Ecology and Society: Site Map

Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data  

Craig Nicolson, Matthew Berman, Colin Thor West, Gary P. Kofinas, Brad Griffith, Don Russell and Darcy Dugan

Resilience and Administrative Law  

Derek Armitage

Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Improve Holistic Fisheries Management: Transdisciplinary Modeling of a Lagoon Ecosystem of Southern Mexico  

Alejandro Espinoza-Tenorio, Matthias Wolff, Ileana Espejel and Gabriela Montaño-Moctezuma

Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability  

John M Anderies, Carl Folke, Brian Walker and Elinor Ostrom

Engaging Local Communities in Low Emissions Land-Use Planning: a Case Study from Laos  

Jeremy Bourgoin, Jean-Christophe Castella, Cornelia Hett, Guillaume Lestrelin and Andreas Heinimann

EU Water Governance: Striking the Right Balance between Regulatory Flexibility and Enforcement?  

Olivia O Green, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Helena F. M. W. van Rijswick and Andrea M. Keessen

Uncommon among the Commons? Disentangling the Sustainability of the Peruvian Anchovy Fishery  

Milena Arias Schreiber and Andrew Halliday

Complexity of Stakeholder Interaction in Applied Research  

Caroline Pade-Khene, Rebecca Luton, Tarina Jordaan, Sandra Hildbrand, Cecile Gerwel Proches, Andile Sitshaluza, James Dominy, Wonga Ntshinga and Nosipho Moloto

Innovation in Management Plans for Community Conserved Areas: Experiences from Australian Indigenous Protected Areas  

Jocelyn Davies, Rosemary Hill, Fiona J Walsh, Marcus Sandford, Dermot Smyth and Miles C Holmes

The Role of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Managing Rangelands Sustainably in Northern Iran  

Mehdi Ghorbani, Hossein Azarnivand, Ali Akbar Mehrabi, Mohammad Jafari, Hooshang Nayebi and Klaus Seeland

Education, Vulnerability, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster  

Elizabeth Frankenberg, Bondan Sikoki, Cecep Sumantri, Wayan Suriastini and Duncan Thomas

Education as a Determinant of Response to Cyclone Warnings: Evidence from Coastal Zones in India  

Upasna Sharma, Anand Patwardhan and Anthony G Patt

Preferences of Local People for the Use of Peatlands: the Case of the Richest Peatland Region in Finland  

Anne Tolvanen, Artti Juutinen and Rauli Svento

Equity, Power Games, and Legitimacy: Dilemmas of Participatory Natural Resource Management  

Cecile Barnaud and Annemarie Van Paassen

Comparing Global Coordination Mechanisms on Energy, Environment, and Water  

Susanne Schubert and Joyeeta Gupta

Resilience in Transboundary Water Governance: the Okavango River Basin  

Olivia O. Green, Barbara A. Cosens and Ahjond S. Garmestani

Intermediate Collaborative Adaptive Management Strategies Build Stakeholder Capacity  

Martha C. Monroe, Richard Plate and Annie Oxarart

The Patronage of Thirst: Exploring Institutional Fit on a Divided Cyprus  

Dimitrios Zikos and Matteo Roggero

Vulnerability to Weather Disasters: the Choice of Coping Strategies in Rural Uganda  

Jennifer F Helgeson, Simon Dietz and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

Emergence of Global Adaptive Governance for Stewardship of Regional Marine Resources  

Henrik Österblom and Carl Folke

Analyzing the Concept of Planetary Boundaries from a Strategic Sustainability Perspective: How Does Humanity Avoid Tipping the Planet?  

Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Göran I Broman and George Basile

Developing Adaptive Capacity to Droughts: the Rationality of Locality  

Lisa W. Welsh, Joanna Endter-Wada, Rebekah Downard and Karin M. Kettenring

A Policy Analysis Perspective on Ecological Restoration  

Susan Baker and Katarina Eckerberg

REDD+ for the poor or the poor for REDD+? About the limitations of environmental policies in the Amazon and the potential of achieving environmental goals through pro-poor policies  

Benno Pokorny, Imme Scholz and Wil de Jong

An Operational Framework for Defining and Monitoring Forest Degradation  

Ian D Thompson, Manuel R. Guariguata, Kimiko Okabe, Carlos Bahamondez, Robert Nasi, Victoria Heymell and Cesar Sabogal

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World  

Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Mateus Batistella, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Feng Fu, Thomas W. Hertel, R. Cesar Izaurralde, Eric F. Lambin, Shuxin Li, Luiz A. Martinelli, William J. McConnell, Emilio F. Moran, Rosamond Naylor, Zhiyun Ouyang, Karen R. Polenske, Anette Reenberg, Gilberto de Miranda Rocha, Cynthia S. Simmons, Peter H. Verburg, Peter M. Vitousek, Fusuo Zhang and Chunquan Zhu

Resilience Thinking and a Decision-Analytic Approach to Conservation: Strange Bedfellows or Essential Partners?  

Fred A Johnson, B. Ken Williams and James D Nichols

Public Policies and Management of Rural Forests: Lasting Alliance or Fool's Dialogue?  

Genevieve Michon, Robert Nasi and Gérard Balent

Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management  

Guy M Robinson and Doris A Carson

Institutional Fit and River Basin Governance: a New Approach Using Multiple Composite Measures  

Louis Lebel, Elena Nikitina, Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Christian Knieper

Legitimacy, Adaptation, and Resilience in Ecosystem Management  

Barbara A Cosens

Scale mismatches and reflexive law  

Graeme S. Cumming

How the Endangered Species Act Promotes Unintelligent, Misplaced Tinkering  

Lance Gunderson

Dynamic land cover information: bridging the gap between remote sensing and natural resource management  

Richard Thackway, Leo Lymburner and Juan Pablo Guerschman

A Politicized, Legal Pluralist Analysis of the Commons’ Resilience: The Case of the Regole d’Ampezzo  

Margherita Pieraccini

Anticipating and Managing Future Trade-offs and Complementarities between Ecosystem Services  

Mark S Reed, Klaus Hubacek, Aletta Bonn, Tim P Burt, Joseph Holden, Lindsay C Stringer, Nesha Beharry-Borg, Sarah Buckmaster, Dan Chapman, Pippa J Chapman, Gareth D Clay, Stephen J Cornell, Andrew J Dougill, Anna C. Evely, Evan D. G. Fraser, Nanlin Jin, Brian J Irvine, Mike J Kirkby, William E Kunin, Christina Prell, Claire H Quinn, Bill Slee, Sigrid Stagl, Mette Termansen, Simon Thorp and Fred Worrall

The Capacity of Property Rights to Accommodate Social-Ecological Resilience  

Richard A Barnes

Community Vulnerability to Floods and Landslides in Nepal  

Samir K.C.

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems  

Ahjond S Garmestani and Melinda Harm Benson

Understanding Public Support for Indigenous Natural Resource Management in Northern Australia  

Kerstin K Zander

Does Participatory Planning Foster the Transformation Toward More Adaptive Social-Ecological Systems?  

Susanne Menzel and Matthias Buchecker

Ethics and Water Governance  

David Groenfeldt and Jeremy J Schmidt

Effects of Educational Attainment on Climate Risk Vulnerability  

Erich Striessnig, Wolfgang Lutz and Anthony G Patt

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+): Transaction Costs of Six Peruvian Projects  

Olivia R Rendón Thompson, Jouni Paavola , John R. Healey, Julia P.G. Jones, Timothy R. Baker and Jorge Torres

Damned If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: Debates on Dam Removal in the Swedish Media  

Dolly Jørgensen and Birgitta Malm Renöfält

Collaborative Measurement of Performance of Jointly Managed Protected Areas in Northern Australia  

Natasha Stacey, Arturo Izurieta and Stephen T Garnett

Ex Ante Scale Dynamics Analysis in the Policy Debate on Sustainable Biofuels in Mozambique  

Marc Schut, Cees Leeuwis and Annemarie van Paassen

Adaptive Comanagement and Its Relationship to Environmental Governance  

Ryan Plummer, Derek R Armitage and Rob C de Loë

The Influence of Ethnic Diversity on Social Network Structure in a Common-Pool Resource System: Implications for Collaborative Management  

Michele Barnes-Mauthe, Shawn Arita, Stewart D. Allen, Steven A. Gray and PingSun Leung

Institutional Misfits: Law and Habits in Finnish Wolf Policy  

Juha Hiedanpää

A Tool and Process that Facilitate Community Capacity Building and Social Learning for Natural Resource Management  

Christopher M Raymond and Jen Cleary

Stakeholder Perceptions of an Ecosystem Services Approach to Clearing Invasive Alien Plants on Private Land  

Lauren S Urgenson, Heidi E. Prozesky and Karen J Esler

An interview methodology for exploring the values that community leaders assign to multiple-use landscapes.  

Darla Hatton MacDonald, Rosalind Bark, Andrea MacRae, Tina Kalivas, Agnes Grandgirard and Sarah Strathearn

A Methodology to Map Ecosystem Functions to Support Ecosystem Services Assessments  

Mik Petter, Shannon Mooney, Simone M Maynard, Andrew Davidson, Melanie Cox and Ila Horosak

How fit turns into misfit and back: Institutional Transformations of Pastoral Commons in African Floodplains  

Tobias Haller, Gilbert Fokou, Gimbage Mbeyale and Patrick Meroka

Policymakers’ Reflections on Water Governance Issues  

Joyeeta Gupta, Aziza Akhmouch, William Cosgrove, Zachary Hurwitz, Josefina Maestu and Olcay Ünver

Improving Participatory Processes through Collective Simulation: Use of a Community of Practice  

Mathieu Dionnet, Katherine A Daniell, Amar Imache, Yorck von Korff, Sami Bouarfa, Patrice Garin, Jean-Yves Jamin, Dominique Rollin and Jean-Emmanuel Rougier

Strategic Spatial Planning and the Ecosystem Services Concept – an Historical Exploration  

Cathy Wilkinson, Toomas Saarne, Garry D Peterson and Johan Colding

Dynamics of Forage Production in Pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under Projected Climate Change Scenarios  

Konstantin S Gavazov, Alexander Peringer, Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet and Thomas Spiegelberger

A Contextual Analysis of Land-Use and Vegetation Changes in Two Wooded Pastures in the Swiss Jura Mountains  

Joël Chételat, Michael Kalbermatten, Kathryn S.M. Lannas, Thomas Spiegelberger, Jean-Bruno Wettstein, François Gillet, Alexander Peringer and Alexandre Buttler

Enhancing the Resilience of Human–Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective  

Daniel Stokols, Raul Perez Lejano and John Hipp

Separating Adaptive Maintenance (Resilience) and Transformative Capacity of Social-Ecological Systems  

Samuel Wilson, Leonie J Pearson, Yoshihisa Kashima, Dean Lusher and Craig Pearson

Resilience, Regime Shifts, and Guided Transition under Climate Change: Examining the Practical Difficulties of Managing Continually Changing Systems  

Brenda B Lin and Brian Petersen

Could Payments for Ecosystem Services Create an "Ecosystem Service Curse"?  

Jakub Kronenberg and Klaus Hubacek

The Multiple Dimensions of Rural Forests: Lessons from a Comparative Analysis  

Didier Genin, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Gérard Balent and Robert Nasi

Economic Factors Affecting Diversified Farming Systems  

Maria S. Bowman and David Zilberman

Reconnecting to the Biosphere: a Social-Ecological Renaissance  

Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson

Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture  

Claire Kremen, Alastair Iles and Christopher Bacon

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Forest Management Alternatives in Europe: an Introductory Background and Framework  

Jean-Michel Carnus , Geerten M. Hengeveld and Bill Mason

The Privilege to Fish  

Mimi E. Lam and Meaghan E. Calcari Campbell

Forestry and Road Development: Direct and Indirect Impacts from an Aboriginal Perspective.  

Marie-Christine Adam, Daniel Kneeshaw and Tom M Beckley

Observations of Everyday Biodiversity: a New Perspective for Conservation?  

Alix Cosquer, Richard Raymond and Anne-Caroline Prevot-Julliard

Resilience and Water Governance: Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin  

Barbara A Cosens and Mark Kevin Williams

A Commentary on “Resilience and Water Governance: Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin”  

Brian H Walker

Response to "Panarchy and the Law"  

C. S. Holling

Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Regulation? Evidence on Oil Spill Prevention  

Jedrzej G Frynas

The Natural Resource Management Implications of Rural Property Turnover  

Emily Mendham, Allan Curtis and Joanne Millar

Suitability of Local Resource Management Practices Based on Supernatural Enforcement Mechanisms in the Local Social-cultural Context  

Masatoshi Sasaoka and Yves Laumonier

Frames of Scale Challenges in Finnish and Greek Biodiversity Conservation  

Evangelia Apostolopoulou and Riikka Paloniemi

Understanding Household Connectivity and Resilience in Marginal Rural Communities through Social Network Analysis in the Village of Habu, Botswana  

Lin Cassidy and Grenville D. Barnes

Fit, Interplay, and Scale: A Diagnosis  

Arild Vatn and Paul Vedeld

Protected Areas and Local Communities: an Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies?  

Gustavo S. M. Andrade and Jonathan R Rhodes

Mismatch Between Scales of Knowledge in Nepalese Forestry: Epistemology, Power, and Policy Implications  

Helene Ahlborg and Andrea J. Nightingale

Climate Change and Western Public Lands: a Survey of U.S. Federal Land Managers on the Status of Adaptation Efforts  

Kelli M Archie, Lisa Dilling, Jana B Milford and Fred C Pampel

Social-ecological Functions and Vulnerability Framework to Analyze Forest Policy Reforms  

Fanny Rives, Martine Antona and Sigrid Aubert

Empowering Local People through Community-based Resource Monitoring: a Comparison of Brazil and Namibia  

Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino, Henrique Santiago Alberto Carlos, Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, Luke Rostant, Carlos Eduardo Marinelli, Davi Teles, Sinomar Fonseca Fonseca-Junior, Rômulo Batista Fernandes and João Valsecchi

Exploring Dimensions, Scales, and Cross-scale Dynamics from the Perspectives of Change Agents in Social–ecological Systems.  

Joost M. Vervoort, Lucas Rutting, Kasper Kok, Frans L.P. Hermans, Tom Veldkamp, Arnold K. Bregt and Ron van Lammeren

The Network Governance of Urban River Corridors  

Alison R Holt, Peter Moug and David N Lerner

From coastal timber supply area to Great Bear Rainforest: exploring power in a social–ecological governance innovation.  

Michele-Lee Moore and Ola Tjornbo

Pastoralists’ Perception and Ecological Knowledge on Savanna Ecosystem Dynamics in Semi-arid Botswana  

Olaotswe Kgosikoma, Witness Mojeremane and Barbra A. Harvie

Intelligent Tinkering: the Endangered Species Act and Resilience  

Melinda Harm Benson

After the Cap: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Disaster Recovery  

Sabrina McCormick

Establishing the Resilience of a Coastal-marine Social-ecological System to the Installation of Offshore Wind Farms  

Benjamin Burkhard and Kira Gee

Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Fisheries Management in the Torres Strait, Australia: the Catalytic Role of Turtles and Dugong as Cultural Keystone Species  

James R. A. Butler, Alifereti Tawake, Tim Skewes, Lavenia Tawake and Vic McGrath

Homeowner Associations as a Vehicle for Promoting Native Urban Biodiversity  

Susannah B Lerman, Victoria Kelly Turner and Christofer Bang

Illusions of Resilience? An Analysis of Community Responses to Change in Northern Norway.  

Helene Amundsen

Wicked Social-Ecological Problems Forcing Unprecedented Change on the Latitudinal Margins of Coral Reefs: the Case of Southwest Madagascar  

J. Henrich Bruggemann, Martine Rodier, Mireille M.M. Guillaume, Serge Andréfouët, Robert Arfi, Joshua E Cinner, Michel Pichon, Frédéric Ramahatratra, Faravavy Rasoamanendrika, Jens Zinke and Tim R McClanahan

How Forest Management affects Ecosystem Services, including Timber Production and Economic Return: Synergies and Trade-Offs  

Philipp S. Duncker, Karsten Raulund-Rasmussen, Per Gundersen, Klaus Katzensteiner, Johnny De Jong, Hans Peter Ravn, Mike Smith, Otto Eckmüllner and Heinrich Spiecker

Classification of Forest Management Approaches: A New Conceptual Framework and Its Applicability to European Forestry  

Philipp S. Duncker, Susana M. Barreiro, Geerten M. Hengeveld, Torgny Lind, William L. Mason, Slawomir Ambrozy and Heinrich Spiecker

A Multicriteria Risk Analysis to Evaluate Impacts of Forest Management Alternatives on Forest Health in Europe  

Hervé Jactel, Manuela Branco, Philipp Duncker, Barry Gardiner, Wojciech Grodzki, Bo Langstrom, Francisco Moreira, Sigrid Netherer, Bruce Nicoll, Christophe Orazio, Dominique Piou, Mart-Jan Schelhaas and Karl Tojic

A Forest Management Map of European Forests  

Geerten M. Hengeveld, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Markus Didion, Isabel van den Wyngaert, A.P.P.M. (Sandra) Clerkx and Mart-Jan Schelhaas

Diagnosing Institutional Fit: a Formal Perspective  

Michael Cox

Ecological Conservation, Cultural Preservation, and a Bridge between: the Journey of Shanshui Conservation Center in the Sanjiangyuan Region, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China  

Xiaoli Shen and Jiaxin Tan

Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development  

Christoph Kueffer, Evelyn Underwood, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Rolf Holderegger, Michael Lehning, Christian Pohl, Mario Schirmer, René Schwarzenbach, Michael Stauffacher, Gabriela Wuelser and Peter Edwards

A Review of Two Payment Schemes for Watershed Services from China and Vietnam: the Interface of Government Control and PES Theory  

Vijay K Kolinjivadi and Terry Sunderland

The Interplay of Well-being and Resilience in Applying a Social-Ecological Perspective  

Derek Armitage, Chris Béné, Anthony T Charles, Derek Johnson and Edward H Allison

Human Dimensions of Coral Reef Social-Ecological Systems  

John N Kittinger, Elena M Finkbeiner, Edward W. Glazier and Larry B. Crowder

Of Fish and Fishermen: Shifting Societal Baselines to Reduce Environmental Harm in Fisheries  

Mimi E Lam

Urban Ecological and Social-Ecological Research in the City of Cape Town: Insights Emerging from an Urban Ecology CityLab  

Pippin Anderson and Thomas Elmqvist

Fit in the Body: Matching Embodied Cognition with Social-Ecological Systems  

Janne I Hukkinen

Shifting Restoration Policy to Address Landscape Change, Novel Ecosystems, and Monitoring  

Joy B Zedler, James M. Doherty and Nicholas A. Miller

Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs  

Claire Kremen and Albie Miles

The Social Dimensions of Sustainability and Change in Diversified Farming Systems  

Christopher M Bacon, Christy Getz, Sibella Kraus, Maywa Montenegro and Kaelin Holland

Nurturing Diversified Farming Systems in Industrialized Countries: How Public Policy Can Contribute  

Alastair Iles and Robin Marsh

The Role of Rangelands in Diversified Farming Systems: Innovations, Obstacles, and Opportunities in the USA  

Nathan F Sayre, Liz Carlisle, Lynn Huntsinger, Gareth Fisher and Annie Shattuck

Book Review: Goldstein, B. E. 2012. Collaborative Resilience: Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts  

Lisen Schultz

Indigenous Participation in Intercultural Education: Learning from Mexico and Tanzania  

Gemma Burford, Susanne Kissmann, Francisco J. Rosado-May, Santos H. Alvarado Dzul and Marie K. Harder

Syndromes of Production in Agriculture: Prospects for Social-Ecological Regime Change  

John H. Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto

A Theory on Urban Resilience to Floods—A Basis for Alternative Planning Practices  

Kuei-Hsien Liao

A Moment of Mental Model Clarity: Response to Jones et al. 2011  

Matthew D Wood, Ann Bostrom, Matteo Convertino, Daniel Kovacs and Igor Linkov

Adaptive Capacity as Cultural Practice  

Benedict J. Colombi and Courtland L. Smith

Mental Models in Human–Environment Interactions: Theory, Policy Implications, and Methodological Explorations  

Timothy Lynam and Katrina Brown

A Systems Approach for Sustainable Development in Coastal Zones  

Alice Newton

Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources: Is Stewardship Linked to Ownership?  

Patrick W Gilmour, Robert W Day and Peter D Dwyer

Spatial Fit, from Panacea to Practice: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive  

Timothy Moss

Building ties: social capital network analysis of a forest community in a biosphere reserve in Chiapas, Mexico  

Luis Rico García-Amado, Manuel Ruiz Pérez, Irene Iniesta-Arandia, Guillaume Dahringer, Felipe Reyes and Sara Barrasa

Mammal Distribution in Nunavut: Inuit Harvest Data and COSEWIC’s Species at Risk Assessment Process  

Karen A. Kowalchuk and Richard G. Kuhn

Community Resilience and Oil Spills in Coastal Louisiana  

Craig E Colten, Jenny Hay and Alexandra Giancarlo

Collaborative Engagement of Local and Traditional Knowledge and Science in Marine Environments: A Review  

Thomas F Thornton and Adela Maciejewski Scheer

Progress Toward Sustainable Mussel Aquaculture in Mar Piccolo, Italy  

Carmela Caroppo, Laura Giordano, Nadia Palmieri, Giovanna Bellio, Antonio Paride Bisci, Giuseppe Portacci, Patricia Sclafani and Tom Sawyer Hopkins

Adaptive Comanagement: a Systematic Review and Analysis  

Ryan Plummer, Beatrice Crona, Derek R Armitage, Per Olsson, Maria Tengö and Olga Yudina

Water Management on the Island of IJsselmonde 1000 to 1953: Polycentric Governance, Adaptation, and Petrification  

Erik Mostert

Monkey Management: Using Spatial Ecology to Understand the Extent and Severity of Human–Baboon Conflict in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa  

Tali S Hoffman and M Justin O'Riain

The Identification of Potential Resilient Estuary-based Enterprises to Encourage Economic Empowerment in South Africa: a Toolkit Approach  

Rebecca Bowd, Nevil Quinn, Donovan C Kotze, Duncan G Hay and Myles Mander

Mussels and Yachts in Loch Fyne, Scotland: a Case Study of the Science-Policy Interface  

Paul Tett, Branka Valcic, Tavis Potts, Callum Whyte, Fiona Culhane and Teresa Fernandes

Tending for Cattle: Traditional Fire Management in Ethiopian Montane Heathlands  

Maria U Johansson, Masresha Fetene, Anders Malmer and Anders Granström

Food-Carbon Trade-offs between Agriculture and Reforestation Land Uses under Alternate Market-based Policies  

Stacey Paterson and Brett Anthony Bryan

Synergies, Trade-offs, and Losses of Ecosystem Services in Urban Regions: an Integrated Multiscale Framework Applied to the Leipzig-Halle Region, Germany  

Dagmar Haase, Nina Schwarz, Michael Strohbach, Franziska Kroll and Ralf Seppelt

Waypoints on a Journey of Discovery: Mental Models in Human-Environment Interactions  

Timothy Lynam, Raphael Mathevet, Michel Etienne, Samantha Stone-Jovicich, Anne Leitch, Nathalie Jones, Helen Ross, Derick Du Toit, Sharon Pollard, Harry Biggs and Pascal Perez

Assessing the Sustainability of Small Farmer Natural Resource Management Systems. A Critical Analysis of the MESMIS Program (1995-2010)  

Marta Astier, Luis García-Barrios, Yankuic Galván-Miyoshi, Carlos E González-Esquivel and Omar R Masera

Insights and Opportunities Offered by a Rapid Ecosystem Service Assessment in Promoting a Conservation Agenda in an Urban Biodiversity Hotspot  

Patrick J O’Farrell, Pippin M. L. Anderson, David C Le Maitre and Patricia M Holmes

Panarchy and the Law  

J. B. Ruhl

Comanagement at the Fringes: Examining Stakeholder Perspectives at Macassar Dunes, Cape Town, South Africa—at the Intersection of High Biodiversity, Urban Poverty, and Inequality  

M. Graham and H. Ernstson

Environmental and Management Constraints on Tourism in Varna Bay, Bulgarian Black Sea Coast  

