Edward M Bennett

Datos Biográficos

ID1078673
NOMBREEdward M Bennett
NOMBRESEdward M
APELLIDOBennett
FIRMABENNETT E M
AFILIACIONESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0003-3944-2925
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS99
TOTAL DE CITAS534
TOTAL COMO AUTOR99
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1952
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H11

  • Theories of care help explain a peri‐urban tree diversity paradox

    Open AccessJacqueline M Hamilton, Murray M Humphries et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Since diversity is often a management objective for peri‐urban tree communities on public land, one might expect to find greater diversity there than on private land, where such objectives are less common. However, this expectation rests on an assumption that people control diversity towards objectives, overlooking the role of relationships between people and trees. Theories of care offer a novel lens for exploring how such relationships relate t…

  • Mapping the impact of food system initiatives on advancing Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessDeborah Esaa Larbi-Sarpong, Judith William et al.ARTICLEGlobal Sustainability2026

    Non-technical summary This study explores how community-led initiatives known as ‘seeds’ are transforming Ghana’s food systems. These 80 diverse projects tackle challenges such as hunger, poor nutrition, climate change, and poverty. From promoting sustainable farming and fisheries to creating healthier diets and supporting local economies, the seeds show how local innovation can help achieve global goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals…

  • A mixed method evaluation of ecosystem services and services-to-ecosystems illuminates culturally important trees in a settled landscape

    Open AccessJacqueline M Hamilton, Murray M Humphries et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2025

    Biodiversity loss can lead to losses in ecological functions, ecosystem services, and cultural values. Yet, literature that empirically relates species’ ecological and cultural importance is scarce. We investigate tree species’ cultural importance in a settled landscape in Canada by combining biophysical plot sampling (n = 122) and semi-structured interviews (n = 31). We examined relationships between cultural importance, ecosystem services (bene…

  • Connecting the past with restoration futures

    Open AccessNandita B Basu, K J Van Meter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Connecting the past with restoration futures: integrating legacy thinking into environmental decision making, Basu, Nandita B, Meter, K J Van, Bennett, Elena, Bernhardt, Emily, Inamdar, Shreeram, McCrackin, Michelle

  • Supporting researchers’ engagement in international science–policy bodies

    Open AccessSergio A Lambertucci, Niki Frantzeskaki et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025Referencias: 2

  • Participatory scenario planning

    Open AccessElson Ian Nyl Ebreo Galang, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2025Referencias: 18

    Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP), the collaborative process of envisioning plausible futures, is a promising approach to aid environmental management and governance in the Anthropocene. Emerging scholarship on PSP emphasizes its potential for social learning to enhance knowledge, values, and competencies for more sustainable governance. However, empirical evidence that PSP leads to social learning is limited. We explored a PSP exercise for t…

  • Co-imagining future scenarios can enhance environmental actors’ empathy toward future generations and non-human life-forms

    Open AccessElson Ian Nyl Ebreo Galang, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2025Referencias: 3

  • Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning

    Open AccessSilja Zimmermann, Brian J Dermody et al.ARTICLEFutures2025Referencias: 9

  • Welcome home! Introducing SocSES

    Open AccessA De Vos, Allyson Quinlan et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Underpinned by systemic thinking, social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as a critical field for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene, marked by a cross-scale focus, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, and a strong emphasis on place-based work. Thanks to the efforts of many networks and institutes, the field has advanced new theoretical and methodological approaches, fostered dedicated journals, and spurred educational…

  • Pathways to transformation

    Open AccessOlivia St-Laurent, Karina Benessaiah et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Around the world, cities and their residents are experimenting with innovations for social and ecological sustainability, sowing the seeds of good Anthropocenes. Although such seed initiatives tend to operate at society’s margins, some successfully embed their innovations into new or existing regimes. This process, which is called institutionalization, is deemed crucial for accelerating transformations and ensuring the persistence of change, yet …

  • People working with nature

    Open AccessBruno Locatelli, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2024

    The co-production of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) is a set of processes in which anthropogenic inputs (i.e. material or non-material actions and the assets supporting these actions) and natural inputs (i.e. ecological structures and processes) interact to produce NCP. An interdisciplinary understanding of NCP co-production can support decision-making on ecosystem management or NCP use, given natural constraints, limited human inputs, po…

  • Disentangling the complexity of human–nature interactions

    Open AccessEdward M Bennett, Belinda ReyersARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    Human–nature interactions have been identified as an important leverage point for achieving sustainability. Processes to recognize, protect, improve and reimagine human–nature interactions will be central to shift the world to more sustainable and equitable pathways and futures. In the context of the interconnected and rapidly changing Anthropocene, work on human–nature interactions must move beyond dominant linear assumptions of a relatively sim…

  • Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity

    Open AccessJennifer Holzer, J M Holzer et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024

    Environmental knowledge networks (EKNs) link research collaborators in a common purpose to produce data and knowledge to better understand social-ecological phenomena and address environmental challenges. Over recent years, as scientists have grappled with how to produce data and actionable knowledge for conservation and sustainability, more EKNs have been established. Although each network is founded for its own purposes and maintains its own go…

  • Safe and just Earth system boundaries

    Open AccessJohan Rockström, Jagdish Gupta et al.ARTICLENature2023

    The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked 1–3 , yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently 4,5 . Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintain…

  • Substitutability of natural and human capitals

    Open AccessJesse T Rieb, Brian Robinson et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023

    Most ecosystem services (ES) are co-produced, to varying degrees, by interactions between people and ecosystems. Although ES research has tended to emphasize the role of ecosystems, or natural capital, in ES provision, the need for a deeper understanding of the role of human-derived capitals, like technology, labour, and management, is increasingly being recognized. Understanding the capacity for, and limitations of, human-derived capitals to enh…

  • Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

    Open AccessBrian Walker, Anne-Sophie Crépin et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Citada por: 6Referencias: 6

  • Mapping social structures for sustainability transformation at McGill University, Canada

    Open AccessKlara J Winkler, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Purpose For a university to be a prime mover for sustainability transformation, all units of the university should contribute. However, organizational change in educational institutions is often studied by examining specific domains such as research or operation in isolation. This results in a less-than-complete picture of the potential for university-wide change. In contrast, this paper aims to examine the network of social relations that determ…

  • Property rights play a pivotal role in the distribution of ecosystem services among beneficiaries

    Open AccessMarie C Dade, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Property rights are fundamental institutions that set the rules for who is allowed to use, manage, and control natural resources. Though the literature on property rights over natural resources is well developed. However, our understanding of the ways by which property rights govern actors’ ability to obtain ecosystem services provided by these natural resources remains under-explored. Using the Adirondack Park, USA, as a case study, we develop a…

  • The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus

    Open AccessAlbert V Norström, Bina Agarwal et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in 2011, and is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research networks. During this time, SES research has undergone a phase of rapid growth and has grown into an influential branch of sustainability science. In this Perspective, we argue that SES research has also deepened over the past decade, and helped to shed light on key dimensions of SES dyna…

  • Advancing research on ecosystem service bundles for comparative assessments and synthesis

    Open AccessMegan Meacham, Albert V Norström et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Social-ecological interactions have been shown to generate interrelated and reoccurring sets of ecosystem services, also known as ecosystem service bundles. Given the potential utility of the bundles concept, along with the recent surge in interest it is timely to reflect on the concept, its current use and potential for the future. Based on our ecosystem service bundle experience, expertise, and ecosystem service bundle analyses, we have found c…

  • Learning from the future

    Open AccessVivian Valencia, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    We comment on one of the scientific paradoxes of our times in the field of global studies on food: the influential scenario studies that call for new paradigms for the global food system are themselves locked into a past solution space. We posit that the extrapolation of past solution spaces into the future runs the risk of restricting the modelled scenarios to futures that are very similar to the status quo. We propose a novel complementary appr…

  • Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation

    Open AccessAnna Chrysafi, Vili Virkki et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 9

    Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe operating space for humanity. Using expert knowledge elicitation, we explored interactions among seven variables representing Earth system processes relevant to food production, identifying many interactions little explored in Earth system literature. We found that green…

  • Biophysical indicators and Indigenous and Local Knowledge reveal climatic and ecological shifts with implications for Arctic Char fisheries

    Open AccessMarianne Falardeau, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Managing Arctic marine resources to be resilient to environmental changes requires knowledge of how climate change is affecting marine food webs and fisheries. Changes to fishery resources will have major implications for coastal Indigenous communities whose livelihoods, health, and cultures are strongly connected to fisheries. Understanding these broad social-ecological changes requires a transdisciplinary approach bringing together contrasting …

  • Earth stewardship

    Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Elke U Weber et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2022Citada por: 4Referencias: 66

    Transformation toward a sustainable future requires an earth stewardship approach to shift society from its current goal of increasing material wealth to a vision of sustaining built, natural, human, and social capital—equitably distributed across society, within and among nations. Widespread concern about earth’s current trajectory and support for actions that would foster more sustainable pathways suggests potential social tipping points in pub…

  • Resilience in the times of Covid

    Open AccessMarta Berbés-Blázquez, Marta Berbés‐Blázquez et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022

    Berbés-Blázquez, M., M. Schoon, K. Benessaiah, E. M. Bennett, G. D. Peterson, and R. Ghimire. 2022. Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles. Ecology and Society 27(2):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13223-270216