The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

To minimize the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing, governments, development
agencies, and civil society organizations have made substantial investments in improving …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

Global food demand is rising, and serious questions remain about whether supply can
increase sustainably. Land-based expansion is possible but may exacerbate climate …

Much of the Earth's biosphere has been appropriated for the production of harvestable
biomass in the form of food, fuel and fibre. Here we show that the simplification and …

There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in
conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet …

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 …

The notion of 'transformations towards sustainability'takes an increasingly central position in
global sustainability research and policy discourse in recent years. Governance and politics …

Human wellbeing relies on the Biosphere, including natural resources provided by ocean
ecosystems. As multiple demands and stressors threaten the ocean, transformative change …

The scale, rate, and intensity of humans' environmental impact has engendered broad
discussion about how to find plausible pathways of development that hold the most promise …