Monitoring and evaluation are central to ensuring that innovative, multi-scale, and
interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability are effective. The development of relevant …

Ocean governance is complex and influenced by multiple drivers and actors with different
worldviews and goals. While governance encompasses many elements, in this paper we …

Ecological restoration policies and their implementation are influenced by ecological and
socioeconomic drivers. Top-down approach-based spatial planning, emphasizing …

In recent years, parallel developments in disparate disciplines have focused on what has
come to be termed connectivity; a concept used in understanding and describing complex …

This article focuses on the debates among resilience, sustainability, adaptation, and
transformation concepts. The conceptualization and application of sustainability and …

A variety of criteria may influence the efficacy of networks of marine protected areas (MPA)
designed to enhance biodiversity conservation and provide fisheries benefits. Meta …

Sustainability in the provision of ecosystem services requires understanding of the
vulnerability of social-ecological systems (SES) to tip** points (TPs). Assessing SES …

Global emissions embodied in trade (EET) constitute approximately one-third of total carbon
emissions. Although countries combat environmental impacts via international cooperation …

An overarching challenge of natural resource management and biodiversity conservation is
that relationships between people and nature are difficult to integrate into tools that can …

In this paper, we puzzle the way that sovereignty has been a sketchily present dynamic in
conservation discourses. In the case of the world's many island communities whose colonial …