Snejana Moncheva, Eleonora Racheva, Lyudmila Kamburska and Johanna D'Hernoncourt

Baltic Herring Fisheries Management: Stakeholder Views to Frame the Problem  

Päivi Haapasaari, Samu Mäntyniemi and Sakari Kuikka

A Case for Developing Place-Based Fire Management Strategies from Traditional Ecological Knowledge  

Lily A Ray, Crystal A Kolden and F. Stuart Chapin III

The impact of water quality changes on the socio-economic system of the Guadiana Estuary: an assessment of management options  

Mª Helena E. Guimarães, André Mascarenhas, Carlos Sousa, Tomasz Boski and Tomaz Ponce Dentinho

Socioeconomic Response to Water Quality: a First Experience in Science and Policy Integration for the Izmit Bay Coastal System  

Leyla Gamze Tolun, Seyla Ergenekon, Selda Murat Hocaoglu, Asli Suha Donertas, Tulay Cokacar, Sinan Husrevoglu, Colpan Polat Beken and Ahmet Baban

Social Resilience and Commercial Fishers’ Responses to Management Changes in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park  

Stephen G Sutton and Renae C Tobin

Environmental Governance as Stochastic Belief Updating: Crafting Rules to Live by  

Daniel W. Bromley

Exploring Panarchy in Alpine Grasslands: an Application of Adaptive Cycle Concepts to the Conservation of a Cultural Landscape  

Ian D. Soane, Rocco Scolozzi, Alessandro Gretter and Klaus Hubacek

Adaptation or Manipulation? Unpacking Climate Change Response Strategies  

Dana C Thomsen, Timothy F Smith and Noni Keys

Community Adaptation to the Hebei-Spirit Oil Spill  

So-Min Cheong

An Ecological View of the History of the City of Cape Town  

Pippin M. L. Anderson and Patrick J O’Farrell

Adaptive Management Fitness of Watersheds  

Ignacio Porzecanski, Lynn V. Saunders and Mark T. Brown

Urban Ecology in Cape Town: South African Comparisons and Reflections  

Sarel S Cilliers and Stefan J Siebert

Forests as Patrimonies? From Theory to Tangible Processes at Various Scales  

Genevieve Michon, Bruno Romagny, Laurent Auclair and Marc Deconchat

Avoiding Environmental Catastrophes: Varieties of Principled Precaution  

Alan R Johnson

Drivers, "Slow" Variables, "Fast" Variables, Shocks, and Resilience  

Brian H Walker, Stephen R Carpenter, Johan Rockstrom, Anne-Sophie Crépin and Garry D Peterson

Agents, Individuals, and Networks: Modeling Methods to Inform Natural Resource Management in Regional Landscapes  

Lael Parrott, Clément Chion, Rodolphe Gonzalès and Guillaume Latombe

A Systems Approach Framework for the Transition to Sustainable Development: Potential Value Based on Coastal Experiments  

Tom S. Hopkins , Denis Bailly, Ragnar Elmgren, Gillian Glegg, Audun Sandberg and Josianne G. Støttrup

Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process  

Peter M Rosset and Maria Elena Martínez-Torres

An Uncommon Scholar of the Commons  

Carl Folke, John M Anderies, Lance Gunderson and Marco A Janssen

Cumulative Effects Assessment: Linking Social, Ecological, and Governance Dimensions  

Marian Weber, Naomi Krogman and Terry Antoniuk

Conservation and Development in Latin America and Southern Africa: Setting the Stage  

Claudia Romero, Simone Athayde, Jean-Gael E. Collomb, Maria DiGiano, Marianne Schmink, Sam Schramski and Lisa Seales

Model-Based Estimation of Collision Risks of Predatory Birds with Wind Turbines  

Marcus Eichhorn, Karin Johst, Ralf Seppelt and Martin Drechsler

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Formal Education: the Role of Schooling for Increasing Societies’ Adaptive Capacities in El Salvador and Brazil  

Christine Wamsler, Ebba Brink and Oskari Rantala

Communicating Ecology Through Art: What Scientists Think  

David J Curtis, Nick Reid and Guy Ballard

Zebra Mussel Farming in the Szczecin (Oder) Lagoon: Water-Quality Objectives and Cost-Effectiveness  

Gerald Schernewski, Nardine Stybel and Thomas Neumann

How to Maintain Domesticity of Usages in Small Rural Forests? Lessons from Forest Management Continuity through a French Case Study  

Anne Sourdril, Emilie Andrieu, Alain Cabanettes, Bernard Elyakime and Sylvie Ladet

Continuity and Change in Social-ecological Systems: the Role of Institutional Resilience  

Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle and Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Using Participatory Scenarios to Stimulate Social Learning for Collaborative Sustainable Development  

Kris A Johnson, Genya Dana, Nicholas R Jordan, Kathy J Draeger, Anne Kapuscinski, Laura K Schmitt Olabisi and Peter B Reich

Resilience of Sweet Chestnut and Truffle Holm-Oak Rural Forests in Languedoc-Roussillon, France: Roles of Social-Ecological Legacies, Domestication, and Innovations  

Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Clara Therville, Cedric Lemarchand, Alban Lauriac and Franck Richard

Tibetan Sacred Sites: Understanding the Traditional Management System and Its Role in Modern Conservation  

Xiaoli Shen, Zhi Lu, Shengzhi Li and Nyima Chen

Analysis of the Impact of the Use of Eucalyptus Biomass for Energy on Wood Availability for Eucalyptus Forest in Portugal: a Simulation Study  

Susana Barreiro and Margarida Tomé

Social-Ecological Scale Mismatches and the Collapse of the Sea Urchin Fishery in Maine, USA  

Teresa R. Johnson, James A. Wilson, Caitlin Cleaver and Robert L. Vadas

Boundary Work: Engaging Knowledge Systems in Co-management of Feral Animals on Indigenous Lands  

Catherine J Robinson and Tabatha J Wallington

Enabling the Contextualization of Legal Rules in Responsive Strategies to Climate Change  

Marleen van Rijswick and Willem Salet

Adaptive Comanagement in the Venice Lagoon? An Analysis of Current Water and Environmental Management Practices and Prospects for Change  

Stefania Munaretto and Dave Huitema

Social-Ecological Thresholds in a Changing Boreal Landscape: Insights from Cree Knowledge of the Lesser Slave Lake Region of Alberta, Canada  

Brenda L Parlee, Karen Geertsema and Allen Willier

Connecting Social Networks with Ecosystem Services for Watershed Governance: a Social-Ecological Network Perspective Highlights the Critical Role of Bridging Organizations  

Kaitlyn J Rathwell and Garry D Peterson

A Geographic Model to Assess and Limit Cumulative Ecological Degradation from Marcellus Shale Exploitation in New York, USA  

John B Davis and George R Robinson

Development of a Compendium of Local, Wild-Harvested Species Used in the Informal Economy Trade, Cape Town, South Africa  

L. M. Petersen, E. J. Moll, R. Collins and Marc T. Hockings

Urbanization Drives a Reduction in Functional Diversity in a Guild of Nectar-feeding Birds  

Anton Pauw and Kirsten Louw

Nitrogen Source Apportionment for the Catchment, Estuary, and Adjacent Coastal Waters of the River Scheldt  

Jan E Vermaat, Steven Broekx, Bert Van Eck, Guy Engelen, Fritz Hellmann, Jean Luc De Kok, Hans Van der Kwast, Joachim Maes, Wim Salomons and Willem Van Deursen

Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological Attractions in Disaster Resilience  

Keith G Tidball

A Synthesis of Current Approaches to Traps Is Useful But Needs Rethinking for Indigenous Disadvantage and Poverty Research  

Yiheyis T Maru, Cameron S Fletcher and Vanessa H Chewings

Strengthening Environmental Foresight: Potential Contributions of Futures Research  

David N Bengston, George H Kubik and Peter C Bishop

Public Participation in Scientific Research: a Framework for Deliberate Design  

Jennifer L. Shirk, Heidi L. Ballard, Candie C. Wilderman, Tina Phillips, Andrea Wiggins, Rebecca Jordan, Ellen McCallie, Matthew Minarchek, Bruce V Lewenstein, Marianne E Krasny and Rick Bonney

Transforming Innovation for Sustainability  

Melissa Leach, Johan Rockström, Paul Raskin, Ian Scoones, Andy C Stirling, Adrian Smith, John Thompson, Erik Millstone, Adrian Ely, Elisa Arond, Carl Folke and Per Olsson

Evidence, Perceptions, and Trade-offs Associated with Invasive Alien Plant Control in the Table Mountain National Park, South Africa  

Brian W van Wilgen

Can Cape Town’s unique biodiversity be saved? Balancing conservation imperatives and development needs  

Patricia M Holmes, Anthony G Rebelo, Clifford Dorse and Julia Wood

Insight on Invasions and Resilience Derived from Spatiotemporal Discontinuities of Biomass at Local and Regional Scales  

David G Angeler, Craig R Allen and Richard K Johnson

Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation  

Yorck von Korff, Katherine A Daniell, Sabine Moellenkamp, Pieter Bots and Rianne M Bijlsma

The Energy–Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future  

Karen Hussey and Jamie Pittock

Aspects of Mussel-Farming Activity in Chalastra, Thermaikos Gulf, Greece: An Effort to Untie a Management Gordian Knot  

Zoi I. Konstantinou, Yannis N. Krestenitis, Dionysis Latinopoulos, Kalliopi Pagou, Sofia Galinou-Mitsoudi and Yiannis Savvidis

Participation and Protected Areas Governance: the Impact of Changing Influence of Local Authorities on the Conservation of the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland  

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski, Jouni Paavola and Bogumiła Jędrzejewska

Time to Talk? How the Structure of Dialog Processes Shapes Stakeholder Learning in Participatory Water Resources Management  

Melanie Muro and Paul Jeffrey

Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices  

Lisa Christensen and Naomi Krogman

Growing into Interdisciplinarity: How to Converge Biology, Economics, and Social Science in Fisheries Research?  

Päivi Haapasaari, Soile Kulmala and Sakari Kuikka

Logging Concessions and Local Livelihoods in Cameroon: from Indifference to Alliance?  

Guillaume Lescuyer, Samuel Assembe Mvondo, Julienne Nadège Essoungou, Vincent Toison, Jean-François Trébuchon and Nicolas Fauvet

Managing Rangeland as a Complex System: How Government Interventions Decouple Social Systems from Ecological Systems  

Wenjun Li and Yanbo Li

Total Environment of Change: Impacts of Climate Change and Social Transitions on Subsistence Fisheries in Northwest Alaska  

Katie J Moerlein and Courtney Carothers

Is Decentralization Leading to “Real” Decision-Making Power for Forest-dependent Communities? Case Studies from Mexico and Brazil   

Reem F Hajjar, Robert A Kozak and John L Innes

Exploring Social Capital in Chile’s Coastal Benthic Comanagement System Using a Network Approach   

Andrés Marín, Stefan Gelcich, Juan C. Castilla and Fikret Berkes

Collapse and Recovery in Sahelian Agro-pastoral Systems: Rethinking Trajectories of Change  

Laura Vang Rasmussen and Anette Reenberg

A Biodiversity Informatics Approach to Ethnobotany: Meta-analysis of Plant Use Patterns in Ecuador  

Lucia de la Torre, Carlos E. Cerón, Henrik Balslev and Finn Borchsenius

Can REDD+ Reconcile Local Priorities and Needs with Global Mitigation Benefits? Lessons from Angai Forest, Tanzania  

Irmeli Mustalahti, Anna Bolin, Emily Boyd and Jouni Paavola

Power and Conflict in Adaptive Management: Analyzing the Discourse of Riparian Management on Public Lands  

Jennifer S Arnold, Mirka Koro-Ljungberg and Wendy-Lin Bartels

Implementing the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure: The Role and Perception of Fishers’ Ecological Knowledge  

Mateja Nenadovic, Teresa Johnson and James Wilson

Cumulative Effects Planning: Finding the Balance Using Choice Experiments  

Amanda Spyce, Marian Weber and Wiktor Adamowicz

A Typology of Indigenous Engagement in Australian Environmental Management: Implications for Knowledge Integration and Social-ecological System Sustainability  

Rosemary Hill, Chrissy Grant, Melissa George, Catherine J Robinson, Sue Jackson and Nick Abel

Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Palm Plantations and their Implications for Biofuel Production in Indonesia  

Krystof Obidzinski, Rubeta Andriani, Heru Komarudin and Agus Andrianto

Facilitating Transitional Processes in Rigid Institutional Regimes for Water Management and Wetland Conservation: Experience from the Guadalquivir Estuary  

Pablo F. Méndez, Nicola Isendahl, Jaime M. Amezaga and Luis Santamaría

Public Preferences Across Europe for Different Forest Stand Types as Sites for Recreation  

David M. Edwards, Marion Jay, Frank S. Jensen, Beatriz Lucas, Mariella Marzano, Claire Montagné, Andrew Peace and Gerhard Weiss

Landscape Influences on Fisher Success: Adaptation Strategies in Closed and Open Access Fisheries in Southern Chile  

Tracy Van Holt

Seed Exchange as an Agrobiodiversity Conservation Mechanism. A Case Study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula  

Laura Calvet-Mir, Maria Calvet-Mir, José Luis Molina and Victoria Reyes-García

A Wall out of Place: a Hydrological and Sociocultural Analysis of Physical Changes to the Lakeshore of Como, Italy  

Sarah Laborde, Jorg Imberger and Sandy Toussaint

Closing the Gap: Communicating to Change Gardening Practices in Support of Native Biodiversity in Urban Private Gardens  

Yolanda M van Heezik, Katharine J. M. Dickinson and Claire Freeman

Can We Be Both Resilient and Well, and What Choices Do People Have? Incorporating Agency into the Resilience Debate from a Fisheries Perspective.   

Sarah Coulthard

The Management of Fire-Adapted Ecosystems in an Urban Setting: the Case of Table Mountain National Park, South Africa  

Brian W van Wilgen, Greg G Forsyth and Philip Prins

Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change  

Isabel van de Sand

A Typology of Benefit Sharing Arrangements for the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems in Developing Countries  

Bimo Abraham Nkhata, Alfons Mosimane, Linda Downsborough, Charles Breen and Dirk J Roux

An Indicator Framework for Assessing Agroecosystem Resilience  

Joshua F Cabell and Myles Oelofse

Forest Landscape Restoration in the Drylands of Latin America  

Adrian C Newton, Rafael F. del Castillo, Cristian Echeverría, Davide Geneletti, Mario González-Espinosa, Lucio R Malizia, Andrea C Premoli, José M. Rey Benayas, Cecilia Smith-Ramírez and Guadalupe Williams-Linera

Learning in Support of Governance: Theories, Methods, and a Framework to Assess How Bridging Organizations Contribute to Adaptive Resource Governance  

Beatrice I Crona and John N Parker

Threshold Considerations and Wetland Reclamation in Alberta’s Mineable Oil Sands  

Lee Foote

Migrations Between Villages: Incidents or Significant Drivers of Swidden Agriculture Changes?  

Denis Couvet

On the System Properties of the Planetary Boundaries  

Sarah Cornell

Geo-engineering, Governance, and Social-Ecological Systems: Critical Issues and Joint Research Needs  

Victor Galaz

Tricky Times  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu  

Timothy M Waring

How Effective is the Buffer Zone? Linking Institutional Processes with Satellite Images from a Case Study in the Lore Lindu Forest Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia  

Marion Mehring and Susanne Stoll-Kleemann

Deforestation and the Social Impacts of Soy for Biodiesel: Perspectives of Farmers in the South Brazilian Amazon  

Mendelson Lima, Margaret Skutsch and Gerlane de Medeiros Costa

Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management  

Stijn Brouwer and Frank Biermann

Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Social-Ecological Systems: The Politics of Scale in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania   

Asim Zia, Paul Hirsch, Alexander Songorwa, David R. Mutekanga, Sheila O'Connor, Thomas McShane, Peter Brosius and Bryan Norton

Application of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping in Livelihood Vulnerability Analysis  

Chrispen Murungweni, Mark T. van Wijk, Jens A. Andersson, Eric M. A. Smaling and Ken E. Giller

Consumer Preferences Determine Resilience of Ecological-Economic Systems  

Stefan Baumgärtner, Sandra Derissen, Martin F Quaas and Sebastian Strunz

Land-based Investments for Rural Development? A Grounded Analysis of the Local Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Plantations in Ghana  

George C. Schoneveld , Laura A. German and Eric Nutakor

Jatropha in Mexico: Environmental and Social Impacts of an Incipient Biofuel Program  

Margaret Skutsch, Emilio de los Rios, Silvia Solis, Enrique Riegelhaupt, Daniel Hinojosa, Sonya Gerfert, Yan Gao and Omar Masera

The Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Smallholder-Based Biofuel Investments in Zambia  

Laura German, George C. Schoneveld and Davison Gumbo

Implications of Biodiesel-Induced Land-Use Changes for CO₂ Emissions: Case Studies in Tropical America, Africa, and Southeast Asia  

Wouter M. J. Achten and Louis V Verchot

Modeling Soft Institutional Change and the Improvement of Freshwater Governance in the Coastal Zone  

Rémi Mongruel, Jean Prou, Johanna Ballé-Béganton, Michel Lample, Alice Vanhoutte-Brunier, Harold Réthoret, José Antonio Pérez Agúndez, Françoise Vernier, Paul Bordenave and Cédric Bacher

Looking Forward: Using Scenario Modeling to Support Regional Land Use Planning in Northern Yukon, Canada  

Shawn R Francis and Jeff Hamm

Ecosystem and Social Construction: an Interdisciplinary Case Study of the Shurkul Lake Landscape in Khorezm, Uzbekistan.  

Lisa Oberkircher, Margaret Shanafield, Bashorat Ismailova and Laurel Saito

Ecosystem Services Linking Social and Ecological Systems: River Brownification and the Response of Downstream Stakeholders   

Magnus Tuvendal and Thomas Elmqvist

Innovation, Cooperation, and the Perceived Benefits and Costs of Sustainable Agriculture Practices  

Mark Lubell, Vicken Hillis and Matthew Hoffman

Patrimony for Resilience: Evidence from the Forest Agdal in the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains  

Laurent Auclair, Patrick Baudot, Didier Genin, Bruno Romagny and Romain Simenel

Mussel Production and Water Framework Directive Targets in the Limfjord, Denmark: an Integrated Assessment for Use in System-Based Management  

Grete E. Dinesen, Karen Timmermann, Eva Roth, Stiig Markager, Lars Ravn-Jonsen, Morten Hjorth, Marianne Holmer and Josianne G. Støttrup

Participatory Social-Ecological Modeling in Eutrophication Management: the Case of Himmerfjärden, Sweden  

Frida Franzén, Gerda Kinell, Jakob Walve, Ragnar Elmgren and Tore Söderqvist

The Systems Approach Framework as a Complementary Methodology of Adaptive Management: a Case Study in the Urban Beaches of Barcelona  

Ben Tomlinson, Sergio Sastre, Dolors Blasco and Jorge Guillén

Social Learning and Natural Resource Management: The Emergence of Three Research Perspectives  

Romina Rodela

Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future  

Sander van der Leeuw, Robert Costanza, Steve Aulenbach, Simon Brewer, Michael Burek, Sarah Cornell, Carole Crumley, John A Dearing, Catherine Downy, Lisa J. Graumlich, Scott Heckbert, Michelle Hegmon, Kathy Hibbard, Stephen T. Jackson, Ida Kubiszewski, Paul Sinclair, Sverker Sörlin and Will Steffen

Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Resilience: What Have We Learned from a Decade of International Literature on “Integration”?   

Erin L Bohensky and Yiheyis Maru

Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Scientific Tools for Negotiating Local Solutions to Conflicts between Recreation and Conservation with Stakeholders  

Rogier Pouwels, Paul Opdam and René Jochem

Exploiting Soil-Management Strategies for Climate Mitigation in the European Union: Maximizing “Win–Win” Solutions across Policy Regimes  

Christian Bugge Henriksen, Karen Hussey and Peter E. Holm

Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Global Comparative Assessment and Implications for Governance  

Laura German, George C. Schoneveld and Pablo Pacheco

Social-ecological Resilience and Biodiversity Conservation in a 900-year-old Protected Area  

Adrian C Newton

Historical Regimes and Social Indicators of Resilience in an Urban System: the Case of Charleston, South Carolina  

Regina Bures and William Kanapaux

A Systems Approach Framework for Coastal Zones  

Tom S Hopkins , Denis Bailly and Josianne G. Støttrup

Twenty Years of Interdisciplinary Studies: the “MEZA” Program’s Contributions to Society, Ecology, and the Education of Postgraduate Students  

César Vázquez, Critiane Aguilar, Héctor Benet, Rosa Carmona, Tania de la Vega, Hugo Espinosa, Miguel Flores, Pablo Franco, Itzel Frias, Jenny Guzmán, Alfa Hernández, Adriana Licona, Francisco Martínez, Ailed Maymes, Marina Mondragón, Tatiana Montano, Lourdes Ojeda, Adriana Ríos, Erick Rochín, Laura Rodríguez, Natalia Rodríguez, Roberto Romero, Fernando Solís, Soledad Valdés and Iván Velázquez

Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dryland Livelihood Systems: Conceptual Challenges and Interdisciplinary Solutions  

Evan D. G. Fraser, Andrew J Dougill, Klaus Hubacek, Claire H. Quinn, Jan Sendzimir and Mette Termansen

The Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Cultivation: Evidence from Multi-Site Research in the Forest Frontier  

Laura German, George C. Schoneveld and Pablo Pacheco

Rebuilding Resilience in the Sahel: Regreening in the Maradi and Zinder Regions of Niger  

Jan Sendzimir, Chris P Reij and Piotr Magnuszewski

Coping with Multiple Stresses in Rural South Africa  

Claire H. Quinn, Gina Ziervogel, Anna Taylor, Takeshi Takama and Frank Thomalla

The Ghost of Development Past: the Impact of Economic Security Policies on Saami Pastoral Ecosystems   

Vera H. Hausner, Per Fauchald, Torkild Tveraa, Elisabeth Pedersen, Johnny-Leo Jernsletten, Birgitte Ulvevadet, Rolf A. Ims, Nigel G. Yoccoz and Kari Anne Bråthen

Economic Behavior in the Face of Resource Variability and Uncertainty  

Ryan R J McAllister, John G Tisdell, Andrew F Reeson and Iain J Gordon

Scenario Analysis to Identify Viable Conservation Strategies in Paraguay’s Imperiled Atlantic Forest  

Matthew J. Carlson, Ross Mitchell and Laura Rodriguez

Developing Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Joint Management Effectiveness in Protected Areas in the Northern Territory, Australia  

Arturo Izurieta, Bevlyne Sithole, Natasha Stacey, Hmalan Hunter-Xenie, Bruce Campbell, Paul Donohoe, Jessie Brown and Lincoln Wilson

Local Community Attitudes toward Forests Outside Protected Areas in India. Impact of Legal Awareness, Trust, and Participation.  

