Intertwined people-nature relations are central to nature-based adaptation to climate change
department or school: Forestry, Faculty of
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department or school: Forest Resources Management, Department of
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identifier citation: Locatelli, B., Lavorel, S., Colloff, M. J., Crouzat, E., Bruley, E., Fedele, G., Grêt-Regamey, A., Plieninger, T., Andersson, E., Abbott, M., Butler, J., Devisscher, T., Djoudi, H., Dubo, T., González-García, A., Karim, P. G., Múnera-Roldán, C., Neyret, M., Quétier, F., . . . Walters, G. (2025). Intertwined people-nature relations are central to nature-based adaptation to climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, 380(1917), 20230213.
creator: Locatelli, Bruno
creator: Lavorel, Sandra
creator: Colloff, Matthew J.
creator: Crouzat, Emilie
creator: Bruley, Enora
creator: Fedele, Giacomo
creator: Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
creator: Plieninger, Tobias
creator: Andersson, Erik
creator: Abbott, Mick
creator: Butler, James
creator: Devisscher, Tahia
creator: Djoudi, Houria
creator: Dubo, Titouan
creator: González-García, Alberto
creator: Karim, Paulina G.
creator: Munera, Claudia
creator: Neyret, Margot
creator: Quétier, Fabien
creator: Salliou, Nicolas
creator: Walters, Gretchen
issued: 2025-04-23T16:11:05Z
issued: 2023-02-13
description: Adaptation to climate change is a social-ecological process: it is not solely a result of natural processes or human decisions but emerges from multiple relations within social systems, within ecological systems, and between them. We propose a novel analytical framework to evaluate social-ecological relations in nature-based adaptation, encompassing social (people-people), ecological (nature-nature), and social-ecological (people-nature) relations. Applying this framework to 25 case studies, we analyse the associations among these relations and identify archetypes of social-ecological adaptation. Our findings revealed that adaptation actions with more people-nature relations mobilise more social and ecological relations. We identified four archetypes, with distinct modes of adaptation along a gradient of people-nature interaction scores, summarised as: 1) nature control; 2) biodiversity-based; 3) ecosystem services-based; and 4) integrated approaches. This study contributes to a nuanced understanding of nature-based adaptation, highlighting the importance of integrating diverse relations across social and ecological systems. Our findings offer valuable insights for informing the design and implementation of adaptation strategies and policies.
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note: Author’s Accepted Manuscript Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 380: 20230213 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0213 1 Intertwined people-nature relations are central to nature-based adaptation to climate change Bruno Locatelli (1*), Sandra Lavorel (2), Matthew J. Colloff (3), Emilie Crouzat (4), Enora Bruley (5), Giacomo Fedele (6), Adrienne Grêt-Regamey (7), Tobias Plieninger (8), Erik Andersson (9), Mick Abbott (10), James Butler (11), Tahia Devisscher (12), Houria Djoudi (13), Titouan Dubo (14), Alberto González-García (15), Paulina G. Karim (16), Claudia Munera (17), Margot Neyret (18), Fabien Quétier (19), Nicolas Salliou (20), Gretchen Walters (21) (1) Forests and Societies, Cirad, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier 34398, France bruno.locatelli@cirad.fr, ORCID: 0000-0003-2983-1644, (*) Author for correspondence (2) Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France sandra.lavorel@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr, ORCID: 0000-0002-7300-2811 (3) Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, matthew.colloff@anu.edu.au, ORCID: 0000-0002-3765-0627 (4) Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM, France, emilie.crouzat@inrae.fr, ORCID: 0000-0001-5765-6543 (5) Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland, enora.bruley@unige.ch, ORCID: 0000-0003-3416-1868 (6) Conservation International, gfedele@conservation.org, ORCID: 0000-0001-9238-1020 (7) Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, gret@ethz.ch, ORCID: 0000-0001-8156-9503 (8) Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel; Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Germany, plieninger@uni-goettingen.de, ORCID: 0000-0003-1478-2587 (9) Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Research Unit for Environmental Sciences an…
has type: Article
has type: Postprint
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0448526
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: The Royal Society
publisher DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0213
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
scholar level: Postdoctoral
subject: Social-ecological system
subject: Archetype
subject: Framing
subject: Co-production
subject: Ecosystem services
subject: Pathway
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90728