Reinette Biggs
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South African ecologist
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Reinette Biggs's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of Cape Town
- Masters Conservation Biology University of Cape Town
- Bachelors Ecology and Environmental Science University of Cape Town
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Professor Reinette "Oonsie" Biggs is a South African sustainability scientist whose research focuses on food, water, and the benefits people receive from nature. Biggs is the co-director of the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and a researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University in Sweden.
Reinette Biggs's Published Works
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Published Works
- Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet (2015) (7003)
- Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century (2010) (1657)
- Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services (2012) (873)
- Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet. (2010) (816)
- Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it (2009) (645)
- Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science (2016) (563)
- Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research (2020) (533)
- Principles for building resilience : sustaining ecosystem services in social-ecological systems (2015) (420)
- Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social–ecological approach (2013) (385)
- Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management (2010) (348)
- Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2018) (332)
- Bright spots : seeds of a good Anthropocene (2016) (310)
- Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective (2015) (288)
- General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events (2012) (284)
- Measuring conditions and trends in ecosystem services at multiple scales: the Southern African Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (SAfMA) experience (2005) (223)
- Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity (2014) (219)
- Young Scholars Dialogue, part of a Special Feature on Scenarios of global ecosystem services Linking Futures across Scales: a Dialog on Multiscale Scenarios (2007) (211)
- Invasive plants as drivers of regime shifts: identifying high‐priority invaders that alter feedback relationships (2014) (204)
- Multi-scale and cross-scale assessments of social-ecological systems and their ecosystem services (2013) (199)
- Methods for Developing Multiscale Participatory Scenarios: Insights from Southern Africa and Europe (2007) (176)
- Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches (2018) (174)
- Ecosystem services in southern Africa: a regional assessment (2004) (172)
- Marine regime shifts: drivers and impacts on ecosystems services (2015) (164)
- Mapping social–ecological systems: Identifying ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ dynamics based on characteristic bundles of ecosystem service use (2015) (149)
- Fostering Complexity Thinking in Action Research for Change in Social-Ecological Systems (2013) (149)
- Understanding Regional Change: A Comparison of Two Lake Districts (2007) (147)
- Regime shifts and management (2012) (146)
- Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis (2015) (137)
- Incorporating Resilience in the Assessment of Inclusive Wealth: An Example from South East Australia (2010) (134)
- Are we entering an era of concatenated global crises (2011) (134)
- Regime Shifts in the Anthropocene: Drivers, Risks, and Resilience (2015) (124)
- Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene (2018) (120)
- Toward a Sustainable and Resilient Future (2012) (118)
- The Regime Shifts Database: A Framework for Analyzing Regime Shifts in Social-Ecological Systems (2015) (106)
- Scenarios of biodiversity loss in southern Africa in the 21st century (2008) (104)
- Experimental burn plot trial in the Kruger National Park: History, experimental design and suggestions for data analysis (2003) (104)
- Using futures methods to create transformative spaces: visions of a good Anthropocene in southern Africa (2018) (99)
- Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond (2015) (77)
- Regime Shifts (2019) (73)
- The impact of the African elephant on marula trees in the Kruger National Park (2002) (61)
- The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems (2021) (55)
- Long term effects of fire frequency and season on the woody vegetation dynamics of the Sclerocarya birrea/Acacia nigrescens savanna of the Kruger National Park (2000) (55)
- Resilience-Based Stewardship: Strategies for Navigating Sustainable Pathways in a Changing World (2009) (52)
- The status and population structure of the marula in the Kruger National Park (2002) (48)
- Land-cover changes in South Africa 1911-1993 (2002) (48)
- Preparing for the future: teaching scenario planning at the graduate level (2010) (47)
- Seeds of good anthropocenes: developing sustainability scenarios for Northern Europe (2019) (45)
- Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2014) (45)
- WING AREAS, WING LOADINGS AND WING SPANS OF 66 SPECIES OF AFRICAN RAPTORS (1989) (41)
- Social-ecological drivers and impacts of invasion-related regime shifts: consequences for ecosystem services and human wellbeing (2018) (38)
- Spurious Certainty: How Ignoring Measurement Error and Environmental Heterogeneity May Contribute to Environmental Controversies (2009) (38)
- Principle 1 –Maintain diversity and redundancy (2015) (38)
- Navigating alternative framings of human-environment interactions: Variations on the theme of ‘Finding Nemo’ (2017) (36)
- Methods for understanding social-ecological systems: a review of place-based studies (2019) (36)
- An Exploration of Human Well-Being Bundles as Identifiers of Ecosystem Service Use Patterns (2016) (36)
- A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems (2018) (36)
- Making Sense of Complexity: Using SenseMaker as a Research Tool (2019) (34)
- An introduction to the resilience approach and principles to sustain ecosystem services in social–ecological systems (2015) (33)
- Food System Transformation: Integrating a Political–Economy and Social–Ecological Approach to Regime Shifts (2020) (29)
- A biodiversity intactness score for South Africa (2006) (29)
- The effect of different fire treatments on the population structure and density of the Marula, Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich.) subsp. caffra (Sond.) kokwaro (Kokwaro & Gillet 1980) in the Kruger National Park (2001) (28)
- We’re ready, the system’s not – youth perspectives on agricultural careers in South Africa (2019) (27)
