlife populations; Extrapolation; Population models; Research needs.
Ano: 2006

Salmon, Science, and Reciprocity on the Northwest Coast
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnsen, D. Bruce; George Mason University; djohnsen@gmu.edu.
Severe depletion of many genetically distinct Pacific salmon populations has spawned a contentious debate over causation and the efficacy of proposed solutions. No doubt the precipitating factor was overharvesting of the commons beginning along the Northwest Coast around 1860. Yet, for millenia before that, a relatively dense population of Indian tribes managed salmon stocks that have since been characterized as &amp;#8220;superabundant.&amp;#8221;  This study investigates how they avoided a tragedy of the commons, where in recent history, commercial ocean fishers guided by scientifically informed regulators, have repeatedly failed. Unlike commercial fishers, the tribes enjoyed exclusive rights to terminal fisheries enforced through rigorous reciprocity...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Exclusive tribal rights; Information feedback; Potlatching; Reciprocity; Resilience; Salmon husbandry.
Ano: 2009

From biophysical to social-ecological trade-offs: integrating biodiversity conservation and agricultural production in the Argentine Dry Chaco
Provedor de dados: 7
Agricultural intensification in rural areas of developing countries compromises the provision of ecosystem services. Social conflict arises among landholders with different preferences for ecosystem services and land-use practices in agricultural frontiers of the Argentine Dry Chaco. We explored policy and management options by assessing the actual and potential outcomes of alternative land-use systems and scenarios. We first constructed the efficiency frontier for avian habitat and agricultural productivity to analyze the combinations of ecosystem services that can be achieved under different land-use intensities. A nonlinear, concave efficiency frontier indicated opportunities to achieve large gains for production with small losses for conservation, for...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Dry Chaco; Ecosystem services; Efficiency frontier; Indifference curve; Multifunctional systems; Trade-offs.
Ano: 2015

What Are Participatory Scoping Models?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Sandker, Marieke; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); M.Sandker@cgiar.org; Campbell, Bruce; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); b.campbell@cgiar.org; Suwarno, Aritta; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); aritta_suwarno@yahoo.com.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2008

The Growing Importance of Social Learning in Water Resources Management and Sustainability Science
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Mostert, Erik; Delft University of Technology; E.Mostert@citg.tudelft.nl.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; European Water Framework Directive; Social learning; Stakeholder participation; Water resources management.
Ano: 2008

Dynamic land cover information: bridging the gap between remote sensing and natural resource management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Thackway, Richard; School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland; r.thackway@uq.edu.au; Lymburner, Leo; National Earth Observation Group, Geoscience Australia; Leo.Lymburner@ga.gov.au; Guerschman, Juan Pablo ; Environmental Earth Observation Group, CSIRO Land and Water; Juan.Guerschman@csiro.au.
Environmental decision-makers are increasingly demanding detailed spatial coverages with high temporal frequency to assess trends and changes in the extent and condition of wetlands, species habitats, farmlands, forests, rangelands, soil, water, and vegetation. Dynamic land cover information can substantially meet these requirements. Access to satellite-based time series information provides an unprecedented opportunity to better focus natural resource management (NRM) in Australia. Opportunities include assessing the extent and condition of key assets, prioritizing investment in key localities and time periods, improving targeting of scarce public funding, and monitoring and evaluating the outcome of this investment to assist land managers in improving...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Dynamic land cover; Fractional ground cover; Imagery archives; Land management practices; Natural resource management outcomes; On-ground actions  remote sensing.
Ano: 2013

Synchrony of peak-rate years suggests challenges to sustainable development: a response to O&amp;#8217;Sullivan (2015)
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Seppelt, Ralf; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Germany;  iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Germany; Institute of Geoscience &amp; Geography, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; ralf.seppelt@ufz.de; Manceur, Ameur M.; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Germany; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Community Ecology, Germany; ameur.manceur@ufz.de; Liu, Jianguo; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, USA; liuji@msu.edu; Fenichel, Eli P.; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, USA; eli.fenichel@yale.edu; Klotz, Stefan; iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Germany; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Community Ecology, Germany ; Stefan.Klotz@ufz.de.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Limits to growth; Peak-rate year; Synchrony.
Ano: 2015

Making sense of climate change: orientations to adaptation
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lynam, Timothy; Reflecting Society; James Cook University, Department of Anthropology; CSIRO; tim.lynam@internode.on.net; Walker, Iain; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; University of Canberra; Iain.Walker@canberra.edu.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2016

Applied research for enhancing human well-being and environmental stewardship: using complexity thinking in Southern Africa
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Palmer, Carolyn G.; Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, South Africa; tally.palmer@ru.ac.za; Biggs, Reinette; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; Centre for Studies in Complexity, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; oonsie.biggs@stockholmresilience.su.se; Cumming, Graeme S.; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa; graeme.cumming@uct.ac.za.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Complexity; Relational; Stewardship; Sufficiency; Well-being.
Ano: 2015

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change: Research findings and policy implications
Provedor de dados: 7
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Biocultural diversity; Indigenous knowledge; Resilience; Small-scale societies.
Ano: 2013

Looking Forward: Using Scenario Modeling to Support Regional Land Use Planning in Northern Yukon, Canada
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Francis, Shawn R; ALCES Landscape and Land-Use Ltd.; sfrancis@alces.ca; Hamm, Jeff; Geoplan Consulting; geoplan@geoprism.ca.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Ano: 2011

Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Rosset, Peter M; Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM); University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; rosset@globalalternatives.org.
Rural social movements have in recent years adopted agroecology and diversified farming systems as part of their discourse and practice. Here, we situate this phenomenon in the evolving context of rural spaces that are increasingly disputed between agribusiness, together with other corporate land-grabbers, and peasants and their organizations and movements. We use the theoretical frameworks of disputed material and immaterial territories and of re-peasantization to explain the increased emphasis on agroecology by movements in this context. We provide examples from the farmer-to-farmer movement to show the advantages that social movements bring to the table in taking agroecology to scale and discuss the growing agroecology networking process in the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Agroecology; Disputed territories; Farmer-to-farmer; Re-peasantization; Social movements; Via Campesina.
Ano: 2012

Trends, challenges, and responses of a 20-year, volunteer water monitoring  program in Alabama
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Deutsch, William G; Alabama Water Watch, Auburn University Water Resources Center; deutswg@auburn.edu.
Volunteer water monitoring programs are one of the most popular forms of citizen science, but many face governmental funding cuts and other threats to their continuation. Alabama Water Watch (AWW) is such a program that for more than 20 years has had positive influences on ecosystems and society through environmental education, waterbody protection and restoration, and promotion of improved water policy. A temporal analysis of 15 program indicators revealed 4 phases of AWW that followed general patterns of organizational development. These included periods of rapid growth, cresting, moderate decline, and stabilization at a lower level of activity. Five factors influenced these trends: saturation of potential groups, loss of monitors from aging,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Citizen science; Community-based monitoring; Program sustainability; Public participation in scientific research; Volunteer water monitoring.
Ano: 2015

Assessing ecosystem services for informing land-use decisions: a problem-oriented approach
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fricke, Roman; Faculty of Biology, Department of Animal Ecology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany; fricker@staff.uni-marburg.de; Kleyer, Michael; Landscape Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; michael.kleyer@uni-oldenburg.de; Kobbe, Susanne; Department of Animal Ecology and Conservation, University of Hamburg, Biocentre Grindel, Hamburg, Germany; Susanne.Kobbe@uni-hamburg.de; Seppelt, Ralf; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Leipzig, Germany;  Institute of Geoscience &amp; Geography, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany; ralf.seppelt@ufz.de; Settele, Josef; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Animal Ecology and Social-Ecological Research,  Halle, Germany; iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; josef.settele@ufz.de; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Animal Ecology and Social-Ecological Research,  Halle, Germany; Sustainable Europe Research Institute SERI Germany, Cologne, Germany; Joachim.Spangenberg@ufz.de; Tekken, Vera; Institute for Geography and Geology, Department of Sustainability Science and Applied Geography, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany; vera.tekken@posteo.de; Wittmer, Heidi; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Environmental Politics, Leipzig, Germany; heidi.wittmer@ufz.de.
Assessments of ecosystem services (ES), that aim at informing decisions on land management, are increasing in number around the globe. Despite selected success stories, evidence for ES information being used in decision making is weak, partly because ES assessments are found to fall short in targeting information needs by decision makers. To improve their applicability in practice, we compared existing concepts of ES assessments with focus on informing land use decisions and identified opportunities for enhancing the relevance of ES assessments for decision making. In a process of codesign, building on experience of four projects in Brazil, China, Madagascar, and Vietnam, we developed a step-wise approach for better targeting ES assessments toward...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Decision support; Ecosystem services assessment; Land use; Problem-oriented.
Ano: 2015

