A5038914354- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Community Health and Development
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Q Methodology Applications
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Local Economic Development and Planning
Stockholm Resilience Centre
2017-2023
Stockholm University
2016-2023
Rhodes University
2021-2023
Stellenbosch University
2021
Urban green infrastructure provides ecosystem services that are essential to human wellbeing. A dearth of national-scale assessments in the Global South has precluded ability explore how political regimes, such as forced racial segregation Africa during and after Apartheid, have influenced extent access over time. We investigate whether there disparities distributions across race income geographies urban Africa. Using open-source satellite imagery geographic information, along with national...
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....
The establishment of interdisciplinary Master's and PhD programs in sustainability science is opening up an exciting arena filled with opportunities for early-career scholars to address pressing challenges. However, embarking upon endeavor as scholar poses a unique set challenges: develop individual scientific identity strong specific methodological skill-set, while at the same time gaining ability understand communicate between different epistemologies. Here, we explore challenges that...
Non-technical abstract Decisions on the use of nature reflect values and rights individuals, communities society at large. The are expressed through cultural norms, rules legislation, they can be elicited using a wide range tools, including those economics. None approaches to elicit peoples’ neutral. Unequal power relations influence valuation decision-making core most environmental conflicts. As actors in sustainability thinking, scientists practitioners becoming more aware their own...
Social-ecological (SE) traps refer to persistent mismatches between the responses of people, or organisms, and their social ecological conditions that are undesirable from a sustainability perspective. Until now, occurrence SE is primarily explained lack adaptive capacity; not much attention paid other causal factors. In our article, we address this concern by theorizing variety human effect these on trap dynamics. Besides (adaptive) capacities, theorize desires, abilities opportunities as...
Barreteau, O., D. Giband, M. Schoon, J. Cerceau, F. DeClerck, S. Ghiotti, T. James, V. Masterson, R. Mathevet, Rode, Ricci, and C. Therville. 2016. Bringing together social-ecological system territoire concepts to explore nature-society dynamics. Ecology Society 21(4):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08834-210442
Masterson, V. A., S. L. Mahajan, and M. Tengö. 2018. Photovoice for mobilizing insights on human well-being in complex social-ecological systems: case studies from Kenya South Africa. Ecology Society 23(3):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10259-230313
Non-technical summary We argue that the ways in which we as humans derive well-being from nature – for example by harvesting firewood, selling fish or enjoying natural beauty feed back into how behave towards environment. This feedback is mediated institutions (rules, regulations) and individual capacities to act. Understanding these relationships can guide better interventions sustainably improving alleviating poverty. However, more attention needs be paid experience-related benefits...
Despite a general awareness of the social–ecological complexities within which conservation interventions are embedded, approaches to understanding diversity local perspectives heterogeneous landscapes and how they matter for outcomes these seldom demonstrated. We apply approach exploring multiple place meanings related key landscape elements around proposed community intervention on Wild Coast, South Africa, by identifying analyzing three narratives about this impending change. These...
In attempts to reconcile conservation and development for poverty alleviation by establishing protected areas, economic values of nature compensation loss access resources are often prioritized over cultural personal values. Additionally, interventions in local communities hindered contested visions sustainability. We explore the utility place meanings unpack diverse interests examining an intervention that proposed establish a fenced area community on Wild Coast, South Africa. describe...
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as an important area of sustainability science, informing and supporting pressing issues transformation towards more sustainable, just equitable futures. To date, much SES been done in or from the Global North, where challenges contexts for transformations are substantially different South. This paper synthesises emerging insights on dynamics that can inform actions advance to support specifically southern African context. The draws work...
<p>Urban green infrastructure provides ecosystem services that are essential to human wellbeing. A dearth of national-scale assessments in the Global South has precluded ability explore how political regimes, such as forced racial segregation Africa during and after Apartheid, have influenced extent access over time. We investigate whether there disparities distributions across race income geographies urban Africa. Using open-source satellite imagery geographic information, along with...
Rural people’s livelihoods are intimately linked to the landscapes in which they live and particularly vulnerable changes these (Suich et al [...]
Non-technical summary We argue that the ways in which we as humans derive well-being from nature – for example by harvesting firewood, selling fish or enjoying natural beauty feed back into how behave towards environment. This feedback is mediated institutions (rules, regulations) and individual capacities to act. Understanding these relationships can guide better interventions sustainably improving alleviating poverty. However, more attention needs be paid experience-related benefits...
Sustainability-focused research networks and communities of practice have emerged as a key response strategy to build capacity knowledge support transformation towards more sustainable, just equitable futures. This paper synthesises insights from the development community on social-ecological systems (SES) in southern Africa over past decade, linked international Programme Ecosystem Change Society (PECS). consists network researchers who carry out place-based SES African region. They...