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4 Advancing the Science While Moving to Action
Pages 26-30

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... Forum participants discussed the need to support interdisciplinary, sustained research and knowledge exchange networks, focusing on research questions related to the interconnections between climate, ecosystems, and human societies. Priority areas could include ƒƒ Understanding how complexity enhances ecosystem resilience ƒƒ Understanding how societal adaptation can be supported and enhanced ƒƒ I dentifying the point at which restoration of an ecosystem is likely to fail as the climate warms ƒƒ Identifying early warning metrics and measurements ƒƒ Modeling complex socio-ecological systems ƒƒ I dentifying the benefits and tradeoffs associated with ecosystem management Expanded and modified data collection could also be undertaken.
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From page 27...
... Translation of Science to Action Many researchers in the ecosystem science community are actively working to translate and disseminate scientific knowledge to decision makers and other stakeholders in constructive, useful ways that can inform actions. As highlighted throughout this report, efforts to maintain and manage ecosystems can help mitigate the impacts of climate change while also sustaining or creating many other services that benefit communities around the globe.
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From page 28...
... Additional barriers to action include the difficulty of undertaking efforts at larger scales and at times across national borders, the need to think and act on long-term problems, institutional and governmental inertia, and aversion to thinking about topics where some outstanding science questions remain, as is the case with ecosystem science. Concluding Thoughts Climate change is here, and within the next few decades, societies and ecosystems will either be committed to a substantially warmer world or major actions will be taken to limit warming to moderate levels.
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From page 29...
... Only by doing that will we be able to ensure our deep knowledge about the workings of the natural world and inform the process by which high-level pledges for nature get translated into action." -- Nathalie Seddon, University of Oxford
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