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Everyday Adaptations to Climate Change

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Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods

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Meaningful Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Sustainability: Local, Artistic, and Scientific Knowledge

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Deeper Water: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance

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High Nature Value Farming Systems in Europe

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Climate Change

10/2023

Heterogeneity in climate change beliefs across New Zealand’s rural sector

Sabrina Swerdloff, Dennis Wesselbaum, Philip Stahlmann-Brown

10/2023

Trade-offs in adapting to changes in climate, land use, and water availability in California

Nathan D. Van Schmidt, Tamara S. Wilson, Lorraine E. Flint, Ruth Langridge

08/2023

Collaborative everyday adaptation to deal with peatland fires: a case study on the east coast of Sumatra, Indonesia

Rijal Ramdani, Irmeli Mustalahti

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Restorative practices, marine ecotourism, and restoration economies: revitalizing the environmental agenda?

Eliana Ferretti, Simon F Thrush, Nicolas I. Lewis, Jenny R. Hillman

Adjusted to reality? Mandate and functioning of the General Integral Commission of the Grande Tárcoles Rivershed in Costa Rica

Barbara Schröter, Karina Castro-Arce, Bernardo J. Aguilar-González

Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications

Tiffany M. Lee, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln

Leadership accountability in community-based forest management: experimental evidence in support of governmental oversight

Goytom Abraha Kahsay, Erwin Bulte, Francisco Alpizar, Lars G. Hansen, Haileselassie Medhin

Citizens’ attitudes toward the protection of flying squirrels in urban areas

Artti Juutinen, Suvi Ilvonen, Emmi Haltia, Katja M Kangas, Jani P. Pellikka, Parvez Rana, Anne Tolvanen

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, José Luis Molina, 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