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Social equity in governance of ecosystem services: synthesis from European tree...
Sarkki, S; Jokinen, M; Nijnik, M; Zahvoyska, L; Abraham, EM; Alados, CL; Bellamy, C; Bratanova-Dontcheva, S; Grunewald, K; Kollar, J; Kraj¿?í, JAchieving social equity among local stakeholders should be a key objective for ecosystem service (ES) governance in Europe’s ecologically fragile treeline areas. The ES literature tends to be biased towards distributional equity and market-based instruments when assessing social equity of ES governance. In this study, we analyze a wide range of social equity procedures that have been applied in Europe, using 11...
Tackling wicked environmental problems: The discourse and its influence on prax...
Duckett, D.; Feliciano, D.; Martin-Ortega, J.; Munoz-Rojas, JComplex, social-environmental issues can be classified as ‘wicked problems’ because they are incorrigible and hugely challenging for policy makers. Here we re-evaluate what makes problems wicked and assess various theoretical and pragmatic approaches that have been advanced to tackle them. We do so with the aim of contributing new insights to theory through answering the following research questions: What strat...
A social–ecological systems analysis of impediments to delivery of the Aichi 20...
Hill, R.; Dyer, G.A.; Lozada-Ellison, L.-M.; Gimona, A.; Martin-Ortega, J.; Munoz-Rojas, J; Gordon, I.J.The Aichi 2020 Targets, under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), aim to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2020, in order to ensure that ecosystems continue to provide essential services. Here we apply a social–ecological systems analysis to provide insight into the diverse system interactions that pose impediments to delivery of the Aichi Targets. We applied an analytical framework of pair-wise exchan...