Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge to human societies, reducing
food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity …

In the face of major shifts in temperature and precipitation, some conventional strategies that
help people to cope or incrementally adapt to climate change may become inappropriate in …

Observed changes and impacts Ongoing climate trends have exacerbated many extreme
events (very high confidence). The Australian trends include further warming and sea level …

The climate of Sri Lanka has been fluctuating at an alarming rate during the recent past.
These changes are reported to have pronounced impacts on the livelihoods of the people in …

Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of
climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling …

Mountain social-ecological systems (SES) supply important ecosystem services that are
threatened by climate change. In mountain SES there is a paradox between high community …

We examine issues to consider when reframing conservation science and practice in the
context of global change. New framings of the links between ecosystems and society are …

Ecosystem transformation can be defined as the emergence of a self‐organizing, self‐
sustaining, ecological or social–ecological system that deviates from prior ecosystem …

Climate change and its interactions with complex socioeconomic dynamics dictate the need
for decision makers to move from incremental adaptation toward transformation as societies …

Ecosystems can sustain social adaptation to environmental change by protecting people
from climate change effects and providing options for sustaining material and non-material …