Suneetha M Subramanian
Biographic Data
| ID | 2020493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suneetha M Subramanian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suneetha M |
| FAMILY NAME | Subramanian |
| SIGNATURE | SUBRAMANIAN S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2516-2412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inclusion in body and mind: Ensuring full participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in decisions related to nature
The inclusion of the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) in global sciencepolicy processes are increasingly being mandated. This is indicative of the recognition of their expertise and worldviews to inform social and ecological decisions. The IPBES Values Assessment (VA) explicitly highlighted the necessity for a nuanced engagement of different actors while undertaking valuation for decisions related to n…
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
In December 2022, members of the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) (https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/) to guide international biodiversity conservation efforts until 2030 in order to be able to live ‘in harmony with nature’ by 2050. This framework addresses the implementation gap left after the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, which were the previous global instrument for mainstreami…
The politics of adaptiveness in agroecosystems and its role in transformations to sustainable food systems
Food systems are responsible for pushing human resource use past three thresholds of safe planetary operating space, yet the potential of agroecosystems to contribute to sustainability of food systems when managed for multiple benefits is underexplored. This gap has led to a call for food systems transformation. Previous reviews have acknowledged that governance of food systems transformations is not well understood. The aim of this review is to …
Signposts on the road toward transformative governance: How a stronger focus on diverse values can enhance environmental policies
Transformative change toward sustainability is increasingly recognized as inevitable to avoid the collapse of socio-ecological systems. However, for a deep and system-wide transformation, governance approaches and policymaking need to be changed too. This paper discusses how a diverse value approach in environmental policymaking could be undertaken to foster transformative governance that can further lead to system-wide transitions. Based on the …
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
This open access book discusses the concepts, methodologies, approaches, and strategies of nexus between biodiversity, health, and sustainable development
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change
The time is now For decades, scientists have been raising calls for societal changes that will reduce our impacts on nature. Though much conservation has occurred, our natural environment continues to decline under the weight of our consumption. Humanity depends directly on the output of nature; thus, this decline will affect us, just as it does the other species with which we share this world. Díaz et al. review the findings of the largest asses…
Multi-level networks for sustainability solutions: The case of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative
Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: A social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures
Non-technical summary It is no longer possible nor desirable to address the dual challenges of equity and sustainability separately. Instead, they require new thinking and approaches which recognize their interlinkages, as well as the multiple perspectives and dimensions involved. We illustrate how equity and sustainability are intertwined, and how a complex social–ecological systems lens brings together advances from across the social and natura…
Valuing nature’s contributions to people: The Ipbes approach
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
Drivers of Change in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes: Implications for Better Management
Gu, H., and S. M. Subramanian. 2014. Drivers of change in socio-ecological production landscapes: implications for better management. Ecology and Society 19(1): 41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06283-190141
Managing the mismatches to provide ecosystem services for human well-being: A conceptual framework for understanding the New Commons
Managing the transition to sustainability in an emerging economy: Evaluating green growth policies in Indonesia
Valuing nature’s contributions to people: The Ipbes approach
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South
Managing the mismatches to provide ecosystem services for human well-being: A conceptual framework for understanding the New Commons
Managing the transition to sustainability in an emerging economy: Evaluating green growth policies in Indonesia
Signposts on the road toward transformative governance: How a stronger focus on diverse values can enhance environmental policies
Transformative change toward sustainability is increasingly recognized as inevitable to avoid the collapse of socio-ecological systems. However, for a deep and system-wide transformation, governance approaches and policymaking need to be changed too. This paper discusses how a diverse value approach in environmental policymaking could be undertaken to foster transformative governance that can further lead to system-wide transitions. Based on the …
Multi-level networks for sustainability solutions: The case of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative
Drivers of Change in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes: Implications for Better Management
Gu, H., and S. M. Subramanian. 2014. Drivers of change in socio-ecological production landscapes: implications for better management. Ecology and Society 19(1): 41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06283-190141
Inclusion in body and mind: Ensuring full participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in decisions related to nature
The inclusion of the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) in global sciencepolicy processes are increasingly being mandated. This is indicative of the recognition of their expertise and worldviews to inform social and ecological decisions. The IPBES Values Assessment (VA) explicitly highlighted the necessity for a nuanced engagement of different actors while undertaking valuation for decisions related to n…
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
This open access book discusses the concepts, methodologies, approaches, and strategies of nexus between biodiversity, health, and sustainable development
Managing the transition to sustainability in an emerging economy: Evaluating green growth policies in Indonesia
Managing the mismatches to provide ecosystem services for human well-being: A conceptual framework for understanding the New Commons
Drivers of Change in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes: Implications for Better Management
Gu, H., and S. M. Subramanian. 2014. Drivers of change in socio-ecological production landscapes: implications for better management. Ecology and Society 19(1): 41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06283-190141
Valuing nature’s contributions to people: The Ipbes approach
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: A social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures
Non-technical summary It is no longer possible nor desirable to address the dual challenges of equity and sustainability separately. Instead, they require new thinking and approaches which recognize their interlinkages, as well as the multiple perspectives and dimensions involved. We illustrate how equity and sustainability are intertwined, and how a complex social–ecological systems lens brings together advances from across the social and natura…
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change
The time is now For decades, scientists have been raising calls for societal changes that will reduce our impacts on nature. Though much conservation has occurred, our natural environment continues to decline under the weight of our consumption. Humanity depends directly on the output of nature; thus, this decline will affect us, just as it does the other species with which we share this world. Díaz et al. review the findings of the largest asses…
Multi-level networks for sustainability solutions: The case of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
This open access book discusses the concepts, methodologies, approaches, and strategies of nexus between biodiversity, health, and sustainable development
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
In December 2022, members of the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) (https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/) to guide international biodiversity conservation efforts until 2030 in order to be able to live ‘in harmony with nature’ by 2050. This framework addresses the implementation gap left after the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, which were the previous global instrument for mainstreami…
The politics of adaptiveness in agroecosystems and its role in transformations to sustainable food systems
Food systems are responsible for pushing human resource use past three thresholds of safe planetary operating space, yet the potential of agroecosystems to contribute to sustainability of food systems when managed for multiple benefits is underexplored. This gap has led to a call for food systems transformation. Previous reviews have acknowledged that governance of food systems transformations is not well understood. The aim of this review is to …
Signposts on the road toward transformative governance: How a stronger focus on diverse values can enhance environmental policies
Transformative change toward sustainability is increasingly recognized as inevitable to avoid the collapse of socio-ecological systems. However, for a deep and system-wide transformation, governance approaches and policymaking need to be changed too. This paper discusses how a diverse value approach in environmental policymaking could be undertaken to foster transformative governance that can further lead to system-wide transitions. Based on the …
Inclusion in body and mind: Ensuring full participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in decisions related to nature
The inclusion of the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) in global sciencepolicy processes are increasingly being mandated. This is indicative of the recognition of their expertise and worldviews to inform social and ecological decisions. The IPBES Values Assessment (VA) explicitly highlighted the necessity for a nuanced engagement of different actors while undertaking valuation for decisions related to n…
Geography (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works)