Social-Ecological Thresholds in a Changing Boreal Landscape: Insights from Cree Knowledge of the Lesser Slave Lake Region of Alberta, Canada
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Parlee, Brenda L; Univeresity of Alberta; bparlee@ualberta.ca; Geertsema, Karen ; University of Alberta; kag9@ualberta.ca; Willier, Allen; Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council;.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Aboriginal; Ecosystem change; Monitoring; Traditional knowledge.
Ano: 2012

Resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bousquet, Francois; CIRAD, UPR GREEN, F-34398 Montpellier, France ; francois.bousquet@cirad.fr; Alinovi, Luca; Global Resilience Partnership, Nairobi, Kenya; luca.alinovi@gmail.com; Barreteau, Olivier; IRSTEA, UMR G-EAU, France; olivier.barreteau@irstea.fr; Bossio, Deborah; International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Nairobi, Kenya; d.bossio@cgiar.org; Brown, Katrina; College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, UK; katrina.brown@exeter.ac.uk; Caron, Patrick; CIRAD, DGDRS, F-34398 Montpellier, France; patrick.Caron@cirad.fr; d'Errico, Marco; FAO, Rome, Italy; Marco.DErrico@fao.org; DeClerck, Fabrice; Bioversity International, Montpellier, France ; f.declerck@cgiar.org; Enfors Kautsky, Elin; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; elin.enfors@su.se; Fabricius, Christo; Sustainability Research Unit, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; christo.fabricius@nmmu.ac.za; Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;  Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; carl.folke@beijer.kva.se; Fortmann, Louise; UC Berkeley, USA; louisef@berkeley.edu; Hubert, Bernard; INRA, France; bernard.hubert@avignon.inra.fr; Norgaard, Richard B.; University of California at Berkeley, USA; norgaard@igc.org; Quinlan, Allyson; Resilience Alliance; aquinlan@resalliance.org; Staver, Charles; Bioversity International, Montpellier, France; c.staver@cgiar.org.
In 2014, the Third International Conference on the resilience of social-ecological systems chose the theme &amp;#8220;resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation.&amp;#8221; The conference aimed specifically at fostering an encounter between the experiences and thinking focused on the issue of resilience through a social and ecological system perspective, and the experiences focused on the issue of resilience through a development perspective. In this perspectives piece, we reflect on the outcomes of the meeting and document the differences and similarities between the two perspectives as discussed during the conference, and identify bridging questions designed to guide future interactions. After the conference, we read the documents...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Development; Perspective; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Transdisciplinarity.
Ano: 2016

Consilient knowledge in fisheries: a case study of three species of wolffish (Anarhichadidae) listed under the Canadian Species at Risk Act
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dawe, Jennifer; Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador; jennifer.dawe@gmail.com; Schneider, David; Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador; David.Schneider@mun.ca.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Bycatch; Fishery surveys; Local ecological knowledge; Species at risk; Wolffish.
Ano: 2014

Sweet, Sticky, and Sustainable Social Business
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ingram, Verina; Centre for International Forestry Research; University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; v.ingram@cgiar.org.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Apiculture; Cameroon; Nontimber forest products (NTFPs); Poverty; Value chain.
Ano: 2011

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Garmestani, Ahjond S; Environmental Protection Agency, USA; garmestani.ahjond@epa.gov; Benson, Melinda Harm; University of New Mexico, USA; mhbenson@unm.edu.
Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account for the dynamics of social-ecological systems and achieve a substantive mandate that accommodates the need for adaptation. In this paper, we suggest expansive legal reform by identifying the principles of reflexive law as a possible mechanism for achieving a shift to resilience-based governance and leveraging cross-scale dynamics to provide resilience-based responses to increasingly challenging environmental conditions.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Adaptive management; Environmental governance; Intermediaries; Panarchy; Reflexive law; Resilience; Resilience-based governance.
Ano: 2013

