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Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

Joern Fischer, +20 more
- 01 Jun 2015 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 14, pp 144-149
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The concept of social-ecological systems is useful for understanding the interlinked dynamics of environmental and societal change as discussed by the authors, which has helped facilitate increased recognition of the dependence of humanity on ecosystems; improved collaboration across disciplines, and between science and society; increased methodological pluralism leading to improved systems understanding; and major policy frameworks considering socialecological interactions.
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This article is published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.The article was published on 2015-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 282 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability.

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Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

Terry P. Hughes, +14 more
- 01 Jun 2017 - 
TL;DR: The global challenge is to steer reefs through the Anthropocene era in a way that maintains their biological functions and will require radical changes in the science, management and governance of coral reefs.
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Leverage points for sustainability transformation

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TL;DR: It is argued that many sustainability interventions target highly tangible, but essentially weak, leverage points (i.e. using interventions that are easy, but have limited potential for transformational change), and there is an urgent need to focus on less obvious but potentially far more powerful areas of intervention.
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Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

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- 29 Sep 2016 - 
TL;DR: Folke et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science model for sustainable living in ecology and society, 21(3):41, doi:10.5751/ES-08748-210341.
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A Review and Typology of Circular Economy Business Model Patterns

Florian Lüdeke-Freund, +3 more
- 01 Feb 2019 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct a morphological analysis of 26 current circular economy business models from the literature, which includes defining their major business model dimensions and identifying the specific characteristics of these dimensions.
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The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

Jos Barlow, +20 more
- 25 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: The immense biodiversity of tropical ecosystems is threatened by multiple interacting local and global stressors that can only be addressed by the concerted efforts of grassroots organizations, researchers, national governments and the international community.
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A safe operating space for humanity

Johan Rockström, +40 more
- 23 Sep 2009 - 
TL;DR: Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockstrom and colleagues.

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A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems

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TL;DR: A general framework is used to identify 10 subsystem variables that affect the likelihood of self-organization in efforts to achieve a sustainable SES.
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David Tilman, +3 more
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TL;DR: Per capita demand for crops, when measured as caloric or protein content of all crops combined, has been a similarly increasing function of per capita real income since 1960 and forecasts a 100–110% increase in global crop demand from 2005 to 2050.
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Fischer, J., Gardner, T. A., Bennett, A. M., Blavanera, P., Biggs, R, Carpenter, S., Daw, T., Folke, C., Hill, R., Hughes, T this paper, Meacham, M., Norström, A., Peterson, G., Queiroz, C, Seppelt, R. J., and Tenhunen, J. ( 2015 ) Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social-ecological systems perspective. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2015 (