It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of
environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important …

The rapidly evolving ocean economy, driven by human needs for food, energy,
transportation and recreation, has led to unprecedented pressures on the ocean that are …

The ocean is the next frontier for many conservation and development activities. Growth in
marine protected areas, fisheries management, the blue economy, and marine spatial …

Planning of marine areas is being developed worldwide to foster sustainable ocean
management and governance. Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a process that aims to …

Planning for marine areas, from coastal to open-ocean regions, is being developed
worldwide to foster sustainable ocean management and governance. Over the past …

A growing body of literature has highlighted the value of social science for conservation, yet
the diverse approaches of the social sciences are still inconsistently incorporated in …

Because the Anthropocene by definition is an epoch during which environmental change is
largely anthropogenic and driven by social, economic, psychological and political forces …

Governance projects to measure and organize socio-natural spaces have often resulted in
the marginalization of human communities (eg, national parks) or in the destruction of …

Sociospatial information is critical to marine and coastal ecosystem management. The
Hawaii Coastal Uses Map** Project used a participatory geographic information systems …

Here, we synthesize conceptual frameworks, applied modeling approaches, and as case
studies to highlight complex social-ecological system (SES) dynamics that inform …