A5026738606- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Community Health and Development
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Stockholm Resilience Centre
2015-2024
Stockholm University
2015-2024
Wageningen University & Research
2023-2024
McGill University
2007-2010
Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well practitioners' can provide valid useful to enhance our understanding of governance biodiversity ecosystems for human well-being. There is, therefore, a great need within emerging global assessment programs, such the IPBES other international efforts, develop functioning mechanisms legitimate, transparent, constructive ways creating synergies across systems. We present multiple evidence base (MEB) an approach that proposes parallels whereby...
Indigenous peoples and local communities live in, manage own vast areas often rich in biodiversity critical for ecosystem services. Bridging indigenous knowledge systems with scientific is vital to enhance knowledge, practice, ethics move towards sustainability at multiple scales. We focus on international science-policy processes present a framework evidence-based guidance how tasks mobilise, translate, negotiate, synthesise apply forms of evidence can bridge systems. Effective engagement...
Environmentalists have argued that ecological degradation will lead to declines in the well-being of people dependent on ecosystem services. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment paradoxically found human has increased despite large global most We assess four explanations these divergent trends: (1) measured incorrectly; (2) is food services, which are increasing, and not other services declining; (3) technology decoupled from nature; (4) time lags may future well-being. Our findings discount...
Working with indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is vital for inclusive assessments of nature nature's linkages people. Indigenous peoples' concepts about what constitutes sustainability, example, differ markedly from dominant sustainability discourses. The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystems Services (IPBES) promoting dialogue across different systems globally. In 2017, member states IPBES adopted an ILK Approach including: procedures people; a participatory mechanism;...
Bodin, Ö., G. Robins, R. J. McAllister, A. Guerrero, B. Crona, M. Tengö, and Lubell. 2016. Theorizing benefits constraints in collaborative environmental governance: a transdisciplinary social-ecological network approach for empirical investigations. Ecology Society 21(1):40.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08368-210140
Current sustainability challenges – including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change require new ways of understanding, acting in caring for the landscapes we live in. The concept stewardship is increasingly used research, policy practice to articulate describe responses these challenges. However, there are multiple meanings framings across this wide user base that reflect different disciplinary purposes, assumptions expertise, as well a long history use both academic lay contexts....
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there still poor understanding how navigate tensions that emerge these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide co-produced knowledge action foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as emergent feature vital for turning into Co-productive agility refers willingness...
Abstract Citizen science (CS) is receiving increasing attention as a conduit for Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in ecosystem stewardship conservation. Drawing on field experience scientific literature, we explore the connection between CS ILK demonstrate approaches how can generate useful while at same time strengthening systems. invites laypersons to contribute observations, perspectives, interpretations feeding into In contrast, be understood systems its own right, with practices...
Many services generated by forest ecosystems provide essential support for human well-being. However, the vulnerability of these to environmental change such as fragmentation are still poorly understood. We present spatial modeling generation ecosystem in a human-dominated landscape where habitat patches, protected local taboos, located matrix cultivated land southern Madagascar. Two dependent on habitats were addressed: (1) crop pollination wild and semidomesticated bees (Apoidea),...
Biggs, R., C. Raudsepp-Hearne, Atkinson-Palombo, E. Bohensky, Boyd, G. Cundill, H. Fox, S. Ingram, K. Kok, Spehar, M. Tengö, D. Timmer, and Zurek 2007. Linking futures across scales: a dialog on multiscale scenarios. Ecology Society 12(1): 17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02051-120117
Abstract How to create and adjust governing institutions so that they align (fit) with complex ecosystem processes structures across scales is an issue of increasing concern in conservation. It argued lack such social‐ecological fit makes governance conservation difficult, yet progress explicitly defining rigorously testing what constitutes a good has been limited. We used novel modeling approach data from case studies fishery forest empirically test presumed relationships between outcomes...
Co-production between scientific and Indigenous knowledge has been identified as useful to generating adaptation pathways with peoples, who are attached their traditional lands thus highly exposed the impacts of climate change. However, ignoring complex contested histories nation-state colonisation can result in naïve plans that increase vulnerability. Here, through a case study central Australia, we investigate conditions under which co-production support change among place-attached...
Non-technical summary Nature and culture are intricately linked the rapid loss of both biological cultural diversity around globe has led to increasing concerns about its effects on sustainability. Important efforts understand biocultural relations bolster sustainable practices have been made by scientists, local communities, civil society organizations policy makers. In spite their efforts, a stronger articulation between sectors discourses is needed for broader transformative impact. Here,...
Tengö, M. and K. Belfrage 2004. Local Management Practices for Dealing with Change Uncertainty: A Cross-scale Comparison of Cases in Sweden Tanzania. Ecology Society 9(3):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00672-090304
Loss of tropical forests and changes in land-use/land-cover are growing concern worldwide. Although knowledge exists about the institutional context which forest loss is embedded, little known role social institutions influencing regeneration forests. In present study we used Landsat images from southern Madagascar three different years (1984, 1993 2000) covering 5500 km(2), made a time-series analysis distinct large-scale patterns: 1) cover, 2) increased 3) stable cover. Institutional...