Some people claim that we have recently witnessed a tipping point in the perceptions and
values of western-oriented leaders and others involved in issues related to global …

Highlights•The concept of social–ecological systems highlights the interlinked dynamics of
environmental and societal change.•Further mainstreaming this concept promises major …

The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the
dynamics of social–ecological systems. This article presents the origin of the resilience …

Social scientists, and scholars in related interdisciplinary fields, have critiqued resilience
thinking's oversimplification of social dimensions of coupled social-ecological systems …

We argue that globalization is a central feature of coupled human–environment systems or,
as we call them, socio-ecological systems (SESs). In this article, we focus on the effects of …

Although strategies to prevent global warming–such as by conserving energy, relying on
solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use–are well-known, societies have …

While ecologists involved in management or policy often are advised to learn to deal with
uncertainty, there are a number of components of global environmental change of which we …

The source of the global, systemic problem of global climate change (GCC) is principally
human activities (anthropogenic forces). While an understanding of climate change is the …

Our human-dominant world can be viewed as being built up in two parts, social and
ecological systems, each consisting of multi-level organizations that interact in a complex …

Our relationships with the landscapes and ecologies that we are a part of, the plants and
animals that we share them with, and the natural resources that we extract, lie at the heart of …