Journal articles
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2023
Authors:
J. L. van Velden, R. Biggs, T. Hichert, P. Booth, C. Büchner-Marais, K. J. Esler, M. Lewarne, L. J. Potgieter, et al.
Invasive alien species (IAS) pose a key threat to biodiversity, the economy and human well-being, and continue to increase in abundance and impact worldwide. Legislation and policy currently dominate the global agenda fo [...]
Co-constructing dynamic thick/deep maps for doing transformative transdisciplinary research (TTDR) in the context of complex sustainability transitions
Publication:
International journal of sustainable development
Year:
2023
Authors:
John van Breda
Embarking upon sustainability transitions from an unsustainable towards a more sustainable world is a complex undertaking which cannot be approached with one-size-fits-all approaches (panaceas). The social and institutio [...]
Fostering transdisciplinary research for equitable and sustainable development pathways across Africa: what changes are needed?
Publication:
Ecosystems and People
Year:
2023
Authors:
Sheona Shackleton, Anna Taylor, Louise Gammage, Lindsey Gillson, Nadia Sitas, et al.
The transformations required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals across the African continent demand new ways of mobilising, weaving together, and applying knowledge. Research, policymaking, planning, and action [...]
Shaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19
Publication:
Nature Sustainability
Year:
2023
Authors:
Johan Rockström, Albert V. Norström, Nathanial Matthews, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Carl Folke, Ameil Harikishun, Saleemul Huq, Nisha Krishnan, Lila Warszawski, & Deon Nel
Science today defines resilience as the capacity to live and develop with change and uncertainty, which is well beyond just the ability to ‘bounce back’ to the status quo. It involves the capacity to absorb shocks, avoid [...]
Exploring social processes in transformation: the case of a collaborative water partnership in South Africa
Publication:
Ecosystems and People
Year:
2023
Authors:
Catherine B. Pringle, Richard Meissner, Reinette Biggs, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Sabine Stuart-Hill & Nadia Sitas
We explore the social processes supporting transformation towards collaborative water governance in the uMngeni catchment, South Africa. Using Holling’s adaptive cycle as a heuristic of phases (conservation, release, reo [...]
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2023
Authors:
Aline Mosnier, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Michael Obersteiner, Sarah Jones, Valeria Javalera-Rincon, Fabrice DeClerc, et al.
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands w [...]
A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems
Publication:
Environmental Research Letters
Year:
2023
Authors:
Aline Mosnier, Valeria Javalera-Rincon, Sarah K Jones, Robbie Andrew, Zhaohai Bai, Justin Baker, Shyam Basnet, Rizaldi Boer, John Chavarro, Wanderson Costa, Anne Sophie Daloz, et al.
The achievement of several sustainable development goals and the Paris Climate Agreement depends on rapid progress towards sustainable food and land systems in all countries. We have built a flexible, collaborative model [...]
Fostering transdisciplinary research for equitable and sustainable development pathways across Africa: what changes are needed?
Publication:
Ecosystems and People
Year:
2023
Authors:
Sheona Shackleton, Anna Taylor, Louise Gammage, Lindsey Gillson, Nadia Sitas, Nadine Methner, Shayan Barmand, Jessica Thorn, Alice McClure, Leigh Cobban, Astrid Jarre, Oghenekaro Nelson Odume
The transformations required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals across the African continent demand new ways of mobilising, weaving together, and applying knowledge. Research, policymaking, planning, and action [...]
Dietary patterns among adults in three low-income urban communities in Accra, Ghana
Publication:
PLoS One
Year:
2023
Authors:
Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor, Deda Ogum Alangea, Richmond Aryeetey, Ama de-Graft Aikins
Dietary patterns describe the dietary behaviour and habits of individuals. Unhealthy dietary patterns provide individuals with limited nutrients while increasing the risk of nutrition-related diseases. Unhealthy dietary [...]
Development of a facilitator guide for nutrition education on overweight and obesity in the Eastern Region of Ghana
Publication:
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
Year:
2023
Authors:
S. B. Kushitor, E. K. Colecraft
Overweight and obesity are global public health problems. Although overweight and obesity are high in urban areas, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing steadily in rural areas. However, interventions to [...]
Making adaptive management more user friendly to encourage manager buy-in
Publication:
People and Nature
Year:
2023
Authors:
Timothy Kuiper, Nobesuthu Ngwenya, Blessing Kavhu, Roseline Mandisodza-Chikerema, Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland
Adaptive management, whereby monitoring is used to evaluate management interventions with uncertain outcomes, is theoretically well-developed but poorly implemented. Previous work has identified several reasons for this, [...]
Predicting priority management areas for land use/cover change in the transboundary Okavango basin based on machine learning
Publication:
Heliyon
Year:
2023
Authors:
Blessing Kavhua, Zama Eric Mashimbyea, Linda Luvunob
Remote sensing and modelling of land use/land cover (LULC) change is useful to reveal the extent and spatial patterns of landscape changes at various environments and scales. Predicting susceptibility to LULC change is c [...]
The role of values in future scenarios: what types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures?
Publication:
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Year:
2023
Authors:
Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, Adrian Martin, Ritesh Kumar, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Rebecca Collins, Klaus Eisenack, Ellen Guimaraes, María Heras, Valerie Nelson, Aidin Niamir, Federica Ravera, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Patrick O’Farrell
Values have been recognized as critical leverage points for sustainability transformations. However, there is limited evidence unpacking which types of values are associated with specific types of sustainable and unsusta [...]
Participatory pathways to the Sustainable Development Goals: inviting divergent perspectives through a cross-scale systems approach
Publication:
Environmental Research Communications
Year:
2023
Authors:
David Collste, Ana Paula D Aguiar, Zuzana V Harmáčková, Diego Galafassi, Laura M Pereira, Odirilwe Selomane, Sander van Der Leeuw
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include social and ecological goals for humanity. Navigating towards reaching the goals requires the systematic inclusion of perspectives from a diversity of voices [...]