Biljana Macura, Francisco Zorondo-Rodríguez, Mar Grau-Satorras, Kathryn Demps, Marie Laval, Claude A. Garcia and Victoria Reyes-García

Effects of Fishing Tourism in a Coastal Municipality: a Case Study from Risør, Norway  

Erlend Moksness, Jakob Gjøsæter, Guillaume Lagaillarde, Eirik Mikkelsen, Esben Moland Olsen, Håkan T Sandersen and Jon Helge Vølstad

Coupled Vulnerability and Resilience: the Dynamics of Cross-Scale Interactions in Post-Katrina New Orleans   

Kevin F. Gotham and Richard Campanella

Debt-for-Nature Swaps in Action: Two Case Studies in Peru  

Catherine Kilbane Gockel and Leslie C Gray

Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Forest Transitions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales  

Charles B Yackulic, Matthew Fagan, Meha Jain, Amir Jina, Yili Lim, Miriam Marlier, Robert Muscarella, Patricia Adame, Ruth DeFries and Maria Uriarte

Human Activity Differentially Redistributes Large Mammals in the Canadian Rockies National Parks  

James Kimo Rogala, Mark Hebblewhite, Jesse Whittington, Cliff A. White, Jenny Coleshill and Marco Musiani

An Empirical Analysis of the Social and Ecological Outcomes of State Subsidies for Small-Scale Fisheries: A Case Study from Chile  

Carolin I. Mondaca-Schachermayer, Jaime Aburto, Georgina Cundill, Domingo Lancellotti, Carlos Tapia and Wolfgang Stotz

A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems  

Daniel D. P. McCarthy, Debbe D. Crandall, Graham S. Whitelaw, Zachariah General and Leonard J. S. Tsuji

Hybrid Knowledge: Place, Practice, and Knowing in a Volunteer Ecological Restoration Project  

Karen A Reid, Kathryn J H Williams and Mark S Paine

Deliberative Democracy, Institution Building, and the Pragmatics of Cumulative Effects Assessment  

John R Parkins

The Potential Role of Mental Model Methodologies in Multistakeholder Negotiations: Integrated Water Resources Management in South Africa  

Derick R Du Toit, Harry Biggs and Sharon Pollard

Traditional Knowledge Systems and the Conservation of Cross River Gorillas: a Case Study of Bechati, Fossimondi, Besali, Cameroon  

Denis Ndeloh Etiendem, Luc Hens and Zjef Pereboom

Is Validation of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge a Disrespectful Process? A Case Study of Traditional Fishing Poisons and Invasive Fish Management from the Wet Tropics, Australia  

Monica Gratani, James R. A. Butler, Frank Royee, Peter Valentine, Damien Burrows, Warren I. Canendo and Alex S Anderson

Addressing Sustainability of Clam Farming in the Venice Lagoon   

Donata Melaku Canu, Pierpaolo Campostrini, Simona Dalla Riva, Roberto Pastres, Lara Pizzo, Luca Rossetto and Cosimo Solidoro

Social Role-Play Games Vs Individual Perceptions of Conservation and PES Agreements for Maintaining Rubber Agroforests in Jambi (Sumatra), Indonesia  

Grace B Villamor and Meine van Noordwijk

Revealing the Organization of Complex Adaptive Systems through Multivariate Time Series Modeling  

David G Angeler, Stina Drakare and Richard K Johnson

Coupling Biophysical and Socioeconomic Models for Coral Reef Systems in Quintana Roo, Mexican Caribbean  

Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, Craig R Johnson, Pascal Perez, Jeremy Eustache, Elizabeth A Fulton and Deborah Cleland

The Penobscot River, Maine, USA: a Basin-Scale Approach to Balancing Power Generation and Ecosystem Restoration  

Jeffrey J Opperman, Joshua Royte, John Banks, Laura Rose Day and Colin Apse

Climate Science, Development Practice, and Policy Interactions in Dryland Agroecological Systems   

Chasca Twyman, Evan D. G. Fraser, Lindsay C. Stringer, C. Quinn, Andrew J. Dougill, Federica Ravera, Todd A. Crane and Susannah M. Sallu

Resilience 2011: Leading Transformational Change  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Scale and Governance: Conceptual Considerations and Practical Implications  

Kasper Kok and Tom (A.) Veldkamp

China’s Grassland Contract Policy and its Impacts on Herder Ability to Benefit in Inner Mongolia: Tragic Feedbacks   

Wenjun Li and Lynn Huntsinger

Assessing an Adaptive Cycle in a Social System under External Pressure to Change: the Importance of Intergroup Relations in Recreational Fisheries Governance  

Katrin Daedlow, Volker Beckmann and Robert Arlinghaus

Revisiting the Resilience of Chestnut Forests in Corsica: from Social-Ecological Systems Theory to Political Ecology  

Genevieve Michon

Using Coupled Simulation Models to Link Pastoral Decision Making and Ecosystem Services  

Randall B Boone, Kathleen A Galvin, Shauna B BurnSilver, Philip K Thornton, Dennis S Ojima and Jacob R Jawson

Highly Optimized Tolerant (HOT) Farms in Rondônia: Productivity and Farm Size, and Implications for Environmental Licensing  

Andrew Reid Bell

The Role of Governance in Agricultural Expansion and Intensification: a Global Study of Arable Agriculture  

Menno Mandemaker, Martha Bakker and Jetse Stoorvogel

From Resilience to Transformation: the Adaptive Cycle in Two Mexican Urban Centers  

Mark Pelling and David Manuel-Navarrete

Australian Aboriginal Peoples’ Seasonal Knowledge: a Potential Basis for Shared Understanding in Environmental Management  

Suzanne M Prober, Michael H O'Connor and Fiona J Walsh

Economic Benefits Generated by Protected Areas: the Case of the Hoge Veluwe Forest, the Netherlands   

Lars Hein

In Pursuit of Knowledge: Addressing Barriers to Effective Conservation Evaluation  

Madeleine C Bottrill, Marc Hockings and Hugh P Possingham

Supporting the Constructive Use of Existing Hydrological Models in Participatory Settings: a Set of “Rules of the Game”   

Pieter W. G. Bots, Rianne Bijlsma, Yorck von Korff, Nicolien Van der Fluit and Henk Wolters

Social Learning through Participatory Integrated Catchment Risk Assessment in the Solomon Islands  

Suzanne Hoverman, Helen Ross, Terence Chan and Bronwyn Powell

Self-Organized Governance Networks for Ecosystem Management: Who Is Accountable?  

Thomas Hahn

The Challenge of Forest Diagnostics  

Harini Nagendra and Elinor Ostrom

Factors Influencing Adaptive Marine Governance in a Developing Country Context: a Case Study of Southern Kenya  

Louisa S. Evans, Katrina Brown and Edward H. Allison

Robustness and Resilience across Scales: Migration and Resource Degradation in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest   

John M Anderies and Michelle Hegmon

Forest Clearing Dynamics and the Expansion of Landholdings in Apuí, a Deforestation Hotspot on Brazil’s Transamazon Highway  

Gabriel C Carrero and Philip M Fearnside

The Challenge of Developing Social Indicators for Cumulative Effects Assessment and Land Use Planning  

Ross E. Mitchell and John R. Parkins

Energy and Water Use Related to the Cultivation of Energy Crops: a Case Study in the Tuscany Region  

Anna Dalla Marta, Francesca Natali, Marco Mancini, Roberto Ferrise, Marco Bindi and Simone Orlandini

Perspectives on Resilience to Disasters across Sectors and Cultures  

Brian Walker and Frances Westley

Are We Entering an Era of Concatenated Global Crises?  

Duan Biggs, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Vasilis Dakos, Robert J Scholes and Michael Schoon

An Empty Donut Hole: the Great Collapse of a North American Fishery  

Kevin M. Bailey

The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management  

Jan-Peter Voß and Basil Bornemann

Vulnerability of Worldwide Pastoralism to Global Changes and Interdisciplinary Strategies for Sustainable Pastoralism  

Shikui Dong, Lu Wen, Shiliang Liu, Xiangfeng Zhang, James P. Lassoie, Shaoliang Yi, Xiaoyan Li, Jinpeng Li and Yuanyuan Li

Enhancing the Resilience of the Australian National Electricity Market: Taking a Systems Approach in Policy Development  

Barry Newell, Debborah M Marsh and Deepak Sharma

Local Actions, Global Effects? Understanding the Circumstances in which Locally Beneficial Environmental Actions Cumulate to Have Global Effects  

Thomas K Rudel

Synthesis: Vulnerability, Traps, and Transformations—Long-term Perspectives from Archaeology  

Michael Schoon, Christo Fabricius, John M. Anderies and Margaret Nelson

National Climate Change Policies and Sustainable Water Management: Conflicts and Synergies  

Jamie Pittock

Feedback Loops in Conceptual Models of Land Change: Lost in Complexity?  

Anna M. Hersperger, Maria-Pia Gennaio, Peter H. Verburg and Matthias Bürgi

Effects of Roads and Traffic on Wildlife Populations and Landscape Function: Road Ecology is Moving toward Larger Scales  

Rodney van der Ree, Jochen A. G. Jaeger, Edgar A. van der Grift and Anthony P. Clevenger

Landscape Scenarios and Multifunctionality: Making Land Use Impact Assessment Operational  

Katharina Helming and Marta Pérez-Soba

From Scaling to Governance of the Land System: Bridging Ecological and Economic Perspectives  

Tom Veldkamp, Nico Polman, Stijn Reinhard and Maja Slingerland

Resource Theft in Tropical Forest Communities: Implications for Non-timber Management, Livelihoods, and Conservation  

Amy E. Duchelle, Peter Cronkleton, Karen A. Kainer, Gladys Guanacoma and Salvador Gezan

Surmountable Chasms: Networks and Social Innovation for Resilient Systems  

Michele-Lee Moore and Frances Westley

Management Conflicts in Cameroonian Community Forests  

Driss Ezzine de Blas, Manuel Ruiz-Pérez and Cédric Vermeulen

Tweak, Adapt, or Transform: Policy Scenarios in Response to Emerging Bioenergy Markets in the U.S. Corn Belt  

Ryan C Atwell, Lisa A Schulte and Lynne M Westphal

Widening the Scope of Scenario Planning in Small Communities: a Case Study Use of an Alternative Method  

Andrea Rawluk and Annelise Godber

A Framework for Participatory Impact Assessment: Involving Stakeholders in European Policy Making, a Case Study of Land Use Change in Malta  

Jake Breton Morris, Valentina Tassone, Rudolf de Groot, Marguerite Camilleri and Stefano Moncada

Deciding Where to Burn: Stakeholder Priorities for Prescribed Burning of a Fire-Dependent Ecosystem  

Jennifer K. Costanza and Aaron Moody

Paper Fish and Policy Conflict: Catch Shares and Ecosystem-Based Management in Maine’s Groundfishery  

Jennifer F Brewer

Subsidized Fencing of Livestock as a Means of Increasing Tolerance for Wolves   

Jens Karlsson and Magnus Sjöström

Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and Latin America  

Esther Mwangi, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Yan Sun

Effect of Policy Interventions on Food Security in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia  

Anne van der Veen and Tagel Gebrehiwot

Envisioning Adaptive Strategies to Change: Participatory Scenarios for Agropastoral Semiarid Systems in Nicaragua   

Federica Ravera, David Tarrasón and Elisabeth Simelton

Governance, Scale and the Environment: The Importance of Recognizing Knowledge Claims in Transdisciplinary Arenas  

Marleen Buizer, Bas Arts and Kasper Kok

Underground Thermal Energy Storage: Environmental Risks and Policy Developments in the Netherlands and European Union  

Matthijs Bonte, Pieter J. Stuyfzand, Adriana Hulsmann and Patrick Van Beelen

Participatory Scenario Planning for Protected Areas Management under the Ecosystem Services Framework: the Doñana Social-Ecological System in Southwestern Spain  

Ignacio Palomo, Berta Martín-López, Cesar López-Santiago and Carlos Montes

Resisting Diversity: a Long-Term Archaeological Study  

Margaret C Nelson, Michelle Hegmon, Stephanie R Kulow, Matthew A Peeples, Keith W Kintigh and Ann P Kinzig

Sustainable Small-Scale Agriculture in Semi-Arid Environments  

Katherine A Spielmann, Margaret Nelson, Scott Ingram and Matthew A Peeples

Ex Ante Impact Assessment of Policies Affecting Land Use, Part A: Analytical Framework  

Katharina Helming, Katharina Diehl, Hanne Bach, Oliver Dilly, Bettina König, Tom Kuhlman, Marta Pérez-Soba, Stefan Sieber, Paul Tabbush, Karen Tscherning, Dirk Wascher and Hubert Wiggering

Socioeconomics, Policy, or Climate Change: What is Driving Vulnerability in Southern Portugal?  

María A. Máñez Costa, Eddy J. Moors and Evan D. G. Fraser

Ex Ante Impact Assessment of Policies Affecting Land Use, Part B: Application of the Analytical Framework  

Katharina Helming, Katharina Diehl, Tom Kuhlman, Torbjörn Jansson, Peter H. Verburg, Martha Bakker, Marta Perez-Soba, Laurence Jones, Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Paul Tabbush, Jake Breton Morris, Zuzana Drillet, John Farrington, Pierre LeMouël, Paul Zagame, Tomasz Stuczynski, Grzegorz Siebielec, Stefan Sieber and Hubert Wiggering

Understanding Resilience in a Vulnerable Industry: the Case of Reef Tourism in Australia  

Duan Biggs

Environmental Licensing and Land Aggregation: An Agent-Based Approach to Understanding Ranching and Land Use in Rural Rondônia  

Andrew Reid Bell

Exploring Resilience and Transformability of a River Basin in the Face of Socioeconomic and Ecological Crisis: an Example from the Amudarya River Basin, Central Asia  

Maja Schlüter and Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle

Economic Governance to Expand Commercial Wetlands: Within- and Cross-Scale Challenges  

Arianne T. de Blaeij, Nico Polman and Stijn Reinhard

Considering the Relationships among Social Conflict, Social Imaginaries, Resilience, and Community-based Organization Leadership  

Max O. Stephenson and Jr.

Databases, Scaling Practices, and the Globalization of Biodiversity  

Esther Turnhout and Susan Boonman-Berson

Traditional Wisdom: Protecting Relationships with Wilderness as a Cultural Landscape  

Alan Watson, Roian Matt, Katie Knotek, Daniel R. Williams and Laurie Yung

Do Scale Frames Matter? Scale Frame Mismatches in the Decision Making Process of a “Mega Farm” in a Small Dutch Village  

Maartje van Lieshout, Art Dewulf, Noelle Aarts and Catrien Termeer

Factors Influencing Adaptive Capacity in the Reorganization of Forest Management in Alaska  

Colin Beier

The Evolution of the Maine Lobster V-Notch Practice: Cooperation in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game  

James Acheson and Roy Gardner

How does Diversity Matter? The Case of Brazilian River Basin Councils  

Andrew Reid Bell, Nathan Lee Engle and Maria Carmen Lemos

Water Management in the Camargue Biosphere Reserve: Insights from Comparative Mental Models Analysis  

Raphael Mathevet, Michel Etienne, Tim Lynam and Coralie Calvet

ARDI: A Co-construction Method for Participatory Modeling in Natural Resources Management  

Michel Etienne, Derick R Du Toit and Sharon Pollard

Using Consensus Analysis to Assess Mental Models about Water Use and Management in the Crocodile River Catchment, South Africa  

Samantha S Stone-Jovicich, Timothy Lynam, Anne Leitch and Natalie A Jones

Mental Models: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Theory and Methods  

Natalie A Jones, Helen Ross, Timothy Lynam, Pascal Perez and Anne Leitch

Global Impacts of European Agricultural and Biofuel Policies  

Anne Gerdien Prins, Bas Eickhout, Martin Banse, Hans van Meijl, Willem Rienks and Geert Woltjer

An Empirical Analysis of Stakeholders’ Influence on Policy Development: the Role of Uncertainty Handling  

Rianne M. Bijlsma, Pieter W. G. Bots, Henk A. Wolters and Arjen Y. Hoekstra

Social-Ecological Guilds: Putting People into Marine Historical Ecology  

Janna M Shackeroff, Lisa M Campbell and Larry B Crowder

The Energy-Water Nexus in Texas  

Ashlynn S. Stillwell, Carey W. King, Michael E. Webber, Ian J. Duncan and Amy Hardberger

Promoting Health and Well-Being by Managing for Social–Ecological Resilience: the Potential of Integrating Ecohealth and Water Resources Management Approaches  

Martin J Bunch, Karen E Morrison, Margot W Parkes and Henry D Venema

Biological Diversity and Resilience: Lessons from the Recovery of Cichlid Species in Lake Victoria  

Alex O Awiti

Ecosystem Considerations for Postdisaster Recovery: Lessons from China, Pakistan, and Elsewhere for Recovery Planning in Haiti  

Susan A Mainka and Jeffrey McNeely

Accommodating the Challenges of Climate Change Adaptation and Governance in Conventional Risk Management: Adaptive Collaborative Risk Management (ACRM)  

Bradley May and Ryan Plummer

Understanding Human-Fire Interactions in Tropical Forest Regions: a Case for Interdisciplinary Research across the Natural and Social Sciences.  

Rachel Carmenta, Luke Parry, Alan Blackburn, Saskia Vermeylen and Jos Barlow

Comparing Sustainable Forest Management Certifications Standards: A Meta-analysis  

Michael Rawson Clark and Joelyn Sarrah Kozar

Production Flexibility in Extensive Beef Farming Systems   

Laura Astigarraga and Stéphane Ingrand

Integrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thing  

Nathan L Engle, Owen R Johns, Maria Carmen Lemos and Donald R Nelson

From Scorecard to Social Learning: A Reflective Coassessment Approach for Promoting Multiagency Cooperation in Natural Resource Management  

Dirk J Roux, Kevin Murray, Jeanne L Nel, Liesl Hill, Hermien Roux and Amanda Driver

Panarchy Rules: Rethinking Resilience of Agroecosystems, Evidence from Dutch Dairy-Farming  

Dirk F. van Apeldoorn, Kasper Kok, Marthijn P.W. Sonneveld and Tom (A.) Veldkamp

Sweet, Sticky, and Sustainable Social Business  

Verina Ingram and Justin Njikeu

Feedback Loops Added to Four Conceptual Models Linking Land Change with Driving Forces and Actors  

Meine van Noordwijk, Betha Lusiana, Grace Villamor, Herry Purnomo and Sonya Dewi

Resilience and Global Sustainability  

Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson

The Right Connections: How do Social Networks Lubricate the Machinery of Natural Resource Governance?  

Beatrice Crona and Klaus Hubacek

Linking Land Change with Driving Forces and Actors: Four Conceptual Models  

Anna M. Hersperger, Maria-Pia Gennaio, Peter H. Verburg and Matthias Bürgi

Social-ecological Resilience of a Nuosu Community-linked Watershed, Southwest Sichuan, China  

Lauren S Urgenson, R. Keala Hagmann, Amanda C Henck, Stevan Harrell, Thomas M Hinckley, Sara Jo Shepler, Barbara L. Grub and Philip M Chi

Resilient or Vulnerable Livelihoods? Assessing Livelihood Dynamics and Trajectories in Rural Botswana  

Susannah M Sallu, Chasca Twyman and Lindsay C Stringer

Gender Patterns in Bird-related Recreation in the USA and UK  

Caren B Cooper and Jennifer A. Smith

The State of the System and Steps Toward Resilience of Disturbance-dependent Oak Forests  

Tricia G Knoot, Lisa A. Schulte, John C. Tyndall and Brian J. Palik

The Conditions for Functional Mechanisms of Compensation and Reward for Environmental Services  

Brent M. Swallow, Beria Leimona, Thomas Yatich and Sandra J. Velarde

Habitat Scale Mapping of Fisheries Ecosystem Service Values in Estuaries  

Timothy G. O’Higgins, Steven P. Ferraro, Darrin D. Dantin, Steve J. Jordan and Marnita M Chintala

Inside the “Black Box” of River Restoration: Using Catchment History to Identify Disturbance and Response Mechanisms to Set Targets for Process-Based Restoration  

Sarah Mika, Joanna Hoyle, Garreth Kyle, Timothy Howell, Benjamin Wolfenden, Darren Ryder, Daniel Keating, Andrew Boulton, Gary Brierley, Andrew P Brooks, Kirstie Fryirs, Michelle Leishman, Mark Sanders, Angela Arthington, Robert Creese, Mark Dahm, Craig Miller, Brad Pusey and Alexandra Spink

Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Analysis of Robustness and Resilience in Five Communities in Southern Indiana  

Forrest D. Fleischman, Kinga Boenning, Gustavo A Garcia-Lopez, Sarah Mincey, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Katrin Daedlow, Maria Claudia Lopez, Xavier Basurto, Burney Fischer and Elinor Ostrom

An Evaluation of Feral Cat Management Options Using a Decision Analysis Network  

Kerrie Anne T. Loyd and Jayna L. DeVore

The Trade-off Between Housing Density and Sprawl Area: Minimizing Impacts to Carabid Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)  

Sara A. Gagné and Lenore Fahrig

Salt Marsh Zonal Migration and Ecosystem Service Change in Response to Global Sea Level Rise: A Case Study from an Urban Region  

Rusty A Feagin, M. Luisa Martinez, Gabriela Mendoza-Gonzalez and Robert Costanza

Can Properties of Labor-Exchange Networks Explain the Resilience of Swidden Agriculture?  

Sean S. Downey

Strengthening Regional Cohesion: Collaborative Networks and Sustainable Development in Swiss Rural Areas  

Christian Hirschi

Principles for Fairness and Efficiency in Enhancing Environmental Services in Asia: Payments, Compensation, or Co-Investment?  

Meine van Noordwijk and Beria Leimona

Securing a Future: Cree Hunters’ Resistance and Flexibility to Environmental Changes, Wemindji, James Bay  

Jesse S Sayles and Monica E Mulrennan

Synapses in the Network: Learning in Governance Networks in the Context of Environmental Management  

Jens Newig, Dirk Günther and Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Climate Factors Play a Limited Role for Past Adaptation Strategies in West Africa  

Ole Mertz, Cheikh Mbow, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Abdou Maiga, Drissa Diallo, Anette Reenberg, Awa Diouf, Bruno Barbier, Ibrahim Bouzou Moussa, Malicki Zorom, Ibrahim Ouattara and Daniel Dabi

How Participation Creates Citizens: Participatory Governance as Performative Practice  

Esther Turnhout, Severine Van Bommel and Noelle Aarts

Increased Market Integration, Value, and Ecological Knowledge of Tea Agroforests in the Akha Highlands of Southwest China  

Selena Ahmed, John R Stepp, Robban A. J. Toleno and Charles M Peters

Scale-Crossing Brokers and Network Governance of Urban Ecosystem Services: The Case of Stockholm  

Henrik Ernstson, Stephan Barthel, Erik Andersson and Sara T Borgström

Disentangling Scale Approaches in Governance Research: Comparing Monocentric, Multilevel, and Adaptive Governance  

Catrien J.A.M. Termeer, Art Dewulf and Maartje van Lieshout

The Use of Impact Assessment Tools to Support Sustainable Policy Objectives in Europe  

Peter De Smedt

Power Asymmetries in Small-Scale Fisheries: a Barrier to Governance Transformability?  

Beatrice Crona and Örjan Bodin

Institutional Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in U.S. National Parks and Forests   

Lesley C Jantarasami, Joshua J Lawler and Craig W Thomas

Competing Structure, Competing Views: The Role of Formal and Informal Social Structures in Shaping Stakeholder Perceptions  

Christina Prell, Mark Reed, Liat Racin and Klaus Hubacek

Large Gaps in Canopy Reduce Road Crossing by a Gliding Mammal  

Rodney van der Ree, Silvana Cesarini, Paul Sunnucks, Joslin L Moore and Andrea Taylor

Urban Ethnohydrology: Cultural Knowledge of Water Quality and Water Management in a Desert City  

Meredith Gartin, Beatrice Crona, Amber Wutich and Paul Westerhoff

Are Local People Conservationists? Analysis of Transition Dynamics from Agroforests to Monoculture Plantations in Indonesia  

Laurène Feintrenie, Stefan Schwarze and Patrice Levang

Oak Persistence in Mediterranean Landscapes: The Combined Role of Management, Topography, and Wildfires  

Vanda Acácio, Milena Holmgren, Francisco Moreira and Godefridus M.J. Mohren

Of Models and Meanings: Cultural Resilience in Social–Ecological Systems  

Todd A. Crane

Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability  

Carl Folke, Stephen R Carpenter, Brian Walker, Marten Scheffer, Terry Chapin and Johan Rockström

Bioenergy Sustainability at the Regional Scale   

Virginia H Dale, Richard Lowrance, Patrick Mulholland and G Phillip Robertson

Toward a Theory of Integrated Urban Ecology: Complementing Pickett et al.  

