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 …

Over a period of some 20 years, different aspects of co-management (the sharing of power
and responsibility between the government and local resource users) have come to the …

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 …

This paper explores the resilience of vulnerable tourism sectors to disasters in a period of
global change and interdependence. The coral reef tourism industry is highly vulnerable to …

In an effort to deliver better outcomes for people and the ecosystems they depend on, many
governments and civil society groups are engaging natural resource users in collaborative …

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 …

In the context of governance of human–environment interactions, a panacea refers to a
blueprint for a single type of governance system (eg, government ownership, privatization …

Marine ecosystems are in decline. New transformational changes in governance are
urgently required to cope with overfishing, pollution, global changes, and other drivers of …

Ostrom proposed the underpinnings of a framework for the systematic study of the
governance of complex social–ecological systems. Here we hypothesize that Ostrom's …

Abstract The Humboldt Current System (HCS) is one of the most productive marine
ecosystems on earth. It extends along the west coast of South America from southern Chile …