How to make complexity look simple? Conveying ecosystems restoration complexity for socio-economic research and public engagement.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystems degradation represents one of the major global challenges at the present time, threating people's livelihoods and well-being worldwide. Ecosystem restoration therefore seems no longer an option, but an imperative. Restoration challenges are such that a dialogue has begun on the need to re-shape restoration as a science. A critical aspect of that reshaping process is the acceptance that restoration science and practice needs to be coupled with socio-economic research and public engagement. This inescapably means conveying complex ecosystem's information in a way that is accessible to the wider public. In this paper we take up this challenge with the ultimate aim of contributing to making a step change in science's contribution to ecosystems restoration practice. Using peatlands a

SUBMITTER: Martin-Ortega J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5533344 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature