Editorial: “Ecological wisdom inspired practice research for building resilient communities in socio-ecological systems”

Ecological and Socio-ecological Economic Models

Rewilding ecological communities and rewiring ecological networks

Rewilding encompasses management actions such as reintroductions and translocations with the purpose of restoring ecological processes and ecosystem functions that were lost when species were locally extirpated. The success of a species introduction is conditioned by multiple factors, in particular, ecological interactions. To predict the fate of the introduced population and the community-leve...

Building capacity for resilience in social- ecological systems

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Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems.

Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that require flexible governance with the ability to respond to environmental feedback. We present, through examples from Sweden and Canada, the development of adaptive comanagement systems, showing how local groups self-organize, learn, and actively adapt to and shape change with social networks that connect institutions and organizations across levels a...

The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research

The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research Oran R. Young, Frans Berkhout, Gilberto Gallopin, Marco A. Janssen , Elinor Ostrom, Sander van der Leeuw Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131, USA Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterda...