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- Title
Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social–ecological systems.
- Authors
MUÑOZ-ERICKSON, TISCHA A.; CAMPBELL, LINDSAY K.; CHILDERS, DANIEL L.; GROVE, J. MORGAN; IWANIEC, DAVID M.; PICKETT, STEWARD T. A.; ROMOLINI, MICHELE; SVENDSEN, ERIKA S.
- Abstract
Governance is key to sustainable urban transitions. Governance is a system of social, power, and decision-making processes that acts as a key driver of resource allocation and use, yet ecologists—even urban ecologists-seldom consider governance concepts in their work. Transitions to more sustainable futures are becoming increasingly important to the management of many ecosystems and landscapes, and particularly so for urban systems. We briefly identify and synthesize important governance dimensions of urban sustainability transitions, using illustrations from cities in which long-term social-ecological governance research is underway. This article concludes with a call to ecologists who are interested in environmental stewardship, and to urban ecologists in particular, to consider the role of governance as a driver in the dynamics of the systems they study.
- Subjects
SOCIAL systems; ECOSYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY; SOCIAL networks; NATURAL resources management
- Publication
Ecosphere, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
2150-8925
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ecs2.1564