TY - CHAP
T1 - Resilience-based stewardship
T2 - Strategies for navigating sustainable pathways in a changing world
AU - Chapin, F. Stuart
AU - Kofinas, Gary P.
AU - Folke, Carl
AU - Carpenter, Stephen R.
AU - Olsson, Per
AU - Abel, Nick
AU - Biggs, Reinette
AU - Naylor, Rosamond L.
AU - Pinkerton, Evelyn
AU - Stafford, D. Mark
AU - Steffen, Will
AU - Walker, Brian
AU - Young, Oran R.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Accelerated global changes in climate, environment, and social-ecological systems demand a transformation in human perceptions of our place in nature and patterns of resource use. The biology and culture of Homo sapiens evolved for about 95% of our species' history in hunting-and-gathering societies before the emergence of settled agriculture. We have lived in complex societies for about 3%, and in industrial societies using fossil fuels for about 0.1% of our history. The pace of cultural evolution, including governance arrangements and resource-use patterns, appears insufficient to adjust to the rate and magnitude of technological innovations, human population increases, and environmental impacts that have occurred. Many of these changes are accelerating, causing unsustainable exploitation of ecosystems, including many boreal and tropical forests, drylands, and marine fisheries. The net effect has been serious degradation of the planet's life-support system on which societal development ultimately depends (see Chapters 2 and 14).
AB - Accelerated global changes in climate, environment, and social-ecological systems demand a transformation in human perceptions of our place in nature and patterns of resource use. The biology and culture of Homo sapiens evolved for about 95% of our species' history in hunting-and-gathering societies before the emergence of settled agriculture. We have lived in complex societies for about 3%, and in industrial societies using fossil fuels for about 0.1% of our history. The pace of cultural evolution, including governance arrangements and resource-use patterns, appears insufficient to adjust to the rate and magnitude of technological innovations, human population increases, and environmental impacts that have occurred. Many of these changes are accelerating, causing unsustainable exploitation of ecosystems, including many boreal and tropical forests, drylands, and marine fisheries. The net effect has been serious degradation of the planet's life-support system on which societal development ultimately depends (see Chapters 2 and 14).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78651455347&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-73033-2_15
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-73033-2_15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:78651455347
SN - 9780387730325
SP - 319
EP - 337
BT - Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship
PB - Springer
ER -