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa’s rhinoceroses
Publication:
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Year:
2023
Authors:
Dr Hayley Clements, Dave Balfour, Enrico Di Minin
A new path for rhinoceros (rhino) conservation is needed. Recent data signal the alarming impact of poaching on populations in Africa's rhino stronghold, the state-run Kruger National Park (South Africa), which today sup [...]
Linking the energy transition and economic development: A framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South
Publication:
ScienceDirect
Year:
2023
Authors:
Mark Swilling, Ivan Nygaard, Wikus Kruger, Holle Wlokas, Tasneem Jhetam, Megan Davies, Merin Jacob, Mike Morris, Glen Robbins, Mikkel Funder, Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Karen Holm Olsen, Elder Davy, Lena Kitzing, Bilal Siddique Khan, Tom Cronin
We are observing a significant increase in the deployment of large scale solar and wind technologies in the global south, and it is therefore a strategically and academically important focus of inquiry to understand cont [...]
Demistifying employment in South Africa’s Just Energy Transition: Exploring emerging decent work themes
Publication:
Development Southern Africa
Year:
2024
Authors:
Dr Nthabiseng Mohlakoana, Alboricah Tokologo Rathupetsane, Boitumelo Malope, Merin Jacob
The South African energy sector is faced with competing priorities concerned with ensuring environmental sustainability, energy security, and balancing its citizens’ socio-economic needs. The decarbonisation agenda has p [...]
Exploring a Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus Approach to Governance: A Case Study of the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa
Publication:
energies - MDPI
Year:
2024
Authors:
Lourens Swart, Prof Mark Swilling, Amanda Gcanga
The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus is recognised globally as a framework for sustainable resource management and a potential tool for building resilient social-ecological systems (SES). To verify this, we used a transdisc [...]
Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Publication:
Ecosystems and People
Year:
2023
Authors:
Matthias Schröter, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Christian Albert, Rosemary Hill, Torsten Krause, Jacqueline Loos, Lelani M. Mannetti, Berta Martín-López, Amrita Neelakantan, John A. Parrotta, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, David J. Abson, Rob Alkemade, Bas Amelung,
This journal article highlights the relevance of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2022. The article emphasises the importance of the GBF in guiding international biodiversity conservation efforts until 2030, with the ultimate goal of achieving a harmonious coexistence with nature by 2050. It also acknowledges the role of the global scholarly community in contributing insights to support biodiversity strategies and action plans.
Varieties of just transition: Public support in South Africa’s Mpumalanga coal community for different policy options
Publication:
PLOS Climate
Year:
2023
Authors:
Nthabiseng Mohlakoana, Muhammed Lokhat, Nives Dolsak, Aseem Prakash
This article delves into the intricate dynamics of public opinion regarding "Just Transition" policies in South Africa's coal mining sector. As the world strives for decarbonization, the study explores how these policies, designed to compensate communities impacted by the shift away from fossil fuels, can garner political support. By conducting in-depth interviews with coal miners, power plant workers, and community members in Mpumalanga province, the researchers uncover key insights.
Critical pedagogical designs for SETS knowledge co-production: online peer- and problem-based learning by and for early career green infrastructure experts
Publication:
Urban Transformations
Year:
2023
Authors:
Feagan, M., Fork, M., Gray, G. et al.
Despite a growing understanding of the importance of knowledge co-production for just and sustainable urban transformations, early career green infrastructure experts typically lack opportunities to practice transdisciplinary knowledge co-production approaches within their normal training and professional development. This paper explores how pedagogical designs can help create favourable conditions for transdisciplinary knowledge co-production.
The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice
Publication:
Ecosystems and People
Year:
2023
Authors:
R. O. Biggs et al.
This paper reflects on experiences in building the SAPECS community, with the aim of supporting the development of similar networks elsewhere in the world, particularly in the Global South.
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision‐making for nature under climate change
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2022
Authors:
Palacios-Abrantes et al.
This article discusses how conservation approaches to social-ecological systems have historically prioritised preserving nature for its instrumental societal benefits, neglecting the complex relationship between humans and nature and the impact of climate change. The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) offers an alternative perspective, which emphasises the diverse positive values of nature and its contribution to people.
How can diverse national food and land‐use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2022
Authors:
Mosnier et al.
How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium to reconcile both global and national elements for developing national food and land-use system pathways.
Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2022
Authors:
L.M. Pereira, S. Boatemaa Kushitor, C. Cramer, S. Drimie, M. Isaacs, R. Malgas, E. Phiri, C. Tembo, J. Willis
Preserving biocultural diversity is central to ensure the nutrition, resilience, and adaptive capacity of indigenous peoples and local communities who collectively maintain the longest ongoing human experiences with the provision of food under environmental change; a core component of global food security.
Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems
Publication:
Science
Year:
2022
Authors:
Zurek, M, Hebinck, A, and Selomane, O.
Climate change poses one of the greatest threats to human societies, demanding immediate and coordinated actions across all sectors. Food systems are one of the most important contributors to climate change and could compromise efforts to achieve the 2015 Paris Agreement targets. At the same time, food systems themselves will also need to further adapt to climate change impacts.
Using Synergic Methods for Being Methodologically Agile (SM4BMA)
Publication:
International Journal of Sustainable Development Research
Year:
2022
Authors:
van Breda, J.
The main goal in this paper is to further develop the notion of methodological agility at the methodical level. The need for being methodologically agile is rooted in the global challenges we are facing today in the context of the Anthropocene – which has been described as a new human-induced geological epoch introduced / caused by the net effect of multiple socio-technical human actions since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century in the global north.
Towards an understanding of corporate (dis)engagement with social justice advocacy
Publication:
African Journal of Business Ethics
Year:
2022
Authors:
Jones, L & Smit, A.
