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Volume 30, Issue 1January 2025
Table of Contents List of Special Features Past Issues

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Enabling “barrio” innovation: a grassroots approach for centering community initiatives in just sustainability transformations
Vanya Bisht, Regional Carrillo, Monique Franco, Virginia Angeles-Wann, Jose-Benito Rosales Chavez, Samuel Gomez, Jessica Hess, Amanda Kuhn, Paige Mollen, Jorge Morales-Guerrero, John Wann-Ángeles, Chingwen Cheng, Marta Berbés-Blázquez
Special Feature Meaningful Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Sustainability: Local, Artistic, and Scientific Knowledge
Managing beyond water: utilizing community well-being interviews in the Upper Yakima River Basin, USA, for climate change adaptation
Rebecca Gustine, Alexander Theophilus, Courtney G. Flint, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Emma Epperson, Claudia Mendez Wright, Jennifer C. Adam

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Featured Contributors

Alexander Theophilus

Utah State University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice

Amanda Kuhn

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Anna Salomaa

Unit of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland; Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Social Sciences, LUT School of Engineering Sciences, LUT University, Finland

Benjamin L. Ruddell

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University

Chingwen Cheng

Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University

Claudia Mendez Wright

Central Washington University, Department of Sociology

Courtney G. Flint

Utah State University, Department of Environment & Society

Emma Epperson

Utah State University, Department of Environment & Society

Eric C. Sjöstedt

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University

Henna Salminen

Unit of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Janne I. Hukkinen

Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki; Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki

Jennifer C. Adam

Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad

Utah State University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice

Jessica Hess

Garfield Elementary School, Phoenix, Arizona

John Wann-Ángeles

Orchard Community Learning Center

Jorge Morales-Guerrero

School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Jose-Benito Rosales Chavez

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University

Kat F. Fowler

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University

Kelsey Krivochenitser

Unit of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Marta Berbés-Blázquez

School of Planning, and Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo

Martha B. Lerski

Leonard Lief Library, Lehman College | CUNY; (Current) School of Business, Lehman College | CUNY

Monique Franco

Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program, Arizona State University

Paige Mollen

Mollen Foundation, Arizona

Rebecca Gustine

Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Regional Carrillo

AZ(LAND) Fund Founder and CEO

Richard R. Rushforth

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA

Ryan A. McManamay

Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University

Samuel Gomez

The Sagrado Galleria, Phoenix, Arizona

Tapio Reinekoski

Unit of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen

Unit of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Vanya Bisht

University of Waterloo

Virginia Angeles-Wann

Orchard Community Learning Center, Phoenix, Arizona

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Meaningful Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Sustainability: Local, Artistic, and Scientific Knowledge
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Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems
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The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods
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  3. Canada
  4. Spain
  5. Netherlands
  6. Germany
  7. South Africa
  8. Uruguay
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Enabling “barrio” innovation: a grassroots approach for centering community initiatives in just sustainability transformations
Vanya Bisht, Regional Carrillo, Monique Franco, Virginia Angeles-Wann, Jose-Benito Rosales Chavez, Samuel Gomez, Jessica Hess, Amanda Kuhn, Paige Mollen, Jorge Morales-Guerrero, John Wann-Ángeles, Chingwen Cheng, Marta Berbés-Blázquez
Special Feature Meaningful Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Sustainability: Local, Artistic, and Scientific Knowledge
Managing beyond water: utilizing community well-being interviews in the Upper Yakima River Basin, USA, for climate change adaptation
Rebecca Gustine, Alexander Theophilus, Courtney G. Flint, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Emma Epperson, Claudia Mendez Wright, Jennifer C. Adam
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises
Anna Salomaa, Tapio Reinekoski, Henna Salminen, Kelsey Krivochenitser, Janne I. Hukkinen, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
Identifying intangible and biocultural heritage elements toward environmental understanding: engaging stakeholders through art
Martha B. Lerski
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA
Eric C. Sjöstedt, Kat F. Fowler, Richard R. Rushforth, Ryan A. McManamay, Benjamin L. Ruddell
Special Feature Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems

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