Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet
Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster social-ecological sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current understanding in an environment of inevitable uncertainty and abrupt change: reducing the magnitude of, and exposure and sensitivity to, known stresses; focusing on proactive policies that shape change; and avoiding or escaping unsustainable social-ecological traps. All social-ecological systems are vulnerable to recent and projected changes but have sources of adaptive capacity and resilience that can sustain ecosystem services and human well-being through active ecosystem stewardship.
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2010
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Authors: | Steffen, Will ; Young, Oran R. ; Grove, J. Morgan ; Kofinas, Gary P. ; Carpenter, Stephen R. ; Folke, Carl ; Abel, Nick ; Olsson, Per ; Smith, D. Mark Stafford ; Walker, Brian ; Berkes, Fikret ; Biggs, Reinette ; Naylor, Rosamond L. ; Pinkerton, Evelyn ; Swanson, Frederick J ; Clark, William C. ; Chapin, F. Stuart |
Institutions: | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
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