F Stuart Chapin

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ID	4269
NAME	F Stuart Chapin
GIVEN NAMES	F Stuart
FAMILY NAME	Chapin
SIGNATURE	CHAPIN F S
AFFILIATIONS	University of Alaska Fairbanks
ORCID	0000-0002-2558-9910
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	166
TOTAL CITATIONS	1440
AUTHOR COUNT	166
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1911
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	11

Response diversity as a sustainability strategy
Open AccessBrian Walker, Anne-Sophie Crépin et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 6References: 6
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…
Social learning for enhancing social-ecological resilience to disaster-shocks: A policy Delphi approach
Open AccessC Emdad Haque, F Berkes et al.ARTICLEDisaster Prevention and…2021
Purpose The plethora of contributions to social learning has resulted in a wide range of interpretations, meanings and applications of social learning, both within and across disciplines. However, advancing the concept and using social learning methods and tools in areas like disaster-shocks requires interdisciplinary consolidation of understandings. In this context, the primary focus of this paper is on the contributions of social learning to di…
Reconciling well-being and resilience for sustainable development
Open AccessTomas Chaigneau, Sarah Coulthard et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 11References: 20
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
Open AccessCarl Folke, Stephen Polasky et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2021Cited by: 92References: 18
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity…
Assessing environmental initiatives through an ecosystem stewardship lens
Open AccessAlice Ramos De Moraes, F Stuart Chapin et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021Cited by: 2
Moraes, A. R. de, F. S. Chapin III, and C. S. Seixas. 2021. Assessing environmental initiatives through an ecosystem stewardship lens. Ecology and Society 26(2):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12417-260229
Social and environmental change in the Arctic: Emerging Opportunities for Well-Being Transformations Through Stewardship
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Iii F Stuart ChapinARTICLEConservation Ecology2021
Chapin, III, F. S. 2021. Social and environmental change in the Arctic: emerging opportunities for well-being transformations through stewardship. Ecology and Society 26(3):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12499-260315
Grassroots Stewardship: Sustainability Within Reach
F Stuart ChapinBOOKGrassroots Stewardship2020
The book presents a novel strategy for addressing the major environmental and social problems of our time. It emphasizes transformative actions by individual citizens, both ordinary and extraordinary, rather than by government and other groups. It empowers a spectrum of solutions appropriate to people with varying interests, skills, political persuasions, and level of environmental and social commitment. The book draws on social and ecological th…
Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change
Open AccessW Neil Adger, Anne-Sophie Crépin et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020
From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Ricardo Rozzi et al.BOOKFrom Biocultural Homogenization…2018
"Going beyond "it depends: The Role of Context in Shaping Participation in Natural Resource Management
Open AccessSusan Baker, F Stuart Chapin et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2018Cited by: 4
Baker, S., and F. Chapin, III. 2018. Going beyond “it depends:” the role of context in shaping participation in natural resource management. Ecology and Society 23(1):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09868-230120
Arctic Sustainability Research: Past, Present and Future
Andrey N Petrov, Shauna Burnsilver et al.BOOKArctic Sustainability Research2017
The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples, resources, and to the challenges and benefits of impending transformations. Arctic sustainability is an issue of increasing c…
Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: An expert assessment
Open AccessBenjamin W Abbott, Jeremy B Jones et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016
As the permafrost region warms, its large organic carbon pool will be increasingly vulnerable to decomposition, combustion, and hydrologic export. Models predict that some portion of this release will be offset by increased production of Arctic and boreal biomass; however, the lack of robust estimates of net carbon balance increases the risk of further overshooting international emissions targets. Precise empirical or model-based assessments of t…
Large CO 2 effluxes at night and during synoptic weather events significantly contribute to CO 2 emissions from a reservoir
Open AccessHeping Liu, Qianyu Zhang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016
CO _2 emissions from inland waters are commonly determined by indirect methods that are based on the product of a gas transfer coefficient and the concentration gradient at the air water interface (e.g., wind-based gas transfer models). The measurements of concentration gradient are typically collected during the day in fair weather throughout the course of a year. Direct measurements of eddy covariance CO _2 fluxes from a large inland water body…
Arctic sustainability research: Toward a new agenda
Andrey N Petrov, Shauna Burnsilver et al.ARTICLEPolar Geography2016
The Arctic is among the world’s regions most affected by ongoing and increasing cultural, socio-economic, environmental and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, local, regional and national governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples and resources, and to challenges and benefits of impending transformations. …
Community-empowered adaptation for self-reliance
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Corrine N Knapp et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2016Cited by: 3References: 10
Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) Research: What have we learned and how can we use this information in future research programs
