Ecology & Society: Everyday Adaptations to Climate Change

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Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures

Julia van Velden, Reinette Biggs, Elena Bennett, Garry Peterson
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Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience and Equity in Southern Africa: insights from Research and Practice

Maike Hamann, Reinette Biggs, Alta de Vos, Regardt Ferreira, Caitlin Shannon
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Learning from Doing: Closing Knowledge Gaps in Integrated Landscape Research

James Reed, Terry Sunderland, Tobias Plieninger, Elsa Varela
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Resilience and Change in Arctic Alaska

Gary Kofinas, Chanda Meek
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The Next Wave in Water Governance

Nina Valin, Alejandra Francisca Burchard-Levine, Gina Gilson, Dustin Garrick, Nuria Hernández-Mora, Dave Huitema, Johanna Koehler, Jampel Dell'Angelo
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Unlocking Resilient Benefits from African Water Resources: Crafting Research as an Expedition toward Sustainability

Carolyn Palmer, Jane Tanner, Rebecka Henriksson, Sukhmani Mantel, Alta de Vos
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Beyond the Assessment on the Diverse Values of Nature: Hidden gems, Biases, Frontiers, Challenges, and Insights

Bibiana Vilá, Brigitte Baptiste, Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera
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The Coproduction of Conflicts in Environmental Sustainability: Concepts, Methods, and Ethics

Violeta Cabello, María Mancilla García, Marcela Brugnach
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Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems

Melinda Morgan, Mark Stone, Jan Boll, Ryan Morrison, Alexandra Webster, Jaishri Srinivasan, Asa Stone
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The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods

Fariborz Zelli, Torsten Krause
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Meaningful Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Sustainability: Local, Artistic, and Scientific Knowledge

M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Paula Novo, Rafael Calderon-Contreras, Laura Pereira, Patricia Balvanera
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State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems

Daniel DeCaro, Edella Schlager, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
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Everyday Adaptations to Climate Change

Arun Agrawal, Rebecca Nixon, Rajiv Ghimire, Mark Tebboth, Sirkku Juhola, Brianna Castro, Deborah Ayodele-Olajire, Chuan Liao, James Erbaugh
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Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods

Mehana Vaughan, Sibyl Diver, Merrill Baker-Médard
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The Many Facets of Forest Resilience in the Lake Tahoe Basin

Robert Scheller, Jonathan Long, Patricia Manley
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Deeper Water: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance

Brian Chaffin, Julia Baird, Bimo Nkhata, Sechindra Vallury
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Land Acquisitions, Well-being, and Environment

Ariane de Bremond, Daniel G. Brown, Arun Agrawal, Jane Southworth
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Holistic Solutions Based on Nature: Unlocking the Potential of Green and Blue Infrastructure

Dagmar Haase, Erik Andersson, Jakub Kronenberg, Manuel Wolff, Johannes Langemeyer, André Mascarenhas
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High Nature Value Farming Systems in Europe

Irina Herzon, Angela Lomba
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Panarchy: the Metaphor, the Theory, the Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Juan Rocha, Klara Winkler
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Sep 2022
Resilient Rural Futures

Nicholas Cradock-Henry, Joanna Fountain, Thomas Wilson
Sep 2022
Challenges to Understanding and Managing Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) in the Global South

Pamela McElwee, Minna Hsu, Jun He
Dec 2021
Alaska’s Salmon and People: Synthesizing Knowledge and Dimensions

Courtney Carothers, Peter Westley, Jessica Black, Danielle Ringer
Jun 2021
Managing local and global fisheries in the Anthropocene

Sebastián Villasante, Manel Antelo
Jun 2021
Conceptualizing, Analyzing, and Supporting Stewardship: Examining the role of civil society in environmental governance

Michelle Johnson, Lindsay Campbell, Erika Svendsen
Jun 2021
Beyond Social-Ecological Traps: Fostering Transformations towards Sustainability

Per Olsson, Jessica Blythe, Henrik Österblom, Hampus Eriksson
Jun 2021
Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research

