Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet.

Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster the social-ecological sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current understanding in an environment of inevitable uncertainty and abrupt change: reducing the magnitude of, and exposure and sensitivity to, known stresses; focusing on proactive policies that shape change; and avoiding or escaping unsustainable social-ecological traps. As we discuss here, all social-ecological systems are vulnerable to recent and projected changes but have sources of adaptive capacity and resilience that can sustain ecosystem services and human well-being through active ecosystem stewardship.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2010-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2009.10.008PMID 19923035
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