Sandra Lavorel

Biographic Data

ID1331428
NAMESandra Lavorel
GIVEN NAMESSandra
FAMILY NAMELavorel
SIGNATURELAVOREL S
AFFILIATIONSCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
ORCID0000-0002-7300-2811
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS512
AUTHOR COUNT61
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX12

  • Generative artificial intelligence use in automated urban ecological assessments requires substantial human oversight

    Open AccessDaniel R Richards, David Worden et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2026

    Automated data processing and generative AI could scale ecological assessment across urban areas. • We tested the quality of automated ecological reports for 39 urban areas. • The reports were assessed to require substantial human input and editing. • Automation could reduce the labour cost of reporting by 10%. • The costs of writing urban ecological reports for planning are likely to remain prohibitively high. Automated data processing pipelines…

  • Priority areas for nature-based adaptation to climate change in the Alps

    Open AccessTitouan Dubo, Ignacio Palomo et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026References: 62

  • Leverage points for scaling nature‐based adaptation to climate change

    Open AccessEnora Bruley, Ignacio Palomo et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Despite ambitious goals and policies, climate change adaptation efforts remain slow and insufficient compared to the pace and magnitude of climate change. Nature‐based Solutions (NbS) offer a holistic approach, with assumed co‐benefits that jointly address climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation and other societal challenges. NbS are increasingly implemented to enhance local adaptation to climate change; however, they …

  • Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation

    Open AccessMatthew J Colloff, Russell Gorddard et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Successful adaptation often involves changes to the decision context to enable new ways of thinking and acting on climate change. Using 16 adaptation initiatives the authors were engaged with, we analysed how and why decision contexts changed to identify ways to improve adaptation as a process of collective deliberation and social learning. We used the scope of the adaptation issue and governance arrangements to classify initiatives into four typ…

  • Business-as-usual trends will largely miss 2030 global conservation targets

    Open AccessIgnacio Palomo, Alberto González-García et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2025Cited by: 1References: 90

    To address climate change and global biodiversity loss, the world must hit three important international conservation targets by 2030: protect 30% of terrestrial and marine areas, halt and reverse forest loss, and restore 350 Mha of degraded and deforested landscapes. Here, we (1) provide estimates of the gaps between these globally agreed targets and business-as-usual trends; (2) identify examples of rapid past trend-shifts towards achieving the…

  • 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…

  • Harnessing generative artificial intelligence to support nature‐based solutions

    Open AccessDaniel R Richards, David Worden et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    The ongoing biodiversity and climate change crises require society to adopt nature‐based solutions that integrate and enhance ecosystems. To achieve successful implementation of nature‐based solutions, it is vital to communicate scientific information about their benefits and suitability. This article explores the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as a tool for automating and scaling up science communication, outreach, and e…

  • Diverse contributions of nature to climate change adaptation in an upland landscape

    Open AccessDaniel R Richards, Daniel Richards et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023

    Nature provides numerous functions and services that can contribute to societal climate change adaptation. These ‘adaptation services’ can be sustained, latent, or novel, depend on persistence or transformation of ecosystems, and require varying co-production by people. Adaptation services also include climate mitigation. We present an approach to explore an extensive set of land use and climate scenarios that outline possible futures for a lands…

  • Niche theory improves understanding of associations between ecosystem services

    Open AccessDaniel R Richards, Sandra LavorelARTICLEOne Earth2023

    Trade-offs and synergies (or negative and positive associations) between ecosystem services are at the heart of many land-use conflicts. Substantial effort has been focused on modeling ecosystem service associations to inform land use decisions. Despite the importance of associations between ecosystem services, we lack an overarching conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing them. Here, we draw inspiration from species ecological niche…

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

    Open AccessPatrick Meyfroidt, Ariane De Bremond et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2022

    Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help to explain the challenges of achieving sustainability in la…

  • Stakeholder visions for trajectories of adaptation to climate change in the Drôme catchment (French Alps)

    Open AccessAgnès Bergeret, Sandra LavorelARTICLERegional Environmental Change2022

  • 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…

  • Community-Based Institutions Shape Cheese Co-Production in a French Alpine Valley

    Open AccessJulia Grosinger, Karl Grigulis et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2022

    Livestock systems are vital to socioeconomic livelihoods in mountain territories, yet quantitative analyses of their diverse modes of production beyond farm level are missing. We used the concept of nature's contributions to people to account for these various society–ecosystem interactions. We investigated the role of biophysical constraints, resources, and community-based institutions (CBIs) for agricultural production at municipal scale. We as…

  • Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people

    Open AccessShunsuke Managi, Moinul Islam et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2022Cited by: 1References: 5

  • In people’s minds and on the ground

    Open AccessBruno Locatelli, Martin Laurenceau et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022Cited by: 2References: 28

  • Combatting global grassland degradation

    Open AccessRichard D Bardgett, James M Bullock et al.ARTICLENature Reviews Earth & Environment2021

  • Land-use intensity mediates ecosystem service tradeoffs across regional social-ecological systems

    Open AccessJiangxiao Qiu, Cibele Queiroz et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2021

    A key sustainability challenge in human-dominated landscapes is how to reconcile competing demands such as food production, water quality, climate regulation, and ecological amenities. Prior research has documented how efforts to prioritize desirable ecosystem services such as food and fiber have often led to tradeoffs with other services. However, the growing literature has revealed different and sometimes contradictory patterns in ecosystem ser…

  • Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change

    Open AccessIgnacio Palomo, Bruno Locatelli et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Post-2020 aspirations for biodiversity

    Open AccessRobert T Watson, Kaddu Sebunya et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Game of Cruxes

    Open AccessNicolas Salliou, Enora Bruley et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2021Cited by: 2References: 17

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00983-2

  • Memory over matter?—a conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production

    Open AccessJulia Grosinger, Matthew D Potts et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2021Cited by: 4References: 13

    To better account for how social–ecological legacies of social and ecological systems jointly shape the current composition, the quality and quantity of nature’s contribution to people (NCPs), we integrate the concept of NCP co-production into social–ecological system thinking. Our expanded framework highlights how NCP co-production is frequently entangled within its social–ecological context, such as legacies, current resources and social activi…

  • Actions and leverage points for ecosystem-based adaptation pathways in the Alps

    Open AccessEnora Bruley, Bruno Locatelli et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 3References: 15

  • Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach

    Open AccessMatthew J Colloff, Russell Gorddard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 18References: 19

    Human actions have driven earth systems close to irreversible and profound change. The need to shift towards intentional transformative adaptation (ITA) is clear. Using case studies from the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA), we explore ITA as a way of thinking and acting that is transformative in concept and objectives, but achieved through a mix of incremental and transformative co-production processes that ultimately lead to t…

  • Science with society

    Open AccessCara Steger, Julia A Klein et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 24References: 21

  • Nature’s contributions to people

    Open AccessEnora Bruley, Bruno Locatelli et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021Cited by: 5

    Bruley, E., B. Locatelli, and S. Lavorel. 2021. Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes. Ecology and Society 26(1):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12031-260112