Jacqueline Loos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline Loos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline |
| FAMILY NAME | Loos |
| SIGNATURE | LOOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7639-2894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Multifaceted landscapes for grassland restoration: Exploring individual perceptions on grasslands through photovoice
Reconnecting humans and nature, along with reversing the trend of biodiversity loss, are among the most pressing challenges of our times. Grassland restoration offers a promising pathway to halt and reverse biodiversity decline. Since local people are central to maintaining biodiversity and equally benefit from nature, transdisciplinary and social-ecological approaches to restoration are key to achieving sustainable outcomes. These approaches go …
Ecosystem Restoration Across Political Regimes: Why Are So Many ‘Successes’ Located in Undemocratic Contexts
International bodies like the United Nations increasingly champion ecosystem restoration as a key tool to combat environmental degradation. Democratic governance is often positioned as a key element of restoration “success.” We compiled a list of restoration “successes” from the UN Restoration Flagship Program and used the Economist Democracy Index to classify each according to the regime type under which restoration took place. Surprisingly, mos…
Mapping Social Cohesion in Restoration Landscapes: Evidence from Western Rwanda
Social cohesion is increasingly recognized as essential for effective ecosystem restoration, yet it remains underexplored in practice. We mapped social relationships in restoration landscapes of Western Rwanda. Using Net-Map-based interviews and participatory workshops, we evaluated horizontal and vertical cohesion. Restoration approaches strengthened trust, collaboration, and communication within communities, key drivers of knowledge exchange an…
Navigating equity in protected and conserved areas: A literature map of conceptualizations and practical applications
A multi-layered values-based approach to advance social-ecological restoration: Insights from real-world laboratories in Germany
Calls for social-ecological restoration have emerged to help transcend traditional ecological boundaries by including plural values as well as transdisciplinary processes. Inspired by the IPBES values typology, we used questionnaires to assess four multi-layered perspectives characterizing local actors in two transdisciplinary grassland restoration projects in Germany: Broad values, specific values, knowledge, and visions for restoration outcomes…
Characterising landscape homogenisation: A qualitative approach based on five case studies
Landscapes are places where multiple social-ecological relations thrive. However, due to intensification of industrial land-uses, they are losing their diversity of species and functions, languages and practices, thereby influencing the ways in which people interact with each other and non-human beings across the globe. A better understanding of such changes in landscapes is necessary to enhance urgent transformative change to overcome the sustai…
Sensemaking and abductive reasoning for transformative biodiversity conservation
Transformative biodiversity conservation requires innovative approaches that expand knowledge production in complex social‐ecological systems, incorporating diverse perspectives to effectively address biodiversity loss. Conservation efforts often involve working with incomplete data, uncertain conditions and unforeseen challenges, while also navigating the varied power dynamics, values and interests of multiple actors. Beyond optimising existing …
‘Chains of leverage’ as way to identify and foster transformative potential
We propose the framework of ‘chains of leverage’. It is an operationalisation to understand and analyse the transformative potential of social‐ecological systems and identify leverage points for sustainability transformations through a concrete four‐step approach. Step 1 : Analysing the social‐ecological system regarding its core elements across system depth. Elements in a system can be situated at different system depths (from shallow to deep) r…
Transformation towards the sustainable management of peatlands: A characterisation of farmers in the Teufelsmoor, Germany
Peatland restoration through rewetting is a pivotal solution to counteract the climate crisis. Since many peatlands with the potential for rewetting are farmland, rewetting can only be achieved in collaboration with peatland farmers. However, the discord between the need to rewet peatlands and the implementation of rewetting measures calls for a transformation in how peatlands are managed. To explore their willingness towards rewetting, interview…
Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q‐method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration
The current ‘UN Decade on Restoration’ calls for collaboration between scientists and practitioners to formulate guidelines for ecosystem restoration, within which transdisciplinary approaches are imperative to rethink the diverse values associated with nature, paving the way for sustainable ecosystem restoration. In our study, conducted within a real‐world laboratory for grassland restoration in Germany, we employed an individual and a deliberat…
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation
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…
Unveiling disparities between planned and perceived equity arrangements in protected area co-governance: Evidence from the North Luangwa Ecosystem in Zambia
Environmental equity discussions have increasingly influenced conservation policies at local, national, and international levels. Various community-based natural resource management interventions strive to incorporate equity within conservation practices, with a particular focus on resolving human-wildlife conflicts. Nevertheless, the challenge persists in ensuring that equity measures translate into both tangible and perceived fairness. This stu…
