In a rapidly changing world, ecology has the potential to move from empirical and
conceptual stages to application and management issues. It is now possible to make large …

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) scenarios address changes in ecosystem
services and their implications for human well-being. Ecological changes pose special …

Participatory scenario planning (PSP) is an increasingly popular tool in place-based
environmental research for evaluating alternative futures of social-ecological systems …

The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the
dynamics of social–ecological systems. This article presents the origin of the resilience …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …

There is broad consensus that the main problem facing fisheries globally is too many boats
chasing too few fish. Unfortunately it is also possible to argue that there are too many …

We analyze the emergence of an adaptive co-management system for wetland landscape
governance in southern Sweden, a process where unconnected management by several …

The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its
fundamental properties and their in-ence on society. These changes include climate; the …

Deliberate progress towards the goal of long-term sustainability depends on understanding
the dynamics of linked social and ecological systems. The concept of social-ecological …

While considerable progress has been made in understanding land use change, land
system science continues to face a number of grand challenges. This paper discusses these …