We review the past decade's widespread application of resilience science in sustainable
development practice and examine whether and how resilience is resha** this practice to …

Achieving effective, sustainable environmental governance requires a better understanding
of the causes and consequences of the complex patterns of interdependencies connecting …

The study of social-ecological systems (SES) has been significantly shaped by insights from
research on complex adaptive systems (CAS). We offer a brief overview of the conceptual …

Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional
environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative …

This article proposes an innovative theoretical framework that combines institutional and
policy network approaches to study multi-level governance. The framework is used to derive …

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

The central challenge of the 21st century is to develop economic, social, and governance
systems capable of ending poverty and achieving sustainable levels of population and …

Abstract The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus is increasingly perceived as promising
approach to overcome governance failures in dealing with complex and interconnected …

Social-ecological systems (SES) are complex adaptive systems. Social-ecological system
phenomena, such as regime shifts, transformations, or traps, emerge from interactions …

A framework is constructed for how to relate ecosystem services to environmental justice.
The benefits humans and society can derive from biophysical processes cannot be viewed …