A journal of integrative science
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Volume 27, Issue 3August 2022
Table of Contents List of Special Features Past Issues

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Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions
David W. Londe, Samantha M. Cady, R. Dwayne Elmore, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change: lessons from envisioning positive climate futures emerging from the pandemic
Anita Lazurko, Patrick W. Keys

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Featured Contributors

Andrea S. Downing

Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Anita Lazurko

School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability, University of Waterloo

Beatrix E Beisner

Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL), Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Institute of Geography, Research Centre Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, Germany

Conor D. Barnes

School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

David W. Londe

Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University

Erin T. H. Crockett

Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University

Julie A. Fowler

School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Karina Benessaiah

Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University; Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph

Klara J. Winkler

Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University

Laura Herzog

Institute of Geography, Research Centre Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, Germany

Louis Tanguay

Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL), Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Maja Schlüter

Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Morgan MathisonSlee

Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University

Patrick W. Keys

School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University

R. Dwayne Elmore

Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University

Rachael Belisle-Toler

Michigan State University

Ramón Filgueira

Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

René Audet

Département de stratégie, responsabilité sociale et environnementale, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Samantha M. Cady

Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University

Samuel D. Fuhlendorf

Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University

Shannon E. Wood

Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Shubhechchha Sharma

Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University

Steven J Lade

Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Fenner School of Environment & Society, The Australian National University

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Resilient Rural Futures
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High Nature Value Farming Systems in Europe
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Holistic Solutions Based on Nature: Unlocking the Potential of Green and Blue Infrastructure
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Challenges to Understanding and Managing Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) in the Global South
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Land Acquisitions, Well-being, and Environment
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These are the top ten countries that our authors from the last twelve months have been from.

  1. United States
  2. Germany
  3. Sweden
  4. Canada
  5. Australia
  6. South Africa
  7. UK
  8. Netherlands
  9. US
  10. Portugal

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5.275

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Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions
David W. Londe, Samantha M. Cady, R. Dwayne Elmore, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change: lessons from envisioning positive climate futures emerging from the pandemic
Anita Lazurko, Patrick W. Keys
Drivers of social acceptability for bivalve aquaculture in Atlantic Canadian communities
Shannon E. Wood, Ramón Filgueira
Fourteen propositions for resilience, fourteen years later
Morgan MathisonSlee, Steven J Lade, Conor D. Barnes, Karina Benessaiah, Erin T. H. Crockett, Andrea S. Downing, Julie A. Fowler, Rachael Belisle-Toler, Shubhechchha Sharma, Klara J. Winkler
Special Feature Panarchy: the Metaphor, the Theory, the Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models
Laura Herzog, Louis Tanguay, Beatrix E Beisner, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, René Audet, Maja Schlüter

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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09/2010
Robustness, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in small-scale social-ecological systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal
Oguzhan Cifdaloz, Ashok Regmi, John M Anderies, Armando A Rodriguez
11/2010
Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Analysis of Robustness and Resilience in Five Communities in Southern Indiana
Forrest D. Fleischman, Kinga Boenning, Sarah Mincey, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Katrin Daedlow, Maria Claudia Lopez, Xavier Basurto, Burney Fischer, Elinor Ostrom
01/2014
Social-Ecological Collapse: TURF Governance in the Context of Highly Variable Resources in Chile
Jaime A Aburto, Wolfgang B. Stotz, Georgina Cundill
10/2009
Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ecological Science: a Question of Scale
Catherine A. Gagnon, Dominique Berteaux