www.pecs-science.org

Steve Carpenter (Chair) Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, USA

Berta Martín-Lòpez Social-ecological systems lab, Dept. of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Patricia Balvanera (co-chair) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

Harini Nagendra Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India

Ruth DeFries Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Pablo Eyzaguirre Bioversity International, CGIAR, Rome, Italy

Terry Hughes Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Steve Polasky Department of Applied Economics & Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, USA

Bob Scholes Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

Marja Spierenburg (co-chair) Department of Organisation Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chinwe Ifejika Speranza United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Germany

Ooonsie Biggs Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

Meriem Bouamrane UNESCO Man and The Biosphere Programme

PECS Scientific committee

PECS International Programme Office

PECS aims & goals

To integrate research on the stewardship of

social - ecological systems, the services they

generate, and the relationships among

ecosystems and human wellbeing

To generate the scientific and policy-relevant

knowledge of social–ecological dynamics

needed to enable their sustainable stewardship

Fischer et al. COSUST (2015)

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21 projects endorsed by or associated with PECS.

International scope & comparitiveapproach

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Together the projects represent 42 specific social-ecological case studies located in 25 different countries

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5 working groups

Transdisciplinary working groups

Jack KittingerStanford University

PECS Marine stewardship group

Natalie BanUniversity of

Victoria

Xavier BasurtoDuke University

Stefan GelcichPontificia Universidad

Católica de Chile Henrik ÖsterblomStockholm Resilience

Centre

Beatrice CronaStockholm Resilience

Centre

Matilda ValmanStockholm Resilience Centre

Louisa EvansJames Cook

University

Per OlssonStockholm Resilience

Centre

Franciska von HelandStockholm Resilience

CentreJack KittingerStanford University

PECS working group on collaborative governance and management

Chanda Meek University of

Alaska-

Fairbanks

Ro HillCSIRO

Derek ArmitageUniversity of

Waterloo

Christo Fabricius & Cathy Robinson Nelson Mandela

University

Lisen SchultzStockholm Resilience

Centre

Michael SchoonArizona State

University

Georgina CundhillRhodes

University

South Africa(Maike Hammann,

Oonsie Biggs)

Germany(Andreas Dittrich,

Ralf Seppelt)

Denmark(Katrine Turner)

Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania

(Bob Scholes)

Costa Rica (Bruno Locatelli)

California (Tobias Plieninger)

Yahara(Jiangxiao Qiu,Monica Turner)

Montreal (Elena Bennett) Stockholm

(Garry Peterson, Cibele Queiroz, Megan Meacham, My Sellberg,

Erik Anderson, Albert Norström )

Southern Transylvania(Jan Hanspach,Joern Fischer)

Flanders(Sander Jacobs)

French Alps(Sandra Lavorel)

Piedra(Maria Felipe-Lucia)

Donana(Berta Martin-Lopez)

Adra(Marina Garcia-Llorente)

Coastal WIO(Christina Hicks)

Helge Å(Elin Enfors, Cibele Queiroz,

Albert Norström )

PECS working group on social-ecological dynamics of ecosystem services

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Hanspach et al. A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania

Carpenter et al. Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA

Garcia-Llorente et al. Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid

watersheds

Mitchell et al. The Montérégie Connection: linking landscapes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to improve decision

making

Plieninger et al. Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European

landscape research

Förster et al. Assessing ecosystem services for informing land-use decisions: a problem-oriented approach

Cundill et al. Nurturing communities of practice for transdisciplinary research