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Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet
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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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- Authors
- 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.
- ORCID
- 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
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- 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
- green
- nrs.harvard.edu
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- 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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