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ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
RESILIENCE ALLIANCE
DOI: 10.5751/ES-08748-210341
Keywords
Anthropocene; biosphere stewardship; natural capital; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science
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- Beijer Foundation
- Erling-Persson Family Foundation
- Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
- Mistra
- Sida
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Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere. The focus is shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as precondition for social justice, economic development, and sustainability. In this article, we exemplify the intertwined nature of social-ecological systems and emphasize that they operate within, and as embedded parts of the biosphere and as such coevolve with and depend on it. We regard social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems and use a social-ecological resilience approach as a lens to address and understand their dynamics. We raise the challenge of stewardship of development in concert with the biosphere for people in diverse contexts and places as critical for long-term sustainability and dignity in human relations. Biosphere stewardship is essential, in the globalized world of interactions with the Earth system, to sustain and enhance our life-supporting environment for human well-being and future human development on Earth, hence, the need to reconnect development to the biosphere foundation and the need for a biosphere-based sustainability science.
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