Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet

 
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Chapin, F. Stuart
Carpenter, Stephen R.
Kofinas, Gary P.
Folke, Carl
Abel, Nick
Olsson, Per
Smith, D. Mark Stafford
Walker, Brian
Young, Oran R.
Berkes, Fikret
Biggs, Reinette
Grove, J. Morgan
Naylor, Rosamond L.
Pinkerton, Evelyn
Steffen, Will
Swanson, Frederick J
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.10.008
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Chapin, F. S., Stephen R. Carpenter, Gary P. Kofinas, et al. 2010. Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet." Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25 (4):241-249.
Abstract
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.
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