Changes in biodiversity and trade-offs among ecosystem services,  stakeholders, and components of well-being: the contribution of the International Long-Term Ecological Research network (ILTER) to Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS)
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bourgeron, Patrick; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; patrick.bourgeron@colorado.edu; Baudry, Jacques; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), SAD-Paysage, France; jacques.baudry@rennes.inra.fr; Dick, Jan; Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK; jand@ceh.ac.uk; Forsius, Martin; Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland; martin.forsius@ymparisto.fi; Halada, Lubos; Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS, Slovakia; lubos.halada@savba.sk; Krauze, Kinga; European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology, PAS, Poland; k.krauze@erce.unesco.lodz.pl; Nakaoka, Masahiro; Akkeshi Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Japan; nakaoka@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp; Orenstein, Daniel E.; Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; DanielO@ar.technion.ac.il; Parr, Terry W.; Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, UK; twp@ceh.ac.uk; Redman, Charles L.; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA; Charles.Redman@asu.edu; Rozzi, Ricardo; Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program, University of North Texas, USA; Institute of Ecology &amp; Biodiversity, Universidad de Magallanes, Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Puerto Williams, Chile; rozzi@unt.edu; Swemmer, Anthony M.; South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South Africa; tony@saeon.ac.za; V&amp;#259;dineanu, Angheluta; Research Centre for Systems Ecology and Sustainability, University of  Bucharest, Romania; angheluta.vadineanu@g.unibuc.ro.
The International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network comprises &amp;#62; 600 scientific groups conducting site-based research within 40 countries.  Its mission includes improving the understanding of global ecosystems and informs solutions to current and future environmental problems at the global scales. The ILTER network covers a wide range of social-ecological conditions and is aligned with the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) goals and approach. Our aim is to examine and develop the conceptual basis for proposed collaboration between ILTER and PECS. We describe how a coordinated effort of several contrasting LTER site-based research groups contributes to the understanding of how policies and technologies drive either toward...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem integrity; Ecosystem services; ILTER; Long-term ecological research; PECS; Site-based research; Socio-ecosystem research; Trade-offs among ecosystem services; Transdiscipline.
Ano: 2016

Turning points in climate change adaptation
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Werners, Saskia Elisabeth; Wageningen UR; werners@mungo.nl; van Slobbe, Erik; Wageningen UR; Erik.vanSlobbe@wur.nl; Oost, Albert; Deltares; Albert.Oost@deltares.nl; Pfenninger, Stefan; Imperial College London; s.pfenninger12@imperial.ac.uk; Trombi, Giacomo; Department of Agri-Food Production and Environmental Sciences (DISPAA), University of Florence; giacomo.trombi@unifi.it; Bindi, Marco; Department of Agri-Food Production and Environmental Sciences (DISPAA), University of Florence; marco.bindi@unifi.it; Moriondo, Marco; CNR-IBIMET; marco.moriondo@unifi.it.
Concerned decision makers increasingly pose questions as to whether current management practices are able to cope with climate change and increased climate variability. This signifies a shift in the framing of climate change from asking what its potential impacts are to asking whether it induces policy failure and unacceptable change. In this paper, we explore the background, feasibility, and consequences of this new framing. We focus on the specific situation in which a social-political threshold of concern is likely to be exceeded as a result of climate change, requiring consideration of alternative strategies. Action is imperative when such a situation is conceivable, and at this point climate change becomes particularly relevant to decision makers. We...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptation turning points; Climate change; Governance; Tools; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2015

Resilience and Water Governance: Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cosens, Barbara A; University of Idaho College of Law; Waters of the West Program; bcosens@uidaho.edu; Williams, Mark Kevin; Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Human Right to Water and Sanitation Program, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; mark_williams@hks.harvard.edu.
The 1964 Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada is currently under review. Under the treaty, the river is jointly operated by the two countries for hydropower and is the largest producer of hydropower in the western hemisphere. In considering the next phase of international river governance, the degree of uncertainty surrounding the drivers of change complicates efforts to predict and manage under traditional approaches that rely on historical ecosystem responses. At the same time, changes in social values have focused attention on ecosystem health, the decline of which has led to the listing of seven salmon and four steelhead populations under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Although adaptive management is considered one approach to...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Columbia River basin; Law  resilience.
Ano: 2012

