Water pollution by heavy metals represents a significant threat to both the environment and
public health, with a pronounced risk of stomach cancer and fatalities linked to the …

Many attempts to scale conservation actions have failed to deliver their intended benefits,
caused unintended harm or later been abandoned, hampering efforts to bend the curve on …

Polycentricity is a fundamental concept in commons scholarship that connotes a complex
form of governance with multiple centers of semiautonomous decision making. If the …

Page 1 4th EDITION Toward Sustainable Communities Mark Roseland * SOLUTIONS for
CITIZENS and their GOVERNMENTS Page 2 Page 3 Praise for Toward Sustainable …

Many of the most pressing threats to forests result from complex interactions between
multiple stressors and require management on large spatial and temporal scales. For this …

Numerous wildfire management agencies and institutions rely primarily on simple risk
approaches to wildfire that focus on technical risk assessments that do not reflect the …

Large-scale, high-severity wildfires are a major challenge to the future social-ecological
sustainability of fire-adapted forest ecosystems in the American West. Managing forests to …

Planning for nature conservation has increasingly emphasised the concepts of resilience
and spatial networks. Although the importance of habitat networks for individual species is …

Dominant governance theories are drawn primarily from Euro-American sources, including
emergent theories of network and collaborative governance. The authors contest this narrow …

Successful management of complex social-ecological landscapes overlap** Natura 2000
sites requires collaboration between various actors such as law enforcement agencies …