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Volume 31, Issue 1January 2026
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Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review
Shahana Bilalova, Nicolas W. Jager, Jens Newig, Dave Huitema, Johanna K.L. Koehler
Special Feature The Next Wave in Water Governance
Social-ecological changes in traditional vanilla agroecosystems and their key role in biocultural landscape restoration
Abril Velasco-Murguía, Evodia Silva-Rivera, Noé Velázquez-Rosas

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Featured Contributors

Abril Velasco-Murguía

Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, México

Birol Bulut

Fırat University

Cari Tusing

College UC and Faculty of Social Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dave Huitema

Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Evodia Silva-Rivera

Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, México

Jens Newig

Research Group Governance and Sustainability, Institute of Sustainability Governance, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

Johanna K.L. Koehler

Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Muhammed Kursat Öksüzoğlu

Fırat University

Nicolas W. Jager

Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands; Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Noé Velázquez-Rosas

Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, México

Rebecca Borges

Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany; Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; Laboratório de Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão Pesqueira de Comunidades Amazônicas (LABPEXCA), Instituto de Estudos Costeiros (IECOS), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Bragança, Pará, Brazil; JHU-UPF Public Policy Center, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Shahana Bilalova

Institute for Environmental Studies, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Research Group Governance and Sustainability, Institute of Sustainability Governance, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

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Special Features

The Next Wave in Water Governance
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Panarchy: the Metaphor, the Theory, the Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Feature-in-Progress
Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems
Feature-in-Progress
Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience and Equity in Southern Africa: insights from Research and Practice
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Learning from Doing: Closing Knowledge Gaps in Integrated Landscape Research
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  1. United States
  2. Canada
  3. Netherlands
  4. Mexico
  5. Germany
  6. Sweden
  7. South Africa
  8. Australia
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  10. Chile

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Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review
Shahana Bilalova, Nicolas W. Jager, Jens Newig, Dave Huitema, Johanna K.L. Koehler
Special Feature The Next Wave in Water Governance
Social-ecological changes in traditional vanilla agroecosystems and their key role in biocultural landscape restoration
Abril Velasco-Murguía, Evodia Silva-Rivera, Noé Velázquez-Rosas
Seaweed as a keystone food: an ethnographic case study of coastal Lafkenche foodscapes
Cari Tusing
Past lines, present divides: mapping the biography of boundaries in protected area governance
Rebecca Borges
How does global literacy affect environmental behavior? The mediating role of eco-anxiety
Birol Bulut, Muhammed Kursat Öksüzoğlu

Archive Highlights

Ecology & Society has been publishing since 1997. Take a look back at some of our articles from years past.

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12/2015
Participation in protected areas: a social network case study in Catalonia, Spain
Laura Calvet-Mir, Sara Maestre-Andrés, Jeroen van den Bergh
Special Feature Networking the Environment: Social Network Analysis in Environmental Management and Local Ecological Knowledge Studies
12/2015
Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance
Felicitas Egunyu, Maureen G. Reed
12/2015
Ecological restoration as objective, target, and tool in international biodiversity policy
Dolly Jørgensen
Special Feature Ecological Restoration, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use
12/2015
Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web
Jordan Levine, Michael Muthukrishna, Kai M.A. Chan, Terre Satterfield