- Effectiveness of private land conservation areas in maintaining natural land cover and biodiversity intactness (2020) (26)
- Towards integrated social–ecological sustainability indicators: : Exploring the contribution and gaps in existing global data (2015) (26)
- Zooplankton and the total phosphorus – chlorophyll a relationship: hierarchical Bayesian analysis of measurement error (2008) (24)
- Exploring the usefulness of scenario archetypes in science-policy processes: experience across IPBES assessments (2019) (23)
- Woody Encroachment as a Social-Ecological Regime Shift (2018) (23)
- Measuring sustainable development: the promise and difficulties of implementing Inclusive Wealth in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia (2013) (23)
- Freshwaters: Managing Across Scales in Space and Time (2009) (21)
- The regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa : summary for policymakers (2018) (21)
- Principle 6 – Broaden participation (2015) (21)
- Politics and the resilience of ecosystem services (2015) (20)
- Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa (2020) (20)
- Harnessing Insights from Social-Ecological Systems Research for Monitoring Sustainable Development (2019) (20)
- Measuring uncertainty in estimates of biodiversity loss : The example of biodiversity intactness variance (2008) (20)
- Co-production of knowledge and sustainability transformations: a strategic compass for global research networks (2021) (19)
- Patchwork Earth: navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures (2021) (19)
- Principles for Building Resilience: Principle 3 –Manage slow variables and feedbacks (2015) (19)
- Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments (2021) (17)
- Assessing state and trends in ecosystem services and human well-being (2010) (15)
- Dealing with scale (2003) (13)
- Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes (2019) (13)
- The domestication of fire as a social-ecological regime shift (2016) (11)
- Impacts of a trophy hunting ban on private land conservation in South African biodiversity hotspots (2020) (11)
- Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts (2022) (11)
- Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene (2020) (11)
- Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on Applied Research for Enhancing Human Well-Being and Environmental Stewardship: Using Complexity Thinking in Southern Africa Applied research for enhancing human well-being and environmental stewardship: using complexity thinking in Southern Africa (2015) (10)
- Reflections on building resilience – interactions among principles and implications for governance (2015) (9)
- Reflections on building resilience – interactions among principles and implications for governance (2015) (9)
- Learning for transitions: a niche perspective (2020) (8)
- Sensemaking as an approach for resilience assessment in an Essential Service Organization (2019) (7)
- Planning for change: Transformation labs for an alternative food system in Cape Town, South Africa (2020) (7)
- Feeding the World and Protecting Biodiversity (2013) (7)
- Social-ecological resilience and biospherebased biospherebased biospherebased sustainability science (2016) (6)
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services on the African continent – What is changing, and what are our options? (2020) (6)
- What are social-ecological systems and social-ecological systems research? (2021) (6)
- The social system of the Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus ; monogamy v polyandry and delayed dispersal (2008) (6)
- PM 2 Politics and the resilience of ecosystem services (2014) (6)
- Advancing research on ecosystem service bundles for comparative assessments and synthesis (2022) (5)
- Assessing biodiversity intactness at multiple scales (2004) (5)
- Current and future interactions between nature and society (2018) (5)
- Cross-scale and social-ecological changes constitute main threats to private land conservation in South Africa (2020) (5)
- Using a Social-ecological Regime Shift Approach to Understand the Transition from Livestock to Game Farming in the Eastern Cape, South Africa (2020) (5)
- The influence of biophysical and socio-economic factors on the effectiveness of private land conservation areas in preventing natural land cover loss across South Africa (2021) (4)
- Exploring future trends in ecosystem services (2008) (4)
- Complexity-based social-ecological systems research: philosophical foundations and practical implications (2021) (4)
- Scenario development (2021) (4)
- Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (2022) (3)
- Assessing biodiversity intactness (2008) (3)
- Co‐exploring relational heuristics for sustainability transitions towards more resilient and just Anthropocene futures (2021) (3)
- Regime shifts in social-ecological systems (2019) (3)
- Futures analysis (2021) (2)
- The Multiscale Approach Coordinating Lead (2006) (1)
- Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa (2022) (1)
- Exploring resilience capacities with food innovators: a narrative approach (2020) (1)
- Synthesis and emerging frontiers in social-ecological systems research methods (2021) (1)
- Four perspectives on ecosystem services (2016) (1)
- Social-ecological scenarios for the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa 2012-2050 (2012) (1)
- Acknowledgment of Guest Editors, 2019 (2019) (1)
- The state of the art for application of resilience thinking in social-ecological systems (2016) (0)
- Steffen et al 2015 Science Supplementary material Planetary Boundaries (2015) (0)
- 1 An introduction to the resilience approach and principles to sustain ecosystem services in social–ecological systems (2015) (0)
- SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS to Steffen Et Al 2015 Science 1259855 (2015) (0)
- Biodiversity change in South Africa : connections to ecosystem services and human well-being (2016) (0)
- 9 Managing Across Scales in Space and Time (2009) (0)
- Synthesis A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems (2018) (0)
- The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus (2022) (0)
- Exploring alternate social-ecological regimes-An empirical assessment of multistability using global land cover data (2016) (0)
- Regional Synthesis Inventory of Resources Broad Geographical Patterns Species Richness and Endemism (0)
- Dynamic tipping points: which ones are more likely to interact? (2012) (0)
- Steffen_pages 1..10 (2015) (0)
- Chapter 10 Sub-global Scenarios Coordinating Lead (2006) (0)
- How to use this handbook (2021) (0)
- The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice (2023) (0)
- Lead Authors Contributing Authors (2008) (0)
- Ecosystem change and society in southern and western Africa (2014) (0)
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