Strategies to protect biodiversity in the face of a global crisis must be place‐based and
sensitive to context. A failure to consider the socioeconomic and political circumstances, as …

Successful conservation needs to be informed by social science because it is closely linked
to socio-economic processes and human behaviour. Limited knowledge about ecosystems' …

Governance is a key concept in politics and public policy that is increasingly utilised in
tourism. Using the notion of “policy as theory”, a typology of governance suitable for tourism …

Current political trends and scholarly research increasingly promote collaborative and
participatory governance in multi‐level systems as a way to more sustainable and effective …

Participation has become a mantra in environmental governance. However, there are signs
that the participatory agenda has started to lose its momentum and justification because of …

Birds are commonly used as an example of the strongly declining farmland biodiversity in
Europe. The populations of many species have been shown to suffer from intensification of …

Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage
individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good. Traditionally the …

The human species has been recognized as a new force that has pushed the Earth's system
into a new geological epoch referred to as the Anthropocene. This human influence was not …

In spite of widespread support from most member countries' societies for European Union
policy, including support for the sustainable development idea, in many EU countries the …

This article examines the key contributions of the political science and systems theory based
literatures on environmental governance, and uses them to analyse the governance of …