Conserving and Restoring Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests: Cycles of Disruption and Recovery
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Egan, Dave; ; Dave.Egan@nau.edu.
I provide a synthesis of the papers in the Special Issue, The Conservation and Restoration of Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests of the American West. These papers&amp;#8212;the product of an Old Growth Writing Workshop, held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona on 18&amp;#8211;19 April 2006&amp;#8212;represent the ideas of 25 workshop participants who argue for a new attitude toward managing old growth in the frequent-fire forests of the American West. Unlike the lush, old-growth rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, the dry, frequent-fire forests of the western United States evolved with surface fires that disturbed the system with such regularity that young trees were almost always killed. When saplings did survive, they grew beyond the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycle  definitions of old growth  forest management  forest policy  old-growth forests  social&amp;#8211; Ecological system.
Ano: 2007

The Capacity of Property Rights to Accommodate Social-Ecological Resilience
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Barnes, Richard A; University of Hull; r.a.barnes@hull.ac.uk.
Here, I consider how social-ecological resilience can be facilitated by the use of property rights. Taking a legal perspective on the use of different forms of property, I consider how property rules can manifest the attributes of flexibility, responsiveness, optionality, and scalability associated with resilient systems. I note how different regulatory regimes such as domestic law and international law have differing capacities to accommodate property rights, and this in turn affects the capability of property to sustain resilience. The fluid nature of resilience and property systems defies simple conclusions about the influence of property rights on resilience. However, it is possible to make some general observations on how well-suited archetype forms...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Community-based holdings; Domestic law; Environmental law; EU law; International law; Natural resources; Private property; Property; Resilience.
Ano: 2013

Rethinking Resilience: Reflections on the Earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010 and 2011
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hayward, Bronwyn Mary; School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand;   Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey, UK; Voices of the Future, University of Oslo, Norway; bronwyn.hayward@canterbury.ac.nz.
Resilience has emerged as a policy response in an era of public concern about disasters and risks that include fear of terrorism and environmental or economic catastrophe. Resilience is both a refreshing and a problematic concept. It is refreshing in that it creates new opportunities for interdisciplinary research and vividly reminds us that the material world matters in our social lives, political economy, and urban planning. However, the concept of resilience is also problematic.  Widespread, uncritical calls for greater resilience in response to environmental, economic, and social challenges often obscure significant questions of political power. In particular, we may ask, resilience of what, and for whom?    My reflection here was written in the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Citizenship; Earthquake; Political agency; Resilience  social justice.
Ano: 2013

Social Infrastructure to Integrate Science and Practice: the Experience of the Long Tom Watershed Council
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Flitcroft, Rebecca L; USDA Forest Service; becky.flitcroft@oregonstate.edu; Dedrick, Dana C; Long Tom Watershed Council Executive Director ; coordinator@longtom.org; Smith, Courtland L; Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University; csmith@oregonstate.edu; Thieman, Cynthia A; Long Tom Watershed Council Restoration Director; restoration@longtom.org; Bolte, John P; Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University; boltej@engr.orst.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Habitat restoration; Oregon; Science and practice; Social infrastructure; Watershed management; Water quality; Watershed councils; Watershed organizations.
Ano: 2009

Code, L. 2006. Ecological Thinking: the Politics of Epistemic Location. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Biermann, Maureen; Department  of Geography, Pennsylvania State University; biermann@psu.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Book review; Ecology; Epistemology; Feminist philosophy; Resilience.
Ano: 2010

REDD+ and Human Rights: Addressing Synergies between International Regimes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Savaresi, Annalisa; School of Law, University of Edinburgh; annalisa.savaresi@ed.ac.uk.
The making of the REDD+ mechanism in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has raised specific concerns on how to reconcile incentives for forest carbon sequestration with the protection of the rights of the numerous communities that rely upon forests for their livelihood, shelter, and survival. Although the nascent REDD+ mechanism provides an opportunity to provide multiple benefits, the design of a framework to secure such benefits and avoid perverse outcomes has proven complex. I provide an overview of progress toward the establishment of such framework, arguing that concerns over the social impact of REDD+ activities may be addressed by resorting to clearer and stronger links with human rights instruments.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Climate change; FLEGT; Forests; Human rights; Nagoya Protocol; REDD+.
Ano: 2013

