Staff profileMagnus Tuvendal's licentiate contained two papers which both used the ecosystem service approach as a framework to understand human-ecology interaction and focused on cultural landscapes as social-ecological systems. The papers aimed at enhancing theoretical insights into the social-ecological resilience of cultural land- scapes by testing - and challenging - existing concepts within the resilience literature such as driving forces, response strategies and adaptive management. Both papers emphasized the implications for practical management for the sustainable use of ecosystem services.
The papers used a landscape approach as a means to reduce complexity and increase empirical reality. The landscape approach also highlighted the challenges associated with the notion that we are entering a new management paradigm, with lack of supporting matrix, by being spatially explicit and more "real" to stakeholders within said landscapes.
