Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) is a core project of Future Earth.
Since the beginning of 2014 PECS has been part of Future Earth, the global sustainability research platform.
[3] A number of research projects have been affiliated with PECS, and it has created a number of regional nodes and thematic projects to integrate social-ecological research.
For example, one large active regional group is SAPECS,[4] which brings together social-ecological researchers in South Africa.
It has also organised and hosted two open science conferences, the first in 2015 in South Africa,[5] and the second in 2017 in Mexico.