Robert Mugerauer

The ‘Social Life’ of Conservation: Lessons from Danau Sentarum  

Reed Lee Wadley, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Rona Dennis and Julia Aglionby

The Dark Side of Light: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Light Pollution Policy  

Franz Hölker, Timothy Moss, Barbara Griefahn, Werner Kloas, Christian C. Voigt, Dietrich Henckel, Andreas Hänel, Peter M. Kappeler, Stephan Völker, Axel Schwope, Steffen Franke, Dirk Uhrlandt, Jürgen Fischer, Reinhard Klenke, Christian Wolter and Klement Tockner

Co-engineering Participatory Water Management Processes: Theory and Insights from Australian and Bulgarian Interventions  

Katherine A. Daniell, Ian White, Nils Ferrand, Irina S. Ribarova, Peter Coad, Jean-Emmanuel Rougier, Matthew Hare, Natalie A. Jones, Albena Popova, Dominique Rollin, Pascal Perez and Stewart Burn

Complex Land Systems: the Need for Long Time Perspectives to Assess their Future  

John A. Dearing, Ademola K. Braimoh, Anette Reenberg, Billie L. Turner and Sander van der Leeuw

A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management  

Michael Cox, Gwen Arnold and Sergio Villamayor Tomás

Informal Participatory Platforms for Adaptive Management. Insights into Niche-finding, Collaborative Design and Outcomes from a Participatory Process in the Rhine Basin  

Sabine Moellenkamp, Machiel Lamers, Christian Huesmann, Sophie Rotter, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Karina Speil and Wiebke Pohl

What is Social Learning?  

Mark S Reed, Anna C Evely, Georgina Cundill, Ioan Fazey, Jayne Glass, Adele Laing, Jens Newig, Brad Parrish, Christina Prell, Chris Raymond and Lindsay C Stringer

Biodiversity, biodisparity, and bioequivalence  

Thomas Kirchhoff

Code, L. 2006. Ecological Thinking: the Politics of Epistemic Location. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.   

Maureen Biermann

Risk Mapping for Avian Influenza: a Social–Ecological Problem  

Graeme S. Cumming

Introduction to Special Feature on Catastrophic Thresholds, Perspectives, Definitions, and Applications  

Robert A Washington-Allen, David D. Briske, Herman H. Shugart and Lucinda F. Salo

Voluntary Participation in Regional Fisheries Management Council Meetings  

Danielle T Brzezinski, James Wilson and Yong Chen

Generic Regional Development Strategies from Local Stakeholders’ Scenarios - an Alpine Village Experience  

Wolfgang Loibl and Ariane Walz

Perception-based Methods to Evaluate Conservation Impact in Forests Managed Through Popular Participation  

Jens F Lund, Kulbhushan Balooni and Lila Puri

Designing Conservation Corridors in Production Landscapes: Assessment Methods, Implementation Issues, and Lessons Learned  

Amanda T Lombard, Richard M Cowling, Jan H.J. Vlok and Christo Fabricius

Growth, Collapse, and Reorganization of the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: an Analysis of Institutional Resilience  

Nabin Baral, Marc J Stern and Joel T Heinen

Evaluation of Bayesian Networks in Participatory Water Resources Management, Upper Guadiana Basin, Spain  

Pedro Zorrilla, Gema Carmona, África De la Hera, Consuelo Varela-Ortega, Pedro Martínez-Santos, John Bromley and Hans Jorgen Henriksen

Pilot Projects in Water Management   

Heleen Vreugdenhil, Jill Slinger, Wil Thissen and Philippe Ker Rault

Adaptive Co-management Networks: a Comparative Analysis of Two Fishery Conservation Areas in Sweden  

Annica Sandström and Carl Rova

Road Impacts on Abundance, Call Traits, and Body Size of Rainforest Frogs in Northeast Australia  

Conrad J. Hoskin and Miriam W. Goosem

Interlocking panarchies in multi-use boreal forests in Sweden  

Jon Moen and E. Carina H. Keskitalo

Re-connecting with a Recovering River through Imaginative Engagement  

Paul Selman, Claudia Carter, Anna Lawrence and Clare Morgan

Who Benefits from Recreational Use of Protected Areas?  

Josephine E Booth, Kevin J Gaston and Paul R Armsworth

Quantifying Biodiversity for Building Resilience for Food Security in Urban Landscapes: Getting Down to Business  

Åsa Jansson and Steven Polasky

The US Fire Learning Network: Springing a Rigidity Trap through Multiscalar Collaborative Networks  

William Hale Butler and Bruce Evan Goldstein

Spanning Boundaries in an Arizona Watershed Partnership: Information Networks as Tools for Entrenchment or Ties for Collaboration?  

Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, Bethany B. Cutts, Elisabeth K. Larson, Kate J. Darby, Mark Neff, Amber Wutich and Bob Bolin

Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country – a Case Study from Uzbekistan  

Darya Hirsch, Geraldine Abrami, Raffaele Giordano, Stefan Liersch, Nilufar Matin and Maja Schlüter

Estimating Dynamic Risk Factors for Pathogen Transmission Using Community-Level Bird Census Data at the Wildlife/Domestic Interface   

Alexandre Caron, Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky, Nicolas Gaidet, Ngoni Chiweshe and Graeme S Cumming

Environmental Factors Influencing the Spread of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus in wild birds in Europe  

Yali Si, Tiejun Wang, Andrew K. Skidmore, Willem F. de Boer, Lin Li and Herbert H.T. Prins

Evidence that a Highway Reduces Apparent Survival Rates of Squirrel Gliders  

Sarah C McCall, Michael A McCarthy, Rodney van der Ree, Michael J Harper, Silvana Cesarini and Kylie Soanes

Monitoring Social Learning Processes in Adaptive Comanagement: Three Case Studies from South Africa  

Georgina Cundill

Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Food Systems: Learning at Farmers' Markets in Sweden  

Rebecka Milestad, Lotten Westberg, Ulrika Geber and Johanna Björklund

Evaluating Today's Landscape Multifunctionality and Providing an Alternative Future: A Normative Scenario Approach  

Rainer Waldhardt, Martin Bach, René Borresch, Lutz Breuer, Tim Diekötter, Hans-Georg Frede, Stefan Gäth, Oliver Ginzler, Thomas Gottschalk, Stefan Julich, Matthias Krumpholz, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Annette Otte, Birgit Reger, Wolfgang Reiher, Kim Schmitz, P. Michael Schmitz, Patrick Sheridan, Dietmar Simmering, Cornelia Weist, Volkmar Wolters and Dorit Zörner

The Cross-scale Interplay between Social and Biophysical Context and the Vulnerability of Irrigation-dependent Societies: Archaeology’s Long-term Perspective  

Margaret C. Nelson, Keith Kintigh, David R. Abbott and John M. Anderies

Pimp Your Landscape - a Generic Approach for Integrating Regional Stakeholder Needs into Land Use Planning  

Christine Fürst, Hannes König, Katrin Pietzsch, Hans-Peter Ende and Franz Makeschin

Governance for Resilience: CALFED as a Complex Adaptive Network for Resource Management  

David E. Booher and Judith E. Innes

A Cautionary Note on Individual Transferable Quotas   

U. Rashid Sumaila

Robustness, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in small-scale social-ecological systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal  

Oguzhan Cifdaloz, Ashok Regmi, John M Anderies and Armando A Rodriguez

Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling   

Jay S. Golden, K. J. Dooley, J. M. Anderies, B. H. Thompson, G. Gereffi and L Pratson

Designing Participation Processes for Water Management and Beyond  

Yorck von Korff, Patrick d'Aquino, Katherine A Daniell and Rianne Bijlsma

Using Matching Methods to Link Social and Physical Analyses for Sustainability Planning  

Eric J Kemp-Benedict, Sukaina Bharwani and Michael D. Fischer

From Scientific Speculation to Effective Adaptive Management: A case study of the role of social marketing in promoting novel restoration strategies for degraded dry lands  

Frances Westley, Milena Holmgren and Marten Scheffer

Resilience and Higher Order Thinking  

Ioan Fazey

Resilience and Vulnerability: Complementary or Conflicting Concepts?  

Fiona Miller, Henny Osbahr, Emily Boyd, Frank Thomalla, Sukaina Bharwani, Gina Ziervogel, Brian Walker, Jörn Birkmann, Sander van der Leeuw, Johan Rockström, Jochen Hinkel, Tom Downing, Carl Folke and Donald Nelson

Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Certification: a Review of the Canadian Situation  

Anna V. Tikina, John L. Innes, Ronald L. Trosper and Bruce C. Larson

Catastrophic Thresholds: A Synthesis of Concepts, Perspectives, and Applications  

David D. Briske, Robert A. Washington-Allen, Craig R. Johnson, Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Dale R. Lockwood, Tamzen K. Stringham and Herman H Shugart

Who is Right to Fish? Evolving a Social Contract for Ethical Fisheries  

Mimi E. Lam and Daniel Pauly

Novelty, Adaptive Capacity, and Resilience  

Craig R Allen and C. S. Holling

Response to: Green Light for Nocturnally Migrating Birds  

William R Evans

A Community Conversation About a Watershed  

Ryan Collay

Trust: the Critical Element for Successful Watershed Management  

Rebecca Flitcroft, Dana C Dedrick, Courtland L Smith, Cynthia A Thieman and John P Bolte

Riding a wave of creative destruction – reflections on Ecology and Society  

Lance Gunderson, Carl Folke and Michelle Lee

Navigating Trade-Offs: Working for Conservation and Development Outcomes  

Bruce M Campbell, Jeffrey A Sayer and Brian Walker

Realizing water transitions: the role of policy entrepreneurs in water policy change  

Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink

Bridging Human and Natural Sciences for a Better Understanding of Urban Floral Patterns: the Role of Planting Practices in Mediterranean Gardens   

Audrey Marco, Carole Barthelemy, Thierry Dutoit and Valérie Bertaudière-Montes

Comparative Resilience in Five North Pacific Regional Salmon Fisheries  

Xanthippe Augerot and Courtland L Smith

Trends and Future Potential of Payment for Ecosystem Services to Alleviate Rural Poverty in Developing Countries  

Jeffrey C Milder, Sara J Scherr and Carina Bracer

Participatory Vulnerability Assessment in the Context of Conservation and Development Projects: A Case Study of Local Communities in Southwest Cameroon  

Nathalie van Vliet

Introducing Ecological Dynamics into Common-Pool Resource Experiments  

Marco A Janssen

Pluralism, Resilience, and the Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan  

Karim-Aly S Kassam

Spatial Trade-Offs between Wind Power Production and Bird Collision Avoidance in Agricultural Landscapes  

Marcus Eichhorn and Martin Drechsler

Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience  

Petra Tschakert and Kathleen Ann Dietrich

The Role of Participatory Modeling in Landscape Approaches to Reconcile Conservation and Development   

Marieke Sandker, Bruce M. Campbell, Manuel Ruiz-Pérez, Jeffrey A. Sayer, Richard Cowling, Habtemariam Kassa and Andrew T. Knight

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Russian and Swedish Model Forest Initiatives: Adaptive Governance Toward Sustainable Forest Management?  

Marine Elbakidze, Per K Angelstam, Camilla Sandström and Robert Axelsson

Anticipating Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dryland Pastoral Systems: Using Dynamic Systems Models for the Kalahari  

Andrew J Dougill, Evan D.G. Fraser and Mark S. Reed

Population Aggregation in Ancient Arid Environments  

Marco A Janssen

Merits and Limits of Ecosystem Protection for Conserving Wild Salmon in a Northern Coastal British Columbia River  

Aaron C. Hill, Thomas S. Bansak, Bonnie K. Ellis and Jack A. Stanford

Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons from Sixteen Case Studies of Water Transitions around the Globe  

Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema

Water Governance in Mexico: Political and Economic Aperatures and a Shifting State-Citizen Relationship  

Margaret Wilder

Implementing Integrated River Basin Management in China  

Dorri G. J. te Boekhorst, Toine J. M. Smits, Xiubo Yu, Lifeng Li, Gang Lei and Chen Zhang

Individuals Matter: Exploring Strategies of Individuals to Change the Water Policy for the Tisza River in Hungary  

Saskia E. Werners, Piotr Matczak and Zsuzsanna Flachner

Water Management in Spain: the Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Shaping Change  

Nuria Font and Joan Subirats

Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa  

Henny Osbahr, Chasca Twyman, W. Neil Adger and David S. G. Thomas

The Challenge of Regulating Private Wildlife Ranches for Conservation in South Africa  

Jenny A. Cousins, Jon P. Sadler and James Evans

A Framework for Clarifying “Participation” in Participatory Research to Prevent its Rejection for the Wrong Reasons  

Olivier Barreteau, Pieter W. G. Bots and Katherine A Daniell

Fishful Thinking: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Sea Before Us  

Tony J. Pitcher and Mimi E Lam

Scenarios for Resilient Shrimp Aquaculture in Tropical Coastal Areas  

Simon R. Bush, Paul A.M. van Zwieten, Leontine Visser, Han van Dijk, Roel Bosma, Willem F. de Boer and Marc Verdegem

How Personal Judgment Influences Scenario Development: an Example for Future Rural Development in Europe  

Marc J. Metzger, Mark D.A. Rounsevell, Harm A.R.M. Van den Heiligenberg, Marta Pérez-Soba and Paul Soto Hardiman

Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management  

Reinette Biggs, Frances R. Westley and Stephen R. Carpenter

Ecological and Human Community Resilience in Response to Natural Disasters  

Lance Gunderson

Biodiversity and Biodisparity  

Leif Allan DeVaney

The Practice of Transboundary Decision Making on the Incomati River: Elucidating Underlying Factors and their Implications for Institutional Design  

Jill H. Slinger, Marianne Hilders and Dinis Juizo

The Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest Management: an Example from India  

Lucy Rist, R. Uma Shaanker, E. J. Milner-Gulland and Jaboury Ghazoul

Does Integrated Water Resources Management Support Institutional Change? The Case of Water Policy Reform in Israel  

Itay Fischhendler and Tanya Heikkila

Integrating Ecological and Social Ranges of Variability in Conservation of Biodiversity: Past, Present, and Future  

Sally L. Duncan, Brenda C McComb and K. Norman Johnson

Overcoming Information Limitations for the Prescription of an Environmental Flow Regime for a Central American River  

Peter C Esselman and Jeffrey J Opperman

Piloting a Non-Invasive Genetic Sampling Method for Evaluating Population-Level Benefits of Wildlife Crossing Structures  

Anthony P Clevenger and Michael A Sawaya

Beyond Dry Feet? Experiences from a Participatory Water-Management Planning Case in The Netherlands  

Machiel Lamers, Bouke Ottow, Greet Francois and Yorck von Korff

Monitoring the Governance Dimension of Natural Resource Co-management  

Georgina Cundill and Christo Fabricius

Is the Jury Still Out? Toward Greater Insight in Policy Learning in Participatory Decision Processes—the Case of Dutch Citizens' Juries on Water Management in the Rhine Basin  

Dave Huitema, Corinne Cornelisse and Bouke Ottow

Many Eyes on Nature: Diverse Perspectives in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and Their Relevance for Conservation  

Uta Berghoefer, Ricardo Rozzi and Kurt Jax

National Parks and Protected Areas and the Role for Employment in Tourism and Forest Sectors: a Swedish Case  

Linda J. T. Lundmark, Peter Fredman and Klas Sandell

Transient Social–Ecological Stability: the Effects of Invasive Species and Ecosystem Restoration on Nutrient Management Compromise in Lake Erie  

Eric D. Roy, Jay F. Martin, Elena G. Irwin, Joseph D. Conroy and David A. Culver

Archaeological Evidence for Resilience of Pacific Northwest Salmon Populations and the Socioecological System over the last ~7,500 years  

Sarah K. Campbell and Virginia L. Butler

Observations on Drivers and Dynamics of Environmental Policy Change: Insights from 150 Years of Forest Management in British Columbia  

Shannon M Hagerman, Hadi Dowlatabadi and Terre Satterfield

How Useful Are Species Distribution Models for Managing Biodiversity under Future Climates?  

Steve J Sinclair, Matthew D White and Graeme R Newell

The Politics of Social-ecological Resilience and Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions  

Adrian Smith and Andy Stirling

Beyond Roadkill, Radiotracking, Recapture and F_ST—a Review of Some Genetic Methods to Improve Understanding of the Influence of Roads on Wildlife  

Jody M Simmons, Paul Sunnucks, Andrea C Taylor and Rodney van der Ree

Public Fisheries  

Josh Eagle and Amanda Kuker

Haida Marine Planning: First Nations as a Partner in Marine Conservation  

Russ Jones, Catherine Rigg and Lynn Lee

Why Shade Coffee Does Not Guarantee Biodiversity Conservation.  

César Tejeda-Cruz, Evodia Silva-Rivera, Jonathan R Barton and William J Sutherland

The Ecology and Society NetWork  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics: Is Everything in Order but the Patient Still Dying?  

Robert Nasi and Peter G. H. Frost

Local Consequences of Applying International Norms: Differences in the Application of Forest Certification in Northern Sweden, Northern Finland, and Northwest Russia  

E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Camilla Sandström, Maria Tysiachniouk and Johanna Johansson

Wildlife Tunnel Enhances Population Viability  

Rodney van der Ree, Dean Heinze, Michael McCarthy and Ian Mansergh

Ecological History vs. Social Expectations: Managing Aquatic Ecosystems  

Gordon H. Reeves and Sally L. Duncan

The Past and Future of Colorado’s Forests: Connecting People and Ecology  

Dan Binkley and Sally L. Duncan

Integrating Conservation and Development in the Peruvian Amazon  

Catherine Kilbane Gockel and Leslie C. Gray

Can Road-Crossing Structures Improve Population Viability of an Urban Gliding Mammal?  

Brendan D. Taylor and Ross L. Goldingay

From Risk Assessment to Knowledge Mapping: Science, Precaution, and Participation in Disease Ecology   

Andy C. Stirling and Ian Scoones

Cost–Benefit Analyses of Mitigation Measures Aimed at Reducing Collisions with Large Ungulates in the United States and Canada: a Decision Support Tool  

Marcel P. Huijser, John W. Duffield, Anthony P. Clevenger, Robert J. Ament and Pat T. McGowen

Evaluating Functional Fit between a Set of Institutions and an Ecosystem  

Julia A Ekstrom and Oran R Young

Reducing Moose–Vehicle Collisions through Salt Pool Removal and Displacement: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach  

Paul D. Grosman, Jochen A. G. Jaeger, Pascale M. Biron, Christian Dussault and Jean-Pierre Ouellet

Valuing the Provisioning Services of Wetlands: Contrasting a Rural Wetland in Lesotho with a Peri-Urban Wetland in South Africa  

Kathryn S. M. Lannas and Jane K Turpie

Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ecological Science: a Question of Scale  

Catherine A. Gagnon and Dominique Berteaux

Functional Links Between Biodiversity, Livelihoods, and Culture in a Hani Swidden Landscape in Southwest China  

Jianchu Xu, Louis Lebel and Janet Sturgeon

When to Spray: a Time-Scale Calculus Approach to Controlling the Impact of West Nile Virus  

Diana Thomas, Marion Weedermann, Lora Billings, Joan Hoffacker and Robert A Washington-Allen

Behavioral Responses of Northern Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens) to Roads and Traffic: Implications for Population Persistence  

Julie Bouchard, Adam T. Ford, Felix E Eigenbrod and Lenore Fahrig

Quantifying the Human Appropriation of Fresh Water by African Agriculture  

Martina Weiß, Rüdiger Schaldach, Joseph Alcamo and Martina Flörke

Compensation and Rewards for Environmental Services in the Developing World: Framing Pan-Tropical Analysis and Comparison  

Brent M. Swallow, Mikkel F. Kallesoe, Usman A. Iftikhar, Meine van Noordwijk, Carina Bracer, Sara J. Scherr, K. V. Raju, Susan V Poats, Anantha Kumar Duraiappah, Benson O. Ochieng, Hein Mallee and Rachael Rumley

Empirical Accounting of Adaptation to Environmental Change: Organizational Competencies and Biodiversity in Finnish Forest Management  

Eeva Primmer and Steven A Wolf

Linking Ecological and Perceptual Assessments for Environmental Management: a Coral Reef Case Study  

Elizabeth A Dinsdale

Beyond Forest Cover: Land Use and Biodiversity in Rubber Trail Forests of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve  

Jacqueline M. Vadjunec and Dianne Rocheleau

Common and Privatized: Conditions for Wise Management of Matsutake Mushrooms in Northwest Yunnan Province, China  

Xuefei Yang, Andreas Wilkes, Yongping Yang, Jianchu Xu, Cheryl S Geslani, Xueqing Yang, Feng Gao, Jiankun Yang and Brian Robinson

Birds and the City: Urban Biodiversity, Land Use, and Socioeconomics  

Michael W Strohbach, Dagmar Haase and Nadja Kabisch

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity  

Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart III Chapin, Eric Lambin, Timothy M Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W Corell, Victoria J Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen and Jonathan Foley

Human–Nature Relationship in Mediterranean Streams: Integrating Different Types of Knowledge to Improve Water Management  

Carla Gonzalez, Adelaide Clemente, Kurt Aagaard Nielsen, Cristina Branquinho and Rui Ferreira dos Santos

Addressing Trade-offs: Experiences from Conservation and Development Initiatives in the Mkuze Wetlands, South Africa  

Annika C. Dahlberg and Catie Burlando

Modeling the Effect of Traffic Calming on Local Animal Population Persistence  

Frank van Langevelde and Catharinus F. Jaarsma

Livestock Subsidies and Rangeland Degradation in Central Crete  

Hugues Lorent, Ruth Sonnenschein, Georgios M. Tsiourlis, Patrick Hostert and Eric Lambin

Variability in Population Abundance is Associated with Thresholds between Scaling Regimes  

Donald Wardwell and Craig R Allen

Conflicts Associated with Dam Removal in Sweden  

Anna G. C. Lejon, Birgitta Malm Renöfält and Christer Nilsson

Changing U.S. Ocean Policy Can Set a New Direction for Marine Resource Management  

Andrew A. Rosenberg

A Revised Conceptual Framework for Payments for Environmental Services   

Matthew M. Sommerville, Julia P. G. Jones and E. J. Milner-Gulland

Salmon, Science, and Reciprocity on the Northwest Coast  

D. Bruce Johnsen

Social Infrastructure to Integrate Science and Practice: the Experience of the Long Tom Watershed Council  

Rebecca L Flitcroft, Dana C Dedrick, Courtland L Smith, Cynthia A Thieman and John P Bolte

Toward Integrated Analysis of Human Impacts on Forest Biodiversity: Lessons from Latin America  

Adrian C Newton, Luis Cayuela, Cristian Echeverría, Juan J Armesto, Rafael F Del Castillo, Duncan Golicher, Davide Geneletti, Mario Gonzalez-Espinosa, Andreas Huth, Fabiola López-Barrera, Lucio Malizia, Robert Manson, Andrea Premoli, Neptali Ramírez-Marcial, José-Maria Rey Benayas, Nadja Rüger, Cecilia Smith-Ramírez and Guadalupe Williams-Linera

Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social–Ecological Transitions  

Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Jan Rotmans

Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of Change in Public Lands Governance and Forest Management in Alaska  

Colin M. Beier, Amy Lauren Lovecraft, F. Stuart Chapin and III

Altered Ecological Flows Blur Boundaries in Urbanizing Watersheds  

Todd R Lookingbill, Sujay S Kaushal, Andrew J Elmore, Robert Gardner, Keith N Eshleman, Robert H Hilderbrand, Raymond P Morgan, Walter R Boynton, Margaret A Palmer and William C Dennison

Rethinking Social Contracts: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate  

Karen O'Brien, Bronwyn Hayward and Fikret Berkes

Philosophical Issues in Ecology: Recent Trends and Future Directions  

Mark Colyvan, Stefan Linquist, William Grey, Paul E. Griffiths, Jay Odenbaugh and Hugh P Possingham

The Adaptive Co-Management Process: an Initial Synthesis of Representative Models and Influential Variables  

Ryan Plummer

Resilience to Surprises through Communicative Planning   

Bruce Evan Goldstein

Education and Resilience: Social and Situated Learning among University and Secondary Students  

Marianne E Krasny, Keith G. Tidball and Nadarajah Sriskandarajah

Culture Against Society—Again and Again  

Wayne B Tyson

Lumpy Information May Lead to Better Science  

Philip L. Hoffman

Making Sure you Solve the Right Problem  

Kim Cartledge, Claudia Dürrwächter, Veronica Hernandez Jimenez and Nick P. Winder

Evolution of Forest Systems: the Role of Biogeochemical Cycles in Determining Sustainable Forestry Practices  

Werner T. Flueck

Lumpy Information  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Reconnecting Social and Ecological Resilience in Salmon Ecosystems  

Daniel L. Bottom, Kim K. Jones, Charles A Simenstad and Courtland L Smith

Resources Management in Transition  

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Jan Sendzimir and Paul Jeffrey

Managing Surprises in Complex Systems: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Resilience  

P. H. Longstaff

The Fate of Coho Salmon Nomads: The Story of an Estuarine-Rearing Strategy Promoting Resilience  

K V. Koski

Reconciling Social and Biological Needs in an Endangered Ecosystem: the Palouse as a Model for Bioregional Planning  

Shannon M Donovan, Chris Looney, Thor Hanson, Yaniria Sánchez de León, J. D. Wulfhorst, Sanford D Eigenbrode, Michael Jennings, Jodi Johnson-Maynard and Nilsa A Bosque Pérez

Trade-Offs in Values Assigned to Ecological Goods and Services Associated with Different Coral Reef Management Strategies  

Christina C Hicks, Tim R McClanahan, Joshua E Cinner and Jeremy M Hills

Application of Structured Decision Making to an Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Options for Sustainable Forest Management   

Aynslie E Ogden and John L Innes

Cumulative Effects of Coastal Habitat Alterations on Fishery Resources: toward Prediction at Regional Scales  

Stephen J Jordan, Lisa M Smith and Janet A Nestlerode

Range of Variability in Southern Coastal Plain Forests: Its Historical, Contemporary, and Future Role in Sustaining Biodiversity  

Robert J. Mitchell and Sally L. Duncan

Is There Potential for the Historical Range of Variability to Guide Conservation Given the Social Range of Variability?  

