Problem: Urban development can fragment natural habitats, alter hydrologic systems, and
modify energy flows and nutrient cycles. The literature on mitigating ecological impacts of …

Few natural resource management (NRM) studies discriminate between trust and
trustworthiness. However, this approach, which combines the attitude of one actor with the …

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is presented as an alternative to
conventional, top-down approaches to natural resource governance. It entails local, place …

Urban streams in Korea, which until recently were channeled and served only flood control
functions, have increasingly attracted attention for their potential as urban parks or …

Across a range of issue areas, governments are increasingly collaborating with nonprofit
organizations (NPOs) to achieve policy goals. In the environmental arena, growing concerns …

River revitalization, also called river restoration, has been implemented globally to restore
urban river ecosystems that would benefit both the environment and local residents in …

Trust has been identified as a critical relationship component in contexts of high uncertainty
and complexity such as wildfire management, and as a primary factor in public support for …

Collaboration is an increasingly important approach to dealing with complex environmental
challenges. Participation of diverse actors in collaborative processes necessitates attention …

Trust is recognised as an important component of agency–community relations, influencing
the social acceptability of resource access and natural resource management (NRM). It is …

Stephan, Marshall, and McGinnis observed:'Polanyi focused on polycentricity as a form of
emergent order, in the sense that a complex system of component parts may exhibit …