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Disturbances as opportunities: learning from disturbance-response parallels in social and ecological systems to better adapt to climate change.

Published online: 30 Dec 2020

Authors: Buma, B. & Schultz, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Disturbances (e.g. fires, floods, windstorms, landslides and tsunamis) are ubiquitous throughout the world. Many social and ecological systems have...

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Turning things around: a discussion of values, practices and action in the context of social-ecological change.

Published online: 04 Sep 2023

Authors: Maller, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

This special feature concerns understanding human-nature relations through the lens of values to comprehend how values of the natural world connect wi...

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Social protection in the face of climate change: principles and financing mechanisms.

Published online: 20 Jan 2016

Authors: Carter, M. R. & Janzen, S. A.

Content type: Bulletin

Climate risk is an important driver of long-term poverty dynamics, especially in rural regions. This paper builds a dynamic, multi-generation househol...

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Social protection and disaster risk management in the Philippines: the case of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).

Published online: 20 Jan 2016

Authors: Bowen, T.

Content type: Bulletin

This paper evaluates how the Philippines utilize social protection systems and programs to help households better manage disaster risk. Exposure and v...

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Linking social protection and water security to empower women and girls.

Published online: 04 Apr 2020

Authors: Lowe, C. & Ludi, E. & Seve, M. D. le & Tsui, J.

Content type: Bulletin

Water insecurity is a significant, heavily gendered, and growing driver of poverty, vulnerability and risk. This paper explores the linkages between t...

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'Bunkering down': how one community is tightening social-ecological network structures in the face of global change.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Barnes, M. L. & Jasny, L. & Bauman, A. & Ben, J. & Berardo, R. & Bodin, Ö. & Cinner, J. & Feary, D. A. & Guerrero, A. M. & Januchowski-Hartley, F. A. & Kuange, J. T. & Lau, J. D. & Wang Peng & Zamborain-Mason, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Complex networks of relationships among and between people and nature (social-ecological networks) play an important role in sustainability; yet, we h...

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Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Seidl, R. & Spies, T. A. & Peterson, D. L. & Stephens, S. L. & Hicke, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The provisioning of ecosystem services to society is increasingly under pressure from global change. Changing disturbance regimes are of particular co...

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Native seed collector networks in Brazil: sowing social innovations for transformative change.

Published online: 14 Nov 2024

Authors: Padovezi, A. & Adams, C. & Chazdon, R. L. & Mendonça, M. A. & Secco, L. & Campos-Filho, E. M. & Sampaio, A. & Damasceno, E. & Albuquerque, N. & Santarem, F. & Camargo, M. E. & Pinã-Rodrigues, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

To investigate whether and how Social Innovation (SI) can contribute to transformative change, we explored nine Native Seed Collectors Networks (NSCNs...

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Social adaptation can reduce the strength of social-ecological feedbacks from ecosystem degradation.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Bartelet, H. A. & Barnes, M. L. & Zoeller, K. C. & Cumming, G. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Feedbacks between people and ecosystems are central to the study of social-ecological systems (SES) but remain poorly understood. It is commonly assum...

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Disentangling gender and social difference for just and transformative biocultural approaches.

Published online: 06 Nov 2024

Authors: Díaz-Reviriego, I. & Torralba, M. & Vizuete, B. & Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. & Pearson, J. & Heindorf, C. & Zonta, A. L. & Oteros-Rozas, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Advancing research and practice that recognize diverse worldviews, knowledge systems, and value orientations is essential to enable transformative cha...

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