Christoph Oberlack, Diana Sietz, Klaus Eisenack
Jan 2021
Canada and Transboundary Fisheries Management in Changing Oceans: Taking Stock, Future Scenarios

R. Sumaila, David VanderZwaag
Sep 2020
Seeking sustainable pathways for land use in Latin America

Juan Rocha, Nestor Mazzeo, Matias Piaggio, Miguel Carriquiri
Jun 2020
Full-Spectrum Evaluation of Sustainability: Insights from Fisheries in Canada

Evelyn Pinkerton, Melanie Wiber, Paul Foley, Robert Stephenson
Jun 2020
Reconciling Art and Science for Sustainability

Frances Westley, Marten Scheffer, and Carl Folke
Dec 2019
Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability

Lennart Olsson, Barry Ness
Sep 2019
Twenty Years of Community Forestry in Cameroon: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development

Peter Minang, Lalisa Duguma, and Meine van Noordwijk
Sep 2019
Collaboration and conflicts in complex water governance systems across a development gradient

Örjan Bodin, María Mancilla García, Jacob Hileman
Jul 2019
Ecosystems and Society: Interactions Among Climate, Land Use, Ecosystem Services, and Society

Mark Borsuk
Jul 2019
Ecosystem Services for Agroecological Transitions

Danièle Magda, Christo Fabricius, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Roger Martin-Clouaire
Mar 2019
Best Paper Award (2004 to present)

Marco Janssen
Dec 2018
Transforming Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South for Social-Ecological Resilience

Maarten Bavinck, Eleanor Fisher, Aklilu Amsalu
Dec 2018
Telecoupling: A New Frontier for Global Sustainability

Vanessa Hull and Jianguo Liu
Dec 2018
Designing Transformative spaces for sustainability in social-ecological systems

Timothy Karpouzoglou, Laura Pereira, Per Olsson, Niki Frantzeskaki
Jun 2018
A brave new world: integrating human well-being in conservation

Kelly Biedenweg and Nicole Gross-Camp
Jun 2018
Sustainably Managing Freshwater Resources

Suzie Greenhalgh and Oshadhi Samarasinghe
Jun 2018
Adaptation in Fire-Prone Landscapes: Interactions of Policies, Management, Wildfire, and Social Networks in Oregon, USA

Thomas Spies, Robert Scheller, and John Bolte
Jun 2018
Private Land Conservation – Landowner Motives, Policies, and Outcomes of Conservation Measures in Unprotected Landscapes

Michael Drescher and Jacob C. Brenner
Mar 2018
Coupled Human-Coastal Ecosystems: Building Resilience through Teaching and Research Partnerships

Anne Salomon, Ken Lertzman
Mar 2018
Practicing Panarchy: Assessing Legal Flexibility, Ecological Resilience, and Adaptive Governance in U.S. Regional Water Systems Experiencing Climate Change

Barbara Cosens, Lance Gunderson, and Brian Chaffin
Dec 2017
Game-Changers and Transformative Social Innovation

Flor Avelino, Rene Kemp, Julia Wittmayer, and Alex Haxeltine
Jun 2017
The Politics, Design, and Effects of a Bioregional Approach: The Case of River Basin Organizations

Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink
Jun 2017
Exploring Social-Ecological Resilience through the Lens of the Social Sciences: Contributions, Critical Reflections, and Constructive Debate

Samantha Stone-Jovicich, Ryan Plummer, Katrina Brown, Bruce Goldstein, and Per Olsson
Mar 2017
Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS): Knowledge for Sustainable Stewardship of Social-ecological Systems

Albert Norström, Marja Spierenburg, Meriem Bouamrane, and Patricia Balvanera
Mar 2017
Networking the Environment: Social Network Analysis in Environmental Management and Local Ecological Knowledge Studies

M. Salpeteur, L. Calvet-Mir, I. Díaz-Reviriego, and V. Reyes-García
Mar 2017
Small-Scale Societies and Environmental Transformations: Coevolutionary Dynamics

