Against mono-consequentialism: Multiple outcomes and their drivers in social-ecological systems

One of the most exciting areas of research in the social sciences concerns the analysis of the interaction between social and ecological/biophysical processes. The goal of many of these analyses is to improve the understanding of how and under what conditions human-nature interactions lead to positive and sustainable outcomes. Scholarship in this vast domain of human activities and interactions with the natural world has been variously referenced as sustainability science and as research on social-ecological systems, and ecosystem services.