Stakeholder participation is a fundamental component of many states' and local agencies'
fisheries legislations worldwide. The European Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), as one …

Island ecosystems have rich marine biodiversity and high levels of terrestrial endemism, but
are potentially the most vulnerable to climate change and anthropogenic stressors. To …

Cultural ecosystem services are generally understood to be the non-material value that can
be gained through ecosystems such as a sense of well-being, reflection and spiritual …

This study aims to explore the use of the social-ecological system (SES) in tourism of a
mountain area. Authors examined residents' perceptions of tourism impacts on four SES …

Effective public participation in decision-making concerning protected areas requires
supportive legal provisions, practices and narratives. While there has been a wide interest in …

More than a decade of bottom-up collaborative workshops and research with fishers from
the principal tropical tuna purse seine fleets to reduce ecological impacts associated with …

Estuarine fisheries are of high regional socio‐economic importance worldwide, by providing
an important livelihood for many families. The Portuguese green crab (Carcinus maenas) …

Fisheries stock status is generally based on time series catch and effort data sourced from
independent surveys and the fishery. These methods are often expensive and can be limited …

Sawfishes have declined dramatically in West Africa and may be extinct throughout much of
their historical range. Guinea‐Bissau is considered to be one of the last remaining places in …

The following article discusses how to elicit quantitative stakeholder driven scenarios as an
output for use in interdisciplinary policy models using Systems Thinking and Bayesian Belief …