TY - JOUR

T1 - Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

AU - Walker, Brian

AU - Crépin, Anne Sophie

AU - Nyström, Magnus

AU - Anderies, John M.

AU - Andersson, Erik

AU - Elmqvist, Thomas

AU - Queiroz, Cibele

AU - Barrett, Scott

AU - Bennett, Elena

AU - Cardenas, Juan Camilo

AU - Carpenter, Stephen R.

AU - Chapin, F. Stuart

AU - de Zeeuw, Aart

AU - Fischer, Joern

AU - Folke, Carl

AU - Levin, Simon

AU - Nyborg, Karine

AU - Polasky, Stephen

AU - Segerson, Kathleen

AU - Seto, Karen C.

AU - Scheffer, Marten

AU - Shogren, Jason F.

AU - Tavoni, Alessandro

AU - van den Bergh, Jeroen

AU - Weber, Elke U.

AU - Vincent, Jeffrey R.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Springer Nature Limited.

PY - 2023/6/1

Y1 - 2023/6/1

N2 - Financial advisers recommend a diverse portfolio to respond to market fluctuations across sectors. Similarly, nature has evolved a diverse portfolio of species to maintain ecosystem function amid environmental fluctuations. In urban planning, public health, transport and communications, food production, and other domains, however, this feature often seems ignored. As we enter an era of unprecedented turbulence at the planetary level, we argue that ample responses to this new reality — that is, response diversity — can no longer be taken for granted and must be actively designed and managed. We describe here what response diversity is, how it is expressed and how it can be enhanced and lost.

AB - Financial advisers recommend a diverse portfolio to respond to market fluctuations across sectors. Similarly, nature has evolved a diverse portfolio of species to maintain ecosystem function amid environmental fluctuations. In urban planning, public health, transport and communications, food production, and other domains, however, this feature often seems ignored. As we enter an era of unprecedented turbulence at the planetary level, we argue that ample responses to this new reality — that is, response diversity — can no longer be taken for granted and must be actively designed and managed. We describe here what response diversity is, how it is expressed and how it can be enhanced and lost.

KW - Environmental Governance

KW - Agriculture

KW - biodiversity

KW - business and industry

KW - interdisciplinarity studies

KW - sustainability

KW - Environmental planning

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U2 - 10.1038/s41893-022-01048-7

DO - 10.1038/s41893-022-01048-7

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85147149552

VL - 6

SP - 621

EP - 629

JO - Nature Sustainability

JF - Nature Sustainability

SN - 2398-9629

IS - 6

ER -