The Privilege to Fish
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lam, Mimi E.; University of British Columbia, Fisheries Centre, Policy and Ecosystem Restoration in Fisheries ; mimibethlam@gmail.com; Calcari Campbell, Meaghan E.; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Meaghan.Calcari@moore.org.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Catch shares; Dedicated access privileges; Fishing access rights and duties; Fishing ecosystem-based management; Marine conservation; Overfishing; Public trust; Social responsibility; Stewardship.
Ano: 2012

Trends in total rainfall, heavy rain events, and number of dry days in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1955-2009
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Nieves-Santiango, Alejandro; Graduate School of Public Health and Center for Public Health Preparedness, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus; alejandro.nieves1@upr.edu.
Climate variability is a threat to water resources on a global scale and in tropical regions in particular. Rainfall events and patterns are associated worldwide with natural disasters like mudslides and landslides, meteorological phenomena like hurricanes, risks/hazards including severe storms and flooding, and health effects like vector-borne and waterborne diseases. Therefore, in the context of global change, research on rainfall patterns and their variations presents a challenge to the scientific community. The main objective of this research was to analyze recent trends in precipitation in the San Juan metropolitan area in Puerto Rico and their relationship with regional and global climate variations. The statistical trend analysis of precipitation...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Climate variability; Puerto Rico; Rainfall patterns; San Juan; Trend analysis.
Ano: 2014

Ecological and Social Aspects of Ecological Restoration: New Challenges and Opportunities for Northern Regions
Provedor de dados: 7
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Ecological restoration; Northern regions; Policies; Social-ecological systems; Techniques.
Ano: 2013

Freshwater Ecosystems and Resilience of Pacific Salmon:  Habitat Management Based on Natural Variability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bisson, Peter A; U.S. Forest Service; pbisson@fs.fed.us; Dunham, Jason B; U.S. Geological Survey; jdunham@usgs.gov; Reeves, Gordon H; U.S. Forest Service; greeves@fs.fed.us.
In spite of numerous habitat restoration programs in fresh waters with an aggregate annual funding of millions of dollars, many populations of Pacific salmon remain significantly imperiled. Habitat restoration strategies that address limited environmental attributes and partial salmon life-history requirements or approaches that attempt to force aquatic habitat to conform to idealized but ecologically unsustainable conditions may partly explain this lack of response.  Natural watershed processes generate highly variable environmental conditions and population responses, i.e., multiple life histories, that are often not considered in restoration. Examples from several locations underscore the importance of natural variability to the resilience of Pacific...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Pacific salmon; Habitat restoration; Watershed processes; Natural variation.
Ano: 2009

Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience: Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Jax, Kurt; Department of Conservation Biology, UFZ-Environmental Research Centre Leipzig-Ha; kurt.jax@ufz.de.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Boundary object; Definition; Descriptive concept; Ecological resilience; Resilience; Sustainability; Typology.
Ano: 2007

The Dark Side of Light:  A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Light Pollution Policy
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Moss, Timothy; Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner; MossT@irs-net.de; Griefahn, Barbara; Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund;; Kloas, Werner; Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin;; Voigt, Christian C.; Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin;; Schwope, Axel; Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam;; Franke, Steffen ; Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Greifswald;; Uhrlandt, Dirk ; Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Greifswald;; Klenke, Reinhard; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig ;; Wolter, Christian; Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin; wolter@igb-berlin.de.
Although the invention and widespread use of artificial light is clearly one of the most important human technological advances, the transformation of nightscapes is increasingly recognized as having adverse effects. Night lighting may have serious physiological consequences for humans, ecological and evolutionary implications for animal and plant populations, and may reshape entire ecosystems. However, knowledge on the adverse effects of light pollution is vague. In response to climate change and energy shortages, many countries, regions, and communities are developing new lighting programs and concepts with a strong focus on energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. Given the dramatic increase in artificial light at night (0 - 20% per year,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Artificial light; Energy efficiency; Lighting concept; Light pollution; Nightscape; Policy; Sustainability; Transdisciplinary.
Ano: 2010