Despite having a more advanced water management system than most Middle Eastern
countries, similar to the other countries in the region, Iran is experiencing a serious water …

Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the
capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological …

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the …

Adaptive governance provides the capacity for environmental managers and decision
makers to confront variable degrees of uncertainty inherent to complex social-ecological …

We introduce here the term “River Culture” to delineate an eco-social approach to mitigate
the biological and cultural diversity crisis in riverscapes. It is based on the insight that current …

River restoration through dam removal provides an opportunity to investigate the changing
nature of environmental conflicts and politics in long-humanized landscapes. In New …

The removal of dams and reservoirs may seem to be an unforeseen and sometimes
controversial step in water management. The removal of barriers may be different for each …

Indigenous communities are increasingly taking the lead in river restoration, using the
process as an opportunity to re-engage deeply with their rivers, while revealing socio …

Introduction To counteract the rapid loss of marine forests globally and meet international
commitments of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the Convention on …

Tribal communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America (USA) have long-
standing relationships to ancestral lands now managed by federal land management …