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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
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Learning from Doing: Closing Knowledge Gaps in Integrated Landscape Research

    James Reed, Terry Sunderland, Tobias Plieninger, Elsa Varela
  • Feature-in-Progress

    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
  • Feature-in-Progress

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

    Julia van Velden, Reinette Biggs, Elena Bennett, Garry Peterson
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Unlocking Resilient Benefits from African Water Resources: The Interface between Sustainability Science Concepts and Practice

    Carolyn Palmer, Jane Tanner, Rebecka Henriksson, Frances Cleaver, Vanessa Speight
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Beyond the Assessment on the Diverse Values of Nature: Hidden gems, Biases, Frontiers, Challenges, and Insights

    Bibiana Vilá, Brigitte Baptiste, Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera
  • Feature-in-Progress

    The Coproduction of Conflicts in Environmental Sustainability: Concepts, Methods, and Ethics

    Violeta Cabello, María Mancilla García, Marcela Brugnach
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems

    Melinda Morgan, Mark Stone, Jan Boll, Ryan Morrison, Alexandra Webster, Jaishri Srinivasan, Asa Stone
  • Feature-in-Progress

    The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods

    Fariborz Zelli, Torsten Krause
  • Feature-in-Progress

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

    M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Paula Novo, Rafael Calderon-Contreras, Laura Pereira, Patricia Balvanera
  • Feature-in-Progress

    State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems

    Daniel DeCaro, Edella Schlager, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Everyday Adaptations to Climate Change

    Arun Agrawal, Rebecca Nixon, Rajiv Ghimire, Mark Tebboth, Sirkku Juhola, Brianna Castro, Deborah Ayodele-Olajire, Chuan Liao, James Erbaugh
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods

    Mehana Vaughan, Sibyl Diver, Merrill Baker-Médard
  • Feature-in-Progress

    The Many Facets of Forest Resilience in the Lake Tahoe Basin

    Robert Scheller, Jonathan Long, Patricia Manley
  • Feature-in-Progress

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

    Brian Chaffin, Julia Baird, Bimo Nkhata, Sechindra Vallury
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Land Acquisitions, Well-being, and Environment

    Ariane de Bremond, Daniel G. Brown, Arun Agrawal, Jane Southworth
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Resilience and Change in Arctic Alaska

    Gary Kofinas, Chanda Meek
  • Feature-in-Progress

    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
  • Feature-in-Progress

    High Nature Value Farming Systems in Europe

    Irina Herzon, Angela Lomba
  • Feature-in-Progress

    Panarchy: the Metaphor, the Theory, the Challenges, and the Road Ahead

    Juan Rocha, Klara Winkler
  • Feature-in-Progress

  • 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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