There is increasing focus worldwide on the role of business in society today. Globally, sustainability concerns and shifting value systems are re-shaping expectations of socially responsible business, as seen with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global corporate initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), and leading standards such as the King IV Report on Corporate Governance
Methodological Agility for Doing Transformative Transdisciplinary Research on Sustainability Transitions in the Context of the Anthropocene
Publication:
International Journal of Sustainable Development Research
Year:
2022
Authors:
Goh, Z. and Van Breda, J.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for mobilization across global and local levels, and involves academic actors and societal agents in an emergency response to the planetary challenges facing us in the context of the Anthropocene. Never before in human history have we been required to mobilize ourselves globally around a common set of goals, whilst facing the consequences of our own human actions on a truly planetary scale.
The complex challenge of governing food systems: The case of South African food policy
Publication:
Food Security
Year:
2022
Authors:
S. B. Kushitor, S. Drimie, R. Davids, C. Delport, C. Hawkes, T. Mabhaudhi, M. Ngidi, R. Slotow, and L. M. Pereira
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reflect a growing global consensus on the need to address sustainability challenges. SDG 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. This outcome requires change across multiple domains, including health, development, and agriculture. Achieving this goal requires transformative change across the food system and the political will to effect such changes to recognize the integrated nature of food systems. In essence, food governance has to underpin the ability of present and future generations to meet their food and nutrition needs under extraordinary environmental pressures.
Rethinking Agency – the 2022 agenda for the systems community
Publication:
Systems Research & Behavioural Science
Year:
2021
Authors:
Klien, L., Buckle, P., Nguyen, N., Preiser, R., and Ison, R.
Putting the systems community more prominently on the map of correspondents to the current global problematique is the guiding strategy of the International Federation for Systems Research.
The journey to monitoring ecosystem services: Are we there yet?
Publication:
Ecosystem Services
Year:
2021
Authors:
Vaza, A.S., Selomane, O., Jones, L., Gosal, A.S., Ziv, G., Muller-Karger, F.E., and Montes, E.
The protection and sustainable use of ecosystem services (ES) are at the heart of human prosperity. This is the focus of national and international initiatives, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and post-2020 action on the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Exploring the transformative potential of urban food
Publication:
Urban Sustainability
Year:
2021
Authors:
Hebinck, A., Selomane, O., Veen, E., de Vrieze, A., Hasnain, S., Sellberg, M., Sovov, L., Thompson, K., Vervoort, J., and Wood, A.
Urban food is regarded as a promising lever for transformative change towards sustainability. There are two main reasons for this. First, cities are considered hotbeds for alternative practices and experimentation, which are vital to address the urgent sustainability challenges cities face. Second, food links to diverse domains such as ecological, political, social, health and economic systems. Acknowledging this potential, a shift towards considering urban food practice (UFP) for the design of sustainable cities is visible in both research and policy.
When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives
Publication:
Global Environmental Change
Year:
2021
Authors:
Downing, A.S, Wong, G.Y., Dyer, M., Aguiar, A.P., Selomane, O., Jim, A. and Aceituno, A.
In this study, we investigate effects of reforestation programs in China on countries supplying forest and agricultural commodities to China. Using case studies of rubber and palm oil production in Southeast Asian countries, soy production in Brazil and logging in South Pacific Island states, we investigate cross-sector effects of production for and trade to China in these exporting countries.
Co-exploring relational heuristics for sustainability transitions towards more resilient and just Anthropocene futures
Publication:
Systems Research and Behavioural Science.
Year:
2021
Authors:
R. Preiser, R. Biggs, M. Hamann, N. Sitas, O. Selomane, J. Waddell, H. Clements, T. Hichert
In this paper, four relational heuristic responses for re-imagining modes of engagement or patterns of activity that could enliven efforts of fostering systemic thinking and action to inform sustainability transitions towards more resilient and just Anthropocene futures are offered.
Analyzing the contributions of transdisciplinary research to the global sustainability agenda in African cities
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2021
Authors:
Thiam, S., Aziz, F., Kushitor, S.B., Amaka‑Otchere, A. B. K., Onyima, B. N., and Odume, O. N.
Five years into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) journey, the world is not on track to achieve the set goals (United Nations 2020b). With only minimal progress made, Sub-Saharan Africa countries are lagging in implementing these global goals. The COVID-19 pandemic presents another threat to the SDGs, negatively impacting economies and societies worldwide.
Assessing the outcomes of implementing natural open space plans in a Global South city
Publication:
Landscape and Urban Planning
Year:
2021
Authors:
Wessels, N., Sitas, N., O'Farrell, P., and Esler, K.J.
We present a practical approach to assess the outcomes of implementing natural open space plans in urban areas, especially for the local (municipal) level where resource challenges may hinder assessment.
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2021
Authors:
Pereira, L., Asrar, G., Bhargava, R., Fisher, L., Hsu, A., Jabbour, J., Nel, J., Selomane, O., Sitas, N., Trisos, C., Ward, J., van den Ende, M., Vervoort, J. & Weinfurter, A.
The rapid pace and scale of societal and environmental changes in the anthropocene necessitate important changes in how integrated scientific assessments are carried out to account for such changes from local to regional and global levels. Contemporary global environmental assessments are shifting focus from only synthesizing the current state of knowledge towards understanding transformations and interventions needed to mitigate and manage environmental risks
Engaging with complexity in resilience practice
Publication:
Ecology and Society
Year:
2021
Authors:
M.M. Sellberg, A. Quinlan, R. Preiser, K. Malmborg and G. D. Peterson
This study synthesizes lessons from how twelve cases of social-ecological resilience practice are engaging with complexity. We assessed how each case engaged with complexity, according to a framework of six features of complex adaptive systems. The cases are situated in a diversity of contexts.
The influence of biophysical and socio-economic factors on the effectiveness of private land conservation areas in preventing natural land cover loss across South Africa
Publication:
Global Ecology and Conservation
Year:
2021
Authors:
Alta De Vos
There is growing recognition of the potential for private land to contribute to global conservation efforts. Private land conservation areas (PLCAs) complement state-owned protected areas by increasing the total area available for biodiversity conservation, protecting species and habitats in threatened landscapes that are under-represented in state-owned protected areas and increasing the diversity of tenure types and conservation models that protect and manage biodiversity. Protected areas with different conservation models are likely to respond differently to social-ecological stressors.
