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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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- University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
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- 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)
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- 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.
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- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
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- 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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