Open AccessBL Turner, K J Esler et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2016Cited by: 13References: 6
Sense of place: A process for identifying and negotiating potentially contested visions of sustainability
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Corrine N KnappARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015Cited by: 36References: 27
Ecosystem stewardship: A resilience framework for arctic conservation
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, F Stuart Chapin Iii et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 6References: 14
Future changes in the supply of goods and services from natural ecosystems: Prospects for the European north
Open AccessRoland Jansson, Christina Nilsson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2015Cited by: 1
Jansson, R., C. Nilsson, E. C. H. Keskitalo, T. Vlasova, M.-L. Sutinen, J. Moen, F. Chapin III, K. Bråthen, M. Cabeza, T. V. Callaghan, B. Van Oort, H. Dannevig, I. A. Bay-larsen, R. A. Ims, and P. Aspholm. 2015. Future changes in the supply of goods and services from natural ecosystems: prospects for the European north. Ecology and Society 20(3): 32.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07607-200332
Relationship of Community Characteristics to Harvest Reporting: Comparative Study of Household Surveys and Harvest Tickets in Alaska
Jennifer I Schmidt, F Stuart ChapinARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2014
Accurate harvest reporting is critical for wildlife management. Rural Alaskan communities reported a median of 42% of moose harvested via traditional harvest tickets compared to those reported in household surveys. This harvest-report ratio did not change over time. Twice as many moose were reported harvested during subsistence household surveys (n = 8,039) than on hunter harvest tickets (n = 3,557). Percentage of the community that was indigenou…
Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity
Open AccessGeorgina M Mace, Belinda Reyers et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2014Cited by: 21References: 4
The idea that there is an identifiable set of boundaries, beyond which anthropogenic change will put the Earth system outside a safe operating space for humanity, is attracting interest in the scientific community and gaining support in the environmental policy world. Rockstrom et al. (2009) identify nine such boundaries and highlight biodiversity loss as being the single boundary where current rates of extinction put the Earth system furthest ou…
Parks, people, and change: The Importance of Multistakeholder Engagement in Adaptation Planning for Conserved Areas
Open AccessCorrine N Knapp, F Stuart Chapin et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 4
Knapp, C. N., F. S. Chapin III, G. P. Kofinas, N. Fresco, C. Carothers and A. Craver 2014. Parks, people, and change: the importance of multistakeholder engagement in adaptation planning for conserved areas. Ecology and Society 19(4): 16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06906-190416
Robustness or resilience? Managing the intersection of ecology and engineering in an urban Alaskan fishery
Open AccessMeagan B Krupa, F Stuart Chapin et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014
Krupa, M. B., F. S. Chapin III, and A. L. Lovecraft. 2014. Robustness or resilience? Managing the intersection of ecology and engineering in an urban Alaskan fishery. Ecology and Society 19(2): 17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06274-190217
Adaptive governance and institutional strategies for climate-induced community relocations in Alaska
Open AccessRobin Bronen, F Stuart ChapinARTICLEProceedings of the National…2013
This article presents governance and institutional strategies for climate-induced community relocations. In Alaska, repeated extreme weather events coupled with climate change-induced coastal erosion impact the habitability of entire communities. Community residents and government agencies concur that relocation is the only adaptation strategy that can protect lives and infrastructure. Community relocation stretches the financial and institutiona…

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
Open AccessJohan Rockström, Will Steffen et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2009Cited by: 768References: 10
Rockström, J., W. Steffen, K. Noone, Å. Persson, F. S. Chapin, III, E. Lambin, T. M. Lenton, M. Scheffer, C. Folke, H. Schellnhuber, B. Nykvist, C. A. De Wit, T. Hughes, S. van der Leeuw, H. Rodhe, S. Sörlin, P. K. Snyder, R. Costanza, U. Svedin, M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, R. W. Corell, V. J. Fabry, J. Hansen, B. Walker, D. Liverman, K. Richardson, P. Crutzen, and J. Foley. 2009. Planetary boundaries:exploring the safe operating space for humani…
This Must Be the Place: Underrepresentation of Identity and Meaning in Climate Change Decision-Making
W Neil Adger, Jon Barnett et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Politics2011Cited by: 124References: 8
The dangers that future climate change poses to physical, biological, and economic systems are accounted for in analyses of risk and increasingly figure in decision-making about responses to climate change. Yet the potential cultural and social impacts of climate change have scarcely been considered. In this article we bring the risks climate change poses to cultures and social systems into consideration through a focus on places-those local mate…
Epistemological Pluralism: Reorganizing Interdisciplinary Research
Open AccessThomas R Miller, Thaddeus R Miller et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2008Cited by: 115References: 10
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008. Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02671-130246
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
Open AccessCarl Folke, Stephen Polasky et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2021Cited by: 92References: 18
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity…
Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Open AccessCarl Folke, Åsa Jansson et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2011Cited by: 44References: 82
Sense of place: A process for identifying and negotiating potentially contested visions of sustainability
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Corrine N KnappARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015Cited by: 36References: 27
