ABSTRACT The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports conclude
that for Australasia, without adaptation, further changes in climate, atmospheric CO2, sea …

The theory and practice of modeling cities and regions as complex, self-organizing systems,
presenting widely used cellular automata-based models, theoretical discussions, and …

New Zealand (NZ) has developed a coastal management framework that includes large
watersheds and territorial waters (out to 12 nautical miles). The article describes the …

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a holistic approach to managing marine
environments that can potentially reconcile cross-sectoral conflicts, scale mismatches, and …

China's southeast coastal areas have witnessed rapid growth in the last two decades, owing
mostly to their economic and social attractions. In this paper, we chose Jimei, a coastal peri …

In the face of declining ocean health and marine biodiversity, marine management
arrangements may need to change in many jurisdictions. This can occur in a planned …

There remains uncertainty about the legal and policy tools, processes and institutions
needed to support ecosystem-based marine management (EBM). This article relies on an …

Abstract Integrated Coastal Management has seen an on-going debate on the best way of
integrating knowledge with political decision-making across the so-called 'science–policy …

Improved consideration of the cultural benefits of ecosystem services (ES) requires attention
to knowledge pluralism in addition to value pluralism. Theorists have increasingly argued …

Many cultural benefits of ecosystem services (ES) are difficult to capture in standard ES
assessments. Scholars and practitioners often respond to this gap by seeking to develop …