Jeanne Nel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6570032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanne Nel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Nel |
| SIGNATURE | NEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6220-770X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society
Sustainability-focused research networks and communities of practice have emerged as a key response and strategy to build capacity and knowledge to support transformation towards more sustainable, just and equitable futures. This paper synthesises insights from the development of a community of practice on social-ecological systems (SES) research in southern Africa over the past decade, linked to the international Programme on Ecosystem Change an…
Social-ecological change
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as an important area of sustainability \nscience, informing and supporting pressing issues of transformation towards more sustainable, \njust and equitable futures. To date, much SES research has been done in or from the Global \nNorth, where the challenges and contexts for supporting sustainability transformations are \nsubstantially different from the Global South. This paper synthesises emer…
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…
Six modes of co-production for sustainability
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue…
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…
The role of environmental managers in knowledge co-production
Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals
Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination
The ability to monitor changes in biodiversity, and their societal impact, is critical to conserving species and managing ecosystems. While emerging technologies increase the breadth and reach of data acquisition, monitoring efforts are still spatially and temporally fragmented, and taxonomically biased. Appropriate long-term information remains therefore limited. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) aims to …
Transdisciplinary research for systemic change
Knowledge co‐production and boundary work to promote implementation of conservation plans
Knowledge co‐production and boundary work offer planners a new frame for critically designing a social process that fosters collaborative implementation of resulting plans. Knowledge co‐production involves stakeholders from diverse knowledge systems working iteratively toward common vision and action. Boundary work is a means of creating permeable knowledge boundaries that satisfy the needs of multiple social groups while guarding the functional …
Fostering collaboration for knowledge and action in disaster management in South Africa
Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction
Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an avenue to navigate this complexity together with the beneficiaries and managers of ecosystem services. We develop and apply a knowledge coproduction approach based on social–ecological systems research and assess…
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
From Scorecard to Social Learning
Roux, D. J., K. Murray, J. L. Nel, L. Hill, H. Roux, and A. Driver. 2011. From scorecard to social learning: a reflective coassessment approach for promoting multiagency cooperation in natural resource management. Ecology and Society 16(1): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03888-160124
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…
Six modes of co-production for sustainability
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
Transdisciplinary research for systemic change
Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue…
Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination
The ability to monitor changes in biodiversity, and their societal impact, is critical to conserving species and managing ecosystems. While emerging technologies increase the breadth and reach of data acquisition, monitoring efforts are still spatially and temporally fragmented, and taxonomically biased. Appropriate long-term information remains therefore limited. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) aims to …
Fostering collaboration for knowledge and action in disaster management in South Africa
The role of environmental managers in knowledge co-production
From Scorecard to Social Learning
Roux, D. J., K. Murray, J. L. Nel, L. Hill, H. Roux, and A. Driver. 2011. From scorecard to social learning: a reflective coassessment approach for promoting multiagency cooperation in natural resource management. Ecology and Society 16(1): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03888-160124
Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction
Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an avenue to navigate this complexity together with the beneficiaries and managers of ecosystem services. We develop and apply a knowledge coproduction approach based on social–ecological systems research and assess…
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
Knowledge co‐production and boundary work to promote implementation of conservation plans
Knowledge co‐production and boundary work offer planners a new frame for critically designing a social process that fosters collaborative implementation of resulting plans. Knowledge co‐production involves stakeholders from diverse knowledge systems working iteratively toward common vision and action. Boundary work is a means of creating permeable knowledge boundaries that satisfy the needs of multiple social groups while guarding the functional …
Fostering collaboration for knowledge and action in disaster management in South Africa
Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination
The ability to monitor changes in biodiversity, and their societal impact, is critical to conserving species and managing ecosystems. While emerging technologies increase the breadth and reach of data acquisition, monitoring efforts are still spatially and temporally fragmented, and taxonomically biased. Appropriate long-term information remains therefore limited. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) aims to …
Transdisciplinary research for systemic change
Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals
The role of environmental managers in knowledge co-production
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…
Six modes of co-production for sustainability
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue…
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…
Social-ecological change
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as an important area of sustainability \nscience, informing and supporting pressing issues of transformation towards more sustainable, \njust and equitable futures. To date, much SES research has been done in or from the Global \nNorth, where the challenges and contexts for supporting sustainability transformations are \nsubstantially different from the Global South. This paper synthesises emer…
The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society
Sustainability-focused research networks and communities of practice have emerged as a key response and strategy to build capacity and knowledge to support transformation towards more sustainable, just and equitable futures. This paper synthesises insights from the development of a community of practice on social-ecological systems (SES) research in southern Africa over the past decade, linked to the international Programme on Ecosystem Change an…
Business (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Economics (6 works)