Resilience and vulnerability represent two related yet different approaches to understanding
the response of systems and actors to change; to shocks and surprises, as well as slow …

Archetypes are increasingly used as a methodological approach to understand recurrent
patterns in variables and processes that shape the sustainability of social-ecological …

Scaling up case-based knowledge to understand human-environmental interactions is key
to addressing the sustainability challenges we face in the Anthropocene. Mapping social …

" The world today is facing unprecedented challenges of governance far beyond what the
United Nations, established more than 70 years ago, was designed to face. The grave …

In sustainability research, archetype analysis reveals patterns of factors and processes that
repeatedly shape socialecological systems. These patterns help improve our understanding …

Drylands display specific vulnerability-creating mechanisms which threaten ecosystems and
human well-being. The upscaling of successful interventions to reduce vulnerability arises …

In current scientific efforts to harness complementarity between resilience and vulnerability
theory, one response is an 'epistemological shift'towards an evolutionary, learning based …

This paper presents a method for the analysis of socio-ecological patterns of vulnerability of
people being at risk of losing their livelihoods as a consequence of global environmental …

Food production is key to achieving food security in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa.
Since agricultural productivity is limited, however, due to inherent agro-ecological …

Smallholder livelihoods in the Peruvian Altiplano are frequently threatened by weather
extremes, including droughts, frosts and heavy rainfall. Given the persistence of significant …