Patchwork Earth: navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures
Publication:
One Earth
Year:
2021
Authors:
Elena M. Bennett, Reinette Biggs, Garry D. Peterson, and Line J. Gordon
Different regions, with different contexts and values, will follow different sustainability transformation pathways, giving rise to tensions and opportunities as the outcomes of regional pathways interact. To navigate these changes, we need a better understanding of how regional pathways interact to produce outcomes for people and nature.
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Publication:
Ecosystems and People
Year:
2021
Authors:
Laura Pereira, Jan J. Kuiper, Odirilwe Selomane, Ana Paula D. Aguiar, Ghassem R. Asrar, Elena M. Bennett, Reinette Biggs, Katherine Calvin, Steve Hedden, Angel Hsu, Jason Jabbour, Nicholas King, Alexandre C. Köberle, Paul Lucas, Jeanne Nel, Albert V. Nors
Can enough healthy food for all be provided while sustaining the biosphere? What role do different technologies and actors play in achieving this goal? Can globalisation enhance inclusion and respect for bio-cultural diversity? How do abrupt events affect sustainable trajectories of development, and how do we anticipate their adverse impacts? These and other sustainability questions are complex and interconnected, and answering them requires bridging diverse sources of experience and knowledge.
Looking across diverse food system futures: Implications for climate change and the environment
Publication:
QOpen
Year:
2020
Authors:
Zurek, M., Hebinck, A. and Selomane, O.
Agriculture and food systems are in urgent need of transformation. They currently do not provide the needed food and nutrition security outcomes while having far-reaching environmental and social impacts. Many interrelated challenges obscure how to transform the agri-food system towards environmental, economic, and social sustainability.
Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods
Publication:
One Earth
Year:
2021
Authors:
E.D. Minin, H.S. Clements, R.A. Correia, G. Cortes-Capano, C. Fink, A. Haukka, A. Hausmann, R. Kulkarni, and C.J.A. Bradshaw
We provide an overview of the peer-reviewed literature on recreational hunting of terrestrial birds and mammals between 1953 and 2020.
Culturally diverse expert teams have yet to bring comprehensive linguistic diversity to intergovernmental ecosystem assessments
Publication:
One Earth
Year:
2021
Authors:
Lynch, A.J., Fernández-Llamazares, A., Palomo, I., Jaureguiberry, P., Amano, T., Basher, Z., Lim, M., Mwampamba, T.H., Samakov, A. and Selomane, O.
To incorporate more linguistic diversity into global ecosystem assessment processes, we present actionable steps for global science teams to recognize and incorporate non-English-language literature and contributions from non-Anglophones.
Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa
Publication:
Climate Policy
Year:
2021
Authors:
Gina Ziervogel, Johan Enqvist, Luke Metelerkamp & John van Breda
Given that marginalized communities are highly vulnerable to climate risk, it is important to build their capacity to adapt locally and to integrate their perspectives into higher level adaptation measures. Current adaptation policy does not pay sufficient attention to this. Using a Cape Town-based project on water governance in low income urban settlements, this paper explores how a transdisciplinary research project supported capacity building.
Informality and water justice: community perspectives on water issues in Cape Town’s low income neighbourhoods
Publication:
International Journal of Water Resources Development
Year:
2020
Authors:
Johan Enqvist, Gina Ziervogel, Luke Metelerkamp, John van Breda, Ntombikayise Dondi, Thabo Lusithi, Apiwe Mdunyelwa , Zinzi Mgwigwi, Mpumelelo Mhlalisi, Siya Myeza, Gciniwe Nomela, Ann October, Welekazi Rangana & Maggie Yalabi
Water justice requires attention be paid to the range of everyday realities that exist in the spectrum from formal to informal settlements.
The GRIN Meeting: A ‘third place’ for managers and scholars of social-ecological systems
Publication:
South African Journal of Science
Year:
2020
Authors:
Roux, D. Clements, H., Currie, B., Fritz, H., Gordon, P., Kruger, N. & Freitag-Ronaldson, S.
The Garden Route Interface and Networking (GRIN) Meeting was initiated in 2017 with the aim of creating a third place for dialogue on, and advancement of, research and practice dealing with the interactions between natural and social systems, and with how those interactions affect the challenge of sustainability. Held in the Garden Route over 3 days during September–October of each year
Exploring resilience capacities with food innovators: a narrative approach
Publication:
Global Sustainability
Year:
2020
Authors:
Lindow, M, Preiser, R, and Biggs R.
We interviewed grassroots food innovators in South Africa to explore the diverse ways in which their narratives expressed different capacities for resilience, such as dealing with surprise and shaping desirable change. We drew on key resilience themes of rootedness, resourcefulness and resistance (the 3Rs) as lenses through which to view their personal stories and efforts to build resilience and reshape the future. We used narrative and interpretative methods to connect the personal and context-specific experiences of food innovators to the 3Rs, exploring a new approach to uncovering resilience capacities. We suggest that this approach could be usefully employed to understand potential resilience capacities that could help address diverse sustainability challenges around the world.
Imagining transformative biodiversity futures
Publication:
Nature Sustainability
Year:
2020
Authors:
Wyborn, C; Davila, F.; Pereira, L.; Lim, M.; Alvarez, I.; Henderson, G.; Luers, A.; Harms, M.J.M.; Maze, K.; Montana, J.; Ryan, M.; Sandbrook, C; Shaw, R. & Woods, E.
Biodiversity research is replete with scientific studies depicting future trajectories of decline that have failed to mobilize transformative change. Imagination and creativity can foster new ways to address longstanding problems to create better futures for people and the planet.