Jonathan R Thompson, Sally L. Duncan and K. Norman Johnson

Supporting the Shift from State Water to Community Water: Lessons from a Social Learning Approach to Designing Joint Irrigation Projects in Morocco  

Marcel Kuper, Mathieu Dionnet, Ali Hammani, Younes Bekkar, Patrice Garin and Bettina Bluemling

The Impact of Resource Scarcity on Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: the Case of Fishers’ Information-Sharing Networks in Loreto, BCS, Mexico  

Saudiel Ramirez-Sanchez and Evelyn Pinkerton

Consequences of Environmental Service Payments for Forest Retention and Recruitment in a Costa Rican Biological Corridor   

Wayde C Morse, Jessica L Schedlbauer, Steven E Sesnie, Bryan Finegan, Celia A Harvey, Steven J Hollenhorst, Kathleen L Kavanagh, Dietmar Stoian and J. D. Wulfhorst

Quantifying the Road-Effect Zone: Threshold Effects of a Motorway on Anuran Populations in Ontario, Canada  

Felix Eigenbrod, Stephen J. Hecnar and Lenore Fahrig

Frogs Call at a Higher Pitch in Traffic Noise  

Kirsten M Parris, Meah Velik-Lord and Joanne M. A. North

Adaptive Water Governance: Assessing the Institutional Prescriptions of Adaptive (Co-)Management from a Governance Perspective and Defining a Research Agenda  

Dave Huitema, Erik Mostert, Wouter Egas, Sabine Moellenkamp, Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Resul Yalcin

Road Zone Effects in Small-Mammal Communities   

John A. Bissonette and Silvia A. Rosa

Avian Influenza H5N1 and the Wild Bird Trade in Hanoi, Vietnam  

F. Brooks-Moizer, Scott I Roberton, Kelly Edmunds and Diana Bell

Impacts of Traffic Noise and Traffic Volume on Birds of Roadside Habitats  

Kirsten M. Parris and Angela Schneider

Linking Resilience Theory and Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Understand the Potential for Perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt  

Ryan C Atwell, Lisa A Schulte and Lynne M Westphal

Selling Conservation? Scientific Legitimacy and the Commodification of Conservation Tourism  

Jenny A Cousins, James Evans and Jon Sadler

Stable Forest Cover under Increasing Populations of Swidden Cultivators in Central Laos: the Roles of Intrinsic Culture and Extrinsic Wildlife Trade  

William G Robichaud, Anthony R. E. Sinclair, Naa Odarkor-Lanquaye and Brian Klinkenberg

Interactive Land-Use Planning in Indonesian Rain-Forest Landscapes: Reconnecting Plans to Practice   

Eva Wollenberg, Bruce Campbell, Edmond Dounias, Petrus Gunarso, Moira Moeliono and Douglas Sheil

Linking Hunter Knowledge with Forest Change to Understand Changing Deer Harvest Opportunities in Intensively Logged Landscapes   

Todd J Brinkman, Terry Chapin, Gary Kofinas and David K Person

Increasing Social–Ecological Resilience by Placing Science at the Decision Table: the Role of the San Pedro Basin (Arizona) Decision-Support System Model  

Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, Anne Browning-Aiken, Kevin Lansey, Tim Finan and Juan B Valdés

Ecosystem Services, Land-Cover Change, and Stakeholders: Finding a Sustainable Foothold for a Semiarid Biodiversity Hotspot  

Belinda Reyers, Patrick J. O’Farrell, Richard M. Cowling, Benis N. Egoh, David C. Le Maitre and Jan H. J. Vlok

Company–Community Logging Contracts in Amazonian Settlements: Impacts on Livelihoods and NTFP Harvests  

Mary C. S. Menton, Frank D Merry, Anna Lawrence and Nick Brown

Flavor or Forethought: Tuhoe Traditional Management Strategies for the Conservation of Kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae) in New Zealand  

Philip O’B. Lyver, Christopher J Jones and James Doherty

Exploring Social Resilience in Madagascar’s Marine Protected Areas  

Joshua Cinner, Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes and Herilala Randriamahazo

Respect for Grizzly Bears: an Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience  

Douglas A Clark and D. Scott Slocombe

Integration of Regional Mitigation Assessment and Conservation Planning  

James H Thorne, Patrick R Huber, Evan H Girvetz, Jim Quinn and Michael C McCoy

Conceptual Models for Ecosystem Management through the Participation of Local Social Actors: the Río Cruces Wetland Conflict   

Luisa E. Delgado, Víctor H Marín, Pamela L Bachmann and Marcela Torres-Gomez

The Problem of Scale in Indigenous Knowledge: a Perspective from Northern Australia  

Marc Wohling

The Social Construction of Fishing, 1949  

Carmel Finley

Natural Length Scales of Ecological Systems: Applications at Community and Ecosystem Levels  

Craig R Johnson

Resilience: Accounting for the Noncomputable  

Stephen R Carpenter, Carl Folke, Marten Scheffer and Frances Westley

Beyond Baselines: Rethinking Priorities for Ocean Conservation  

Lisa M Campbell, Noella J Gray, Elliott L Hazen and Janna M Shackeroff

Panarchy: Discontinuities Reveal Similarities in the Dynamic System Structure of Ecological and Social Systems  

Ahjond S Garmestani, Craig R Allen and Lance Gunderson

Naturalness and Place in River Rehabilitation  

Kirstie Fryirs and Gary J Brierley

Enrichment Planting in Secondary Forests: a Promising Clean Development Mechanism to Increase Terrestrial Carbon Sinks  

Alain Paquette, Jessica Hawryshyn, Alexandra Vyta Senikas and Catherine Potvin

The Role of Ecological Science in Environmental Policy Making: from a Pacification toward a Facilitation Strategy  

Lucien Hanssen, Etiënne Rouwette and Marieke M. van Katwijk

Integrating Ethno-Ecological and Scientific Knowledge of Termites for Sustainable Termite Management and Human Welfare in Africa  

Gudeta W Sileshi, Philip Nyeko, Phillip O. Y. Nkunika, Benjamin M Sekematte, Festus K Akinnifesi and Oluyede C Ajayi

Evolutionary History, Habitat Disturbance Regimes, and Anthropogenic Changes: What Do These Mean for Resilience of Pacific Salmon Populations?  

Robin S. Waples, Tim Beechie and George R. Pess

Resilient Salmon, Resilient Fisheries for British Columbia, Canada  

Michael C Healey

Coastal Lagoons and Climate Change: Ecological and Social Ramifications in U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ecosystems  

Abigail Anthony, Joshua Atwood, Peter August, Carrie Byron, Stanley Cobb, Cheryl Foster, Crystal Fry, Arthur Gold, Kifle Hagos, Leanna Heffner, D. Q Kellogg, Kimberly Lellis-Dibble, James J Opaluch, Candace Oviatt, Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Nicole Rohr, Leslie Smith, Tiffany Smythe, Judith Swift and Nathan Vinhateiro

Resilience, Adaptability, and Transformability in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia  

Brian H Walker, Nick Abel, John M Anderies and Paul Ryan

Effects of Roads on Animal Abundance: an Empirical Review and Synthesis  

Lenore Fahrig and Trina Rytwinski

The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change  

Janis L Dickinson

Designing Landscapes for Performance Based on Emerging Principles in Landscape Ecology  

Sarah Taylor Lovell and Douglas M. Johnston

Freshwater Ecosystems and Resilience of Pacific Salmon: Habitat Management Based on Natural Variability  

Peter A Bisson, Jason B Dunham and Gordon H Reeves

Caution Against Using Intact Forest-Landscapes Data at Regional Scales  

Peter G. Lee

A Different Future  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America  

H. Ricardo Grau and Mitchell Aide

Agricultural Abandonment, Suburban Growth, and Forest Expansion in Puerto Rico between 1991 and 2000  

Isabel K Parés-Ramos, William A Gould and T. Mitchell Aide

Thirty Years of Human Demography and Land-Use Change in the Atlantic Forest of Misiones, Argentina: an Evaluation of the Forest Transition Model  

Andrea E. Izquierdo, Carlos D. De Angelo and T. Mitchell Aide

Adaptive Management and Social Learning in Collaborative and Community-Based Monitoring: a Study of Five Community-Based Forestry Organizations in the western USA  

Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez, Heidi L. Ballard and Victoria E. Sturtevant

Metropolitanization and Forest Recovery in Southern Brazil: a Multiscale Analysis of the Florianópolis City-Region, Santa Catarina State, 1970 to 2005  

Sandra R Baptista

Land-Use and Land Cover Dynamics in South American Temperate Grasslands  

Germán Baldi and José M. Paruelo

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Learning  

Deana D Pennington

Institutions for Managing Resilient Salmon (Oncorhynchus Spp.) Ecosystems: the Role of Incentives and Transaction Costs  

Susan S Hanna

The Dynamics of Social Capital in Influencing Use of Soil Management Options in the Chinyanja Triangle of Southern Africa  

Jemimah M Njuki, Mariam T Mapila, Shamie Zingore and Robert Delve

Wildfire and Spatial Patterns in Forests in Northwestern Mexico: The United States Wishes It Had Similar Fire Problems  

Scott L Stephens, Danny L. Fry and Ernesto Franco-Vizcaíno

Regional Variation in Non-Timber Forest Product Harvest Strategies, Trade, and Ecological Impacts: the Case of Black Dammar (Canarium strictum Roxb.) Use and Conservation in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India  

Anita Varghese and Tamara Ticktin

Integrating Data, Biology, and Decision Models for Invasive Species Management: Application to Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula)  

Ayaz Hyder, Brian Leung and Zewei Miao

Risk Mapping of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Distribution and Spread  

A. Townsend Peterson and Richard A. J. Williams

Historical, Demographic, and Economic Correlates of Land-Use Change in the Republic of Panama  

Stuart Joseph Wright and Mirna Julieta Samaniego

Biological and Ecological Mechanisms Supporting Marine Self-Governance: the Seri Callo de Hacha Fishery in Mexico  

Xavier Basurto

Managing Waters of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin, Brazil: a Case Study in Institutional Change and Social Learning  

Lori M. Kumler and Maria Carmen Lemos

Why Forests Are Important for Global Poverty Alleviation: a Spatial Explanation  

William D Sunderlin, Sonya Dewi, Atie Puntodewo, Daniel Müller, Arild Angelsen and Michael Epprecht

Modification of Land Cover in a Traditional Agroforestry System in Spain: Processes of Tree Expansion and Regression  

Tobias Plieninger and Michael Schaar

Wild Bird Movements and Avian Influenza Risk Mapping in Southern Africa  

Graeme S. Cumming, Philip A. R. Hockey, Leo W. Bruinzeel and Morne A. Du Plessis

Outcomes of State- vs. Community-Based Mangrove Management in Southern Thailand  

Chanyut Sudtongkong and Edward L. Webb

Toward a Relational Concept of Uncertainty: about Knowing Too Little, Knowing Too Differently, and Accepting Not to Know  

Marcela Brugnach, Art Dewulf, Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Tharsi Taillieu

Adaptations of a Yucatec Maya Multiple-Use Ecological Management Strategy to Ecotourism  

Eduardo García-Frapolli, Víctor M Toledo and Joan Martinez-Alier

Practices and Lessons Learned in Coping with Climatic Hazards at the River-Basin Scale: Floods and Droughts  

Valentina Krysanova, Hendrik Buiteveld, Dagmar Haase, Fred F Hattermann, Kate van Niekerk, Koen Roest, Pedro Martínez-Santos and Maja Schlüter

Hunting for Livelihood in Northeast Gabon: Patterns, Evolution, and Sustainability  

Nathalie van Vliet and Robert Nasi

Integration of Local Ecological Knowledge and Conventional Science: a Study of Seven Community-Based Forestry Organizations in the USA  

Heidi L Ballard, Maria E Fernandez-Gimenez and Victoria E Sturtevant

Social Movements and Ecosystem Services—the Role of Social Network Structure in Protecting and Managing Urban Green Areas in Stockholm  

Henrik Ernstson, Sverker Sörlin and Thomas Elmqvist

Will Wallace’s Line Save Australia from Avian Influenza?  

Hamish I. McCallum, David A. Roshier, John P. Tracey, Leo Joseph and Robert Heinsohn

Making Investments in Dryland Development Work: Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya Catchment, Tanzania  

Elin I Enfors, Line J Gordon, Garry D Peterson and Deborah Bossio

Exploring the Role of Private Wildlife Ranching as a Conservation Tool in South Africa: Stakeholder Perspectives  

Jenny A Cousins, Jon P Sadler and James Evans

What Constitutes Success in Pacific Island Community Conserved Areas?  

Joanna C Axford, Marc T Hockings and R W. (Bill) Carter

Green Light for Nocturnally Migrating Birds  

Hanneke Poot, Bruno J. Ens, Han de Vries, Maurice A. H. Donners, Marcel R. Wernand and Joop M. Marquenie

A Spatially Explicit Decision Support System for Watershed-Scale Management of Salmon   

E. Ashley Steel, Aimee Fullerton, Yuko Caras, Mindi B. Sheer, Patricia Olson, David Jensen, Jennifer Burke, Michael Maher and Paul McElhany

Mapping the World’s Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing  

Peter Potapov, Aleksey Yaroshenko, Svetlana Turubanova, Maxim Dubinin, Lars Laestadius, Christoph Thies, Dmitry Aksenov, Aleksey Egorov, Yelena Yesipova, Igor Glushkov, Mikhail Karpachevskiy, Anna Kostikova, Alexander Manisha, Ekaterina Tsybikova and Ilona Zhuravleva

Rehabilitation of an Incised Stream Using Plant Materials: the Dominance of Geomorphic Processes  

F. Douglas Shields, Jr., S. Reza Pezeshki, Glen V. Wilson, Weiming Wu and Seth M. Dabney

State-Led Ecotourism Development and Nature Conservation: a Case Study of the Changbai Mountain Biosphere Reserve, China  

Jianqiong Yuan, Limin Dai and Qingli Wang

Tropical Deforestation, Community Forests, and Protected Areas in the Maya Forest  

David Barton Bray, Elvira Duran, Victor Hugo Ramos, Jean-Francois Mas, Alejandro Velazquez, Roan Balas McNab, Deborah Barry and Jeremy Radachowsky

Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia  

Christine Padoch, Eduardo Brondizio, Sandra Costa, Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Robin R. Sears and Andrea Siqueira

From Invisibility to Transparency: Identifying the Implications   

Nancy J Turner, Robin Gregory, Cheryl Brooks, Lee Failing and Terre Satterfield

Rethinking the Galapagos Islands as a Complex Social-Ecological System: Implications for Conservation and Management  

José A González, Carlos Montes, José Rodríguez and Washington Tapia

Public Health and Epidemiological Considerations For Avian Influenza Risk Mapping and Risk Assessment  

Joseph P. Dudley

Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science?  

Ken E. Giller, Cees Leeuwis, Jens A. Andersson, Wim Andriesse, Arie Brouwer, Peter Frost, Paul Hebinck, Ignas Heitkönig, Martin K. van Ittersum, Niek Koning, Ruerd Ruben, Maja Slingerland, Henk Udo, Tom Veldkamp, Claudius van de Vijver, Mark T. van Wijk and Pieter Windmeijer

Sustainable Forest Management in Cameroon Needs More than Approved Forest Management Plans  

Paolo Omar Cerutti, Robert Nasi and Luca Tacconi

Avian Information Systems: Developing Web-Based Bird Avoidance Models  

Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Willem Bouten, Luit Buurma, Russell DeFusco, Arie Dekker, Henk Sierdsema, Floris Sluiter, Jelmer van Belle, Hans van Gasteren and Emiel van Loon

Adaptive Capacity and Traps  

Stephen R Carpenter and William A. Brock

Mechanisms to Improve Integrative Research at the Science-Policy Interface for Sustainable Catchment Management  

Christopher (Kit) J. A. Macleod, Kirsty L. Blackstock and Phil M. Haygarth

Rethinking Partnerships with the Aim of Producing Knowledge with Practical Relevance: a Case Study in the Field of Ecological Restoration  

Héloïse Gonzalo-Turpin, Nathalie Couix and Laurent Hazard

Resilience in Lower Columbia River Salmon Communities  

Irene E. Martin

Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve  

Eugene C Hargrove, Mary T. K. Arroyo, Peter H Raven and Harold Mooney

What Is the Vulnerability of a Food System to Global Environmental Change?  

Polly J Ericksen

Linking Flow Regime and Water Quality in Rivers: a Challenge to Adaptive Catchment Management  

Christer Nilsson and Birgitta Malm Renöfält

Evaluation of a Participatory Resource Monitoring System for Nontimber Forest Products: the Case of Amla (Phyllanthus spp.) Fruit Harvest by Soligas in South India   

R. Siddappa Setty, Kamal Bawa, Tamara Ticktin and C. Made Gowda

Sensitivity of the Colorado Plateau to Change: Climate, Ecosystems, and Society  

Susan Schwinning, Jayne Belnap, David R Bowling and James R Ehleringer

From Premise to Practice: a Critical Assessment of Integrated Water Resources Management and Adaptive Management Approaches in the Water Sector  

Wietske Medema, Brian S McIntosh and Paul J Jeffrey

Balancing Accuracy and Meaning in Common-Pool Resource Theory  

Michael Cox

Epistemological Pluralism: Reorganizing Interdisciplinary Research  

Thaddeus R Miller, Timothy D Baird, Caitlin M Littlefield, Gary Kofinas, F. Stuart Chapin III and Charles L Redman

The Influence of Philosophical Perspectives in Integrative Research: a Conservation Case Study in the Cairngorms National Park  

Anna C. Evely, Ioan Fazey, Michelle Pinard and Xavier Lambin

Science Explicitly for Nonscientists  

Caren B Cooper, Janis L Dickinson, Tina Phillips and Rick Bonney

THE BUZZ  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

The Growing Importance of Social Learning in Water Resources Management and Sustainability Science  

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Erik Mostert and David Tàbara

Crossing Scales and Disciplines to Achieve Forest Sustainability  

Michael J. Papaik, Brian Sturtevant and Christian Messier

Communication Management and Trust: Their Role in Building Resilience to “Surprises” Such As Natural Disasters, Pandemic Flu, and Terrorism  

P. H. Longstaff and Sung-Un Yang

Fertility Island Formation and Evolution in Dryland Ecosystems  

Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio and Paolo D’Odorico

Indigenous Knowledge and Values in Planning for Sustainable Forestry: Pikangikum First Nation and the Whitefeather Forest Initiative  

R. Michael O'Flaherty, Iain J. Davidson-Hunt and Micheline Manseau

Spatial Misfit in Participatory River Basin Management: Effects on Social Learning, a Comparative Analysis of German and French Case Studies  

Ilke Borowski, Jean-Pierre Le Bourhis, Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Bernhard Barraqué

Local People, Nature Conservation, and Tourism in Northeastern Finland  

Anne Törn, Pirkko Siikamäki, Anne Tolvanen, Pekka Kauppila and Jussi Rämet

Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development  

Ann S Masten and Jelena Obradović

Modeling the Effects of Land Use on the Quality of Water, Air, Noise, and Habitat for a Five-County Region in Georgia  

Virginia H Dale, Farhan Akhtar, Matthrew Aldridge, Latha Baskaran, Michael Berry, Murray Browne, Michael Chang, Rebecca Efroymson, Charles Garten, Jr., Eric Lingerfelt and Catherine Stewart

Assessing the Resilience of a River Management Regime: Informal Learning in a Shadow Network in the Tisza River Basin  

Jan Sendzimir, Piotr Magnuszewski, Zsuzsanna Flachner, Peter Balogh, Geza Molnar, Attila Sarvari and Zsuzsanna Nagy

When Donors Get Cold Feet: the Community Conservation Concession in Setulang (Kalimantan, Indonesia) that Never Happened  

Sven Wunder, Bruce Campbell, Peter GH Frost, Jeffrey A Sayer, Ramses Iwan and Lini Wollenberg

Accurate Mental Maps as an Aspect of Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK): a Case Study from Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland  

John McKenna, Rory J. Quinn, Daniel J. Donnelly and J. Andrew G. Cooper

Assessing Management Regimes in Transboundary River Basins: Do They Support Adaptive Management?  

G.T. (Tom) Raadgever, Erik Mostert, Nicole Kranz, Eduard Interwies and Jos G. Timmerman

Modeling Land-Use Decision Behavior with Bayesian Belief Networks  

Inge Aalders

Adaptive Harvesting in a Multiple-Species Coral-Reef Food Web  

Daniel B Kramer

Urban Systems during Disasters: Factors for Resilience  

Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace

Exploring the Promise of Actor Analysis for Environmental Policy Analysis: Lessons from Four Cases in Water Resources Management  

Leon M. Hermans

Detection and Assessment of Ecosystem Regime Shifts from Fisher Information  

Arunprakash T Karunanithi, Heriberto Cabezas, B. Roy Frieden and Christopher W. Pawlowski

Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asian Timber Concessions: a Critical Evaluation of Policy Mechanisms and Guidelines  

Rona A Dennis, Erik Meijaard, Robert Nasi and Lena Gustafsson

Source/Sink Patterns of Disturbance and Cross-Scale Mismatches in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological Landscapes  

Nicola Zaccarelli, Irene Petrosillo, Giovanni Zurlini and Kurt Hans Riitters

A Real Options Approach to Forest-Management Decision Making to Protect Caribou under the Threat of Extinction  

Don G. Morgan, S. Ben Abdallah and Pierre Lasserre

Developmental Disorders as Pathological Resilience Domains  

Rodrick Wallace

Coca and Colonists: Quantifying and Explaining Forest Clearance under Coca and Anti-Narcotics Policy Regimes  

Andrew V Bradley and Andrew C Millington

Moving Toward Spatial Solutions in Marine Conservation with Indigenous Communities  

Natalie C Ban, Chris Picard and Amanda C.J. Vincent

Quantification of the Ecological Resilience of Drylands Using Digital Remote Sensing  

Robert A. Washington-Allen, R. D. Ramsey, Neil E. West and Brien E. Norton

Grasshopper Population Ecology: Catastrophe, Criticality, and Critique  

Dale R Lockwood and Jeffrey A Lockwood

A Peri-Urban Neotropical Forest Transition and its Consequences for Environmental Services  

H Ricardo Grau, María Eugenia Hernández, Jorgelina Gutierrez, N. Ignacio Gasparri, M. Cristina Casavecchia, Emilio E. Flores-Ivaldi and Leonardo Paolini

Total Historical Land-Use Change in Eastern Bolivia: Who, Where, When, and How Much?  

