The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services

S Keesstra, J Nunes, A Novara, D Finger… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services-goods and
resources-ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to …

Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development

B Reyers, ER Selig - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - nature.com
We are approaching a reckoning point in 2020 for global targets that better articulate the
interconnections between biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable development …

Hydrological drought explained

AF Van Loon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is a complex natural hazard that impacts ecosystems and society in many ways.
Many of these impacts are associated with hydrological drought (drought in rivers, lakes …

Piloting a social-ecological index for measuring flood resilience: A composite index approach

I Kotzee, B Reyers - Ecological indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
Global increases in the magnitude and frequency of flood events have raised concerns that
traditional flood management approaches may not be sufficient to deal with future …

Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into disaster risk reduction

B Reyers, JL Nel, PJ O'Farrell… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered
by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the …

Land use/land cover change and statistical modelling of cultivated land change drivers in Nigeria

AO Arowolo, X Deng - Regional environmental change, 2018 - Springer
In recent decades, human activities have significantly influenced land use/land cover.
Identifying pattern changes in regional land use/land cover and their drivers is crucial for …

Achieving the national development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investment in ecological infrastructure: A case study of South …

TL Cumming, RT Shackleton, J Förster, J Dini, A Khan… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ecological infrastructure (EI) refers to ecosystems that deliver services to society, functioning
as a nature-based equivalent of, or complement to, built infrastructure. EI is critical for socio …

Scenarios and models to support global conservation targets

E Nicholson, EA Fulton, TM Brooks, R Blanchard… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
Global biodiversity targets have far-reaching implications for nature conservation worldwide.
Scenarios and models hold unfulfilled promise for ensuring such targets are well founded …

Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society

R Biggs, HS Clements, GS Cumming… - Ecosystems and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as an important area of
sustainability science, informing and supporting pressing issues of transformation towards …

Opportunities and advances to mainstream nature-based solutions in disaster risk management and climate strategy

S Dhyani, M Karki, AK Gupta - … based solutions for resilient ecosystems and …, 2020 - Springer
There has been tremendous advancement around the world in terms of conceptualisation,
research, implementation and policy uptake for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to address …