Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet
Preprint 2010 en
Authors
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Will Steffen
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Oran R. Young
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J. Morgan Grove
Abstract
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Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster 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. 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.
F. Stuart Chapin, Stephen R. Carpenter, Gary P. Kofinas, Carl Folke, Nick Abel, William C. Clark, Per Olsson, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Brian Walker, Oran R. Young, Fikret Berkes, Reinette Biggs, J. Morgan Grove, Rosamond L. Naylor, Evelyn Pinkerton, Will Steffen, Frederick J. Swanson
Will Steffen, Oran R. Young, J. Morgan Grove, Gary P. Kofinas, Stephen R. Carpenter, Carl Folke, Nick Abel, Per Olsson, D. Mark Stafford Smith, Brian Walker, Fikret Berkes, Reinette Biggs, Rosamond L. Naylor, Evelyn Pinkerton, Frederick J. Swanson, William C. Clark, F. Stuart Chapin
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