In the past decades, social-ecological systems (SESs) worldwide have undergone dramatic
transformations with often detrimental consequences for livelihoods. Although resilience …

China's recent collective forestry property rights reform (CFPRR) is regarded as the third
Land Reform and has been implemented to accelerate China's rural restructuring. In …

The collective participation of local communities in the management and utilization of forest
resources is now widely accepted as a possible solution to the failure of centralized, top …

Background. Improved sheep production practices are becoming relevant, but smallholder
farmers' involvement in improved sheep production was below expectations and detailed …

Resilience has either been assessed on system or individual scale so far. Ignoring the other
scale may potentially change the interpretation of resilience in socio-ecological systems …

With the proliferation of woody plant species in much of the world's grasslands, human has
manipulated landscape fire to return their forage provisioning service. Yet other ecosystem …

This chapter discusses how different sheep grazing management of Patagonian arid
rangelands impacts on the provision of critical ecosystem services (ES): plant primary …

Abstract Dynamics of coupled Social-Ecological Systems (SES) result from the interplay of
society and ecology. To assess SES resilience, we constructed an Agent-Based Model …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate and review adaptation measures in the livestock
sector from 21 African countries through literature survey and grounded theory approaches …

Participation of local communities in management and utilization of forest resources through
collective action has become widely accepted as a possible solution to failure of centralized …