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Volume 30, Issue 3September 2025
Table of Contents List of Special Features Past Issues

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Remittance income weakens participation in community-based natural resource management
Michelle E. Benedum, Nathan J. Cook, Sechindra Vallury
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism
Guilherme S. Lobo, Jorge O. Gil, Ramon F. B. da Silva‬, Emilio F. Moran

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Featured Contributors

Aniekan Akpan

Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany; Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Anna Mdee

School of Politics & International Studies, University of Leeds

Darius Phiri

Copperbelt University, School of Natural Resources, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Kitwe, Zambia

Emilio F. Moran

Michigan State University, USA

Guilherme S. Lobo

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ambiente e Sociedade do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH), UNICAMP, Brazil; Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais (NEPAM), UNICAMP, Brazil

Ingrid E. van Putten

Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Jorge O. Gil

Institute of Agro-Environmental Research and Sustainable Organizations (IEPAGRO), Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil

Lackson Chama

Copperbelt University, School of Natural Resources, Department of Zoology and Aquatic Sciences, Kitwe, Zambia

Lol Dahlet

Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany; Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Grupo de Estudos Socioambientais Costeiros (ESAC), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Bragança, Brazil

Marion Glaser

Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany; Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Michelle E. Benedum

Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Nathan J. Cook

Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Indianapolis, USA

Paul Hutchings

School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds

Ramon F. B. da Silva‬

Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais (NEPAM), UNICAMP, Brazil

Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, Germany

Roberta Sá Leitão Barboza

Grupo de Estudos Socioambientais Costeiros (ESAC), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Bragança, Brazil; Bolsista Produtividade CNPq; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (DIPES-FUNDAJ), Recife, Brazil

Ruth E. Sylvester

School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds

Sechindra Vallury

Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, USA

Stanford Mudenda Siachoono

Copperbelt University, School of Natural Resources, Department of Zoology and Aquatic Sciences, Kitwe, Zambia

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The Next Wave in Water Governance
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Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience and Equity in Southern Africa: insights from Research and Practice
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Beyond the Assessment on the Diverse Values of Nature: Hidden gems, Biases, Frontiers, Challenges, and Insights
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The Coproduction of Conflicts in Environmental Sustainability: Concepts, Methods, and Ethics
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Land Acquisitions, Well-being, and Environment
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Remittance income weakens participation in community-based natural resource management
Michelle E. Benedum, Nathan J. Cook, Sechindra Vallury
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism
Guilherme S. Lobo, Jorge O. Gil, Ramon F. B. da Silva‬, Emilio F. Moran
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants
Lackson Chama, Stanford Mudenda Siachoono, Darius Phiri
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal
Ruth E. Sylvester, Paul Hutchings, Anna Mdee
Special Feature The Next Wave in Water Governance
Perceptions of governance and access in artisanal marine fisheries in northern Brazil
Lol Dahlet, Roberta Sá Leitão Barboza, Ingrid E. van Putten, Aniekan Akpan, Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Marion Glaser

Archive Highlights

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