The relevance of ecosystem services to land reform policies: Insights from South Africa
Publication:
Land Use Policy
Year:
2020
Authors:
Clements, H.S.; De Vos, A.; Bezerra, J.C.; Coetzer, K.; Maciejewski, K.; Mograbib, P.J.; Shackleton, C.
In this perspectives paper, we highlight why land reform programmes could benefit from considering ecosystem services in their planning processes, to better achieve their goals of socioeconomic development and equity.
Social capital reduces vulnerability in rural coastal communities of Solomon Islands
Publication:
Ocean and Coastal Management
Year:
2020
Authors:
Malherbe,W., Sauer, W. and Aswani, S.
This study seeks to measure attributes of social capital in five marine dependent communities of Solomon Islands.
Impacts of a trophy hunting ban on private land conservation in South African biodiversity hotspots
Publication:
Conservation Science and Practice
Year:
2020
Authors:
Parker, K., De Vos, A., Clements, H.S., Biggs, D. and Biggs, R.
In southern Africa, where many PLCAs rely on trophy hunting as an income-generating strategy, a potential ban on trophy hunting locally or abroad holds unknown consequences for the future conservation of these lands. In this study, we investigate the consequences of a potential trophy hunting ban in private land conservation areas in two biodiversity hotspots in South Africa's Eastern and Western Cape provinces.
Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda
Publication:
Environmental Sustainability
Year:
2020
Authors:
G. S. Cumming; S. Chawla; G. G. Gurney; T. H. Morrison; G. Epstein; J. M. Anderies; C. I. Apetrei; J. Baggio; Bodin; M. Schlüter; H. S. Clements; M. Cox; L. Egli; R. Seppelt; B. Müller; M. Lubell; N. Magliocca; H. Unnikrishnan; S. Villamayor-Tomas; C. M.
In our current context of global environmental change, the need for effective institutions (i.e., formal laws, rules, norms and customs) to moderate human impacts, through environmental governance and management, has never been greater.
Adopting process-relational perspectives to tackle the challenges of socialecological systems research
Publication:
Ecology and Society
Year:
2020
Authors:
Mancilla García, M., T. Hertz, M. Schlüter, R. Preiser, and M. Woermann
In this paper, we demonstrate that adopting a process relational perspective, which focuses on nonequilibrium dynamics and relations between processes, provides novel opportunities to advance SES research.
Using A Social‐ecological Regime Shift Approach to Understand the Transition from Livestock to Game Farming in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Publication:
Land
Year:
2020
Authors:
Achieng, T., Maciejewski, K., Dyer, M. and Biggs, R.
This study explored the shift in land use from livestock farming to game farming in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, from a social‐ecological regime shift perspective.
Food System Transformation: Integrating a Political–Economy and Social–Ecological Approach to Regime Shifts
Publication:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Year:
2020
Authors:
Pereira, L.M., Drimie, S., Maciejewski, K., Bon Tonissen, P. and Biggs, R.
It is increasingly apparent that a deep transformation in the way we produce and consume food is needed in order to ensure a more just and sustainable future.
Effectiveness of private land conservation areas in maintaining natural land cover and biodiversity intactness
Publication:
Global Ecology and Conservation
Year:
2020
Authors:
Shumba, T.,De Vos, A., Biggs, R., Esler, K.J., Ament, J.M., Clements, H.S.
Private land conservation areas are increasingly looked to for meeting the deficit left by state-owned protected areas in reaching global conservation targets.
Learning for transitions: a niche perspective
Publication:
Ecology and Society
Year:
2020
Authors:
Metelerkamp, L., R. Biggs, and S. Drimie.
Roughly eight hundred million youth are projected to enter the African job market by 2050. By training the youth in new practices and approaches, they could be central to creating new systems and African futures that are more sustainable and just.
Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa
Publication:
Futures
Year:
2020
Authors:
M. Hamann, R. Biggs, L. Pereira, R. Preiser, T. Hichert, R. Blanchard, H. Warrington-Coetzee, N. Kingh, A. Merriec, W. Nilsson, P. Odendaal, S. Poskitt, D. Sanchez Betancourt, G. Ziervogel.
In the rapidly changing and uncertain world of the Anthropocene, positive visions of the future could play a crucial role in catalysing deep social-ecological transformations to help guide humanity towards more sustainable and equitable futures.
Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research
Publication:
Nature Sustainability
Year:
2020
Authors:
Norström, A.V., Cvitanovic, C., Löf, M.F., Biggs, R., Reyers, B. et al.
We propose a set of four general principles that underlie high-quality knowledge co-production for sustainability research.
Sustainable energy transition framework for unmet electricity markets.
Publication:
Energy Policy
Year:
2019
Authors:
Batinge B, Musango JK, Brent AC
Efficient energy supply is a means for people to gain access to a wide range of energy-related services. In unmet energy markets where energy supply is inadequate or lacking, such services, and the resulting benefits, ar [...]
Affordability of battery electric vehicles based on disposable income and the impact on provincial residential electricity requirements in South Africa
Publication:
Energy
Year:
2019
Authors:
Pillay NS, Brent AC, Musango JK
South Africa's political history, unique demographic profile, and economic growth drivers, present a challenge in adopting universal strategies and business models to plan for the impact of battery electric vehicles in t [...]
Towards Measuring the Informal City: A Societal Metabolism Approach
Publication:
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Year:
(in press)
Authors:
Smit S, Musango JK, Kovacic Z, Brent AC
The rapid growth of urban informal settlements, or slums, poses a particular challenge for balancing developmental and environmental goals. In South Africa, high levels of inequality, poverty, and unemployment contribute to widespread migration.
Challenges Facing South Africa’s Electricity Sector Integrated Resource Plan: A Qualitative System Dynamics Approach
Publication:
Administratio Publica
Year:
2018
Authors:
Mqadi L, Musango JK, Brent AC
[...]
Rethinking strategic sustainability planning for the electricity sector in South Africa
Publication:
The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
Year:
2018
Authors:
Mqadi L, Musango JK, Brent AC
A series of processes is now converging to force the issue of sustainability to drive South Africa's low-carbon energy transitions. This raises the question of how a 'sustainability transition' framework can be conceptua [...]
