TY - JOUR
T1 - Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) Research
T2 - What have we learned and how can we use this information in future research programs
AU - Turner, B. L.
AU - Esler, Karen J.
AU - Bridgewater, Peter
AU - Tewksbury, Joshua
AU - Sitas, J. Nadia
AU - Abrahams, Brent
AU - Chapin, F. Stuart
AU - Chowdhury, Rinku Roy
AU - Christie, Patrick
AU - Diaz, Sandra
AU - Firth, Penny
AU - Knapp, Corrine N.
AU - Kramer, Jonathan
AU - Leemans, Rik
AU - Palmer, Margaret
AU - Pietri, Diana
AU - Pittman, Jeremy
AU - Sarukhán, José
AU - Shackleton, Ross
AU - Seidler, Reinmar
AU - van Wilgen, Brian
AU - Mooney, Harold
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was the product of a meeting support by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) through an award from the National Science Foundation (DBI-1052875) to the University of Maryland. We thank the staff of SESYNC for their considerable assistance in facilitating the meeting that produced this overview. This Center is an important vehicle for the development of the natural-social science integrative processes described in this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - The call for integrated social-environmental science, complete with outreach to applications and solutions, is escalating worldwide. Drawing on several decades of experience, researchers engaged in such science, completed an assessment of the design and management attributes and impact pathways that lead to successful projects and programs and to understand key impediments to success. These characteristics are delineated and discussed using examples from individual projects and programs. From this, three principal lessons leading to successful efforts emerge that address co-design, adaptive or flexible management, and diversity of knowledge. In addition, five challenges for this science are identified: accounting for change, addressing sponsorship and timelines, appreciating different knowledge systems, adaptively communicating, and improving linkages to policy.
AB - The call for integrated social-environmental science, complete with outreach to applications and solutions, is escalating worldwide. Drawing on several decades of experience, researchers engaged in such science, completed an assessment of the design and management attributes and impact pathways that lead to successful projects and programs and to understand key impediments to success. These characteristics are delineated and discussed using examples from individual projects and programs. From this, three principal lessons leading to successful efforts emerge that address co-design, adaptive or flexible management, and diversity of knowledge. In addition, five challenges for this science are identified: accounting for change, addressing sponsorship and timelines, appreciating different knowledge systems, adaptively communicating, and improving linkages to policy.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.04.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84963979984
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 19
SP - 160
EP - 168
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -