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Volume 30, Issue 1March 2025
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Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species
Elizabeth J. Mansfield, Sarah E. Lester, Andrew Rassweiler, Sandra Brooke
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings
Frédérique Jankowski, Francois Bousquet, Astou Diao Camara, Mouhamadou Diol, Bastien Defives, Amandine Hertzog Adamczewski, Alioune Sane, Samba Mbalo

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Featured Contributors

Alice Kasznar

Member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment

Alioune Sane

Kaddu Yaraax, Dakar, Sénégal

Amandine Hertzog Adamczewski

CIRAD, UMR G-EAU, Saint-Louis, Sénégal. G-EAU, Univ Montpellier, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France.

Andrew Rassweiler

Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Anna Lavoie

Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United State

Ariel Farías

Centro de Ciencias Ambientales (EULA), Universidad de Concepción

Astou Diao Camara

BAME, ISRA, Dakar, Sénégal

Bastien Defives

Transit, Montpellier, France

Camila Sepúlveda

Centro UC Observatorio de la Costa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Carolina Martínez

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS); Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Centro UC Observatorio de la Costa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Dominique M. David-Chavez

Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States

Elizabeth J. Mansfield

Coastal and Marine Laboratory, Florida State University, St. Teresa, FL; Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Emma Galofré García

Department of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States

Erin R. Weingarten

Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United State

Fernanda X. Oyarzun

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS)

Francois Bousquet

CIRAD, UMR SENS, F-34398 Montpellier, France

Frédérique Jankowski

CIRAD, UMR SENS, F-34398 Montpellier, France

Gemara L. Gifford

Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United State

Genevieve G. Tremblay

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS); Climate Knowledge Collective, Stony Brook University

Laura Farías

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS); Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción

Malcom Bonet

Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN)

Maria Andrea Nardi

Department of Human Geography, Lund University; Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Mouhamadou Diol

Kaddu Yaraax, Dakar, Sénégal

Nikole F. Guerrero

Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN)

Pablo Romero

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS)

Samba Mbalo

Kaddu Yaraax, Dakar, Sénégal

Sandra Brooke

Coastal and Marine Laboratory, Florida State University, St. Teresa, FL

Sara P. Bombaci

Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States

Sarah E. Lester

Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Simón Inzunza

Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN)

Stefan Gelcich

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS); Centro de Ecología Aplicada y Sustentabilidad (CAPES); Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Steven Mons

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS); Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Centro UC Observatorio de la Costa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Tamara J. Layden

Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States

Valentina Manríquez

Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS); ONG Conciencia Sur, Concepción, Chile

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Special Features

The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods
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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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Beyond the Assessment on the Diverse Values of Nature: Hidden gems, Biases, Frontiers, Challenges, and Insights
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5.275

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Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species
Elizabeth J. Mansfield, Sarah E. Lester, Andrew Rassweiler, Sandra Brooke
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings
Frédérique Jankowski, Francois Bousquet, Astou Diao Camara, Mouhamadou Diol, Bastien Defives, Amandine Hertzog Adamczewski, Alioune Sane, Samba Mbalo
Positioning blue justice at local scales: insights for transdisciplinarity through art-science integration
Steven Mons, Fernanda X. Oyarzun, Carolina Martínez, Genevieve G. Tremblay, Stefan Gelcich, Laura Farías, Pablo Romero, Valentina Manríquez, Camila Sepúlveda, Malcom Bonet, Nikole F. Guerrero, Simón Inzunza, Ariel Farías
The roles and values of the natural environment in Northern Uganda’s peace process: a conceptual document analysis
Maria Andrea Nardi, Alice Kasznar
Special Feature The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods
Confronting colonial history: toward healing, just, and equitable Indigenous conservation futures
Tamara J. Layden, Dominique M. David-Chavez, Emma Galofré García, Gemara L. Gifford, Anna Lavoie, Erin R. Weingarten, Sara P. Bombaci

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