The Correlation between Energy Cost Share, Human, and Economic Development: Using Time Series Data from Australasia, Europe, North America, and the BRICS Nations
Publication:
Energies
Year:
2018
Authors:
Roberts R, Musango JK, Brent AC, Heun M.
This paper investigates how a change in a region’s energy cost share (ECS), a ratio of a region’s energy expenditure as a fraction of its gross domestic product (GDP), affects the region’s social and economic development.
Estimating current and future global urban domestic material consumption
Publication:
Environmental Research Letters
Year:
2018
Authors:
Baynes T, Musango JK
Urban material resource requirements are significant at the global level and these are expected to expand with future urban population growth. However, there are no global scale studies on the future material consumption [...]
Towards new configurations of urban energy governance in South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme.
Publication:
Energy Research & Social Science
Year:
2017
Authors:
Davies, M., Swilling, M., Wlokas, H.L.
The South African Department of Energy launched the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Program (REIPPPP) in 2011 to secure additional renewable energy generation capacity for South Africa’s national [...]
Renewable energy and local development: seven lessons from the mining industry
Publication:
Development Southern Africa
Year:
2017
Authors:
Marais, L & Wlokas, HL & de Groote, J & Dube, A & Scheba, A
Having long depended on fossil fuels for energy generation, South Africa is now investing in renewable energy. Like its mining operations, its renewable energy plants will have local implications. Renewable energy compan [...]
Energy and moral judgment: Conceptual frameworks and new frontiers in energy justice.
Publication:
Energy Policy
Year:
2017
Authors:
Sovacol, B & Burke, M & Baker, L & Kumar Kotikalapudi, C & Wlokas, HL
This article explores how concepts from justice and ethics can inform energy decision-making and highlight the moral and equity dimensions of energy production and use. It defines “energy justice” as a global energy syst [...]
A response to the dialogical hermeneutics of critical complexity thinking in Kunneman’s re-framing of ‘The political importance of voluntary work’.
Publication:
Foundations of Science
Year:
2016
Authors:
Preiser, R.
Responding to Kunneman’s argument that the notion of ‘ethical complexity’ introduces an existential and ethical turn in the field of complexity thinking, it is argued that Kunneman’s concept of ‘diapoiesis’ corresponds t [...]
Participatory Scenario Planning: From Scenario ‘Stakeholders’ to Scenario ‘Owners’.
Publication:
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
Year:
2016
Authors:
Freeth, R and Drimie, S.
[...]
Rising food prices and household food security
Publication:
South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition Editorial
Year:
2016
Authors:
Faber, M and Drimie, S.
For many South Africans a healthy, balanced diet is elusive. Food security in both urban and rural South Africa is heavily dependent on cash incomes for household purchase of food for consumption,1 which, in a context of [...]
From coherence towards commitment: Changes and challenges in Zambia’s nutrition policy environment.
Publication:
Global Food Security
Year:
2017
Authors:
Harris J, Drimie S, Roopnariane T, and Covic N.
An enabling environment for malnutrition reduction includes creating policy and political momentum, and converting momentum to implementation and impact. We used several qualitative data sources to investigate changes in [...]
Utilisation of system dynamics in Southern Africa: A systematic review.
Publication:
Systems Research and Behavioural Science.
Year:
2016
Authors:
Brent AC, Musango JK, Smit S et al.
Research efforts using system dynamics to understand and evaluate societal and policy‐related problems in Southern Africa are becoming essential. This paper undertook a systematic review to examine the extent of utilizat [...]
Probing uncertainty levels of electrification in informal urban settlements: A case from South Africa.
Publication:
Habitat International
Year:
2016
Authors:
Kovavic Z, Smit S, Musango JK, Brent AC, Giampietro M.
This paper assesses the different levels of uncertainty that affect the analysis of informal urban settlements and the implementation of upgrading policies, with a specific focus on electrification. The rapid growth of i [...]
Analysing challenges facing smallholder farmers and conservation agriculture in South Africa: A system dynamics approach.
Publication:
South African Journal of Economic Management Sciences.
Year:
2016
Authors:
Von Loeper W, Musango JK, Brent AC, Drimie S.
Smallholder farmers in South Africa find it challenging to participate in the modern economy. Most of these farmers have limited access to credit and insurance, and to markets in which to sell their produce. This paper r [...]
African urbanisation: assimilating urban metabolism into sustainability discourse and practice.
Publication:
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Year:
2017
Authors:
Currie P, Musango JK.
Shaping sustainable, equitable African cities requires strengthened investigations into the cities’ current resource flows, infrastructure systems, and future resource requirements. The field of urban metabolism (UM) off [...]
Conceptualising Slum in an urban African context
Publication:
Cities
Year:
2017
Authors:
Smit S, Musango JK, Brent AC, Kovavic Z
Increasing urbanisation and the proliferation of slums require a holistic understanding of the urban metabolism of cities. However, existing urban metabolic analyses exclude a detailed understanding of how urban slums fu [...]
Implications of biofuel production in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: A system dynamics modelling approach.
Publication:
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa
Year:
2017
Authors:
Jonker WD, Brent AC, Musango JK, de Kock IH
The national government instated a mandatory blending policy to facilitate the uptake and establishment of a biofuels sector in South Africa. Uncertainty exists, however, regarding the implications and effects of produci [...]
Developing building typologies to examine energy efficiency in representative low cost buildings in Cape Town townships.
Publication:
Sustainable Cities and Society
Year:
2017
Authors:
Muringathuparambil RJ, Musango JK, Brent AC
Studies for building designs exist both internationally and, to a lesser degree, in the South African context. However, there is limited understanding of the various types of low-cost buildings and their related energy f [...]
Urban metabolism: A review with reference to Cape Town.
