Scientists have advocated for local interventions, such as creating marine protected areas
and implementing fishery restrictions, as ways to mitigate local stressors to limit the effects of …

Resilience underpins the sustainability of both ecological and social systems. Extensive loss
of reef corals following recent mass bleaching events have challenged the notion that …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

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 …

Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

Phase-shifts from one persistent assemblage of species to another have become
increasingly commonplace on coral reefs and in many other ecosystems due to escalating …

Threats from climate change and other human pressures have led to widespread concern
for the future of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Resilience of GBR reefs will be …

Global increases in the magnitude and frequency of flood events have raised concerns that
traditional flood management approaches may not be sufficient to deal with future …

Anthropogenic stressors affect the ecosystems upon which humanity relies. In some cases
when resilience is exceeded, relatively small linear changes in stressors can cause …

Outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) remain a major cause of coral
mortality in the Indo-Pacific, contributing to widespread and accelerating degradation of …