A journal of integrative science
for resilience and sustainability

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Volume 28, Issue 1January 2023
Table of Contents List of Special Features Past Issues

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What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens
Jaime Tatay, Amparo Merino
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands
Alison C. Foster, Sarah K. Carter, Travis S. Haby, Leigh D. Espy, Malia K. Burton

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Featured Contributors

Alison C. Foster

U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Amparo Merino

Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Andrea Thorenz

Resource Lab, Institute of Materials Resource Management, Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg, Germany

Axel Tuma

Resource Lab, Institute of Materials Resource Management, Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg, Germany

Beth R. Middleton Manning

University of California, Davis

Corrina Gould

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Darcie L. Houck

Attorney at Law

Elizabeth Allison

California Institute of Integral Studies

Jaime Tatay

Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Joanne Barker

San Francisco State University

Johnella LaRose

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Kamanamaikalani Beamer

Dana Naone Hall Chair, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, Williamson S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Hui ʻĀina Momona Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Kānekoa Kukea-Shultz

Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi

Kawena Elkington

Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Kawika B Winter

Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance

Keliʻi Kotubetey

Paepae o Heʻeia

Leigh D. Espy

Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States State Office, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.

Malia K. Burton

Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office, Lakewood, Colorado, USA.

Melissa K. Nelson

Arizona State University; The Cultural Conservancy

Michelle G. Steinberg

Underexposed Films

Pua Souza

Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Department of Curriculum Studies, College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Sandra Köhler

Resource Lab, Institute of Materials Resource Management, Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg, Germany

Sarah K. Carter

U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Travis S. Haby

Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

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Special Features

Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods
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Deeper Water: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance
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Panarchy: the Metaphor, the Theory, the Challenges, and the Road Ahead
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The Many Facets of Forest Resilience in the Lake Tahoe Basin
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Everyday Adaptations to Climate Change
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Authorship

These are the top ten countries that our authors from the last twelve months have been from.

  1. United States
  2. Germany
  3. Canada
  4. Australia
  5. Sweden
  6. US
  7. Mexico
  8. Netherlands
  9. New Zealand
  10. Peru

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4.403

ISI 2021 Impact Factor

5.275

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What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens
Jaime Tatay, Amparo Merino
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands
Alison C. Foster, Sarah K. Carter, Travis S. Haby, Leigh D. Espy, Malia K. Burton
Collective responsibility and environmental caretaking: toward an ecological care ethic with evidence from Bhutan
Elizabeth Allison
Special Feature Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals
Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Kawena Elkington, Pua Souza, Axel Tuma, Andrea Thorenz, Sandra Köhler, Kānekoa Kukea-Shultz, Keliʻi Kotubetey, Kawika B Winter
Special Feature Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods
A place to belong: creating an urban, Indian, women-led land trust in the San Francisco Bay Area
Beth R. Middleton Manning, Corrina Gould, Johnella LaRose, Melissa K. Nelson, Joanne Barker, Darcie L. Houck, Michelle G. Steinberg
Special Feature Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods

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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12/2001
Blending “Hard” and “Soft” Science: the “Follow-the-Technology” Approach to Catalyzing and Evaluating Technology Change
Boru Douthwaite, Nicoline C de Haan, Victor Manyong, Dyno Keatinge
Special Feature Integrated Natural Resource Management
04/2014
Influencing adaptation processes on the Australian rangelands for social and ecological resilience
Nadine A. Marshall, Chris J. Stokes
12/2001
Conservation of Native Pollinators via Honeybee Conservation
Tamar Keasar
06/2012
An Uncommon Scholar of the Commons
Carl Folke, John M Anderies, Lance Gunderson, Marco A. Janssen