Timothy J Killeen, Anna Guerra, Miki Calzada, Lisette Correa, Veronica Calderon, Liliana Soria, Belem Quezada and Marc K Steininger

Policy Research Using Agent-Based Modeling to Assess Future Impacts of Urban Expansion into Farmlands and Forests  

Michael R Guzy, Courtland L Smith, John P Bolte, David W Hulse and Stanley V Gregory

Transformation from “Carbon Valley” to a “Post-Carbon Society” in a Climate Change Hot Spot: the Coalfields of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia  

Geoffrey R. Evans

The Conservation Contributions of Conservation Easements: Analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area Protected Lands Spatial Database  

Adena R Rissman and Adina M Merenlender

Dealing with Uncertainty in Flood Management Through Diversification  

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Anne van der Veen, Joerg Krywkow and Saskia Werners

An Approach to Assess Relative Degradation in Dissimilar Forests: Toward a Comparative Assessment of Institutional Outcomes  

Catherine M. Tucker, J. C. Randolph, Tom Evans, Krister P. Andersson, Lauren Persha and Glen M. Green

Discovering Resilient Pathways for South African Water Management: Two Frameworks for a Vision  

Erin L Bohensky

The Roles and Movements of Actors in the Deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia  

Philip M Fearnside

Instrumental Learning and Sustainability Indicators: Outputs from Co-Construction Experiments in West African Biosphere Reserves  

Harold Levrel and Meriem Bouamrane

Regional Farm Diversity Can Reduce Vulnerability of Food Production to Climate Change  

Pytrik Reidsma and Frank Ewert

Not All Roads Lead to Resilience: a Complex Systems Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Tortoises in Arid Ecosystems  

Thomas E. J. Leuteritz and Hamid R. Ekbia

Resilient Social Relationships and Collaboration in the Management of Social–Ecological Systems  

Abraham B. Nkhata, Charles M. Breen and Wayne A. Freimund

Accounting for the Ecological Dimension in Participatory Research and Development: Lessons Learned from Indonesia and Madagascar  

Yves Laumonier, Robin Bourgeois and Jean-Laurent Pfund

Setting Biodiversity Targets in Participatory Regional Planning: Introducing Ecoprofiles  

Paul Opdam, Rogier Pouwels, Sabine van Rooij, Eveliene Steingröver and Claire C Vos

Simulating Oil Palm Expansion Requires Credible Approaches that Address Real Issues  

Richard G Dudley, Douglas Sheil and Carol Colfer

What Are Participatory Scoping Models?  

Marieke Sandker, Bruce Campbell and Aritta Suwarno

Reflective Practice  

Lance Gunderson, Carl Folke and Marco A Janssen

Conserving and Restoring Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests: Cycles of Disruption and Recovery  

Dave Egan

Domestic Forests: A New Paradigm for Integrating Local Communities’ Forestry into Tropical Forest Science   

Geneviève Michon, Hubert de Foresta, Patrice Levang and Francois Verdeaux

The Principles of Conservation and Development: Do They Apply in Malinau?  

A K Boedhihartono, Petrus Gunarso, Patrice Levang and Jeff Sayer

Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: an Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin  

Maja Schlüter and Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Social Learning and Water Resources Management  

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Marc Craps, Art Dewulf, Erik Mostert, David Tabara and Tharsi Taillieu

Charting the New Territory of Adaptive Co-management: A Delphi Study  

Ryan Plummer and Derek R Armitage

Relating Biodiversity and Landscape Spatial Patterning to Land Ownership Regimes in Northeastern Mexico  

Miguel Alfonso Ortega-Huerta and Karla Kae Kral

Poverty and Environmental Services: Case Study in Way Besai Watershed, Lampung Province, Indonesia  

S. Suyanto, Noviana Khususiyah and Beria Leimona

A Framing Approach to Cross-disciplinary Research Collaboration: Experiences from a Large-scale Research Project on Adaptive Water Management  

Art Dewulf, Greet François, Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Tharsi Taillieu

Cultural Factors as Co-Determinants of Participation in River Basin Management  

Bert Enserink, Mita Patel, Nicole Kranz and Josefina Maestu

Using Backcast Land-Use Change and Groundwater Travel-Time Models to Generate Land-Use Legacy Maps for Watershed Management  

Bryan Pijanowski, Deepak K Ray, Anthony D Kendall, Jonah M Duckles and David W Hyndman

Understanding the Consequences of Property Rights Mismatches: a Case Study of New Zealand’s Marine Resources  

Tracy Yandle

Sustaining Biodiversity in the Oregon Coast Range: Potential effects of Forest Policies in a Multi-ownership Province  

Brenda C McComb, Thomas A. Spies and Keith A. Olsen

Managing Change toward Adaptive Water Management through Social Learning  

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Jan Sendzimir, Paul Jeffrey, Jeroen Aerts, Ger Berkamp and Katharine Cross

Household Land Management and Biodiversity: Secondary Succession in a Forest-Agriculture Mosaic in Southern Mexico  

Rinku Roy Chowdhury

Transfer of Knowledge on Agroforestry Management Practices: the Structure of Farmer Advice Networks  

Marney E Isaac, Bonnie H Erickson, S. James Quashie-Sam and Vic R Timmer

Facing the Adaptive Management Challenge: Insights from Transition Management  

Rutger van der Brugge and Roel van Raak

Will Forests Remain in the Face of Oil Palm Expansion? Simulating Change in Malinau, Indonesia  

Marieke Sandker, Aritta Suwarno and Bruce M Campbell

A Toolkit Modeling Approach for Sustainable Forest Management Planning: Achieving Balance between Science and Local Needs  

Brian R. Sturtevant, Andrew Fall, Daniel D. Kneeshaw, Neal P. P. Simon, Michael J. Papaik, Kati Berninger, Frédérik Doyon, Don G. Morgan and Christian Messier

Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research   

Wayde Cameron Morse, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Jo Ellen Force and J. D. Wulfhorst

Citizen Science as a Tool for Conservation in Residential Ecosystems  

Caren B Cooper, Janis Dickinson, Tina Phillips and Rick Bonney

Developing Adaptation and Adapting Development  

Maria Carmen Lemos, Emily Boyd, Emma L Tompkins, Henny Osbahr and Diana Liverman

Innovation and Metastability: a Systems Model  

Nick Winder

A Collaborative Research Process Studying Fruit Availability and Seed Dispersal within an Indigenous Community in the Middle Caqueta River Region, Colombian Amazon   

Angela Parrado-Rosselli

Revolt and Remember: How the Shimshal Nature Trust Develops and Sustains Social-Ecological Resilience in Northern Pakistan  

Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib and Anna Lawrence

Sustainability Learning in Natural Resource Use and Management  

J. David Tàbara and Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Linking Ecosystem Health Indicators and Collaborative Management: a Systematic Framework to Evaluate Ecological and Social Outcomes  

Tischa A Muñoz-Erickson, Bernardo Aguilar-González and Thomas D. Sisk

An Update on the Scholarly Networks on Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptation within the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change  

Marco A Janssen

Living among Frequent-fire Forests: Human History and Cultural Perspectives  

Alexandra Murphy, Jesse Abrams, Terry Daniel and Victoria Yazzie

The Tribal Perspective of Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests—Its History  

Victoria Yazzie

Defining Old Growth for Fire-adapted Forests of the Western United States  

Merrill R. Kaufmann, Daniel Binkley, Peter Z. Fulé, Marlin Johnson, Scott L. Stephens and Thomas W. Swetnam

The Role of Old-growth Forests in Frequent-fire Landscapes  

Daniel Binkley, Tom Sisk, Carol Chambers, Judy Springer and William Block

Past, Present, and Future Old Growth in Frequent-fire Conifer Forests of the Western United States  

Scott R. Abella, W. Wallace Covington, Peter Z. Fulé, Leigh B. Lentile, Andrew J. Sánchez Meador and Penelope Morgan

Old-growth Policy  

Diane Vosick, David M Ostergren and Lucy Murfitt

Managing for Old Growth in Frequent-fire Landscapes  

Carl E. Fiedler, Peter Friederici, Mark Petruncio, Charles Denton and W. David Hacker

Monitoring Old Growth in Frequent-fire Landscapes  

Carl E. Fiedler, Peter Friederici and Mark Petruncio

The Six Faces of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian Co-Management Arrangements  

Nicolas Houde

The Evolutionary Basis of Rigidity: Locks in Cells, Minds, and Society  

Marten Scheffer and Frances R Westley

Locust Control in Transition: The Loss and Reinvention of Collective Action in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan  

Kazbek Toleubayev, Kees Jansen and Arnold van Huis

Plausible Stories or Tall Tales?  

Donald Earl Harron

Using Citizens to Do Science Versus Citizens as Scientists  

Shyamal Lakshminarayanan

Looking Forward, Looking Back  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Restoring Riverine Landscapes: The Challenge of Identifying Priorities, Reference States, and Techniques  

Christer Nilsson, Roland Jansson, Björn Malmqvist and Robert J Naiman

Powerless Spectators, Coping Actors, and Adaptive Co-managers: a Synthesis of the Role of Communities in Ecosystem Management  

Christo Fabricius, Carl Folke, Georgina Cundill and Lisen Schultz

Linking Futures across Scales: a Dialog on Multiscale Scenarios  

Reinette Biggs, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Erin Bohensky, Emily Boyd, Georgina Cundill, Helen Fox, Scott Ingram, Kasper Kok, Stephanie Spehar, Maria Tengö, Dagmar Timmer and Monika Zurek

Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Social Resilience within Commercial Fisheries in Northern Australia  

Nadine A Marshall and Paul A Marshall

Facilitating Cooperation During Times Of Chaos: Spontaneous Orders And Muddling Through In Malinau District, Indonesia  

Eva Wollenberg, Ramses Iwan, Godwin Limberg, Moira Moeliono, Steve Rhee and Made Sudana

A Review of Tools for Incorporating Community Knowledge, Preferences, and Values into Decision Making in Natural Resources Management  

Timothy Lynam, Wil de Jong, Douglas Sheil, Trikurnianti Kusumanto and Kirsten Evans

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Conflict Management in Multiple Resource Regimes: A Case of the Southwestern Highlands of Uganda   

Pascal C Sanginga, Rick N Kamugisha and Andrienne M Martin

Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska  

David C. Natcher, Monika Calef, Orville Huntington, Sarah Trainor, Henry P. Huntington, La’ona DeWilde, Scott Rupp and F. Stuart Chapin III

Expert and Generalist Local Knowledge about Land-cover Change on South Africa’s Wild Coast: Can Local Ecological Knowledge Add Value to Science?  

Nigel Chalmers and Christo Fabricius

How to Set Up a Research Framework to Analyze Social–Ecological Interactive Processes in a Rural Landscape  

Marc Deconchat, Annick Gibon, Alain Cabanettes, Gaétan du Bus de Warnaffe, Mark Hewison, Eric Garine, André Gavaland, Jean-Paul Lacombe, Sylvie Ladet, Claude Monteil, Annie Ouin, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Anne Sourdril and Gérard Balent

City Life in the Midst of the Forest: a Punan Hunter-Gatherer’s Vision of Conservation and Development  

Patrice Levang, Soaduon Sitorus and Edmond Dounias

Social Learning in European River-Basin Management: Barriers and Fostering Mechanisms from 10 River Basins  

Erik Mostert, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Yvonne Rees, Brad Searle, David Tàbara and Joanne Tippett

Illuminating the Possibilities for Social Learning in the Management of Scotland’s Water  

Ray Ison and Drennan Watson

Time Series of Landscape Fragmentation Caused by Transportation Infrastructure and Urban Development: a Case Study from Baden-Württemberg, Germany  

Jochen A. G. Jaeger, Hans-Georg Schwarz-von Raumer, Heide Esswein, Manfred Müller and Manfred Schmidt-Lüttmann

The European Water Framework Directive: How Ecological Assumptions Frame Technical and Social Change  

Patrick Steyaert and Guillaume Ollivier

Improving the Effectiveness of Interventions to Balance Conservation and Development: a Conceptual Framework   

Stephen T Garnett, Jeffrey Sayer and Johan du Toit

The Implications of Global Priorities for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Associated with Protected Areas  

Christopher R. Pyke

Methods for Developing Multiscale Participatory Scenarios: Insights from Southern Africa and Europe  

Kasper Kok, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs and Monika Zurek

The Rauischholzhausen Agenda for Road Ecology  

Inga A. Roedenbeck, Lenore Fahrig, C. Scott Findlay, Jeff E Houlahan, Jochen A. G. Jaeger, Nina Klar, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt and Edgar A van der Grift

A Multisector Framework for Assessing Community-Based Forest Management: Lessons from Madagascar  

Daniela B Raik and Daniel J Decker

Evaluating Discontinuities in Complex Systems: Toward Quantitative Measures of Resilience  

Craig Stow, Craig R Allen and Ahjond S Garmestani

Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Co-management: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve, Sweden  

Per Olsson, Carl Folke, Victor Galaz, Thomas Hahn and Lisen Schultz

The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later  

Carl Folke, Lowell Pritchard, Jr., Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding and Uno Svedin

Tackling Biocomplexity with Meta-models for Species Risk Assessment  

Philip J. Nyhus, Robert Lacy, Frances R Westley, Philip Miller, Harrie Vredenburg, Paul Paquet and John Pollak

The Most Resilient Show on Earth: The Circus as a Model for Viewing Identity, Change, and Chaos  

Philip A Loring

Restoring Environmental Flows by Modifying Dam Operations  

Brian D. Richter and Gregory A. Thomas

Revealing the Driving Forces of Mid-Cities Urban Growth Patterns Using Spatial Modeling: a Case Study of Los Ángeles, Chile  

Mauricio I. Aguayo, Thorsten Wiegand, Gerardo D. Azócar, Kerstin Wiegand and Claudia E. Vega

Pausing at the Brink of Interdisciplinarity: Power and Knowledge at the Meeting of Social and Biophysical Science  

Dena P MacMynowski

Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience: Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object  

Fridolin Simon Brand and Kurt Jax

Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis  

Nicholas M. Gotts

A Cognition-based View of Decision Processes in Complex Social–Ecological Systems  

Kathi K. Beratan

Comparing Expert-Based Science With Local Ecological Knowledge: What Are We Afraid Of?  

Grant Gilchrist and Mark L Mallory

Choice of Index Determines the Relationship between Corruption and Environmental Sustainability  

Robert M Ewers and Robert J Smith

Assumptive Error and Overestimation of Effects in Wildlife Model Output  

Donald E. Harron

Scenarios are Plausible Stories about the Future, not Forecasts  

Richard R. Schneider, Stan Boutin, J. Brad Stelfox and Shawn Wasel

Facing Global Change through Social-Ecological Research  

Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson

Editorial: Special Feature on Scenarios for Ecosystem Services  

Stephen R Carpenter, Elena M. Bennett and Garry D Peterson

Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World  

David W. Cash, W. Neil Adger, Fikret Berkes, Po Garden, Louis Lebel, Per Olsson, Lowell Pritchard and Oran Young

Empirically Based, Agent-based models  

Marco A Janssen and Elinor Ostrom

Response of Wolves to Corridor Restoration and Human Use Management  

Brenda Shepherd and Jesse Whittington

Shorter Fallow Cycles Affect the Availability of Noncrop Plant Resources in a Shifting Cultivation System  

Sarah Paule Dalle and Sylvie de Blois

Changing Use Patterns, Changing Feedback Links: Implications for Reorganization of Coastal Fisheries Management in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden  

Maria Åqvist Almlöv and Monica Hammer

Integrating Traditional and Evolutionary Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation: a Population Level Case Study  

Dylan J Fraser, Thomas Coon, Michael R. Prince, Rene Dion and Louis Bernatchez

Interactions Among Spatial Scales Constrain Species Distributions in Fragmented Urban Landscapes  

Will R Turner

What You Know is Who You Know? Communication Patterns Among Resource Users as a Prerequisite for Co-management  

Beatrice Crona and Örjan Bodin

Variance as a Leading Indicator of Regime Shift in Ecosystem Services  

William A Brock and Stephen R Carpenter

Characterizing Species at Risk I: Modeling Rare Species Under the Northwest Forest Plan  

Bruce G Marcot

Synthesis of the Storylines  

Steven J Cork, Garry D Peterson, Elena M Bennett, Gerhard Petschel-Held and Monika Zurek

Characterizing Species at Risk II: Using Bayesian Belief Networks as Decision Support Tools to Determine Species Conservation Categories Under the Northwest Forest Plan  

Bruce G Marcot, Paul A Hohenlohe, Steve Morey, Russ Holmes, Randy Molina, Marianne C Turley, Mark H Huff and John A Laurence

Sustainability of Mangrove Harvesting: How do Harvesters’ Perceptions Differ from Ecological Analysis?  

Laura López-Hoffman, Ian E. Monroe, Enrique Narváez, Miguel Martínez-Ramos and David D. Ackerly

Quantifying Expected Ecological Response to Natural Resource Legislation: a Case Study of Riparian Buffers, Aquatic Habitat, and Trout Populations  

Krista L Jones, Geoffrey C Poole, Judy L Meyer, William Bumback and Elizabeth A Kramer

Scale Mismatches in Management of Urban Landscapes  

Sara T Borgström, Thomas Elmqvist, Per Angelstam and Christine Alfsen-Norodom

Integrating Ecosystem Management, Protected Areas, and Mammal Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon  

Claudia Azevedo-Ramos, Benedito Domingues do Amaral, Daniel C. Nepstad, Britaldo Soares Filho and Robert Nasi

Creating Agents and Landscapes for Multiagent Systems from Random Samples  

Thomas Berger and Pepijn Schreinemachers

Balancing Development and Conservation? An Assessment of Livelihood and Environmental Outcomes of Nontimber Forest Product Trade in Asia, Africa, and Latin America  

Koen Kusters, Ramadhani Achdiawan, Brian Belcher and Manuel Ruiz Pérez

Learning, Signaling, and Social Preferences in Public-Good Games  

Marco A Janssen and T. K. Ahn

Resilience Lost: Intersecting Land Use and Landscape Dynamics in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States  

Matthew A. Peeples, C. Michael Barton and Steven Schmich

Are Direct Payments for Environmental Services Spelling Doom for Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics?   

Sven Wunder

Use of a Bayesian Belief Network to Predict the Impacts of Commercializing Non-timber Forest Products on Livelihoods  

Adrian C Newton, Elaine Marshall, Kathrin Schreckenberg, Duncan Golicher, Dirk W te Velde, Fabrice Edouard and Erik Arancibia

The Future of Vascular Plant Diversity Under Four Global Scenarios  

Detlef P van Vuuren, Osvaldo E. Sala and Henrique M. Pereira

Environmental Flows: Striking the Balance between Development and Resource Protection  

Jackie King and Cate Brown

Cultural or Ecological Sustainability? The Effect of Cultural Change on Sabal Palm Management Among the Lowland Maya of Mexico  

Andrea Martínez-Ballesté, Carlos Martorell and Javier Caballero

Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview  

Gerald C Nelson, Elena Bennett, Asmeret A Berhe, Kenneth Cassman, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Achim Dobermann, Andrew Dobson, Anthony Janetos, Marc Levy, Diana Marco, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Brian O'Neill, Richard Norgaard, Gerhard Petschel-Held, Dennis Ojima, Prabhu Pingali, Robert Watson and Monika Zurek

Multiactor Modeling of Settling Decisions and Behavior in the San Mariano Watershed, the Philippines: a First Application with the MameLuke Framework  

Marco G. A. Huigen, Koen P. Overmars and Wouter T. de Groot

Beyond Regulations in Fisheries Management: The Dilemmas of the “Beach Recorders” Bwana Dikos in Zanzibar, Tanzania  

Maricela de la Torre-Castro

Companion Modeling, Conflict Resolution, and Institution Building: Sharing Irrigation Water in the Lingmuteychu Watershed, Bhutan  

Tayan Raj Gurung, Francois Bousquet and Guy Trébuil

Dietary Changes over Time in a Caiçara Community from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest  

Priscila L. MacCord and Alpina Begossi

Unpacking “Participation” in the Adaptive Management of Social–ecological Systems: a Critical Review  

Lindsay C Stringer, Andrew J Dougill, Evan Fraser, Klaus Hubacek, Christina Prell and Mark S Reed

Viable Reserve Networks Arise From Individual Landholder Responses To Conservation Incentives   

Kenneth M Chomitz, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Keith Alger, David M Stoms, Miroslav Honzák, Elena Charlotte Landau, Timothy S. Thomas, W. Wayt Thomas and Frank Davis

Australian Pastoralists in Time and Space: The Evolution of a Complex Adaptive System  

Ryan R J McAllister, Nick Abel, Chris J Stokes and Iain J Gordon

Process-Based Ecological River Restoration: Visualizing Three-Dimensional Connectivity and Dynamic Vectors to Recover Lost Linkages  

G. Mathias Kondolf, Andrew J. Boulton, Scott O'Daniel, Geoffrey C Poole, Frank J. Rahel, Emily H. Stanley, Ellen Wohl, Asa Bång, Julia Carlstrom, Chiara Cristoni, Harald Huber, Saija Koljonen, Pauliina Louhi and Keigo Nakamura

Access and Resilience: Analyzing the Construction of Social Resilience to the Threat of Water Scarcity  

Ruth Langridge, Juliet Christian-Smith and Kathleen A. Lohse

A Portfolio Approach to Analyzing Complex Human-Environment Interactions: Institutions and Land Change  

Oran R. Young, Eric F. Lambin, Frank Alcock, Helmut Haberl, Sylvia I. Karlsson, William J. McConnell, Tun Myint, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Colin Polsky, P. S. Ramakrishnan, Heike Schroeder, Marie Scouvart and Peter H Verburg

River Restoration and Meanders  

G. Mathias Kondolf

Science for the Poor: How One Woman Challenged Researchers, Ranchers, and Loggers in Amazonia   

Patricia Shanley

From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research  

Helmut Haberl, Verena Winiwarter, Krister Andersson, Robert U. Ayres, Christopher Boone, Alicia Castillo, Geoff Cunfer, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, William R. Freudenburg, Eeva Furman, Rüdiger Kaufmann, Fridolin Krausmann, Ernst Langthaler, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Michael Mirtl, Charles L. Redman, Anette Reenberg, Andrew Wardell, Benjamin Warr and Harald Zechmeister

Landscape-scale Approaches for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes  

Peter Frost, Bruce Campbell, Gabriel Medina and Leonard Usongo

Conservation Biology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Integrating Academic Disciplines for Better Conservation Practice  

Joshua A Drew and Adam P Henne

Response to: "Electronic Field Guides and User Communities in the Eco-informatics Revolution"  

John A Burton

Social Networks in Natural Resource Management: What Is There to Learn from a Structural Perspective?  

Örjan Bodin, Beatrice Crona and Henrik Ernstson

Generating and Fostering Novelty  

Lance H. Gunderson, Carl Folke and Marco Janssen

Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Through Comparative Studies and Theory Development: Introduction to the Special Issue  

Brian H Walker, John M Anderies, Ann P Kinzig and Paul Ryan

Sprawl and the Resilience of Humans and Nature: an Introduction to the Special Feature  

Craig R. Allen

Modeling Distribution and Abundance of Antarctic Baleen Whales Using Ships of Opportunity  

Rob Williams, Sharon L. Hedley and Philip S. Hammond

Urban Containment Policies and the Protection of Natural Areas: The Case of Seoul's Greenbelt  

David N Bengston and Yeo-Chang Youn

Temporal Stability in Fishing Spots: Conservation and Co-Management in Brazilian Artisanal Coastal Fisheries  

Alpina Begossi

Viability and Risk Assessment in Species Restoration: Planning Reintroductions for the Wild Boar, a Potential Disease Reservoir  

Néstor Fernández, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt and Hans-Hermann Thulke

Economic Evaluation of Pollination Services Comparing Coffee Landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia  

Roland Olschewski, Teja Tscharntke, Pablo C Benítez, Stefan Schwarze and Alexandra-Maria Klein

The Importance of Social Learning in Restoring the Multifunctionality of Rivers and Floodplains  

Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Citizen, Science, Highways, and Wildlife: Using a Web-based GIS to Engage Citizens in Collecting Wildlife Information  

Tracy Lee, Michael S Quinn and Danah Duke

Is Corruption Bad for Environmental Sustainability? A Cross-National Analysis.  

Stephen Morse

Understanding the Risk to Neotropical Migrant Bird Species of Multiple Human-Caused Stressors: Elucidating Processes Behind the Patterns.  