How methods influence nature's values we find – A comparison of three elicitation methods
Recent research has called for eliciting plural values of nature, yet little is known on how the choice of methods impacts the different values elicited. Drawing on the notion of methods as value-articulating institutions and using grasslands restoration as a case study, we explored how different elicitation methods influence people's value expressions towards grasslands. We did so in three different ways: (i) comparing values between elicitation…
Applying social-ecological system resilience principles to the context of woody vegetation management in smallholder farming landscapes of the Global South
Woody vegetation diversity is declining due to human-induced land-use changes, mainly agricultural expansion and intensification, deforestation, forest degradation and urbanisation.This loss challenges the resilience and sustainability of smallholder farming landscapes, in which woody vegetation plays an important role for the provision of multiple material and non-material benefits to people and nature.In this review, we examine the relevance an…
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity
As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ (IPs’ and LCs’) roles extend beyond participation to more equitable governance based on relative control and recognition of their values and institutions, but the relationship with conservation outcomes…
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Mixed farmers' perception of the ecological-economic performance of diversified farming
Diversified Farming (DF) practices are strategies to support biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Despite the potential ecological benefits of DF practices, their acceptance among farmers remains limited. Therefore, understanding farmer's perceptions is essential for effective policy decision-making and applicable agri-environmental policies. We conducted structured face-to-face interviews with 145 farmers in Lower Saxony to estimate the ecol…
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…
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services
Mainstreaming of ecosystem service approaches has been proposed as one path toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, critics of ecosystem services question if the approach can account for the multiple values of ecosystems to diverse groups of people, or for aspects of inter- and intra-generational justice. In particular, an ecosystem service approach often overlooks power dimensions and capabilities that are core to environmental justice. This …
The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
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…
Human-nature connectedness as leverage point
Despite early warnings (Meadows et al. 1972), humanity continues to exceed planetary boundaries (Rockstrom et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015). The unprecedented anthropogenic impacts on the climate
Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations
This perspective paper synthesises the special issue 'Human-nature connectedness as a leverage point for sustainability transformation'. Based on the articles in this special issue, we aim to foster the operationalisation of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations to enable sustainability transformations. Specifically, we draw on four key advantages of the leverage points perspective: (i) the explicit recognition of deep l…
On the frontiers of collaboration and conflict: How context influences the success of collaboration
The increasing scale and interconnection of many environmental challenges – from climate change to land use – has resulted in the need to collaborate across borders and boundaries of all types. Traditional centralized, top-down and sectoral approaches to governance of single-issue areas or species within social-ecological systems often have limited potential to alleviate issues that go beyond their jurisdiction. As a result, collaborative governa…
Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: The role of values, rules and knowledge
Nature conservation on privately owned land depends on land managers’ decision-making. Interactions between values, rules and knowledge ( vrk ) underpin decision-making, thus, it is important to understand these interactions to support conservation intentions. We investigated how different sets of vrk determine the decision-making context regarding the management and conservation of renosterveld, a critically endangered ecosystem in the Cape Flor…
Limited knowledge flow among stakeholders of critically endangered renosterveld in South Africa
Burghardt, S., E. N. Topp, K. J. Esler, and J. Loos. 2021. Limited knowledge flow among stakeholders of critically endangered renosterveld in South Africa. Ecology and Society 26(3):17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12083-260317
Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: The role of values, rules and knowledge
Nature conservation on privately owned land depends on land managers’ decision-making. Interactions between values, rules and knowledge ( vrk ) underpin decision-making, thus, it is important to understand these interactions to support conservation intentions. We investigated how different sets of vrk determine the decision-making context regarding the management and conservation of renosterveld, a critically endangered ecosystem in the Cape Flor…
A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania
Hanspach, J., T. Hartel, A. I. Milcu, F. Mikulcak, I. Dorresteijn, J. Loos, H. von Wehrden, T. Kuemmerle, D. Abson, A. Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. Báldi, and J. Fischer. 2014. A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania. Ecology and Society 19(4): 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06915-190432
Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa's Western Cape
