Resilience is often promoted as a boundary concept to integrate the social and natural
dimensions of sustainability. However, it is a troubled dialogue from which social scientists …

Poverty, food insecurity, climate change and biodiversity loss continue to persist as the
primary environmental and social challenges faced by the global community. As such, there …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

In a world where natural capital is often unpriced or undervalued, thus making resource
exploitation very lucrative, environmentally degrading activities will continue to dominate the …

Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

It is widely expected that habitat destruction in the tropics will cause a mass extinction in
coming years, but the potential magnitude of the loss is unclear. Existing literature has …