Victoria Reyes-García and Marco Madella
Mar 2017
Advancing Social-Ecological Research Through Teaching: Social-Ecological Systems Framework and Design Principles in Large Areas

Natalie Ban and Michael Cox
Mar 2017
Community-based Management of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Maria del Mar Delgado-Serrano, Jay Mistry, Bettina Matzdorf, and Grégoire Leclerc
Dec 2016
Toward More Resilient Flood Risk Governance

Peter Driessen, Marleen Van Rijswick, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Dries Hegger, and Marloes Bakker
Dec 2016
Ecological Restoration, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use

Anne Tolvanen and James Aronson
Dec 2016
Ecosystem Service Trade-offs across Global Contexts and Scales

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Stephen Polasky, Patricia Balvanera, Elizabeth King
Dec 2016
Making Sense of Climate Change, Orientations to Adaptation

Timothy Lynam, Iain Walker
Sep 2016
The Governance of Adaptation

Dave Huitema, Frans Berkhout, Catrien Termeer, Neil Adger, Ryan Plummer, and Daniel Mazmanian
Sep 2016
Pathways of Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Alaska

Gary Kofinas, Terry Chapin, and Amy Lovecraft
Sep 2016
Why does hunting in tropical regions matter?

Nathalie van Vliet and Robert Nasi
Sep 2016
The Science and Practice of Ecology and Society

Marco Janssen
Jun 2016
Heterogeneity and Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems: A CircumArctic Synthesis

Gary Kofinas
Mar 2016
Multicriteria Assessment of Food System Sustainability

Hugo Alrøe, Henrik Moller, Jeppe Læssøe, and Egon Noe
Dec 2015
Understanding Human Resilience in the Context of Interconnected Health and Social Systems

Astier Almedom and Johan Bergström
Dec 2015
Advancing the Understanding of Behavior in Social-Ecological Systems: Results from Lab and Field Experiments

Marco Janssen, Therese Lindahl, and Jim Murphy
Dec 2015
A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems

Pieter Bots, Jan Sendzimir, and Maja Schlüter
Sep 2015
Eco-Social Resilience Through Models of Public Participation in Scientific Research

Heidi L. Ballard and Caren B. Cooper
Sep 2015
Exploring Feedbacks in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS)

Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, and Mao-Ning Tuanmu
Jun 2015
Systems Science for Managing Europe’s Seas

Laurence Mee, Tim O’Higgins, Alison Gilbert, and Philip Cooper
Mar 2015
Applied Research for Enhancing Human Well-Being and Environmental Stewardship: Using Complexity Thinking in Southern Africa

Carolyn Palmer, Reinette Biggs, Graeme Cumming
Mar 2015
Cooperation, Local Communities, and Marine Social-Ecological Systems: New Findings from Latin America

Sebastián Villasante and Henrik Österblom
Mar 2015
Science and Governance in a Diverse World: Coproduction and Coproductive Capacities for Environmental Management

Lorrae van Kerkhoff and Louis Lebel
Mar 2015
Urban Water Governance

Lennart Olsson and Brian Head
Dec 2014
Conceptual, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Challenges in Studying and Applying Indigenous Knowledge

Courtney Carothers, Mark Moritz, and Rebecca Zarger
Dec 2014
Global Water Governance: Challenges and Future Scope

Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Joyeeta Gupta
Dec 2014
REDD+ national policy networks: information flows, influence and coalitions for change

Maria Brockhaus, Monica Di Gregorio, and Rachel Carmenta
Sep 2014
Rebuilding Fisheries and Threatened Communities: the Social-Ecology of a Particularly Wicked Problem

Barbara Neis and Rosemary Ommer
Sep 2014
Understanding the Vulnerability and Sustainability of Urban Social-Ecological Systems in the Tropics: Perspectives from the City of San Juan

Ariel E. Lugo and Mildred Alayón
Jun 2014
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Oil Spills

So-Min Cheong
Jun 2014
Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes: Analysis and Management Options

Tobias Plieninger, Claudia Bieling, Christian Schleyer, and Dan van der Horst
Jun 2014
Resilience Through Multi-scalar Collaboration

