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Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems

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The Next Wave in Water Governance

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The Coproduction of Conflicts in Environmental Sustainability: Concepts, Methods, and Ethics

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The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods

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Beyond the Assessment on the Diverse Values of Nature: Hidden gems, Biases, Frontiers, Challenges, and Insights

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Oceans

05/2023

Indigenous food sovereignty through resurgent self-governance: centering Nuu-chah-nulth principles in sea otter management in Canada

Lindsey R. Popken, P. Joshua Griffin, Charlotte Coté, Eric Angel

12/2020

Canada and transboundary fisheries management in changing oceans: taking stock, future scenarios

U. R. Sumaila, David L. VanderZwaag

12/2014

A proposed ecosystem-based management system for marine waters: linking the theory of environmental policy to the practice of environmental management

Rafael Sardá, Tim O’Higgins, Roland Cormier, Amy Diedrich, Joaquin Tintoré

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“Men who love the oak trees”: services and care in the cork oak forests of Southern Andalusia

Javier Escalera-Reyes, Agustín Coca-Pérez

“Men who love the oak trees”: services and care in the cork oak forests of Southern Andalusia

Javier Escalera-Reyes, Agustín Coca-Pérez

Bridging the nature-culture divide: a biocultural reclassification of the World Heritage Sites

Ruben Dario Palacio, Sumana Goli

Towards an incoherent convergence science: diverse economies, crises, and recoveries, and the hope for better futures

Manuel R. Montoya, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Benjamin P. Warner, Cassidy A. Tawse-Garcia

Special Feature Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems

What is behind land use change in tropical forests? From local relations to global mining concessions

Paulina Rosero-Añazco, Annah Lake Zhu, Francisco Cuesta, Erika N. Speelman, Gert Jan Hofstede

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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