Change and Adaptation in SocioEcological Systems

Change and Adaptation in SocioEcological Systems is published by De Gruyter. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, together about 39.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal The interrelations of human beings with ecosystems experience rising importance in sustainable land use planning and lead to the concept of socio-ecological system. Socio-ecological systems include both, a bio-geo-physical component and the related local to regional actors. Their system boundaries depend on the problem context and can be either determined by environmental parameters or socio-cultural factors. Socio-ecological systems experience constant change and adaptation processes related to utilization, management, policy, ecological, and external influences. The scope of Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems is to publish original papers, review and synthesis papers, and short communications, and research letters addressing an interdisciplinary point of view on change and adaptation of socio-ecological systems from management unit level to policy level. Thematically, Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems aims to address all studies that have a focus on the impact of global change and climate change, on functioning or services of socio-ecological systems and related human-environment interactions, on understanding, monitoring and proposing innovative approaches, tools and technologies to adapt and bring forward system management and development. Our range of topics includes studies related to agriculture, forestry, and their interactions, water management, urban systems and rural-urban interface. Focus is laid on highly integrative studies, but also welcome contributions enhancing innovative aspects within one of these areas as long as they address one or more of the following cross-cutting issues: (a) management of the ecological integrity and ecosystem functioning on local, regional to supra-regional scale, (b) adaptive system management under external pressures such as climate or societal changes, land-use change, and urbanization processes/development of megacities, (c) socio-economic and political issues such as regional economy, change management, management support, (d) provision of functions, goods and services, sustainable processing of natural resources and regional value clusters, and (e) innovative models and technologies in socio-ecological system development planning support, stakeholder involvement and participatory processes. Why read Studies related to socio-ecological systems and their change and adaptation create increasingly cross-disciplinary research results. These are so far dispersed i

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Publisher

De Gruyter

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

2300-3669

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