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Volume 30, Issue 2April 2025
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Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework
Steffen Farny, Domenico Dentoni
Integrative coordination and state-reinforced adaptive governance of small-scale irrigation systems in the Yangtze River basin, China
Ying Chai, Xiaoshan Chen, Su Pan, Yunmin Zeng
Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems

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Featured Contributors

Adrien Swartebroeckx

Sustainability, Systems and Prospectives Department, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium

Ancois Carien de Villiers

Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Anina Frei

Farming Systems Ecology Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Benjamin Waleilia

OKRONUS Resource Management and Development Trust, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands

Didier Stilmant

Sustainability, Systems and Prospectives Department, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium

Domenico Dentoni

MBS School of Business

Eric Froidmont

Sustainability, Systems and Prospectives Department, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium

Glenda Raven

Learning for Change, Cape Town, South Africa; Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa

Hampus Eriksson

WorldFish, Honiara, Solomon Islands; Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia

Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen

Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark

Henrik Kruse Rasmussen

Agrovi, Hillerød, Denmark

Karen A. Kotschy

Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa; Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD), Hoedspruit, South Africa

Margaret Batalofo

WorldFish, Honiara, Solomon Islands

Matthew B. Roscher

Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia

Meshach Sukulu

WorldFish, Honiara, Solomon Islands

Michelle Hiestermann

Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa

Miriam R. Waleilia

OKRONUS Resource Management and Development Trust, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands

Pauline Cassart

Sustainability, Systems and Prospectives Department, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium

Paulose Mvulane

Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa

Steffen Farny

Leuphana University Luneburg

Su Pan

Guangdong University of Finance and Economics

Sue Soal

Independent facilitator, evaluator, and organizational process consultant, Cape Town, South Africa

Walter A. H. Rossing

Farming Systems Ecology Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Xiaoshan Chen

Guangdong University of Finance and Economics

Ying Chai

Guangdong University of Finance and Economics

Yunmin Zeng

Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences

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Special Features

State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
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Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience and Equity in Southern Africa: insights from Research and Practice
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The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods
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The Next Wave in Water Governance
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Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures
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Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework
Steffen Farny, Domenico Dentoni
Integrative coordination and state-reinforced adaptive governance of small-scale irrigation systems in the Yangtze River basin, China
Ying Chai, Xiaoshan Chen, Su Pan, Yunmin Zeng
Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
A heuristic framework to portray agroecological transition initiatives in reflexive arrangements, illustrated with a conservation agriculture network in Denmark
Pauline Cassart, Anina Frei, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Henrik Kruse Rasmussen, Adrien Swartebroeckx, Eric Froidmont, Didier Stilmant, Walter A. H. Rossing
Using hypothetical scenarios to explore potential trade-offs and rebound effects from livelihoods projects in the Pacific Islands: a case study from Langalanga, Solomon Islands
Matthew B. Roscher, Benjamin Waleilia, Miriam R. Waleilia, Margaret Batalofo, Meshach Sukulu, Hampus Eriksson
Using monitoring and evaluation to build equity and resilience: lessons from practice
Karen A. Kotschy, Ancois Carien de Villiers, Michelle Hiestermann, Paulose Mvulane, Glenda Raven, Sue Soal
Special Feature Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience and Equity in Southern Africa: insights from Research and Practice

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