Ralph S. Hames, James D. Lowe, Sara Barker Swarthout and Kenneth V. Rosenberg

Eliciting the Implicit Knowledge and Perceptions of On-Ground Conservation Managers of the Macquarie Marshes  

Ioan Fazey, Katrina Proust, Barry Newell, Bill Johnson and John A. Fazey

Trade-offs across Space, Time, and Ecosystem Services  

Jon Paul Rodríguez, T. Douglas Beard, Jr., Elena M Bennett, Graeme S. Cumming, Steven J Cork, John Agard, Andrew P. Dobson and Garry D. Peterson

Scenarios for Ecosystem Services: An Overview  

Stephen R Carpenter, Elena M Bennett and Garry D Peterson

Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being  

Colin D Butler and Willis Oluoch-Kosura

Periodic Closures as Adaptive Coral Reef Management in the Indo-Pacific  

Josh Cinner, Michael J Marnane, Timothy R McClanahan and Glenn R. Almany

Supporting and Enhancing Development of Heterogeneous Ecological Knowledge among Resource Users in a Kenyan Seascape   

Beatrice Irene Crona

Efficient Conservation in a Utility-Maximization Framework  

Frank W Davis, Christopher Costello and David Stoms

Relationships Between Perceived Coastal Waterway Condition and Social Aspects of Quality of Life  

Melanie E Cox, Ron Johnstone and Jackie Robinson

Understanding the Stability of Forest Reserve Boundaries in the West Mengo Region of Uganda  

Nathan D Vogt, Abwoli Y Banana, William Gombya-Ssembajjwe and Joseph Bahati

A Framework for Spatial Risk Assessments: Potential Impacts of Nonindigenous Invasive Species on Native Species  

Craig R Allen, Alan R Johnson and Leslie Parris

Exploring Strategies that Build Livelihood Resilience: a Case from Cambodia  

Melissa J Marschke and Fikret Berkes

Ten Principles for Biocultural Conservation at the Southern Tip of the Americas: the Approach of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park  

Ricardo Rozzi, Francisca Massardo, Christopher B Anderson, Kurt Heidinger, John A. Silander and Jr.

The Relation Between Income and Hunting in Tropical Forests: an Economic Experiment in the Field  

Anders H Sirén, Juan Camilo Cardenas and José D Machoa

Effects of Heterogeneity in Residential Preferences on an Agent-Based Model of Urban Sprawl  

Daniel G. Brown and Derek T. Robinson

Wildlife Conservation in Bornean Timber Concessions  

Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil, Robert Nasi and Scott A. Stanley

Agent-based Analysis of Agricultural Policies: an Illustration of the Agricultural Policy Simulator AgriPoliS, its Adaptation and Behavior  

Kathrin Happe, Konrad Kellermann and Alfons Balmann

A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems  

Brian Walker, Lance Gunderson, Ann Kinzig, Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter and Lisen Schultz

Scale Mismatches in Social-Ecological Systems: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions   

Graeme S Cumming, David H. M. Cumming and Charles L Redman

Toward a Network Perspective of the Study of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems  

Marco A Janssen, Örjan Bodin, John M Anderies, Thomas Elmqvist, Henrik Ernstson, Ryan R. J. McAllister, Per Olsson and Paul Ryan

Water RATs (Resilience, Adaptability, and Transformability) in Lake and Wetland Social-Ecological Systems   

Lance H Gunderson, Steve R Carpenter, Carl Folke, Per Olsson and Garry Peterson

Collapse and Reorganization in Social-Ecological Systems: Questions, Some Ideas, and Policy Implications  

Nick Abel, David H. M. Cumming and John M Anderies

Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems  

Per Olsson, Lance H Gunderson, Steve R Carpenter, Paul Ryan, Louis Lebel, Carl Folke and C. S. Holling

Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems  

Louis Lebel, John M Anderies, Bruce Campbell, Carl Folke, Steve Hatfield-Dodds, Terry P Hughes and James Wilson

Resilience and Regime Shifts: Assessing Cascading Effects  

Ann P Kinzig, Paul Ryan, Michel Etienne, Helen Allison, Thomas Elmqvist and Brian H. Walker

Fifteen Weddings and a Funeral: Case Studies and Resilience-based Management  

John M Anderies, Brian H Walker and Ann P Kinzig

Assessing Sustainability of Logging Practices in the Congo Basin’s Managed Forests: the Issue of Commercial Species Recovery  

Alain Karsenty and Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury

Vertical Interplay among Scale-dependent Environmental and Resource Regimes  

Oran Young

Considering Background Condition Effects in Tailoring Tropical Forest Management Systems for Sustainability   

David S Hammond and Roderick J Zagt

The Significance of Context in Community-Based Research: Understanding Discussions about Wildfire in Huslia, Alaska  

Henry P Huntington, Sarah F Trainor, David C Natcher, Orville H Huntington, La'ona DeWilde and F. Stuart Chapin III

Contracts or Scripts? A Critical Review of the Application of Institutional Theories to the Study of Environmental Change  

Samy Hotimsky, Richard Cobb and Alan Bond

From Community-Based Resource Management to Complex Systems: The Scale Issue and Marine Commons  

Fikret Berkes

Can Resilience be Reconciled with Globalization and the Increasingly Complex Conditions of Resource Degradation in Asian Coastal Regions?  

Derek Armitage and Derek Johnson

Bridging the Science–Management Divide: Moving from Unidirectional Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Interfacing and Sharing  

Dirk J Roux, Kevin H Rogers, Harry C Biggs, Peter J Ashton and Anne Sergeant

Science for Place-based Socioecological Management: Lessons from the Maya Forest (Chiapas and Petén)  

David Manuel-Navarrete, Scott Slocombe and Bruce Mitchell

Matching Social and Ecological Systems in Complex Ocean Fisheries  

James A. Wilson

Assessing Risks to Wildlife Populations from Multiple Stressors: Overview of the Problem and Research Needs.  

Wayne R. Munns and Jr.

Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities  

Erik Andersson

Adaptive Management Planning Projects as Conflict Resolution Processes  

Greg Walkerden

Response to: ‘Should Ecosystem Management Involve Active Control of Species Abundances?’  

Don E. Harron

Expanding the Role of Systems Modeling: Considering Byproduct Generation from Biofuel Production  

Kurt A Rosentrater

Resilience—Now More than Ever  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Compromised Rivers: Understanding Historical Human Impacts on Rivers in the Context of Restoration  

Ellen Wohl

Lake Restoration in Terms of Ecological Resilience: a Numerical Study of Biomanipulations under Bistable Conditions  

Takashi Amemiya, Takatoshi Enomoto, A. G. Rossberg, Noriko Takamura and Kiminori Itoh

History and Local Management of a Biodiversity-Rich, Urban Cultural Landscape  

Stephan Barthel, Johan Colding, Thomas Elmqvist and Carl Folke

A Diagrammatic Approach to Understanding Complex Eco-Social Interactions in Kathmandu, Nepal  

R. Cynthia Neudoerffer, David Waltner-Toews, James J. Kay, D. D. Joshi and Mukta S. Tamang

Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being: a Participatory Study in a Mountain Community in Portugal  

Elvira Pereira, Cibele Queiroz, Henrique Miguel Pereira and Luis Vicente

River Rehabilitation for Conservation of Fish Biodiversity in Monsoonal Asia  

David Dudgeon

Applying Retrospective Demographic Models to Assess Sustainable Use: the Maya Management of Xa’an Palms  

Andrea Martínez-Ballesté, Carlos Martorell, Miguel Martínez-Ramos and Javier Caballero

The Politics of Scale, Position, and Place in the Governance of Water Resources in the Mekong Region  

Louis Lebel, Po Garden and Masao Imamura

Changes in Nature’s Balance Sheet: Model-based Estimates of Future Worldwide Ecosystem Services   

Joseph Alcamo, Detlef van Vuuren, Claudia Ringler, Wolfgang Cramer, Toshihiko Masui, Jacqueline Alder and Kerstin Schulze

Concomitant Patterns in Avian and Mammalian Body Length Changes in Denmark  

Niels Martin Schmidt and Per Moestrup Jensen

Integrating Sacred Knowledge for Conservation: Cultures and Landscapes in Southwest China  

Jianchu Xu, Erzi T Ma, Duojie Tashi, Yongshou Fu, Zhi Lu and David Melick

Assessing Ecological Risks at the Landscape Scale: Opportunities and Technical Limitations  

Lawrence A Kapustka

The Political Economy of Cross-Scale Networks in Resource Co-Management  

W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown and Emma L. Tompkins

Uncertainty in Discount Models and Environmental Accounting  

Donald Ludwig, William A. Brock and Stephen R Carpenter

Should Ecosystem Management Involve Active Control of Species Abundances?  

Robert B Lessard, Steven J. D. Martell, Carl J Walters, Timothy E Essington and James F Kitchell

Learning More Effectively from Experience  

Ioan Fazey, John A. Fazey and Della M. A. Fazey

Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Specialization  

Gabriele Bammer

Foghorns to the Future: Using Knowledge and Transdisciplinarity to Navigate Complex Systems  

Georgina N. R. Cundill, Christo Fabricius and Neus Marti

Creating an Adaptive Ecosystem Management Network Among Stakeholders of the Lower Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA  

Susan L. Manring and Sam Pearsall

Interpreting and Correcting Cross-scale Mismatches in Resilience Analysis: a Procedure and Examples from Australia’s Rangelands  

John A Ludwig and Mark D Stafford Smith

Sayer, J. A., and B. M. Campbell. 2004. The Science of Sustainable Development. Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.  

Lisen Schultz

A Note on Creating Robust Resistance Surfaces for Computing Functional Landscape Connectivity  

David M. Theobald

Potential Methodological Flaw in the Examination of the Effects of Logging  

Robert Nasi

On Using Expert-Based Science to “Test” Local Ecological Knowledge  

Ryan K Brook and Stéphane M McLachlan

Accelerating Deforestation in the Congo Basin Can Pose Climate Risks  

Somnath Baidya Roy and Peter D Walsh

Integrating Ecology and Society to Navigate Turbulence  

Lance Gunderson, Carl Folke and Marco Janssen

Elevated Levels of Herbivory in Urban Landscapes: Are Declines in Tree Health More Than an Edge Effect?  

Fiona J Christie and Dieter F Hochuli

Mechanisms Affecting Population Density in Fragmented Habitat  

Lutz Tischendorf, Audrey Grez, Tania Zaviezo and Lenore Fahrig

The Role of Informal Protected Areas in Maintaining Biodiversity in the Western Ghats of India  

Shonil A Bhagwat, Cheppudira G Kushalappa, Paul H Williams and Nick D Brown

Identifying Areas for Field Conservation of Forages in Latin American Disturbed Environments  

Michael Peters, Glenn Hyman and Peter Jones

Industrial Restructuring and Urban Change in the Pittsburgh Region: Developmental, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Trade-offs  

William Haller

Remote Sensing and Ethnobotanical Assessment of the Mangrove Forest Changes in the Navachiste-San Ignacio-Macapule Lagoon Complex, Sinaloa, Mexico  

Rubi Hernández Cornejo, Nico Koedam, Arturo Ruiz Luna, Max Troell and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

Biodiversity and Modernization in Four Coffee-producing Villages of Mexico  

Catherine Potvin, Claire T Owen, Said Melzi and Pierre Beaucage

Lobster and Conch Fisheries of Belize: a History of Sequential Exploitation  

Miriam Huitric

Climate Variability Reveals Complex Events for Tularemia Dynamics in Man and Mammals  

Thomas R Palo, Clas Ahlm and Arne Tärnvik

The Effects of Human Socioeconomic Status and Cultural Characteristics on Urban Patterns of Biodiversity  

Ann P Kinzig, Paige Warren, Chris Martin, Diane Hope and Madhusudan Katti

Evaluating Forest Management in Nepal: Views across Space and Time  

Harini Nagendra, Mukunda Karmacharya and Birendra Karna

The Impacts of Sprawl on Biodiversity: the Ant Fauna of the Lower Florida Keys  

Elizabeth A Forys and Craig R Allen

Fire, Livelihoods, and Environmental Change in the Middle Mahakam Peatlands, East Kalimantan  

Unna Chokkalingam, Iwan Kurniawan and Yayat Ruchiat

Participatory Simulation of Land-Use Changes in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam: the Combined Use of an Agent-Based Model, a Role-Playing Game, and a Geographic Information System  

Jean-Christophe Castella, Tran Ngoc Trung and Stanislas Boissau

Predator-Resembling Aversive Conditioning for Managing Habituated Wildlife  

Elsabé Louise Kloppers, Colleen Cassady St. Clair and Thomas Eric Hurd

Landscape Patterns of Exurban Growth in the USA from 1980 to 2020  

David M Theobald

Ecology, Planning, and River Management in the United States: Some Historical Reflections   

Martin Reuss

Incorporating Science into the Environmental Policy Process: a Case Study from Washington State  

Tessa B. Francis, Kara A. Whittaker, Vivek Shandas, April V. Mills and Jessica K. Graybill

Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Customary Marine Tenure in the Indo-Pacific  

Joshua Cinner

A Perspective on the Evolution of e-Dialogues Concerning Interdisciplinary Research on Sustainable Development in Canada  

Ann Dale

The Evolution of an Ecosystem Approach: the Diamond Schematic and an Adaptive Methodology for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health  

David Waltner-Toews and James Kay

Can Logging in Equatorial Africa Affect Adjacent Parks?  

Somnath Baidya Roy, Peter D Walsh and Jeremy W Lichstein

Finding and Filling the "Cracks" In Resistance Surfaces for Least-cost Modeling  

Kristina Rothley

The Myths of Restoration Ecology  

Robert H Hilderbrand, Adam C Watts and April M Randle

Rethinking the Risk Management Process for Genetically Engineered Crop Varieties in Small-scale, Traditionally Based Agriculture  

David A Cleveland and Daniela Soleri

Collaborative Monitoring of Production and Costs of Timber Harvest Operations in the Brazilian Amazon  

Benno Pokorny and Max Steinbrenner

Evaluating Responses in Complex Adaptive Systems: Insights on Water Management from the Southern African Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (SAfMA)  

Erin Bohensky and Timothy Lynam

Restoring Riparian Ecosystems: The Challenge of Accommodating Variability and Designing Restoration Trajectories  

Francine M. R Hughes, Adrian Colston and J. Owen Mountford

Emergence Unites Ecology and Society  

Ronald L Trosper

Implications of Current Ecological Thinking for Biodiversity Conservation: a Review of the Salient Issues  

Tabatha J Wallington, Richard J Hobbs and Susan A Moore

Ecosystem Services of Tropical Dry Forests: Insights from Long-term Ecological and Social Research on the Pacific Coast of Mexico  

J. Manuel Maass, Patricia Balvanera, Alicia Castillo, Gretchen C Daily, Harold A Mooney, Paul Ehrlich, Mauricio Quesada, Alvaro Miranda, Victor J Jaramillo, Felipe García-Oliva, Angelina Martínez-Yrizar, Helena Cotler, Jorge López-Blanco, Alfredo Pérez-Jiménez, Alberto Búrquez, Clara Tinoco, Gerardo Ceballos, Laura Barraza, Ricardo Ayala and José Sarukhán

Can Local Ecological Knowledge Contribute to Wildlife Management? Case Studies of Migratory Birds  

Grant Gilchrist, Mark Mallory and Flemming Merkel

Tropical Forest Restoration within Galapagos National Park: Application of a State-transition Model  

S. R. Wilkinson, M. A. Naeth and F. K. A. Schmiegelow

Change and Identity in Complex Systems  

Graeme S Cumming and John Collier

Regime Shifts and Ecosystem Service Generation in Swedish Coastal Soft Bottom Habitats: When Resilience is Undesirable  

Max Troell, Leif Pihl, Patrik Rönnbäck, Håkan Wennhage, Tore Söderqvist and Nils Kautsky

Open Source and Open Content: a Framework for Global Collaboration in Social-Ecological Research  

Charles Schweik, Tom Evans and J. Morgan Grove

Polis, G. A., M. E. Power, and G. R. Huxel, editors. 2004. Food Webs at the Landscape Level. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.  

Beatrix Beisner

Gurr et al. 2004. Ecological Engineering for Pest Management: Habitat Manipulation for Arthropods. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.  

Maurizio G Paoletti

Response to: 'Traditional Knowledge in Social–Ecological Systems'  

Ellen J Woodley

Network Structure, Diversity, and Proactive Resilience Building: a Response to Tompkins and Adger  

Lenore Newman and Ann Dale

Integrating Methods for Developing Sustainability Indicators to Facilitate Learning and Action  

Mark Reed, Evan D. G. Fraser, Stephen Morse and Andrew J. Dougill

Invasive Species and the Cultural Keystone Species Concept  

Martin A. Nuñez and Daniel Simberloff

Challenges in Regulating Pesticide Mixtures  

Michael Lydy, Jason Belden, Craig Wheelock, Bruce Hammock and Debra Denton

Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems to Study Urban Quality of Life and Urban Forest Amenities  

Ryan Jensen, Jay Gatrell, Jim Boulton and Bruce Harper

Responses of Emergent Marsh Wetlands in Upstate New York to Variations in Urban Typology  

G. S. Kleppel, Shirley A Madewell and Sarah E Hazzard

The Effects of Urban Sprawl on Birds at Multiple Levels of Biological Organization  

Robert Blair

Assessing Photoinduced Toxicity of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in an Urbanized Estuary  

M. Vo, D.E. Porter, G.T. Chandler, H. Kelsey, S.P. Walker and B. E. Jones

Defining Conservation Priorities Using Fragmentation Forecasts  

David Wear, John Pye and Kurt Riitters

Assessing the Importance of Woodland Landscape Locations for Both Local Communities and Conservation in Gorongosa and Muanza Districts, Sofala Province, Mozambique  

Timothy Lynam, Robert T Cunliffe and Isaac Mapaure

Social-Ecological Transformation for Ecosystem Management: the Development of Adaptive Co-management of a Wetland Landscape in Southern Sweden  

Per Olsson, Carl Folke and Thomas Hahn

Traditional Knowledge in Social–Ecological Systems  

Carl Folke

Heterogeneity in Ethnoecological Knowledge and Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal: Implications for Conservation  

Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Doyle McKey and Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas

Local Management Practices for Dealing with Change and Uncertainty: A Cross-scale Comparison of Cases in Sweden and Tanzania  

Maria Tengö and Kristina Belfrage

Cultural Keystone Species: Implications for Ecological Conservation and Restoration  

Ann Garibaldi and Nancy Turner

Combining Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Monitoring Populations for Co-Management  

Henrik Moller, Fikret Berkes, Philip O'Brian Lyver and Mina Kislalioglu

Learning from Traditional Knowledge of Non-timber Forest Products: Penan Benalui and the Autecology of Aquilaria in Indonesian Borneo  

D. G. Donovan and R. K. Puri

Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand  

Robin Roth

Epistemology, Culture, and Keystone Species  

Robert D Davic

The Nature of Culture and Keystones  

Ann Garibaldi and Nancy Turner

Of Thresholds, Invasions, and Regime Shifts  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Impacts of Type of Fallow and Invasion by Chromolaena odorata on Weed Communities in Crop Fields in Cameroon  

Martine Ngobo, Morag McDonald and Stephan Weise

Markets Drive the Specialization Strategies of Forest Peoples  

Manuel Ruiz-Pérez, Brian Belcher, Ramadhani Achdiawan, Miguel Alexiades, Catherine Aubertin, Javier Caballero, Bruce Campbell, Charles Clement, Tony Cunningham, Alfredo Fantini, Hubert de Foresta, Carmen García Fernández, Krishna H Gautam, Paul Hersch Martínez, Wil de Jong, Koen Kusters, M. Govindan Kutty, Citlalli López, Maoyi Fu, Miguel Angel Martínez Alfaro, T.K. Raghavan Nair, Ousseynou Ndoye, Rafael Ocampo, Nitin Rai, Martin Ricker, Kate Schreckenberg, Sheona Shackleton, Patricia Shanley, Terry Sunderland and Yeo-Chang Youn

Impact of Cropping Methods on Biodiversity in Coffee Agroecosystems in Sumatra, Indonesia  

Andrew N Gillison, Nining Liswanti, Suseno Budidarsono, Meine van Noordwijk and Thomas P Tomich

The Cost of Restoration as a Way of Defining Resilience: a Viability Approach Applied to a Model of Lake Eutrophication  

Sophie Martin

Using the Species–Area Relationship to Set Baseline Targets for Conservation  

Philip Desmet and Richard Cowling

Use of Road Maps in National Assessments of Forest Fragmentation in the United States  

Kurt Riitters, James Wickham and John Coulston

The Role of Systems Modeling for Sustainable Development Policy Analysis: the Case of Bio-Ethanol  

Albert W Chan, Robert T Hoffman and Bert McInnis

Shopping Centers as Panther Habitat: Inferring Animal Locations from Models  

David S Maehr, Jeffery L Larkin and John J Cox

Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems  

Brian Walker, C. S. Holling, Stephen R Carpenter and Ann P Kinzig

Thresholds in Ecological and Social–Ecological Systems: a Developing Database  

Brian Walker and Jacqueline A Meyers

Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change?  

Emma L Tompkins and W. Neil Adger

Assessment and Management of Invasive Alien Predators  

Kirsty Park

Melillo, J. M., C. B. Field, and B. Moldan. 2003. Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles: Global Changes and Human Impacts. SCOPE Report 61. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.  

Tim Moore

Steffen, W., et al. 2004. Global Change and the Earth System: a Planet under Pressure. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA  

Christopher R Pyke

The Energetic Cost of Path Sinuosity Related to Road Density in the Wolf Community of Jasper National Park  

David Lusseau

Challenging Complexities of Change—the First Issue of Ecology and Society  

Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson

Contemporary Visions of Progress in Ecology and Thoughts for the Future  

Brian M Starzomski, Bradley J Cardinale, Jennifer A Dunne, Melinda J Hillery, Carrie A Holt, Meg A Krawchuk, Melissa Lage, Sean McMahon and Michael C Melnychuk

The Hidden Cost of Tourism: Detecting Long-term Effects of Tourism Using Behavioral Information  

David Lusseau

Spatial Complexity, Resilience, and Policy Diversity: Fishing on Lake-rich Landscapes  

Stephen R Carpenter and William A Brock

Path Tortuosity and the Permeability of Roads and Trails to Wolf Movement  

Jesse Whittington, Colleen Cassady St. Clair and George Mercer

Overexploitation of Renewable Resources by Ancient Societies and the Role of Sunk-Cost Effects  

Marco A Janssen and Marten Scheffer

Why Did the Snake Cross the Road? Effects of Roads on Movement and Location of Mates by Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis)  

Richard Shine, Michael Lemaster, Michael Wall, Tracy Langkilde and Robert Mason

Visualizing the Food-Web Effects of Fishing for Tunas in the Pacific Ocean  

Jefferson T Hinke, Isaac C Kaplan, Kerim Aydin, George M Watters, Robert J Olson and James F. K. Kitchell

Impacts of Unsustainable Mahogany Logging in Bolivia and Peru  

Roberto F Kometter, Martha Martinez, Arthur G Blundell, Raymond E Gullison, Marc K Steininger and Richard E Rice

The Role of Fire in Changing Land Use and Livelihoods in Riau-Sumatra  

S. Suyanto, Grahame Applegate, Rizki Pandu Permana, Noviana Khususiyah and Iwan Kurniawan

Potential Effects of Climate Change on Treeline Position in the Swedish Mountains  

Jon Moen, Karin Aune, Lars Edenius and Anders Angerbjörn

Shellfish Fishery Severely Reduces Condition and Survival of Oystercatchers Despite Creation of Large Marine Protected Areas  

Simon Verhulst, Kees Oosterbeek, Anne L Rutten and Bruno J Ens

Galápagos Birds and Diseases: Invasive Pathogens as Threats for Island Species  

Martin Wikelski, Johannes Foufopoulos, Hernan Vargas and Howard Snell

A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective  

John M Anderies, Marco A Janssen and Elinor Ostrom

From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds  

C. S. Holling

Resilience, Adaptive Capacity, and the “Lock-in Trap” of the Western Australian Agricultural Region  

Helen E Allison and Richard J Hobbs

Ecological Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Forest Landscapes: Challenges in the Search for Progress  

Douglas Sheil, Robert Nasi and Brook Johnson

Using Expert Judgment and Stakeholder Values to Evaluate Adaptive Management Options  

Lee Failing, Graham Horn and Paul Higgins

Berkes, F., J. Colding, and C. Folke. 2003. Navigating social-ecological systems: Building resilience for complexity and change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.  

