Elena M Bennett

Biographic Data

ID3707286
NAMEElena M Bennett
GIVEN NAMESElena M
FAMILY NAMEBennett
SIGNATUREBENNETT E M
AFFILIATIONSMcGill University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS182
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • 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…

  • Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts

    Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Elke U Weber et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2022Cited by: 4References: 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: What the response to the Covid pandemic teaches us about resilience principles

    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

  • Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: The Role of System Dynamics in Service Delivery

    Open AccessKlara J Winkler, Karina Benessaiah et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022Cited by: 2

    Panarchy illustrates the dynamic nature of social-ecological systems and their nestedness and interconnectedness through time and space. Although there have been great advances in ecosystem service (ES) research, it has only rarely integrated dynamic interaction of components in social-ecological systems (SES). We explore how Panarchy theory, and especially its detailed reflections on change and system dynamics, could help ES research to better c…

  • Patchwork Earth: Navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures

    Open AccessEdward M Bennett, Elena M Bennett et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: Rethinking What It Means to Be an Academic Leader

    Open AccessJill Caviglia-Harris, Jill L Caviglia‐Harris et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021

    Caviglia-Harris, J., K. E. Hodges, B. Helmuth, E. M. Bennett, K. Galvin, M. Krebs, K. Lips, M. Lowman, L. A. Schulte, and E. A. G. Schuur. 2021. The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader. Ecology and Society 26(3):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12396-260309

  • Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change

    Open AccessW Neil Adger, Anne-Sophie Crépin et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Bright spots among lakes in the Rideau Valley Watershed, Ontario

    Open AccessJuno Garrah, Barbara Frei et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2019

    Water quality, of critical importance to the ecological and social health of lake ecosystems, is maintained through complex interactions within lakes as well as between lakes and their watersheds. Often, water quality is managed by working toward improved water clarity, however, our ability to predict water clarity, and to manage lakes for it, is not always as successful as desired. Regional strategies for water clarity improvement often overlook…

  • Welcoming different perspectives in Ipbes: Nature's contributions to people" and "Ecosystem services

    Open AccessGlen D Peterson, Garry D Peterson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2018Cited by: 6

    Peterson, G. D., Z. V. Harmackova, M. Meacham, C. Queiroz, A. Jiménez Aceituno, J. J. Kuiper, K. Malmborg, N. E. Sitas, and E. M. Bennett. 2018. Welcoming different perspectives in IPBES: “Nature’s contributions to people” and “Ecosystem services”. Ecology and Society 23(1):39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10134-230139

  • Key features for more successful place-based sustainability research on social-ecological systems: A Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (Pecs) perspective

    Open AccessPatricia Balvanera, Tim M Daw et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017Cited by: 4

    Balvanera, P., T. M. Daw, T. Gardner, B. Martín-López, A. Norström, C. Ifejika Speranza, M. Spierenburg, E. M. Bennett, M. Farfan, M. Hamann, J. N. Kittinger, T. Luthe, M. Maass, G. D. Peterson, and G. Pérez-Verdin. 2017. Key features for more successful place-based sustainability research on social-ecological systems: a Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) perspective. Ecology and Society 22(1):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08826-22…

  • Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

    Open AccessBruce Campbell, Bruce M Campbell et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017Cited by: 32

    Campbell, B. M., D. J. Beare, E. M. Bennett, J. M. Hall-Spencer, J. S. I. Ingram, F. Jaramillo, R. Ortiz, N. Ramankutty, J. A. Sayer, and D. Shindell. 2017. Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries. Ecology and Society 22(4):8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09595-220408

  • The surprisingly small but increasing role of international agricultural trade on the European Union’s dependence on mineral phosphorus fertiliser

    Open AccessThomas Nesme, Solène Roques et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Phosphorus (P) is subject to global management challenges due to its importance to both food security and water quality. The European Union (EU) has promoted policies to limit fertiliser over-application and protect water quality for more than 20 years, helping to reduce European P use. Over this time period, the EU has, however, become more reliant on imported agricultural products. These imported products require fertiliser to be used in distan…

  • Historical dynamics in ecosystem service bundles

    Open AccessDidier Renard, Delphine Renard et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2015

    Significance Most approaches to quantifying and mapping ecosystem services (ES) focus on a single point in time. This static approach cannot provide insight into whether and how the provision of ES changes through time. We examined spatiotemporal ES dynamics by reconstructing the regional provision of nine ES over 35 y. Our approach demonstrated that individual services, ES bundles, and interactions among ES changed across both time and space. We…

  • Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

    Open AccessWill Steffen, Katherine Richardson et al.ARTICLEScience2015

    Crossing the boundaries in global sustainability The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate. This approach has proved influential in global sustainability policy development. Steffen et al. provide an updated and extended analysis of the PB framework. Of the original nine proposed boundaries, they identify three (including climate change) that might pu…

  • Facilitators & barriers to organic waste and phosphorus re-use in Montreal

    Open AccessGeneviève S Metson, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2015

    Cities have the capacity to play a key role in resource and pollution management through their decisions about organic waste. Often overlooked, but nevertheless essential, is the role that cities can play in increasing phosphorus (P) recycling because cities are consumers of large amounts of P-dense food and producers of vast amounts of P-rich waste. Most cities do not take advantage of this potential, seeing P as simply another part of organic w…

  • Strong and nonlinear effects of fragmentation on ecosystem service provision at multiple scales

    Open AccessMatthew G E Mitchell, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Human actions, such as converting natural land cover to agricultural or urban land, result in the loss and fragmentation of natural habitat, with important consequences for the provision of ecosystem services. Such habitat loss is especially important for services that are supplied by fragments of natural land cover and that depend on flows of organisms, matter, or people across the landscape to produce benefits, such as pollination, pest regulat…

  • The Montérégie Connection: Linking Landscapes, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services to Improve Decision Making

    Open AccessMatthew G E Mitchell, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2015Cited by: 1

    Mitchell, M. G. E., E. M. Bennett, A. Gonzalez, M. J. Lechowicz, J. M. Rhemtulla, J. A. Cardille, K. Vanderheyden, G. Poirier-Ghys, D. Renard, S. Delmotte, C. H. Albert, B. Rayfield, M. Dumitru, H.-H. Huang, M. Larouche, K. N. Liss, D. Y. Maguire, K. T. Martins, M. Terrado, C. Ziter, L. Taliana, and K. Dancose. 2015. The Montérégie Connection: linking landscapes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to improve decision making. Ecology and Society…

  • Interactions Among Ecosystem Services Across Land Uses in a Floodplain Agroecosystem

    Open AccessMaría R Felipe-Lucia, Francisco A Comín et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 4

    Felipe-Lucia, M. R., F. A. Comín, and E. M. Bennett. 2014. Interactions among ecosystem services across land uses in a floodplain agroecosystem. Ecology and Society 19(1): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06249-190120

  • Solutions for a cultivated planet

    Open AccessJonathan A Foley, Josep Antoni Fluixà et al.ARTICLENature2011

    Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a global scale. To meet the world's future food security and sustainability needs, food production must grow substantially while, at the same time, agriculture's environmenta…

  • Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?

    Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Glen D Peterson et al.ARTICLEBioScience2010

    Environmentalists have argued that ecological degradation will lead to declines in the well-being of people dependent on ecosystem services. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment paradoxically found that human well-being has increased despite large global declines in most ecosystem services. We assess four explanations of these divergent trends: (1) We have measured well-being incorrectly; (2) well-being is dependent on food services, which are inc…

  • Trade-offs across Space, Time, and Ecosystem Services

    Open AccessJon Paul Rodríguez, Jon Paul Rodrı́guez et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006Cited by: 110References: 2

    Rodríguez, J. P., T. D. Beard, Jr., E. M. Bennett, G. S. Cumming, S. Cork, J. Agard, A. P. Dobson, and G. D. Peterson. 2006. Trade-offs across space, time, and ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 11(1): 28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01667-110128

  • Synthesis of the Storylines

    Open AccessSteven J Cork, Glen D Peterson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006

    This paper outlines the qualitative components (the storylines) of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) scenarios. Drawing on a mixture of expert knowledge, experience, and published literature, we have explored plausible consequences of four trajectories for human development. The storylines have been designed to draw out both benefits and risks for ecosystems and human well-being in all four trajectories with enough richness of detail to al…

  • Scenarios for Ecosystem Services: An Overview

    Open AccessR Carpenter, Stephen R Carpenter et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006Cited by: 19

    The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) scenarios address changes in ecosystem services and their implications for human well-being. Ecological changes pose special challenges for longterm thinking, because of the possibility of regime shifts that occur rapidly yet alter the availability of ecosystem services for generations. Moreover, ecological feedbacks can intensify human modification of ecosystems, creating a spiral of poverty and ecosystem…

  • Assessing Future Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin

    Open AccessGlen D Peterson, Garry D Peterson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2003

    Peterson, G. D., T. Beard Jr., B. E. Beisner, E. M. Bennett, S. R. Carpenter, G. Cumming, C. Dent and T. D. Havlicek 2003. Assessing Future Ecosystem Services: a Case Study of the Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin. Conservation Ecology 7(3):1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00557-070301