| Literature DB >> 19923035 |
F Stuart Chapin1, Stephen R Carpenter, Gary P Kofinas, Carl Folke, Nick Abel, William C Clark, Per Olsson, D 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.
Abstract
Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster the 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. As we discuss here, 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. Copyright 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19923035 DOI： 10.1016/j.tree.2009.10.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Ecol Evol ISSN： 0169-5347 Impact factor: 17.712