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services
Mainstreaming of ecosystem service approaches has been proposed as one path toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, critics of ecosystem services question if the approach can account for the multiple values of ecosystems to diverse groups of people, or for aspects of inter- and intra-generational justice. In particular, an ecosystem service approach often overlooks power dimensions and capabilities that are core to environmental justice. This …
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Unveiling disparities between planned and perceived equity arrangements in protected area co-governance: Evidence from the North Luangwa Ecosystem in Zambia
Environmental equity discussions have increasingly influenced conservation policies at local, national, and international levels. Various community-based natural resource management interventions strive to incorporate equity within conservation practices, with a particular focus on resolving human-wildlife conflicts. Nevertheless, the challenge persists in ensuring that equity measures translate into both tangible and perceived fairness. This stu…
How methods influence nature's values we find – A comparison of three elicitation methods
Recent research has called for eliciting plural values of nature, yet little is known on how the choice of methods impacts the different values elicited. Drawing on the notion of methods as value-articulating institutions and using grasslands restoration as a case study, we explored how different elicitation methods influence people's value expressions towards grasslands. We did so in three different ways: (i) comparing values between elicitation…
Mixed farmers' perception of the ecological-economic performance of diversified farming
Diversified Farming (DF) practices are strategies to support biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Despite the potential ecological benefits of DF practices, their acceptance among farmers remains limited. Therefore, understanding farmer's perceptions is essential for effective policy decision-making and applicable agri-environmental policies. We conducted structured face-to-face interviews with 145 farmers in Lower Saxony to estimate the ecol…
Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania
Loos, J., J. Gallersdörfer, T. Hartel, M. Dolek, and L. Sutcliffe. 2021. Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania. Ecology and Society 26(3):3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12489-260303
Putting meaning back into “sustainable intensification”
In light of human population growth, global food insecurity is an escalating concern. To meet increasing demand for food, leading scientists have called for “sustainable intensification”, defined as the process of enhancing agricultural yields with minimal environmental impact and without expanding the existing agricultural land base. We argue that this definition is inadequate to merit the term “sustainable”, because it lacks engagement with est…
A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania
Hanspach, J., T. Hartel, A. I. Milcu, F. Mikulcak, I. Dorresteijn, J. Loos, H. von Wehrden, T. Kuemmerle, D. Abson, A. Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. Báldi, and J. Fischer. 2014. A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania. Ecology and Society 19(4): 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06915-190432
Land‐sharing/‐sparing connectivity landscapes for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation
The land‐sharing versus land‐sparing debate recently stagnated, lacking an integrating perspective in agricultural landscapes as well as consideration of ecosystem services. Here, we argue that land‐sharing (i.e. wildlife‐friendly farming systems) and land‐sparing (i.e. separation of high‐yielding agriculture and natural habitats) are not mutually exclusive, as both are needed to balance management needs for the multifunctionality of agricultural…
Ecological-economic trade-offs of Diversified Farming Systems – A review
A highly endangered species on the edge: Distribution, habitat use and outlook for Colias myrmidone in newly established Natura 2000 areas in Romania
Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa's Western Cape
Human-nature connectedness as leverage point
Despite early warnings (Meadows et al. 1972), humanity continues to exceed planetary boundaries (Rockstrom et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015). The unprecedented anthropogenic impacts on the climate
Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations
This perspective paper synthesises the special issue 'Human-nature connectedness as a leverage point for sustainability transformation'. Based on the articles in this special issue, we aim to foster the operationalisation of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations to enable sustainability transformations. Specifically, we draw on four key advantages of the leverage points perspective: (i) the explicit recognition of deep l…
On the frontiers of collaboration and conflict: How context influences the success of collaboration
The increasing scale and interconnection of many environmental challenges – from climate change to land use – has resulted in the need to collaborate across borders and boundaries of all types. Traditional centralized, top-down and sectoral approaches to governance of single-issue areas or species within social-ecological systems often have limited potential to alleviate issues that go beyond their jurisdiction. As a result, collaborative governa…
Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: The role of values, rules and knowledge
Nature conservation on privately owned land depends on land managers’ decision-making. Interactions between values, rules and knowledge ( vrk ) underpin decision-making, thus, it is important to understand these interactions to support conservation intentions. We investigated how different sets of vrk determine the decision-making context regarding the management and conservation of renosterveld, a critically endangered ecosystem in the Cape Flor…
