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  1. Book: Ecological systems

    Leemans, Rik

    selected entries from the encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology

    2013  

    Author's details Rik Leemans, ed
    Keywords Ökosystem
    Subject Biosystem ; Ökosysteme
    Language English
    Size VI, 309 S., graph. Darst.
    Publisher Springer
    Publishing place New York u.a.
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Book
    HBZ-ID HT017751183
    ISBN 978-1-4614-5754-1 ; 9781461457558 ; 1-4614-5754-8 ; 1461457556
    Database Catalogue ZB MED Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Book ; Online: IJsberg ter grootte van Noord-Holland op drift

    Leemans, Rik

    bedreiging voor natuur

    2023  

    Keywords Life Science
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Emergence of transdisciplinarity in global environmental change research

    Leemans, Rik / Fortuin, Karen

    Handbook of Transdisciplinarity ; ISBN: 9781802207828

    Moving from system understanding to systemic sustainability solutions

    2023  

    Abstract: Global environmental change includes major environmental challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity decline and food and energy security. These challenges were addressed by the international global change research programs. The early phases of ... ...

    Abstract Global environmental change includes major environmental challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity decline and food and energy security. These challenges were addressed by the international global change research programs. The early phases of these programs developed tools to understand different Earth systems and reduce uncertainties. Soon the programs recognized that this understanding helped to solve environmental problems. Initially, they provided policy makers with peer-reviewed syntheses of the underlying science in science-policy assessments. Such assessments were applied to ozone depletion, climate change and biodiversity loss. Later, when the problems’ complexity and wickedness became evident, integrated assessment models combined with science-policy dialogues and stakeholder participation were applied to assess policy responses. All these approaches set the scene for the now rapidly emerging field of co-design/co-production or transdisciplinary research. Many transdisciplinary projects and networks, that link research to policy making, have been proposed and implemented over the last decade as part of the sustainability-research platform ‘Future Earth’. Although these advancements addressed many different issues, they certainly influenced policies and affected society. Exploiting different knowledge bases (including Indigenous knowledge), informing and involving stakeholders and their decision making, and making the desired sustainability transitions are nowadays common objectives of global change research and its societal impacts are documented and reflected upon. To advance this exciting research field, institutional recognition, funding and communities of practice that engage young scientists, are needed.
    Keywords Life Science
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publisher Edward Elgar
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Vier jaar na Parijs

    Leemans, Rik

    Meteorologica / Nederlandse Vereniging van Beroeps Meteorologen

    2019  Volume 28

    Keywords Life Science
    Language Dutch
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ISSN 0929-1504
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  5. Article ; Online: Editorial overview

    Leemans, Rik

    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

    How to promote transdisciplinary, evidence-based sustainability solutions?

    2017  Volume 29

    Keywords Life Science
    Language English
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 2514810-2
    ISSN 1877-3435
    ISSN 1877-3435
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping

    Edwards, Glory I. / Kok, Kasper / Leemans, Rik

    Ecology and Society

    2023  Volume 28, Issue 3

    Abstract: Nigeria is a major rice-producing and rice-importing country in Africa, challenged with ensuring rice-food security for its growing population. Successive governments have implemented several strategies to increase local rice production such as rice ... ...

    Abstract Nigeria is a major rice-producing and rice-importing country in Africa, challenged with ensuring rice-food security for its growing population. Successive governments have implemented several strategies to increase local rice production such as rice import restriction policies and agricultural investments. These strategies have yielded results but achieving long-term sustainable growth in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system has remained elusive. Addressing food security and sustainability in agri-food systems requires a systems-thinking approach. In this study, we applied two systems thinking techniques, fuzzy cognitive mapping (for describing the system structure and behavior) and archetype analysis (to reveal generic system archetypes and effective strategies to improve the system). Our analysis revealed three system archetypes: limits to success, fixes that fail, and drifting goals. Rice production is limited by low agricultural productivity indicating the “limits to success” archetype. Farmers tend to increase rice area as a “quick fix” to productivity issues but this quick fix leads to unintended consequences such as soil degradation (fixes that fail archetype). Additionally, because of the import-restriction policies generating an unmet demand for rice, the government may face pressure to lower the goal of self-sufficiency falling into the “drifting goals” archetype. However, our analysis shows that suspending import-restriction policies would result in undesirable system states, with reduced demand for local rice and lower rice production. Our results underscore the importance of government policies in increasing rice production sustainably and ensuring food security.
    Keywords Nigeria ; agri-food system ; fuzzy cognitive mapping ; rice ; system archetypes
    Language English
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 2647724-5
    ISSN 1708-3087
    ISSN 1708-3087
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Book: Ecological systems

    Leemans, Rik

    selected entries from the encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology

    2013  

    Author's details Rik Leemans, editor
    Keywords Biotic communities. ; Ecology. ; Urban ecology (Sociology) ; Geochemistry. ; Life sciences.
    Language English
    Size vi, 309 p. :, ill. (some col.) ;, 24 cm.
    Publisher Springer
    Publishing place New York
    Document type Book
    Note "This book consists of selections from the Encylopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology edited by Robert A. Meyers, originially published by Springer Science+Business Media New York in 2012."--t.p. verso.
    ISBN 9781461457541 ; 1461457548 ; 9781461457558 ; 1461457556
    Database NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA)

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  8. Book ; Online: The Role of Integrated Assessments in the Twenty-first Century

    Leemans, Rik

    2016  

    Keywords Life Science
    Language English
    Publisher The Integrated Assessment Society
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Article ; Online: The lessons learned from shifting from global-change research programmes to transdisciplinary sustainability science

    Leemans, Rik

    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

    2016  Volume 19

    Keywords Life Science
    Language English
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 2514810-2
    ISSN 1877-3435
    ISSN 1877-3435
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  10. Article: The lessons learned from shifting from global-change research programmes to transdisciplinary sustainability science

    Leemans, Rik

    Current opinion in environmental sustainability. 2016 Apr., v. 19

    2016  

    Abstract: The interdisciplinary international global-change research programmes were very successful in creating understanding of climate change, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity decline, and the food–water–energy nexus. They are now merged into a new ... ...

    Abstract The interdisciplinary international global-change research programmes were very successful in creating understanding of climate change, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity decline, and the food–water–energy nexus. They are now merged into a new transdisciplinary international research platform ‘Future Earth—Research for Global Sustainability’. This paper describes the transition process from the disciplinary and interdisciplinary global-change programmes to the transdisciplinary ‘Future Earth’ research platform, and shows that this process could have been more proficient if in an early stage directions and motivations were better harmonized among the leadership of individual programmes, sponsors and funders. Also the transition team of Future Earth initially strongly focussed on a highly aggregated research agenda addressing several ‘Grand Challenges’ and consequently ignored the rich academic legacy of the various ongoing programmes and all of its involved disciplines and scholars. Future Earth, however, realized innovative research approaches and governance structures. Although Future Earth is now established, it still must implement better involvement of relevant research communities, develop superior education and outreach, and mainstream sustainability research in developed and developing countries.
    Keywords biodiversity ; biogeochemical cycles ; climate change ; developing countries ; education ; governance ; leadership ; motivation ; outreach ; research programs ; sustainability science and engineering
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2016-04
    Size p. 103-110.
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2514810-2
    ISSN 1877-3435
    ISSN 1877-3435
    DOI 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.01.001
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