Valuation of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services: Economic Methods
This explainer provides an overview of the valuation of ecosystem services as a way to measure individual and social preferences, including:
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Ecological Networks and Structured Decision Making for Ecosystem Management
Abstract: Ecological communities are frequently subject to natural and human-induced additions of species, as species shift their ranges under climate change, invasions occur, and species are re-introduced for conservation. Because species interact in complex networks, the outcomes of gaining new species for ecological communities are difficult to predict.
Reframing Rangeland Sustainability Science: Triangulating Ecological Variability, Pastoralist Livelihoods, and Knowledge Systems in Kenya
Abstract: A wide range of social science research has shown how the expertise of pastoralists enables them to thrive in highly variable rangeland environments, often modifying their livelihood practices in complex ways in response to new social, political, economic, and biophysical uncertainties. However, due to numerous disciplinary and conceptual divides, these understandings remain largely absent from analyses of landscape ecology in rangelands. In this talk, Dr.
Is Nitrogen Becoming Less Available in Terrestrial Ecosystems?
Abstract: Nitrogen (N) is both necessary for life and potentially harmful to it, so the amount and distribution of reactive forms of nitrogen around the world is an important matter. While N is often viewed as a pollutant (think fertilizer runoff and ocean dead zones), there are reasons to expect that rising atmospheric CO2 and other global changes are rendering N less accessible to plants and microorganisms.
The Toolbox Initiative: An Approach to Facilitating Discussion Among Interdisciplinary Teams
Interdisciplinary Graduate Training in Sustainability Guide
How Politics, Society, & Tech Shape Climate Change
Read the new study from SESYNC researchers in Nature now.
The effects of defaunation on plants’ capacity to track climate change
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Increasing the uptake of ecological model results in policy decisions to improve biodiversity outcomes
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Video: Introduction to Futures Thinking in Socio-Environmental Systems
Introduction to Futures Thinking in Socio-Environmental Systems
In this tutorial video, Dr. Jaime Ashander, of Resources for the Future, provides an introduction to futures modeling for socio-environmental systems (SES). This video covers the following topics:
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