Limited knowledge flow among stakeholders of critically endangered renosterveld in South Africa
Burghardt, S., E. N. Topp, K. J. Esler, and J. Loos. 2021. Limited knowledge flow among stakeholders of critically endangered renosterveld in South Africa. Ecology and Society 26(3):17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12083-260317
Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania
Loos, J., J. Gallersdörfer, T. Hartel, M. Dolek, and L. Sutcliffe. 2021. Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania. Ecology and Society 26(3):3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12489-260303
The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
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…
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…
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services
Mainstreaming of ecosystem service approaches has been proposed as one path toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, critics of ecosystem services question if the approach can account for the multiple values of ecosystems to diverse groups of people, or for aspects of inter- and intra-generational justice. In particular, an ecosystem service approach often overlooks power dimensions and capabilities that are core to environmental justice. This …
Applying social-ecological system resilience principles to the context of woody vegetation management in smallholder farming landscapes of the Global South
Woody vegetation diversity is declining due to human-induced land-use changes, mainly agricultural expansion and intensification, deforestation, forest degradation and urbanisation.This loss challenges the resilience and sustainability of smallholder farming landscapes, in which woody vegetation plays an important role for the provision of multiple material and non-material benefits to people and nature.In this review, we examine the relevance an…
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity
As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ (IPs’ and LCs’) roles extend beyond participation to more equitable governance based on relative control and recognition of their values and institutions, but the relationship with conservation outcomes…
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Mixed farmers' perception of the ecological-economic performance of diversified farming
Diversified Farming (DF) practices are strategies to support biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Despite the potential ecological benefits of DF practices, their acceptance among farmers remains limited. Therefore, understanding farmer's perceptions is essential for effective policy decision-making and applicable agri-environmental policies. We conducted structured face-to-face interviews with 145 farmers in Lower Saxony to estimate the ecol…
Characterising landscape homogenisation: A qualitative approach based on five case studies
Landscapes are places where multiple social-ecological relations thrive. However, due to intensification of industrial land-uses, they are losing their diversity of species and functions, languages and practices, thereby influencing the ways in which people interact with each other and non-human beings across the globe. A better understanding of such changes in landscapes is necessary to enhance urgent transformative change to overcome the sustai…
Sensemaking and abductive reasoning for transformative biodiversity conservation
Transformative biodiversity conservation requires innovative approaches that expand knowledge production in complex social‐ecological systems, incorporating diverse perspectives to effectively address biodiversity loss. Conservation efforts often involve working with incomplete data, uncertain conditions and unforeseen challenges, while also navigating the varied power dynamics, values and interests of multiple actors. Beyond optimising existing …
‘Chains of leverage’ as way to identify and foster transformative potential
We propose the framework of ‘chains of leverage’. It is an operationalisation to understand and analyse the transformative potential of social‐ecological systems and identify leverage points for sustainability transformations through a concrete four‐step approach. Step 1 : Analysing the social‐ecological system regarding its core elements across system depth. Elements in a system can be situated at different system depths (from shallow to deep) r…
Transformation towards the sustainable management of peatlands: A characterisation of farmers in the Teufelsmoor, Germany
Peatland restoration through rewetting is a pivotal solution to counteract the climate crisis. Since many peatlands with the potential for rewetting are farmland, rewetting can only be achieved in collaboration with peatland farmers. However, the discord between the need to rewet peatlands and the implementation of rewetting measures calls for a transformation in how peatlands are managed. To explore their willingness towards rewetting, interview…
Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q‐method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration
The current ‘UN Decade on Restoration’ calls for collaboration between scientists and practitioners to formulate guidelines for ecosystem restoration, within which transdisciplinary approaches are imperative to rethink the diverse values associated with nature, paving the way for sustainable ecosystem restoration. In our study, conducted within a real‐world laboratory for grassland restoration in Germany, we employed an individual and a deliberat…
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation
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…
Ecology (17 works) · Geography (17 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Biology (12 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works)