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Volume 30, Issue 4December 2025
Table of Contents List of Special Features Past Issues

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Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change
Joost M. Vervoort, Laura M. Pereira, Carien Moossdorff, Annisa Triyanti, Amy Newsom, Khaled M. A. Osman, Ádám Z. Tóth, Carole-Anne Sénit, Héla Azib, Valentina Donato, Karolien Vanstraelen, Anna A. Zatryb, Sofia Haardt, Cléo Dorel-Watson, Daria Sosnowska, Smruthi Arockiasamy, Niki S. Mirjafari, Renske G.M. Jungerling, Kanna Okamura, Lena M. Radt, Jenna L. Clemens, Lourens K. Kwestro, Ella A. Kleijn, Donna V. Kooij, Lucas Rutting, Marieke Veeger, Marta Pérez de Madrid, Dhanush Dinesh, Minang Acharya, Attila Varga, Jonas Torrens, Charlotte A.C. Ballard, Margien C. Bootsma, Gemma B. O’Sullivan, Karin T. Rebel
Special Feature Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures
The social crisis of water in Aconcagua, Chile: privatized rights management and collaborative usage strategies in a context of mega-drought
Paola Bolados García, Tomás Undurraga, María Ignacia Ibarra
Special Feature The Next Wave in Water Governance

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Featured Contributors

Ádám Z. Tóth

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Amy Newsom

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Anna A. Zatryb

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Annisa Triyanti

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Attila Varga

Institute of People–Environment Transaction, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Carien Moossdorff

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Carole-Anne Sénit

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Charlotte A.C. Ballard

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Cléo Dorel-Watson

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Daria Sosnowska

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Dhanush Dinesh

Clim-Eat, The Netherlands

Diego Rivera

Centro de Sustentabilidad y Gestión Estratégica de Recursos (CiSGER), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

Donna V. Kooij

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Ella A. Kleijn

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Elsa Kaula

ISCED-Huíla, Lubango, Angola

Fabian Sanhueza

Departamento de Planificación Territorial y Sistemas Urbanos, Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Gemma B. O’Sullivan

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Héla Azib

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Janet A. Fisher

School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

Jenna L. Clemens

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Jonas Torrens

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Joost M. Vervoort

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Kanna Okamura

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Karin T. Rebel

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Karolien Vanstraelen

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Khaled M. A. Osman

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Kyle G. Dexter

School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK; Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy

Laura M. Pereira

Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

Lena M. Radt

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Liuzhao Huang

School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, China

Lorenza B. Fontana

Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, University of Turin, Italy; Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy; Politics, University of Glasgow, UK

Lourens K. Kwestro

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Lucas Rutting

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)

Luisa F. Escobar-Alvarado

School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK; Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, University of Turin, Italy; National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, South Africa

Marcela Salgado-Vargas

Departamento de Planificación Territorial y Sistemas Urbanos, Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela

Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA; Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

Margien C. Bootsma

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

María Ignacia Ibarra

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Marieke Veeger

Independent

Mario Lillo-Saavedra

Departamento de Mecanización y Energía, Facultad de Ingeniería Agrícola, Universidad de Concepción, Chillán, Chile

Marta Pérez de Madrid

Agencia Espanola de Cooperation Internacional Para El Desarollo, Spain

Minang Acharya

IPCC Secretariat, Switzerland

Niki S. Mirjafari

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Paola Bolados García

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Renske G.M. Jungerling

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Smruthi Arockiasamy

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Sofia Haardt

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Telmo E. M. António

Fundação Lisima, Luanda, Angola; Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Departamento de Botânica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Tomás Undurraga

Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Valentina Donato

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Valentina I. Cisterna-Roa

PhD Program in Territorial Studies of the Global South, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Xiaoxin Liang

School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, China

Yiqing Su

School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, China; Regional Social Governance Innovation Research Center, Guangxi University, China

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Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures
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Resilience and Change in Arctic Alaska
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Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change
Joost M. Vervoort, Laura M. Pereira, Carien Moossdorff, Annisa Triyanti, Amy Newsom, Khaled M. A. Osman, Ádám Z. Tóth, Carole-Anne Sénit, Héla Azib, Valentina Donato, Karolien Vanstraelen, Anna A. Zatryb, Sofia Haardt, Cléo Dorel-Watson, Daria Sosnowska, Smruthi Arockiasamy, Niki S. Mirjafari, Renske G.M. Jungerling, Kanna Okamura, Lena M. Radt, Jenna L. Clemens, Lourens K. Kwestro, Ella A. Kleijn, Donna V. Kooij, Lucas Rutting, Marieke Veeger, Marta Pérez de Madrid, Dhanush Dinesh, Minang Acharya, Attila Varga, Jonas Torrens, Charlotte A.C. Ballard, Margien C. Bootsma, Gemma B. O’Sullivan, Karin T. Rebel
Special Feature Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures
The social crisis of water in Aconcagua, Chile: privatized rights management and collaborative usage strategies in a context of mega-drought
Paola Bolados García, Tomás Undurraga, María Ignacia Ibarra
Special Feature The Next Wave in Water Governance
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile
Marcela Salgado-Vargas, Mario Lillo-Saavedra, Fabian Sanhueza, Valentina I. Cisterna-Roa, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, Diego Rivera
From campaign-style response to positive response: how local actors’ behaviors affect the effectiveness of polycentric water governance
Liuzhao Huang, Xiaoxin Liang, Yiqing Su
Special Feature The Next Wave in Water Governance
Fires of war: how civil war shaped fire regimes in East Angola
Luisa F. Escobar-Alvarado, Lorenza B. Fontana, Janet A. Fisher, Elsa Kaula, Telmo E. M. António, Kyle G. Dexter

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Ecology & Society has been publishing since 1997. Take a look back at some of our articles from years past.

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12/2015
Participation in protected areas: a social network case study in Catalonia, Spain
Laura Calvet-Mir, Sara Maestre-Andrés, Jeroen van den Bergh
Special Feature Networking the Environment: Social Network Analysis in Environmental Management and Local Ecological Knowledge Studies
12/2015
Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance
Felicitas Egunyu, Maureen G. Reed
12/2015
Ecological restoration as objective, target, and tool in international biodiversity policy
Dolly Jørgensen
Special Feature Ecological Restoration, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use
12/2015
Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web
Jordan Levine, Michael Muthukrishna, Kai M.A. Chan, Terre Satterfield