Highlights•Land use model are a central tool in land system science.•There is a lack of new
land use modelling concepts published in recent years.•Land use models are frequently …

Executive summary Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in
continued permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased …

Learning science in the context of socio-scientific issues (SSI) can promote scientific literacy
that links science to everyday life and society. In this position paper, we argue that …

Citizen science has advanced science for hundreds of years, contributed to many peer-
reviewed articles, and informed land management decisions and policies across the United …

Scientists, stakeholders and decision makers face trade-offs between adopting simple or
complex approaches when modeling ecosystem services (ES). Complex approaches may …

Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research.
Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratize …

In order to deal with the current, dramatic decline in biodiversity, the public at large needs to
be aware of and participate in biodiversity research activities. One way to do this is citizen …

Citizen science enables citizens to actively contribute to all aspects of the research process,
from conceptualization and data collection, to knowledge translation and evaluation. Citizen …

Research taking place at the intersection of conservation and citizen science holds great
potential for advancing both fields as well as for addressing grand challenges in the field of …

In this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-
attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environmental education practice; ie, the …