TY - JOUR T1 - Can people be sentinels of sustainability? Identifying the linkages among ecosystem health and human well-being AU - Loring, Philip A. AU - Hinzman, Megan S. AU - Neufeld, Hanna Y1 - 2016/10/05 PY - 2016 DA - 2017/01/01 N1 - doi: 10.1139/facets-2016-0022 DO - 10.1139/facets-2016-0022 T2 - FACETS JF - FACETS SP - 148 EP - 162 VL - 1 PB - Canadian Science Publishing N2 - Human well-being depends on the health of ecosystems, but can human well-being also be an indicator of ecosystem health, and perhaps even sustainability? Research shows that ecosystem health and human well-being are often mutually reinforcing, whether in the direction of wellness and sustainability or poverty and degradation. However, while well-being is increasingly recognized as an important consideration when managing ecosystems, human needs and activities are often still thought of only in terms of their negative impacts on ecosystems. In this essay, we explore the proposition that there can be a mutually constitutive relationship between people?s well-being and the health of ecosystems, and discuss what such a relationship would mean for expanding the use of human well-being indicators in ecosystem-based management. Specifically, we discuss two areas of theory: ecosocial theory from social epidemiology and the marginalization?degradation thesis in political ecology; collectively, these provide a justification, in certain circumstances at least, for thinking of well-being as not just an add-on in natural resource management but as an indicator of ecosystem health and a prerequisite of social-ecological sustainability. We conclude with a discussion of future research needs to further explore how human well-being and ecosystem health interact. AB - Human well-being depends on the health of ecosystems, but can human well-being also be an indicator of ecosystem health, and perhaps even sustainability? Research shows that ecosystem health and human well-being are often mutually reinforcing, whether in the direction of wellness and sustainability or poverty and degradation. However, while well-being is increasingly recognized as an important consideration when managing ecosystems, human needs and activities are often still thought of only in terms of their negative impacts on ecosystems. In this essay, we explore the proposition that there can be a mutually constitutive relationship between people?s well-being and the health of ecosystems, and discuss what such a relationship would mean for expanding the use of human well-being indicators in ecosystem-based management. Specifically, we discuss two areas of theory: ecosocial theory from social epidemiology and the marginalization?degradation thesis in political ecology; collectively, these provide a justification, in certain circumstances at least, for thinking of well-being as not just an add-on in natural resource management but as an indicator of ecosystem health and a prerequisite of social-ecological sustainability. We conclude with a discussion of future research needs to further explore how human well-being and ecosystem health interact. M3 - doi: 10.1139/facets-2016-0022 UR - https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2016-0022 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Private land and common oceans: analysis of the development of property regimes AU - Acheson, JM JO - Current Anthropology Y1 - 2015 VL - 56 IS - 1 SP - 28 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Social and ecological resilience: are they related? 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