Highlights•Knowledge about ecosystem service production and distribution can foster
sustainability.•Ecosystem service governance best practices can improve ecosystem …

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 …

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 …

Context A background assumption of landscape approaches is that some landscape
patterns are more sustainable than others, and thus searching for these patterns should be a …

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 …

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 …

Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere. The focus is
shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as precondition for social …

To gain insights into the effects of adaptive governance on natural capital, we compare three
well-studied initiatives; a landscape in Southern Sweden, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia …

Transdisciplinary research that bridges science and society is needed to address the
complex social-ecological sustainability challenges we are facing. However, many …

Global flows of reactive nitrogen (N) have increased significantly over the last century in
response to agricultural intensification and elevated levels of atmospheric deposition …