Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet.

By F. Chapin, Stephen R. Carpenter, G. Kofinas, Carl Folke, N. Abel, W. Clark, P. Olsson, D. Smith, B. Walker, O. Young and 7 more. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2010

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Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster the social-ecological sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current understanding in an environment of inevitable uncertainty and abrupt change: reducing the magnitude of, and exposure and sensitivity to, known stresses; focusing on proactive policies that shape change; and avoiding or escaping unsustainable social-ecological traps. As we discuss here, all social-ecological systems are vulnerable to recent and projected changes but have sources of adaptive capacity and resilience that can sustain ecosystem services and human well-being through active ecosystem stewardship.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation (2011, background): “Keywords Social-ecological systems Innovation Transformation Resilience transitions Sustainability”
Reconnecting to the Biosphere (2011, background): “We call this challenge transformability, that is, the capacity to create untried beginnings from which to evolve a new way of living when existing ecological, economic, and social conditions make the current system untenable (Chapin et al. 2010; Folke et al. 2010).”
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