IMBIV   05474
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE BIOLOGIA VEGETAL
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Interconnected place-based social–ecological research can inform global sustainability
Autor/es:
BALVANERA, PATRICIA; FELIPE-LUCIA, MARÍA R; MARTÍN-LÓPEZ, BERTA; LOCATELLI, BRUNO; SPIERENBURG, MARJA J; GILLSON, LINDSEY; CALDERÓN-CONTRERAS, RAFAEL; GEIJZENDORFFER, ILSE R; ARBIEU, UGO; HARGUINDEGUY, NATALIA PÉREZ; VALLET, AMÉLINE; CASTRO, ANTONIO J; JACOBS, SANDER; SPERANZA, CHINWE IFEJIKA; MERCADO, ILSE RUIZ; LYNES, LAURA
Revista:
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Editorial:
Elsevier B.V.
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2017 vol. 29 p. 1 - 7
ISSN:
1877-3435
Resumen:
Global sustainability initiatives are gaining momentum and impact, and place-based research can provide complementary insights to strengthen them. Here, we explore the current and potential role of place-based research into informing global sustainability initiatives by assessing the strengths, challenges, and opportunities. We show that place-based research allows for a better understanding of global social?ecological dynamics, and that transformations towards sustainability are often triggered at the local scale through the co-construction of local solutions. We discuss that the very nature of place-based research can hinder its transferability because its global integration faces temporal, spatial and governance scale mismatches, and we identify some of the key challenges of scaling-up its findings. We highlight new opportunities to mainstream place-based research that are emerging from first, long-term networks of place-based research, second, new institutional research settings that contribute with conceptual comprehensive frameworks and capacity building tools, third, a global community of practice, and fourth, the concept of region as a bridge between local and global sustainability initiatives. We believe that the time is ripe to promote the role of place-based social?ecological research as a key contributor to achieve global sustainability goals.