Principles for Building Resilience
Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems
Number of pages: 311
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
BBB Library: Technology and Globalization
ISBN: 978-1107082656
Editorial Review
We live in a world of rapid and unprecedented change. There’s growing evidence that the massive scale and extent of human activities such as transport and release of novel chemicals are undermining the capacity of nature to generate key ecosystem services on which we depend. A variety of novel and unpredictable effects that are difficult for society to cope with are of particular concern. Effects such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and changes in the nutrient cycles are increasing the incidence of highly disruptive and unpredictable shocks such as large storms and disease outbreaks.
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There’s growing evidence that the massive scale and extent of human activities such as transport and release of novel chemicals are undermining the capacity of nature to generate key ecosystem services on which we depend.
Fundamental to the resilience approach is the assumption that people are embedded in the biosphere at local to global scales, where they interact with and help shape the environment.
Diversity is wildly held to be important for resilience because it provides options for responding to change.
Systems with many different components are generally more resilient than systems with few or less heterogeneous components.
Response diversity in combination with functional redundancy is particularly important for providing options to maintain ecosystem services in the face of disturbance.
Measuring and monitoring of diversity and redundancy should be linked to particular ecosystem services as far as possible, rather than relying on general methods.
The resilience value of diversity and redundancy should be weighed against the gains in efficiency derived from streamlining towards optimal exploitation types.
Managing slow variables and feedbacks is a critical aspect of managing resilience in SES and the ecosystem services they produce.
Coordination among scales and governance units, and negotiating trade-offs amongst ecosystem-service users at different scales, are critical to effective polycentric governance.
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