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Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

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Chapin, F. Stuart, Carpenter, Stephen R., Kofinas, Gary P., Folke, Carl, Abel, Nick, Clark, William C., Olsson, Per, Smith, D. Mark Stafford +9 more·2010·Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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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.

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  • Stewardship of social systems inherently involves risk, trade-offs, and nonuniform benefits and costs.

    “As with conservation biology and medicine, the stewardship of social systems inherently involves risk, trade-offs, and nonuniform benefits and costs (147).”

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  • The ethical issues raised by stewardship of social systems, like those associated with ecological systems, will require input from philosophy, public policy, and disciplines across the humanities.

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Chapin, F. S., Carpenter, S. R., Kofinas, G. P., Folke, C., Abel, N., Clark, W. C., Olsson, P., Smith, D. M. S., Walker, B., Young, O. R., Berkes, F., Biggs, R., Grove, J. M., Naylor, R. L., Pinkerton, E., Steffen, W., & Swanson, F. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (SE)
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Stockholm Resilience Centre (SE)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
  • University of Manitoba (CA)
  • US Forest Service (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Simon Fraser University (CA)
  • Australian National University (AU)
Corresponding author
  • Chapin, F. Stuart
  • Carpenter, Stephen R.
  • Kofinas, Gary P.
  • Folke, Carl
  • Abel, Nick
  • Clark, William C.
  • Olsson, Per
  • Walker, Brian
  • Berkes, Fikret
  • Biggs, Reinette
  • Grove, J. Morgan
  • Naylor, Rosamond L.
  • Pinkerton, Evelyn
  • Steffen, Will
  • Swanson, Frederick J.
Venue
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-04
Volume
25
Issue
4
Pages
241-249
ISSN
0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2110512393
Cited by
971
References
89
Citations by year
2026: 28 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 59 · 2018: 109 · 2017: 61 · 2016: 64 · 2015: 85 · 2014: 77 · 2013: 57 · 2012: 59
FWCI
4.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (0640638)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
Keywords
ecosystem stewardship, socio-ecological sustainability, social-ecological systems, adaptive capacity, resilience, ecosystem services, human well-being, environmental uncertainty, abrupt environmental change, stress reduction, proactive policy
MeSH terms
Conservation of Natural Resources, Humans, Ecosystem, Climate Change

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