A5004374890- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Q Methodology Applications
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Urban Green Space and Health
University of Exeter
2014-2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2024
NIHR School for Public Health Research
2024
National Institute for Health Research
2024
University of East Anglia
1992-2014
Universidade Federal Fluminense
2014
National University of Singapore
2014
University of Oxford
2014
Center for International Forestry Research
2014
Ikerbasque
2014
Adaptation is a process of deliberate change in anticipation or reaction to external stimuli and stress. The dominant research tradition on adaptation environmental primarily takes an actor-centered view, focusing the agency social actors respond specific emphasizing reduction vulnerabilities. resilience approach systems orientated, more dynamic sees adaptive capacity as core feature resilient social-ecological systems. two approaches converge identifying necessary components adaptation. We...
Anthropogenic global warming has significantly influenced physical and biological processes at regional scales. The observed anticipated changes in climate present significant opportunities challenges for societies economies. We compare the vulnerability of 132 national economies to potential change impacts on their capture fisheries using an indicator-based approach. Countries Central Western Africa (e.g. Malawi, Guinea, Senegal, Uganda), Peru Colombia north-western South America, four...
SUMMARY The concept of ecosystem services (ES), the benefits humans derive from ecosystems, is increasingly applied to environmental conservation, human well-being and poverty alleviation, inform development interventions. Payments for (PES) implicitly recognize unequal distribution costs maintaining ES, through monetary compensation ‘winners’ ‘losers’. Some research into PES has examined how such schemes affect poverty, while other literature addresses trade-offs between different ES....
Although conservation efforts have sometimes succeeded in meeting environmental goals at the expense of equity considerations, changing context and a growing body evidence increasingly suggest that considerations should be integrated into planning implementation. However, this approach is often perceived to odds with prevailing focus on economic efficiency characterizes many payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes. Drawing from examples across literature, we show how impacts PES can...
Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices more urgent, yet appears ever daunting as attempts behaviour change, regulations, global agreements confront material social-political infrastructures that support the status quo. Effective action requires new ways conceptualizing society, climate environment current struggles to break free established categories. In response, this contribution revisits important insights from social sciences...
Managing ecosystems for multiple ecosystem services and balancing the well-being of diverse stakeholders involves different kinds trade-offs. Often trade-offs involve noneconomic difficult-to-evaluate values, such as cultural identity, employment, poor people, or particular species structures. Although need to be considered successful environmental management, they are often overlooked in favor win-wins. Management policy decisions demand approaches that can explicitly acknowledge evaluate...
Climate change is altering the productivity of natural resources with far-reaching implications for those who depend on them. Resource-dependent industries and communities need capacity to adapt a range climate risks if they are remain viable. In some instances, scale nature likely impacts means that transformations function or structure will be required. Transformations represent switch distinct new system where different suite factors become important in design implementation response...
Polycentric governance involves multiple actors at scales beyond the state. The potential of polycentric for promoting both climate mitigation and adaptation is well established. Yet, dominant conceptualizations pay scant attention to how power dynamics affect structure outcomes action. We review emerging evidence on within distributed across climate, forestry, marine, coastal, urban, water sectors, relate them established positions research federalism, decentralization, international...
Daw, T. M., C. Hicks, K. Brown, Chaigneau, F. Januchowski-Hartley, W. Cheung, S. Rosendo, B. Crona, Coulthard, Sandbrook, Perry, Bandeira, N. A. Muthiga, Schulte-Herbrüggen, J. Bosire, and R. McClanahan. 2016. Elasticity in ecosystem services: exploring the variable relationship between ecosystems human well-being. Ecology Society 21(2):11.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08173-210211
Faulkner, L., K. Brown, and T. Quinn. 2018. Analyzing community resilience as an emergent property of dynamic social-ecological systems. Ecology Society 23(1):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09784-230124
(2011). Sustainable adaptation to climate change. Climate and Development: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 3-6.
It is well established that ecosystems bring meaning and well-being to individuals, often articulated through attachment place. Degradation threats places have been shown lead loss of well-being. Here, we suggest the interactions between ecosystem declining may involve both emotional responses associated with grief, observable impacts on mental health. We test these ideas so-called ecological grief by examining individual response well-documented publicized degradation: coral bleaching...
Trade-offs are manifestations of the complex dynamics in interdependent social-ecological systems.Addressing tradeoffs involves challenges perception due to interdependence.We outline associated with addressing trade-offs and analyze knowledge coproduction as a practice that may contribute tackling systems.We discuss this through case study coastal Kenya which an iterative process was facilitated reveal face ecological socioeconomic change.Representatives communities, government, NGOs...
This article assesses the extent to which our conceptualisation, understanding and empirical analysis of ecosystem services are inherently gendered; in other words, how they might be biased unbalanced terms their appreciation gender differences. We do this by empirically investigating women men able benefit from across eight communities coastal Kenya Mozambique. Our results highlight different dimensions wellbeing affected services, these valued differently women. However, it is not just...
Failure to stem trends of ecological disruption and associated loss ecosystem services worldwide is partly due the inadequate integration human dimension into environmental decision-making. Decision-makers need knowledge resource systems social consequences decision-making if management be effective adaptive. Social scientists have a central role play, but little guidance exists help them influence processes. We distil 348 years cumulative experience shared by 31 experts across three...