Bruce Evan Goldstein
Jun 2014
Bridging Conservation and Development in Latin America and Africa: Changing Contexts, Changing Strategies

Claudia Romero and Lisa Seales
Jun 2014
Exploring Opportunities for Advancing Collaborative Adaptive Management (CAM): Integrating Experience and Practice

Jim Berkley and David Galat
Mar 2014
Education and Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters

William Butz, Wolfgang Lutz, Jan Sendzimir, and Stefanie Andruchowitz
Mar 2014
Beyond Carbon: Enabling Justice and Equity in REDD+ Across Levels of Governance

Heike Schroeder, Thomas Sikor, and Constance McDermott
Mar 2014
Nudging Evolution? Critical Exploration of the Potential and Limitations of the Concept of Institutional Fit for the Study and Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems

Katharine N. Farrell and Andreas Thiel
Mar 2014
The Recent History and Practice of Local Fisheries in a Globalizing World

Rosemary Ommer and Barbara Paterson
Dec 2013
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change

Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Esteve Corbera, and Victoria Reyes-García
Dec 2013
Understanding Adaptive Capacity in Forest Governance

E. Carina Keskitalo
Dec 2013
Ecosystem Services, Governance, and Stakeholder Participation

Klaus Hubacek and Jouni Paavola
Dec 2013
Ecological Restoration in Northern Regions

Christer Nilsson and Ása Aradóttir
Sep 2013
Integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Science in Natural Resource Management: Perspectives from Australia

Erin Bohensky, James Butler, and Jocelyn Davies
Sep 2013
Sustainable Land-Use Practices in Mountain Regions: Integrative Analysis of Ecosystem Dynamics Under Global Change, Social-Economic Impacts, and Policy Implications

Andreas Rigling, Harald Bugmann, Alexandre Buttler
Sep 2013
Law and Social-Ecological Resilience, Part II, Contributions from Law for Social-Ecological Resilience Symposium Stockholm, Sweden, 2010

Jonas Ebbesson and Ellen Hey
Jun 2013
Law and Social-Ecological Resilience, Part I, Contributions from Resilience 2011

Ahjond Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Melinda Harm Benson
Mar 2013
Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management

Guy Robinson and Doris Carson
Mar 2013
A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks

Claire Kremen, Alastair Iles, and Christopher Bacon
Mar 2013
Public policies and management of rural forests: lasting alliance or fool’s dialogue?

Robert Nasi, Genevieve Michon, Gérard Balent
Dec 2012
Sustainability Impact Assessment of Forest Management Alternatives in Europe

Geerten Hengeveld, Bill Mason, Jean Michel Carnus
Dec 2012
Urban ecological and social-ecological research in the City of Cape Town

Pippin Anderson and Thomas Elmqvist
Dec 2012
The Privilege to Fish

Mimi E. Lam and Meaghan Calcari
Sep 2012
A Systems Approach for Sustainable Development in Coastal Zones

Tom Hopkins, Denis Bailly, Josianne Stottrup, Audun Sandberg, and Ragnar Elmgren
Sep 2012
Transitions, Resilience and Governance: Linking Technological, Ecological and Political Systems

Per Olsson, Victor Galaz, Jan-Peter Voss, Adrian Smith
Sep 2012
Mental models in human – environment interactions: Theory, policy implications, and methodological explorations

Timothy Lynam and Katrina Brown
Jun 2012
Balancing Ecology and Community using Cumulative Effects Models

Marian Weber and Naomi Krogman
Mar 2012
Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels

Laura German, George Schoneveld, and Pablo Pacheco
Mar 2012
The Energy-Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future

Karen Hussey, Jamie Pittock
Mar 2012
Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice and Evaluation

Yorck von Korff, Sabine Möllenkamp, Pieter Bots, Katherine Daniell, and Rianne Bijlsma
Sep 2011
Compensation and Reward for Environmental Services in the Tropics

Brent Swallow, Susan Poats, Hein Mallee, K.V. Raju
Sep 2011
Resilience and Vulnerability of Arid and Semi-Arid Social Ecological Systems

