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Kurt Jax
Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Publications - 67
Citations - 4983
Kurt Jax is an academic researcher from Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem services & Ecology (disciplines). The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 62 publications receiving 4129 citations. Previous affiliations of Kurt Jax include Technische Universität München & University of Magallanes.
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Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience: Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object
Fridolin S. Brand,Kurt Jax +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the variety of definitions of resilience within sustainability science and suggested a typology according to the specific degree of normativity of the concept of resilience, and argued that a clearly specified, descriptive concept is critical in providing a counterbalance to the use of resilience as a vague boundary object.
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Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
Kai M. A. Chan,Patricia Balvanera,Karina Benessaiah,Mollie Chapman,Sandra Díaz,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Rachelle K. Gould,Neil Hannahs,Kurt Jax,Sarah C. Klain,Gary W. Luck,Berta Martín-López,Barbara Muraca,Bryan G. Norton,Konrad Ott,Unai Pascual,Terre Satterfield,Marc Tadaki,Jonathan Taggart,Nancy J. Turner +19 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that focusing only on instrumental or intrinsic values may fail to resonate with views on personal and collective well-being, or “what is right,” with regard to nature and the environment, and it is time to engage seriously with a third class of values, one with diverse roots and current expressions: relational values.
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Ecosystem services and ethics
Kurt Jax,Kurt Jax,David N. Barton,Kai M. A. Chan,Rudolf de Groot,Ulrike Doyle,Uta Eser,Christoph Görg,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Yuliana Griewald,Wolfgang Haber,Roy Haines-Young,Ulrich Heink,Thomas Jahn,Hans Joosten,Lilin Kerschbaumer,Horst Korn,Gary W. Luck,Bettina Matzdorf,Barbara Muraca,Barbara Muraca,Carsten Neßhöver,Bryan G. Norton,Konrad Ott,Marion Potschin,Felix Rauschmayer,Christina von Haaren,Sabine Wichmann +28 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic analysis of the ethical implications associated with the ESS concept is presented, and the authors highlight the dangers that some uses of the concept have in obscuring certain types of value and masking unevenness in the distribution of costs and benefits that can arise in the management of ESS.
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Benefits and limitations of the ecosystem services concept in environmental policy and decision making: Some stakeholder perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the empirical results which emerged from stakeholder discussions within the PRESS (PEER Research on EcoSystem Services) project on certain unresolved challenges related to the use of the ecosystem services (ES) concept in decision making.
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Function and “functioning” in ecology: what does it mean?
TL;DR: The current paper describes the different meanings of “function” and discusses the requirements necessary to unambiguously apply the concept(s) in practice.