The conservation community is increasingly focusing on the monitoring and evaluation of
management, governance, ecological, and social considerations as part of a broader move …

Monitoring and evaluation are central to ensuring that innovative, multi-scale, and
interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability are effective. The development of relevant …

Plural valuation is about eliciting the diverse values of nature articulated by different
stakeholders in order to inform decision making and thus achieve more equitable and …

Enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services (ES) that underpin human well-being is
critical for meeting current and future societal needs, and requires specific governance and …

Calls for society to 'reconnect with nature'are commonplace in the scientific literature and
popular environmental discourse. However, the expression is often used haphazardly …

Conflicts between people over wildlife are widespread and damaging to both the wildlife
and people involved. Such issues are often termed human–wildlife conflicts. We argue that …

We conducted a systematic review of 502 articles, published between 2000 and 2016, to
characterize the research on human-carnivore relations according to (i) temporal and …

Abstract Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) have found favor in a variety of theoretical and
applied contexts that span the hard and soft sciences. Given the utility and flexibility of the …

Conventional approaches to natural resource management are increasingly challenged by
environmental problems that are embedded in highly complex systems with profound …

Sustainability transitions inherently involve system change, which needs to be initiated and
accepted by a wide variety of actors. How actors perceive the system or transition of interest …