Evan D. G. Fraser, Claire Quinn, and Jan Sendzimir
Sep 2011
Historical and Future Ranges of Variability

Sally Duncan and K. Norman Johnson
Jun 2011
Scale and Governance

Kasper Kok, Tom Veldkamp
Jun 2011
Long-term Vulnerability and Transformation

Christo Fabricius, Michael Schoon
Apr 2011
Landscape Scenarios and Multifunctionality – Making Land Use Assessment Operational

Katharina Helming, Marta Perez-Soba
Apr 2011
Effects of Roads and Traffic on Wildlife Populations and Landscape Function

Rodney van der Ree, Jochen A. G. Jaeger, Edgar van der Grift, and Anthony P. Clevenger
Dec 2010
Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Governance

Beatrice Crona, Klaus Hubacek
Sep 2010
Catastrophic Thresholds, Perspectives, Definitions, and Applications

Robert Washington-Allen, David Briske, and Hank Shugart
Sep 2010
Risk mapping for avian influenza: a social-ecological problem

Graeme Cumming
Jun 2010
Realizing Water Transitions: The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Water Policy Change

Dave Huitema, Sander Meijerink
Jun 2010
Pathways to Resilient Salmon Ecosystems

Daniel Bottom, Kim Jones, Charles Simenstad and Courtland Smith
Jun 2010
Managing Surprises in Complex Systems: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Resilience

Lance Gunderson and Pat Longstaff
Jun 2010
Navigating Trade-offs: Working for Conservation and Development Outcomes

Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey Sayer, and Brian Walker
Dec 2009
Do we need new management paradigms to achieve sustainability in tropical forests?

Robert Nasi
May 2009
New Methods for Adaptive Water Management

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Jan Sendzimir, Paul Jeffrey
Dec 2008
The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics

Mitchell Aide, Ricardo Grau, and Ariel Lugo
Jun 2008
Crossing Scales and Disciplines to Achieve Forest Sustainability: A Framework for Effective Integrated Modeling

Brian Sturtevant, Christian Messier, Michael Papaik
Jun 2008
Social Learning in Water Resources Management

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Erik Mostert, J. David Tabara
Mar 2008
Assessing Risks to Wildlife Populations from Multiple Stressors

Matthew Nicholson
Nov 2007
The Conservation and Restoration of Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests of the American West

Dave Egan
Jun 2007
Strengthening people’s adaptive capacity for ecosystem management and human wellbeing: A Millennium Ecosystem Assessment special feature

Christo Fabricius
Jun 2007
Scale and Cross-scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multi-level World

David Cash
May 2007
Scenarios of global ecosystem services

Stephen Carpenter, Garry Peterson, Elena Bennett
Apr 2007
Restoring Riverine Landscapes

Christer Nilsson
Dec 2006
Empirically Based, Agent-based Modeling

Marco Janssen, Elinor Ostrom
Jun 2006
Urban Sprawl

Craig Allen
Apr 2006
Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Comparative Studies and Theory Development

Brian Walker, John Anderies, Paul Ryan, Ann Kinzig
Dec 2004
Traditional Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems

Carl Folke
Dec 2003
Human Ecosystems: Toward the Integration of Anthropology and Ecosystem Science

Thomas Abel, John R. Stepp
Dec 2002
Ralf Yorque Memorial Competition 2001

C. S. Holling
Jun 2002
Interactive Science Education

Clifton Lee Gass
Jun 2002
Integrated Natural Resource Management

Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey Sayer
Jun 2001
Pollinator Decline

James Crane, Vincent Tepedino
Jul 2000
Genetically Modified Organisms

C. S. Holling
Dec 1999
Adaptive Management

Barry Johnson
Dec 1999
Recent Advances in Ecological Theory and Practice

C. S. Holling
Dec 1999
McDonnell Centennial Essays

C. S. Holling
Dec 1998
Sustainability and Resilience in Boreal Regions

John Pastor
Jun 1997
Science, Policy, and Advocacy Forum

C. S. Holling

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