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Spatial characterization of social-ecological systems units for management in Tropical Dry Forests
ContextUnderstanding the complex interdependencies between nature and people is a major challenge for the sustainable management of social-ecological...
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Landscape conservation in the natural-rural interface. A social-ecological approach in Natural Parks of Andalusia (Spain)
ContextMultifunctional rural landscapes are social-ecological systems that represent a link between nature and culture. They are characterized by the...
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Living with wildlife: a review of advances in social-ecological analysis across landscapes
ContextAn exciting research frontier is the intersection of wildlife ecology and social science. Associated research is embracing a spatial approach...
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Open SESAME: a social-ecological systems framework for collaborative adaptive management and engagement in coastal restoration and climate adaptation
The successful implementation and sustainability of many marsh restoration efforts, including coastal adaptation to buffer inundation and mitigate...
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Social and ecological drivers of behavior that prevents aquatic invasive species transport
Aquatic invasive species (AIS) have caused widespread damage to environmental and socio-economic systems across the globe. One vector of biological...
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The social-ecological resilience indicators of organic rice production in Northeastern Thailand
Uncertainties in agriculture have been posing serious threats to organic farmers, especially the marginal ones in develo** countries such as...
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The Human Factor: Coastal Social-Ecological Systems
After the comprehensive description of the ecosystem processes in Chap. 4 , the following paragraphs...
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Impact of social integration and government support on ecological immigrants’ vulnerability to poverty
This study identifies ways to help ecological immigrants adapt—socially, economically, psychologically, and culturally—to life in the resettlement...
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Cork oak woodlands and decline: a social-ecological review and future transdisciplinary approaches
Cork oak woodlands are socio-ecosystems recognized as biodiversity hotspots, a fundamental economic source for companies and local communities as...
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Detecting social-ecological resilience thresholds of cultural landscapes along an urban–rural gradient: a methodological approach based on Bayesian Networks
ContextThe difficulty of analysing resilience and threshold responses to changing environmental drivers becomes evident in the social-ecological...
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Is it because of climate change? Social-ecological system analysis of wetland protected area in Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Wetland protected areas (WPA) are among the most productive natural environments, providing substantial socio-economic benefits to humans as well as...
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Ecological Restoration: A Critical Social and Political Practice
Ecological restoration is a social practice filled with the meaning making and the messiness of real life. This chapter describes the ways that...
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Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes
ContextEcosystem services provided by mountain forests are critically linked to forest structure. Social-ecological disturbance regimes (i.e., the...
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Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration
ContextPayments for Ecosystem Services (PES) has increasingly been used in ecological conservation efforts through implementing forest policies...
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Towards a pedagogy of social-ecological collaborations: engaging students and urban nonprofits for an ecology with cities
The concept of ecology with cities calls for a broader scope of participatory research and pedagogical tools for engagement with urban environmental...
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Coastal Ecosystems from a Social-Ecological Perspective
This Chapter has the function of introducing the different starting positions of the authors and to provide a first list of viewpoints on...
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Theories in landscape ecology. An overview of theoretical contributions merging spatial, ecological and social logics in the study of cultural landscapes
ContextLandscape ecology is endowed with a wealth of accumulated insights into how spatial, ecological and social research can be fruitfully combined...
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Forests as Complex Social and Ecological Systems A Festschrift for Chadwick D. Oliver
Professor Chadwick Dearing Oliver has made major intellectual contributions to forest science and natural resources management. Over the course of...
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EU-wide map** of ‘Protected Designations of Origin’ food products (PDOs) reveals correlations with social-ecological landscape values
The Geographical Indications (GIs) scheme is the EU’s primary policy tool for increasing the market values of geographically distinct food products....
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Perceived social-ecological benefits of insect pollinators in Mufulira mining district of Zambia
Insect pollination plays an important provisioning and cultural ecosystem services to humans, largely contributing to food security and enhancing...