Urban land use planning
F Stuart ChapinBOOKUrban land use planning1957Cited by: 22
Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity
Open AccessGeorgina M Mace, Belinda Reyers et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2014Cited by: 21References: 4
The idea that there is an identifiable set of boundaries, beyond which anthropogenic change will put the Earth system outside a safe operating space for humanity, is attracting interest in the scientific community and gaining support in the environmental policy world. Rockstrom et al. (2009) identify nine such boundaries and highlight biodiversity loss as being the single boundary where current rates of extinction put the Earth system furthest ou…
Human Activity Patterns in the City. Things People Do in Time and in Space
Open AccessD C, F Stuart ChapinARTICLEPopulation1976Cited by: 17
Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) Research: What have we learned and how can we use this information in future research programs
Open AccessBL Turner, K J Esler et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2016Cited by: 13References: 6
Resilience and Vulnerability of Northern Regions to Social and Environmental Change
F Stuart Chapin, G Peterson et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2004Cited by: 12
The arctic tundra and boreal forest were once considered the last frontiers on earth because of their vast expanses remote from agricultural land-use change and industrial development. These regions are now, however, experiencing environmental and social changes that are as rapid as those occurring anywhere on earth. This paper summarizes the role of northern regions in the global system and provides a blueprint for assessing the factors that gov…
Reconciling well-being and resilience for sustainable development
Open AccessTomas Chaigneau, Sarah Coulthard et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 11References: 20
Earth stewardship: A strategy for social–ecological transformation to reverse planetary degradation
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Steward T A Pickett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2011Cited by: 10References: 11
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Manage Arctic Change
F Stuart Chapin, Michael Hoel et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2006Cited by: 9References: 10
Unprecedented global changes caused by human actions challenge society's ability to sustain the desirable features of our planet. This requires proactive management of change to foster both resilience (sustaining those attributes that are important to society in the face of change) and adaptation (developing new socioecological configurations that function effectively under new conditions). The Arctic may be one of the last remaining opportunitie…
Social Theory and Social Action
F Stuart ChapinARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1936Cited by: 9
Global Change and the Boreal Forest: Thresholds, Shifting States or Gradual Change
F Stuart Chapin, Terry V Callaghan et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2004Cited by: 8
Changes in boreal climate of the magnitude projected for the 21st century have always caused vegetation changes large enough to be societally important. However, the rates and patterns of vegetation change are difficult to predict. We review evidence suggesting that these vegetation changes may be gradual at the northern forest limit or where seed dispersal limits species distribution. However, forest composition may be quite resilient to climate…
Response diversity as a sustainability strategy
Open AccessBrian Walker, Anne-Sophie Crépin et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 6References: 6
Ecosystem stewardship: A resilience framework for arctic conservation
Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, F Stuart Chapin Iii et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 6References: 14
Notions of Time and Sentience: Methodological Considerations for Arctic Climate Change Research
D C Natcher, Orville Huntington et al.ARTICLEArctic Anthropology2007Cited by: 6
For anthropologists who are involved in Arctic climate change research, cultural conceptions of time and sentience have yet to receive explicit research attention, choosing rather to focus on the societal effects of climate change and formulating more adaptive human responses. Notwithstanding the value of this research, the methodologies often used tend to reflect a culturally based assumption that there exists a single characterization of time a…
The Significance of Context in Community-Based Research: Understanding Discussions about Wildfire in Huslia, Alaska
Open AccessH P Huntington, Sarah F Trainor et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006Cited by: 6
Huntington, H. P., S. F. Trainor, D. C. Natcher, O. H. Huntington, L. DeWilde, and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2006. The significance of context in community-based research: understanding discussions about wildfire in Huslia, Alaska. Ecology and Society 11(1): 40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01723-110140
Bringing Feedback and Resilience of High-latitude Ecosystems into the Corporate Boardroom
Gail Whiteman, Bruce C Forbes et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2004Cited by: 6
This paper discusses the role of companies in high-latitude regions, which are conceptualized as socially and economically mediated ecosystems, and identifies a number of important social actors within the business environment. We present three examples of corporate activity at high latitudes and discuss a variety of common threads. Notably, we argue that business theory and practice needs to move beyond a narrow social or economic concept of org…
The Scope and Method of Sociology: A Metasociological Treatise
L P Mchattie, Paul Hanly Furfey et al.ARTICLEThe American Catholic Sociological…1953Cited by: 6
The Growth of Bureaucracy: An Hypothesis
F Stuart ChapinARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1951Cited by: 6
Report on Questionnaire of Committee on Teaching
F Stuart ChapinARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1911Cited by: 5
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…