Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Climate change threatens core dimensions of human security, including economic
prosperity, food availability, and societal stability. In recent years, war-torn regions such as …

Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

The social-ecological systems framework (SESF) is arguably the most comprehensive
conceptual framework for diagnosing interactions and outcomes in social-ecological …

Tropical dry woodlands are rapidly being lost to agricultural expansion, but how
deforestation dynamics play out in these woodlands remains poorly understood. We have …

Institutions are vital to the sustainability of social-ecological systems, balancing individual
and group interests and coordinating responses to change. Ecological decline and social …

Research on the influencing factors of sustainable livelihoods in the context of climate
change tend to focus on macro-regional and objective factors. However, there is room to …

Sustained interest by the business community in commercial agriculture in the global South
has been welcomed for its potential to bring capital into long neglected rural areas, but has …

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the
conservation of biodiversity. This new edition pushes the frontier of the …

Rationale and scope: Although soil erosion was recognised as a serious problem in
antiquity and research into erosion started in the early 20th century, it remains a substantial …