Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into disaster risk reduction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7362-7368

  Reyers, Belinda ^a,b   Nel, Jeanne L ^a,c   O'Farrell, Patrick J ^a   Sitas, Nadia ^a,d   Nel, Deon C ^e  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e World Wide Fund for Nature   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Boundary work; Natural hazards; Participatory research; Regulating services; Resilience

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ESTUARY; FIRE; FLOODING; FORESTRY; HAZARD; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE COPRODUCTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SCIENTIST; SOUTH AFRICA; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WEATHER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PROCEDURES; TSUNAMI;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FLOODS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TIDAL WAVES;

EID: 84935859544     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414374112     Document Type: Review

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