Publications
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Rapid conservation assessment of Boswellia sacra in Oman reveals complex threat and population patterns
Published on August 1, 2025
Boswellia sacra is an iconic dryland tree in southern Arabia and Somalia. A cultural keystone species, it produces frankincense resin long used for its medicinal and aromatic qualities. Recent research has indicated population declines and unsustaina... -
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand
Published on July 1, 2025
Snowmaking is the primary adaptation of winter tourism to climate change and requires increased water use in winter. However, water withdrawals during this period coincide with the mountain low-flow period, which can potentially cause conflicts with ... -
Networked shorelines: A review of vulnerability interactions between human adaptation to sea level rise and wetland migration
Published on July 1, 2025
Facing urgent climate risks, many human and non-human actors are adapting to climate change with adaptations that sometimes shift vulnerabilities to other actors. Shifting vulnerabilities is a type of maladaptation and understanding them is a critica... -
Novel foods, neglected and alien species to increase food biodiversity of diets in Europe
Published on June 1, 2025
Food biodiversity of diets (FBD) is an emerging topic, not widely studied in Europe. In the last years, different factors such as climate change, agriculture intensification, urbanization and wars have led to homogeneous food demand and thus food sys... -
The minimum complexity necessary: The value of a simple Social-Ecological systems analysis in holistic marine environmental management
Published on June 1, 2025
The marine environment is a complex adaptive system, in which natural components interact with pressures from human activities and climate change. Effective marine management must navigate this complexity to protect biodiversity and ensure societal b... -
Farmland Abandonment-Migration-Wildlife encroachment nexus: Insights of smallholders of the Karnali Basin, Nepal
Published on June 1, 2025
Mountainous regions of Nepal's Himalaya are greatly affected by farmland abandonment. The increase in farmland abandonment is clear, however, its associated nexus has yet to be explored. To elucidate this important issue, three ecological villages ar... -
Explaining the transmission mechanism of social-ecological systems adaptive cycling on path dependency in resource-based cities: Evidence from Shanxi Province, China
Published on June 1, 2025
Path dependence has resulted in industrial structure solidification, social structure convergence, and insufficient power for transformation and innovation in resource-based cities, which is the root cause of these cities falling into a locked state.... -
Identification of drought-flood abrupt alternation by a new non-stationary framework considering natural-social system impacts
Published on June 1, 2025
The drought-flood abrupt alternation (DFAA), defined as the phenomenon of flood (drought) following droughts (flood), magnifies the impact of individual flood and drought events yet has not been accurate assessment. Previous studies have used the sta... -
A systematic review of climate change impacts on water quality in transitional environments from a multi-hazard perspective
Published on June 1, 2025
Climate change-induced hazards and their impacts on the socio-economic and ecological system are a major global concern, particularly significant in transitional environments with high susceptibility to modifications, and exposure to multiple land, m... -
Challenges for good governance in coastal socio-ecological systems of Campeche: Analysis from the expert users' perspective
Published on June 1, 2025
The research focused on the local governance of three socio-ecological systems (SES) with Marine-Coastal Natural Protected Areas (NPA) in Campeche, Mexico. The objective was to describe the obstacles for good governance within the coastal SES of Camp... -
Economic and ecological inequality of urban scale carbon emissions aggravated over time in China from a social-ecological system perspective
Published on June 1, 2025
Understanding the spatiotemporal carbon inequality in China is crucial for guiding ecological strategies and energy utilization across regions. However, there are still few studies simultaneously investigating economic and ecological inequalities of ... -
Urban trees through a functional traits' lens: Exploring the interplay between tree functional groups and social-ecological factors
Published on May 1, 2025
Urban trees' functional traits influence their resilience to environmental changes and the delivery of ecosystem services. However, research on classifying urban trees into functional groups based on species traits - clusters of species with similar ... -
Trust, hope, and collective action in fragile political settings: A qualitative comparative analysis of water user groups in Tunisia
Published on May 1, 2025
Collective action theory acknowledges that self-governing institutional arrangements, such as water user groups, can successfully develop strategies to address natural resource problems. However, studies of collective action have largely neglected th... -
Urbanization under extreme climate events leads to synchronized decreases in flood protection and increases in vulnerability
Published on May 1, 2025
Cities will be especially prone to flood hazards with increasing climate change. Artificial landscapes lose ecological functions that protect against floods. Simultaneously, urban densification leads to increased flood vulnerability. The aim of this ... -
The environmental statehood of ecological restoration: An institutional analysis of three regulatory case studies
Published on May 1, 2025
Throughout Australia, social-ecological systems are in decline. Ecological restoration has been identified as a key process for reversing this decline, but the recovery of social-ecological systems following ecological restoration is rare. As ecologi... -
Linking perceptions of ecological restoration projects' impacts on ecosystem services and human well-being for achieving regional sustainability
Published on May 1, 2025
Understanding how stakeholders' perceptions of ecosystem service (ES) and human well-being (HWB) impacted by ecological restoration projects (ERPs) is crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Howerver, few studies have explored how th... -
Mechanism of land trusteeship promoting farmers' collective action: A study based on social-ecological systems framework
Published on May 1, 2025
Enhancing farmers' collective action amid ongoing transformations in land management practices is crucial for achieving rural revitalization. In this study, a social-ecological system analytical framework is constructed to examine the mechanisms thro... -
Dynamic interaction and evolution analysis of the resource-environment-economy-society complex system in China under the advancement of smart cities
Published on May 1, 2025
The development and interaction of resources, environment, economy, and society collectively determine the comprehensive development level of cities, while the advancement of smart cities exerts a profound influence on this complex system. Therefore,... -
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal
Published on April 1, 2025
Farmers in the middle hills of Nepal have been abandoning agricultural land over the last three decades due to complex socio-ecological drivers and dynamics. A consequence of this shift is the succession of forest. Naturally regenerating tree species... -
Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research
Published on April 1, 2025
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for understanding local sustainability challenges. However, lack of transferability of insights to other locations and to larger scales remains challenging. In this paper, we present a novel transdisc...
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