How does the resilience concept of nested relationships (panarchy) contribute to
sustainability science and policy? Resilience at a particular level of organization, the …

Governments are no longer the most important source of decision making in the
environmental field. Instead, new actors are playing critical decision‐making roles, and new …

Urban transformations form a central challenge for enabling global pathways towards
sustainability and resilience. However, it remains unclear what kind of capacity is needed to …

Because of the complexity and speed of environmental, climatic, and socio-political change
in coastal marine social-ecological systems, there is significant academic and applied …

Investigations that are inspired theoretically can always be accused of a lack of 'practical
reference'. They do not provide prescriptions for others to use. They observe practice and …

This article synthesizes and compares environmental governance theories. For each theory
we outline its main tenets, claims, origin, and supporting literature. We then group the …

We aim to explore how indigenous peoples observe and ascribe meaning to change. The
case study involves two Quechua-speaking farmer communities from mountainous areas …

As we approach the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
there is a growing sense of urgency around the need to accelerate the necessary …

Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological
systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible …

While increasing hopes are being attached to deliberate societal transformative change to
achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, questions remain about …