Transformations towards sustainability are needed to address many of the earth's profound
environmental and social challenges. Yet, actions taken to deliberately shift social …

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 …

Cities play a central role in the circular economy (CE) as they are important centres of
production and consumption, responsible for 80% of global GDP. European cities are …

This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on the evaluation methods
of participatory processes in smart cities. Specifically, it aims to identify and analyze existing …

Non-technical summary Many conservation initiatives call for 'transformative change'to
counter biodiversity loss, climate change, and injustice. The term connotes fundamental …

Studying social-ecological systems (SES) can be a challenging task, as explained in
Chapter 2. Phenomena of interest and characteristics of SES research result from both …

There are increasing calls for transformation to be considered as a means to address the
effects of social, cultural and political conditions on vulnerability when resilience is applied …

ABSTRACT The Tsitsa River catchment is a complex social-ecological system (cSES) in a
rural area of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and the site of the Tsitsa Project …

The complex social-ecological dynamics of homelessness in natural resource management
have become increasingly apparent in recent years. Systematically understanding and …

While Indigenous peoples have governed their territories for millennia, mainstream climate
governance literature underrepresents Indigenous governance roles in climate governance …