Publication:
Cities
Year:
2017
Authors:
Currie P, Musango JK, May N
Improved sustainability of cities requires equitably distributed and ecologically safe, if not restorative, infrastructure systems, as well as reduced reliance on resources from beyond urban boundaries. To shape infrastr [...]
Agriculture sector implications of a green economy transition in the Western Cape Province
Publication:
South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
Year:
2017
Authors:
van Niekerk JBS, Brent AC, Musango JK, de Kock I
The Western Cape Province of South Africa has introduced a green economy plan called "Green is Smart". This initiative has the envisaged possibility of providing the Province with a sustainable economy. The transition to [...]
Infrastructure implications of a green economy transition in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: A system dynamics modelling approach
Publication:
Development Southern Africa
Year:
2017
Authors:
York T, Brent AC, Musango JK, de Kock I.
As cities grow, their environmental and natural resource footprints also tend to grow to keep up with the increasing demand on essential urban services such as passenger transportation, commercial space, and thermal comf [...]
Environmental and natural resource implications of sustainable urban infrastructure systems
Publication:
Environmental Research Letters
Year:
2017
Authors:
Joseph D Bergesen, Sangwon Suh, Timothy M Baynes and Josephine Kaviti Musango
As cities grow, their environmental and natural resource footprints also tend to grow to keep up with the increasing demand on essential urban services such as passenger transportation, commercial space, and thermal comf [...]
Proposing a master’s programme on participatory integrated assessment of energy systems to promote energy access and energy efficiency in Southern Africa.
Publication:
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Year:
2017
Authors:
Kiravu C, Diaz-Maurin F, Giampietro M, Brent AC, Bukkens SGF, Chiguvare Z, Gasennelwe-Jeffrey MA, Gope G, Kovacic Z, Magole L, Musango JK, Hernando UR-R, Smit S, Barquero AV, Mezquita FY.
This paper aims to present a new master’s programme for promoting energy access and energy efficiency in Southern Africa. A transdisciplinary approach called “participatory integrated assessment of energy systems” (PARTI [...]
Guest Editorial: Applied research for enhancing human well-being and environmental stewardship: using complexity thinking in Southern Africa.
Publication:
Ecology and Society
Year:
2015
Authors:
Palmer CG, R Biggs, GS Cumming
Humans all over the planet are struggling and aspiring to engage with the scale and scope of the challenge of achieving human well-being and environmental stewardship for all. This special feature presents the products o [...]
The guiding logics and principles for designing emergent transdisciplinary research processes: learning experiences and reflections from a transdisciplinary urban case study in Enkanini informal settlement, South Africa
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2018
Authors:
Van Breda, J., Swilling, M.
Transdisciplinarity is not a new science per se, but a new methodology for doing science with society. A particular challenge in doing science with society is the engagement with non-academic actors to enable joint probl [...]
Navigating alternative framings of human-environment interactions: Variations on the theme of ‘Finding Nemo’
Publication:
Anthropocene
Year:
2017
Authors:
Rika Preiser, Laura M. Pereira, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs
Wide agreement exists that the “Anthropocene” demands new forms of engagement and responses to achieve sustainability, but different fields suggest quite different approaches. In this communication, we set out four persp [...]
Causation, constructors and codes
Publication:
Biosystems
Year:
2017
Authors:
Jannie Hofmeyr
Relational biology relies heavily on the enriched understanding of causal entailment that Robert Rosen's formalisation of Aristotle's four causes has made possible, although to date efficient causes and the rehabilitatio [...]
Multiscale scenarios for nature futures
Publication:
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Year:
2017
Authors:
Isabel M. D. Rosa, Henrique M. Pereira, Simon Ferrier, Rob Alkemade, Lilibeth A. Acosta, H. Resit Akcakaya, Eefje den Belder, Asghar M. Fazel, Shinichiro Fujimori, Mike Harfoot, Khaled A. Harhash, Paula A. Harrison, et al.
Targets for human development are increasingly connected with targets for nature, however, existing scenarios do not explicitly address this relationship. Here, we outline a strategy to generate scenarios centred on our [...]
A diagnostic framework for food system governance arrangements: The case of South Africa
Publication:
NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
Year:
2017
Authors:
Catrien J.A.M. Termeer; Scott Drimie; John Ingram; Laura Pereira; Mark J. Whittingham
Although policymakers and scientists are increasingly embracing the food system perspective, it has been poorly reflected in institutional terms. We aim to fill this gap by addressing the question as to what forms of gov [...]
Greening African Cities: Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Sustainable Resource Use
Publication:
In Castells, M. & Cloete, N. (Eds). African Development in the Information Age.
Year:
Forthcoming.
Authors:
Swilling, M.
[...]
Developmental states and sustainability transitions: prospects of a just transition in South Africa
Publication:
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 18(5):650-672.
Year:
2016
Authors:
Swilling, M., Musango, J. & Wakeford, J.
[...]
Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities
Publication:
New York: Routledge. 218-238
Year:
2015
Authors:
Swilling, M.
[...]
Economic Crisis, Long Waves and the Sustainability Transition: An African Perspective
Publication:
Environmental Innovations and Societal Transitions, 6:96-115.
Year:
2013
Authors:
Swilling, M.
[...]
Preparing for Global Transition: Implications of the Work of the International Resource Panel
Publication:
Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace (Vol. 10). Springer.
Year:
2016
Authors:
Swilling, M.
[...]
The domestication of fire as social-ecological regime shift
Publication:
Past Global Changes
Year:
2016
Authors:
Biggs R, WJ Boonstra, GD Peterson, M Schlüter
Social-ecological regime shifts involve large, often abrupt, reorganizations in interlinked social and ecological systems. The domestication of fire illustrates how physiological and social changes enabled humans to star [...]
Social-Ecological Resilience and Biosphere-Based Sustainability Science
Publication:
Ecology & Society
Year:
2016
Authors:
Folke C, R Biggs, A Norström, B Reyers, J Rockström
Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere. The focus is shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as precondition for social justice, economic development, and sustainabi [...]
An exploration of human well-being bundles as identifiers of ecosystem service use patterns
Publication:
PLoS ONE
Year:
2016
Authors:
Hamann MH, R Biggs, B Reyers
We take a social-ecological systems perspective to investigate the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being in South Africa. A recent paper identified different types of social-ecological systems in the c [...]
Governance Arrangements for the Future Food System: Addressing Complexity in South Africa
Publication:
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
Year:
2016
Authors:
Laura Pereira, Scott Drimie
Feeding the world’s population a healthy, affordable and environmentally sustainable diet is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century and has been highlighted in Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 3 to end hun [...]
Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Africa
Publication:
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
Year:
2017
Authors:
Laura Pereira
Although African agricultural systems are highly reliant on their environment, their diversity, context specificity, and the existing generations of traditional knowledge offer elements of resilience in the face of clima [...]
Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene
Publication:
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Year:
2016
Authors:
EM Bennett, M Solan, R Biggs, T McPhearson, AV Norström, P Olsson, L Pereira, GD Peterson, C Raudsepp-Hearne, F Biermann, SR Carpenter, EC Ellis, T Hichert, V Galaz, M Lahsen, M Milkoreit, B Martin López, KA Nicholas, R Preiser, G Vince, JM Vervoort, J Xu
The scale, rate, and intensity of humans’ environmental impact has engendered broad discussion about how to find plausible pathways of development that hold the most promise for fostering a better future in the Anthropoc [...]
Towards integrated food policy: Main challenges and steps ahead
Publication:
Environmental Science and Policy
Year:
2017
Authors:
Jeroen J.L. Candel and Laura Pereira
Repeated food crises have resulted in increased recognition of the boundary-spanning nature of governing food systems and in consequent calls for more holistic food governance. An increasing number of governments have fo [...]
Learning from the literature on community development for the implementation of community renewables in South Africa
Publication:
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa 28(1): 35–44.
Year:
2017
Authors:
Holle L. Wlokas, Peter Westoby, and Sue Soal
Implementation of large-scale wind, solar and hydro projects in South African communities is intended to contribute to local economic development. Government policy, through the Renewable Energy Independent Power Produce [...]
A systems approach to understanding the effect of Facebook use on the quality of interpersonal communication
Publication:
Technology in Society
Year:
2016
Authors:
Davies M, Musango JK, Brent AC
[...]
Probing uncertainty levels of electrification in informal urban settlements: A case from South Africa
Publication:
Habitat International
Year:
2016
Authors:
Kovacic Z, Smit S, Musango J, Brent AC, Giampietro M
[...]
Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science
Publication:
Sustainability Science
Year:
2016
Authors:
Keeler LW, A Wiek1, DJ Lang, M Yokohari, J van Breda, L Olsson, B Ness, J Morato, J Segalas, P Martens, LA Bojorquez-Tapia, J Evans
[...]
Renewable energy gathers steam in South Africa
Publication:
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Year:
2015
Authors:
Walwyn DR, Brent AC
[...]
Utility-scale PV power and energy supply outlook for South Africa in 2015
Publication:
Renewable Energy
Year:
2015
Authors:
Giglmayr S, Brent AC, Gauché P, Fechner H
[...]
The transition to a green economy: A systems approach to managing technology
Publication:
Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science Studies
Year:
2015
Authors:
Brent AC
[...]
Undertaking individual transdisciplinary PhD research for sustainable development: Case studies from South Africa
Publication:
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Year:
2015
Authors:
van Breda J, JK Musango, AC Brent
[...]
Marine Regime Shifts: Drivers and Impacts on Ecosystems Services
Publication:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Year:
2015
Authors:
Rocha J, J Yletyinen, R Biggs, T Blenckner, and GD Peterson
[...]
Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Publication:
Science
Year:
2015
Authors:
Steffen W, K Richardson, J Rockström, SE Cornell, I Fetzer, EM Bennett, R Biggs, SR Carpenter, W de Vries, CA de Wit, C Folke, D Gerten, J Heinke, GM Mace, LM Persson, V Ramanathan, B Reyers, S Sörlin
[...]
Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: Examples from South Africa and beyond
Publication:
Ecology and Society
Year:
2015
Authors:
Biggs R, C Rhode, S Archibald, LM Kunene, SS Mutanga, N Nkuna, PO Ocholla, and LJ Phadima
[...]
Applied research for enhancing human well-being and environmental stewardship: using complexity thinking in Southern Africa
Publication:
Ecology and Society
Year:
2015
Authors:
Palmer CG, R Biggs, GS Cumming
[...]
Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social-ecological systems perspective
Publication:
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Year:
2015
Authors:
Fischer J, TA Gardner, EM Bennett, P Balvanera, R Biggs, SR Carpenter, T Daw, C Folke, R Hill, T Hughes, T Luthe, Ml Maass, M Meacham, AV Norström, G Peterson, C Queiroz, R Seppelt, M Spierenburg, J Tenhunen
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Synchronous failure: The emerging causal architecture of global crisis
Publication:
Ecology and Society
Year:
2015
Authors:
Homer-Dixon T, B Walker, R Biggs, A-S Crepin, C Folke, EF Lambin, GD Peterson, J Rockström, M Scheffer, W Steffen, and M Troell
[...]
Mapping social-ecological systems: Identifying ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ dynamics based on characteristic bundles of ecosystem service use
Publication:
Global Environmental Change 34: 218–226
Year:
2015
Authors:
Hamann MH, R Biggs, B Reyers
[...]
Towards integrated social-ecological sustainability indicators: exploring the contribution and gaps in existing global data
Publication:
Ecological Economics 118: 140–146.
Year:
2015
Authors:
Selomane O, B Reyers, R Biggs, S Polasky, H Tallis
[...]
Regime shifts in the Anthropocene: drivers, risks, and resilience
Publication:
PLoS ONE 10(8)
Year:
2015
Authors:
Rocha J, GD Peterson, R Biggs
[...]