Brian M Starzomski

Multiple Quests for the Best Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Tropical Forest Management: Worthwhile Endeavors or a Smokescreen?  

Francis E Putz

Biodiversity, Urban Areas, and Agriculture: Locating Priority Ecoregions for Conservation  

Taylor Ricketts and Marc Imhoff

Modeling and Prediction of Future Urban Growth in the Charleston Region of South Carolina: a GIS-based Integrated Approach  

Jeffery Allen and Kang Lu

Landscape Change in the Southern Piedmont: Challenges, Solutions, and Uncertainty Across Scales  

Michael J Conroy, Craig Allen, James T Peterson, Lowell, Jr. Pritchard and Clinton T Moore

Synergy Between Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Conservation Science Supports Forest Preservation in Ecuador  

C. Dustin Becker and Kabita Ghimire

Organic Farming and Social-Ecological Resilience: the Alpine Valleys of Sölktäler, Austria  

Rebecka Milestad and Sonja K Hadatsch

Learning as You Journey: Anishinaabe Perception of Social-ecological Environments and Adaptive Learning  

Iain Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes

The Relationship between Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Evolving Cultures, and Wilderness Protection in the Circumpolar North  

Alan Watson, Lilian Alessa and Brian Glaspell

Cultural Foundations for Ecological Restoration on the White Mountain Apache Reservation  

Jonathan Long, Aregai Tecle and Benrita Burnette

A New Ecosystems Ecology for Anthropology  

Thomas Abel and John Richard Stepp

Assessing Future Ecosystem Services: a Case Study of the Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin  

Garry D Peterson, T. Douglas Beard Jr., Beatrix E Beisner, Elena M Bennett, Stephen R Carpenter, Graeme Cumming, C. Lisa Dent and Tanya D Havlicek

Historical Meadow Dynamics in Southwest British Columbia: a Multidisciplinary Analysis  

Dana Lepofsky, Emily K Heyerdahl, Ken Lertzman, Dave Schaepe and Bob Mierendorf

Nature vs. Nurture: the Making of the Montado Ecosystem  

Paulo Miguel Pereira and Manuela Pires da Fonseca

Understanding Complex Human Ecosystems: The Case of Ecotourism on Bonaire  

Thomas Abel

Resilience in Pre-contact Pacific Northwest Social Ecological Systems  

Ronald L Trosper

Conceptual Models as Tools for Communication Across Disciplines  

Marieke Heemskerk, Karen Wilson and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman

The Multiple Use of Tropical Forests by Indigenous Peoples in Mexico: a Case of Adaptive Management  

Víctor M. Toledo, Benjamín F Ortiz-Espejel, Leni Cortés, Patricia Moguel and María de Jesús Ordoñez

New Methodologies for Interdisciplinary Research and Action in an Urban Ecosystem in Chicago  

Alaka Wali, Gillian Darlow, Carol Fialkowski, Madeleine Tudor, Hilary del Campo and Douglas Stotz

Infodynamics, a Developmental Framework for Ecology/Economics  

Stanley N Salthe

Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization  

Joseph A Tainter, T. F. H. Allen, Amanda Little and Thomas W Hoekstra

Remarkable Properties of Human Ecosystems  

John Richard Stepp, Eric C Jones, Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, David Casagrande and Rebecca K Zarger

An End and a Beginning  

Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson

USDA Forest Service Roadless Areas: Potential Biodiversity Conservation Reserves  

Colby Loucks, Nicholas Brown, Andrea Loucks and Kerry Cesareo

Distribution and Causes of Global Forest Fragmentation  

Timothy G Wade, Kurt Riitters, James D Wickham and K. Bruce Jones

Monitoring Current Status of and Trends in Boreal Forest Land Use in Russian Karelia  

Charles Burnett, Andrew Fall, Erkki Tomppo and Risto Kalliola

Social Vulnerability and Ecological Fragility: Building Bridges between Social and Natural Sciences Using the Irish Potato Famine as a Case Study  

Evan D. G. Fraser

Restoration of Midwest Oak Barrens: Structural Manipulation or Process-only?  

Scott Nielsen, Chad Kirschbaum and Alan Haney

Environmental Vulnerability Index for the Island of Tobago, West Indies  

Marissa N Gowrie

Misuse of Checklist Assessments in Endangered Species Recovery Efforts  

Thomas P Good, Tamara K Harms and Mary H Ruckelshaus

Changes in Mammalian Body Length over 175 Years—Adaptations to a Fragmented Landscape?  

Niels Martin Schmidt and Per Moestrup Jensen

Busch, D. E., and J. C. Trexler, editors. 2002. Monitoring Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Evaluating Ecoregional Initiatives. Island Press, Washington, D. C., USA.  

Isaac C Kaplan

Morris, W. F., and D. F. Doak. 2003. Quantitative Conservation Biology: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA  

John Sabo

Bissonette, J. A., and I. Storch, editors. 2003. Landscape Ecology and Resource Management. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.  

Tania Schoennagel

Perrow, M. R., and A. J. Davy, editors. 2002. Handbook of Ecological Restoration. Volume 1: Principles of Restoration; Volume 2: Restoration in Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.  

Anastasia Allen, Suzanne Kercher, Daniel Larkin, Hem-Nalini Morzaria-Luna and Michelle Peach

The Long and the Short of the "View Thing"  

Wayne Tyson

The "View Thing" Outside Academia  

Philip Hoffman

Tropical Multiple Use  

E. N. Anderson

1. Address the what to do. 2. Income generation is first priority  

Dov Pasternak

Weed Control Experience with Restoration  

Richard Worthen

Understanding Fragmentation: Getting closer to 42  

John Bissonette and Ilse Storch

Recent Fire History of Maritime Chaparral Dominated by Arctostaphylos morroensis  

Dennis Odion and Claudia Tyler

Relaxing in Uncertainty  

Wayne Tyson

Toward a “Science of the Long View”  

Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke

Considering Other Consumers: Fisheries, Predators, and Atlantic Herring in the Gulf of Maine  

Andrew J Read and Carrie R Brownstein

Urban Bird Diversity and Landscape Complexity: Species–environment Associations Along a Multiscale Habitat Gradient  

Stephanie Melles, Susan M Glenn and Kathy Martin

Weed Control as a Rationale for Restoration: The Example of Tallgrass Prairie  

Dana M Blumenthal, Nicholas R Jordan and Elizabeth L Svenson

Modeling the Geography of Migratory Pathways and Stopover Habitats for Neotropical Migratory Birds  

Roger Tankersley, Jr. and Kenneth Orvis

Managing the Cumulative Impacts of Land Uses in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin: A Modeling Approach  

Richard, R. Schneider, J. Brad Stelfox, Stan Boutin and Shawn Wasel

Cultural Landscapes as a Methodology for Understanding Natural Resource Management Impacts in the Western United States  

Rebecca S Toupal

Electronic Field Guides and User Communities in the Eco-informatics Revolution  

R. D. Stevenson, William A Haber and Robert Morris

An HTML-based Concept Model of the Dry Savanna Woodland Ecosystem for Teaching and Learning  

Friedrich Patrick Graz

Resilience of Past Landscapes: Resilience Theory, Society, and the Longue Durée  

Charles L Redman and Ann P Kinzig

Hof, J. G., and M. Bevers. 2002. Spatial Optimization in Ecological Applications. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA  

Michael McCarthy

Brookfield, H. 2001. Exploring Agrodiversity. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA.  

Oliver T Coomes

Downes, B. J., et al. 2002. Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, USA.  

Amina Pollard

Egan, D., and E.A. Howell, editors. 2001. The Historical Ecology Handbook: a Restorationist's Guide to Reference Ecosystems. Island Press, Washington. D. C., USA  

Jeanine Pfeiffer and Erin Espeland

Apollonio, S. 2002. Hierarchical Perspectives on Marine Complexities: Searching for Systems in the Gulf of Maine. Complexity in Ecological Systems Series. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA.  

Tim Essington

Examples Help Demonstrate the Mechanisms Underlying the Development of Solutions  

Pedro E Gundel

Child Participation for Conservation of Species and Ecosystems  

Pushp Deep Pandey

Much More than Ecological Scale and “Nature Knowing Best” Hiding in Environmental Decisions  

Stan Rowe

Beyond the Interventionist-Preservationist Duality  

R. Bruce Hull, David P Robertson and Gregory J Buhyoff

Stakeholders in Social-Ecological Systems  

Barry R Noon

Lack of Agreement on Fragmentation Metrics Blurs Correspondence between Fragmentation Experiments and Predicted Effects  

Jan Bogaert

Fire History of Montana de Oro State Park  

David Jefford Ward

Redefining Ecology  

David Jefford Ward

Step Function versus Exponential Distribution  

Donald Robinson

Adapative Management and Trial-and-Error Learning  

Brett Stansfield

Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept  

Robert D Davic

Online Publication Enhances Integration of Current Research in the Classroom  

C. Ashton Drew and George R Hess

In Memory of Mavericks  

Lance Gunderson, Carl Folke, Michelle Lee and C. S. Holling

Extinction Risk in Successional Landscapes Subject to Catastrophic Disturbances  

David Boughton and Urmila Malvadkar

A Generic, Computer-assisted Method for Rapid Vegetation Classification and Survey: Tropical and Temperate Case Studies  

Andrew N Gillison

Are Long Fire-free Periods Needed to Maintain the Endangered, Fire-recruiting Shrub Arctostaphylos morroensis(Ericaceae)?  

Dennis Odion and Claudia Tyler

Long-Term Fire Regime Estimated from Soil Charcoal in Coastal Temperate Rainforests  

Ken Lertzman, Daniel Gavin, Douglas Hallett, Linda Brubaker, Dana Lepofsky and Rolf Mathewes

Assessing Biodiversity from Space: an Example from the Western Ghats, India  

Kamaljit Bawa, Joseph Rose, K.N. Ganeshaiah, Narayani Barve, M.C. Kiran and R. Umashaanker

Landscape Connectivity as a Function of Scale and Organism Vagility in a Real Forested Landscape  

Robert G D'Eon, Susan M Glenn, Ian Parfitt and Marie-Josée Fortin

Cost-effective Sampling Design Applied to Large-scale Monitoring of Boreal Birds  

Matthew Carlson and Fiona Schmiegelow

Assumptions about Ecological Scale and Nature Knowing Best Hiding in Environmental Decisions  

R. Bruce Hull, David P Robertson, Gregory J Buhyoff, Erin Seekamp and Gregory J Buhyoff

The Influence of the Academic Conservation Biology Literature on Endangered Species Recovery Planning  

John Stinchcombe, Leonie C Moyle, Brian R Hudgens, Philip L Bloch, Sathya Chinnadurai and William F Morris

From Satellite Imagery to Peatland Vegetation Diversity: How Reliable Are Habitat Maps?  

Monique F Poulin, Denis Careau, Line Rochefort and André Desrochers

Use of Landscape-level River Signatures in Conservation Planning: a South African Case Study  

Dirk Roux, Ferdy de Moor, Jim Cambray and Helen Barber-James

Fragmentation: Is the Message Clear?  

John A Bissonette and Ilse Storch

The Managed Recession of Lake Okeechobee, Florida: Integrating Science and Natural Resource Management  

Alan Steinman, Karl Havens and Lewis Hornung

The Value of Tropical Forest to Local Communities: Complications, Caveats, and Cautions  

Douglas Sheil and Sven Wunder

Ecological States and the Resilience of Coral Reefs  

Tim McClanahan, Nicholas Polunin and Terry Done

Russell, E. 2001. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, New York, USA.  

Michelle Steen-Adams

Röling, N. G., and M. A. E. Wagemakers, editors. 1998. Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture: Participatory Learning and Adaptive Management in Times of Environmental Uncertainty. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, New York, USA  

Kristen Blann

Dieckmann,U., J. A. J. Metz, M. W. Sabelis, and K. Sigmund, editors. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management. Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.  

Pim Martens

How to Start an International Program to Deal with Invasive Species?  

Martin Nuñez

Monitoring and Enforcement Must Back Any Policy Incentive Pertaining to Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Management  

Pradyumna Amatya and Nicole McCoy

Producers and Consumers of Research  

Wayne Tyson

Consuming Research and Closing the Gap  

Philip Hoffman

Functionally Dominant Herbivores as Keystone Species  

Jeff W Higdon

Herbivores as Keystone Predators  

Robert D Davic

Impacts of Grazing  

Gary Jones

Impacts of Grazing on Semiarid Rangelands  

Brian Walker

Priorities for Priorities: Where to Locate the First FLONAs?  

William Ernest Magnusson

Socioeconomic Concerns  

Natasha Grist

Ruminants and Rodents  

Gary Jones

Reflections on Integration, Interaction, and Community  

Jana Sebelova

A Kaleidoscope of Change  

Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson

Teaching and Learning Ecological Modeling over the Web: a Collaborative Approach  

Alexey Voinov

Priority Areas for Establishing National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon  

Adalberto Veríssimo, Mark A Cochrane, Carlos Souza Jr. and Rodney Salomão

A Fractal Landscape Realizer for Generating Synthetic Maps  

William Hargrove, Forrest M Hoffman and Paul M Schwartz

A Framework for Evaluating Land Use Planning Alternatives: Protecting Biodiversity on Private Land  

David Theobald and N. Thompson Hobbs

Habitat Shape, Species Invasions, and Reserve Design: Insights from Simple Models  

Graeme Cumming

On Spatial Resolution in Habitat Models: Can Small-scale Forest Structure Explain Capercaillie Numbers?  

Ilse Storch

Estimating Resilience Across Landscapes  

Garry D Peterson

A Theoretical Approach to Tourism Sustainability  

Renato Casagrandi and Sergio Rinaldi

Contribution of Inbreeding to Extinction Risk in Threatened Species  

Barry W Brook, David W Tonkyn, Julian J O'Grady and Richard Frankham

ConserveOnline and Fortaleza: Sharing Conservation Success and Failure on the Internet  

Jonathan Adams, Carrie Brugger, Yi-Lun Ding and Marlon Flores

A Near-extinction Event in Lynx: Do Microsatellite Data Tell the Tale?  

Goran Spong and Linda Hellborg

Patch Size and Population Density: the Effect of Immigration Behavior  

Jeff Bowman, Naomi Cappuccino and Lenore Fahrig

Resilience Management in Social-ecological Systems: a Working Hypothesis for a Participatory Approach  

Brian Walker, Stephen R Carpenter, John M Anderies, Nick Abel, Graeme Cumming, Marco A Janssen, Louis Lebel, Jon Norberg, Garry D Peterson and Rusty Pritchard

Biological Invasion Risks and the Public Good: an Economic Perspective  

Charles Perrings, Mark Williamson, Edward B Barbier, Doriana Delfino, Silvana Dalmazzone, Jason Shogren, Peter Simmons and Andrew Watkinson

Landcare on the Poverty-Protection Interface in an Asian Watershed   

Dennis P Garrity, Victor B Amoroso, Samuel Koffa, Delia Catacutan, Gladys Buenavista, Paul Fay and William Dar

Human-caused Disturbance Stimuli as a Form of Predation Risk  

Alejandro Frid and Lawrence M Dill

Panthers and Forests in South Florida: an Ecological Perspective  

E. Jane Comiskey, Oron L Bass, Jr., Louis J Gross, Roy T McBride and Rene Salinas

Gardner, R. H., W. M. Kemp, V. S. Kennedy, and J. E. Petersen, editors. 2001. Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. Columbia University Press, New York, NY, USA  

Beatrix E Beisner

Acceptance, Rejection, and the Tightening Feedback Loop  

Wayne Tyson

Beyond Academia  

Tom Elliott

Questionable Methods  

Gary Jones

Our Paper on "Biomass Partitioning Following Defoliation of Annual and Perennial Mediterranean Grasses"  

Mario Gutman

The Context of Grassland Defoliation  

Jeffrey Fehmi

Getting a Purchase on Social Values: Further Commentary on Sustainability, A Marketing Perspective  

Peter Bromley

Scaling Natal Dispersal Distances: Confounding Factors  

Audrey L Mayer, Kenneth J Petren, Alicia Shelton, Michael J Cramer, Brian Keane, Jeffrey Markert, Ben Heath, Eric Maurer, J. Andrew Roberts and Brandon Tonnis

More Globally Coordinated Approach Needed to Control Aliens  

Ross Chapman

Overlooked "Keystone" Ideas  

Wayne Tyson

Conservation of Places Versus Processes  

Kevin Trimble

The Kyoto Protocol Is Cost-effective  

Marino Gatto, Andrea Caizzi, Luca Rizzi and Giulio A De Leo

Gender Economics of the Kyoto Protocol  

Neha Pandey

Sustainability Science for Tropical Forests  

Deep Narayan Pandey

Building Bridges across the Gap  

Philip Hoffman

The Unexpected Result Is Not Always a Failure  

Ron Fink

A New Phase  

C. S. Holling

Introduction to the Special Feature: Educating for Integration and Sustainability  

Clifton Lee Gass

Research to Integrate Productivity Enhancement, Environmental Protection, and Human Development  

Jeffrey A Sayer and Bruce Campbell

The Adaptive Decision-Making Process as a Tool for Integrated Natural Resource Management: Focus, Attitudes, and Approach  

Padma Lal, Hazel Lim-Applegate and Michelle C Scoccimarro

Biomass Partitioning Following Defoliation of Annual and Perennial Mediterranean Grasses  

Mario Gutman, Imanuel Noy-Meir, Daniel C Pluda, No'am Seligman, Steven Rothman and Marcelo Sternberg

Finding a PATH toward Scientific Collaboration: Insights from the Columbia River Basin  

David Marmorek and Calvin Peters

Cumulative Effects of Barriers on the Movements of Forest Birds  

Marc Bélisle and Colleen Cassady St. Clair

Tropical Forest Reorganization after Cyclone and Fire Disturbance in Samoa: Remnant Trees as Biological Legacies  

Thomas Elmqvist, Maria Wall, Anna-Lena Berggren, Lisa Blix, Åsa Fritioff and Ulrika Rinman

Assessing the Performance of Natural Resource Systems  

Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey A Sayer, Peter Frost, Sonja Vermeulen, Manuel Ruiz-Pérez, Tony Cunningham and Ravi Prabhu

Adapting Science to Adaptive Managers: Spidergrams, Belief Models, and Multi-agent Systems Modeling  

Timothy Lynam, Francois Bousquet, Christophe Le Page, P. d'Aquino, Olivier Barreteau, Frank C Chinembiri and Bright Mombeshora

Spatial Modeling of Risk in Natural Resource Management  

Peter Jones and Philip K Thornton

Fuzzy Philosophy: A Foundation for Interneted Ecology?   

Wayne Tyson

GPS and GIS Methods in an African Rain Forest: Applications to Tropical Ecology and Conservation  

Nathaniel J Dominy and Brean Duncan

Design and Analysis of Conservation Projects in Latin America: an Integrative Approach to Training  

Carlos Galindo-Leal

Lessons from the Physics Education Reform Effort  

Richard Hake

Integrated Natural Resource Management: Approaches and Lessons from the Himalaya   

K. G. Saxena, K.S. Rao, K. K. C Sen, R. K. Maikhuri and R. L. Semwal

Rediscovering Rites of Passage: Education, Transformation, and the Transition to Sustainability  

David Adam Lertzman

Delivering the Goods: Scaling out Results of Natural Resource Management Research   

Larry Harrington, Jeffrey White, Peter Grace, David Hodson, Agnes Dewi Hartkamp, Christopher Vaughan and Craig Meisner

Integrating Research on Food and the Environment: an Exit Strategy from the Rational Fool Syndrome in Agricultural Science   

Jacqueline A Ashby

Success Factors in Integrated Natural Resource Management R&D: Lessons from Practice  

Jürgen Hagmann, Edward Chuma, Kuda Murwira, Mike Connolly and Paolo Ficarelli

The Reflective Practitioner: Learning and Teaching in Community-based Forest Management  

D’Arcy Davis-Case

Adapting to Climate Change: Social-Ecological Resilience in a Canadian Western Arctic Community  

Fikret Berkes and Dyanna Jolly

Assessing Viability and Sustainability: a Systems-based Approach for Deriving Comprehensive Indicator Sets  

Hartmut Bossel

Blending “Hard” and “Soft” Science: the “Follow-the-Technology” Approach to Catalyzing and Evaluating Technology Change  

Boru Douthwaite, Nicoline C de Haan, Victor Manyong and Dyno Keatinge

Reflections on Integration, Interaction, and Community: the Science One Program and Beyond  

Jülyet Aksiyote Benbasat and Clifton Lee Gass

Assessing the Impact of Integrated Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Experiences   

María Verónica Gottret and Douglas C White

Negotiation Support Models for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Tropical Forest Margins  

Meine van Noordwijk, Thomas P Tomich and Bruno Verbist

The Question of Scale in Integrated Natural Resource Management  

Chris Lovell, Alois Mandondo and Patrick Moriarty

Coughenour, C. M., and S. Chamala. 2000. Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, USA.  

Kristen Blann

Cronk, Q. C. B., and J. L. Fuller. 2001. Plant Invaders: the Threat to Natural Ecosystems. Earthscan Publications, London, UK.  

Doria Gordon

G. Gigerenzer, P. M. Todd, and the ABC Research Group. 2000. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.  

John M Anderies

Barraclough, S. L., and K. B. Ghimire. 2000. Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation: Poverty, International Trade and Land Use. Earthscan, Sterling, Virginia, USA  

Susan E Mannon

Crucial Distinctions: Process and Product  

Wayne Tyson

Some Reservations about the Gap Concept  

Jack Stilgoe

In Search of Intelligent Life ...  

Stan Rowe

Path Dependence as an Example of a Dysfunctional Panarchy  

Jack Mathias

Conservation of Native Pollinators via Honeybee Conservation  

Tamar Keasar

Levin Has It Right  

Clifford Duke

Conservation Ecology, 2001: A Journal for Both Authors and Readers  

C. S. Holling

Crisis and Transformation  

Don Ludwig

The Native Bee Fauna of Carlinville, Illinois, Revisited After 75 Years: a Case for Persistence  

John C Marlin and Wallace E LaBerge

Communicating Ecological Indicators to Decision Makers and the Public  

Andrew Schiller, Carolyn T Hunsaker, Michael A Kane, Amy K Wolfe, Virginia H Dale, Glenn W Suter, Clifford S Russell, Georgine Pion, Molly H Jensen and Victoria C Konar

Butterfly Species Richness Patterns in Canada: Energy, Heterogeneity, and the Potential Consequences of Climate Change  

Jeremy T Kerr

Ecosystems and Immune Systems: Hierarchical Response Provides Resilience against Invasions  

Craig Allen

Ecosystems and Immune Systems: Useful Analogy or Stretching a Metaphor?  

Brian Walker

Immune Systems and Ecosystems  

Simon A Levin

The Sorcerer’s Tool: Technology as Servant or Master?  

Michael Ellerbrock

Exploring the Linkages between Climate Change and Sustainable Development: A Challenge for Transdisciplinary Research  

Mohan Munasinghe

An Immune System Perspective on Ecosystem Management  

Marco A Janssen

Causes and Extent of Declines among Native North American Invertebrate Pollinators: Detection, Evidence, and Consequences  

James H Cane and Vincent J Tepedino

Ups and Downs in Pollinator Populations: When is there a Decline?  

David Ward Roubik

Variation in Native Bee Faunas and its Implications for Detecting Community Changes  

Neal M Williams, Robert L Minckley and Fernando A Silveira

North American Dipteran Pollinators: Assessing Their Value and Conservation Status  

Carol Ann Kearns

Habitat Fragmentation and Native Bees: a Premature Verdict?  

James H Cane

Population Genetic Aspects of Pollinator Decline  

Laurence Packer and Robin Owen

Using Pollination Deficits to Infer Pollinator Declines: Can Theory Guide Us?  

James D Thomson

The Economic Impacts of Pollinator Declines: An Approach to Assessing the Consequences  

Peter G Kevan and Truman P Phillips

A. Wood, P. Stedman-Edwards, and J. Mang, editors. 2000. The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss. World Wildlife Fund and Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, UK.  

Marieke Heemskerk

Fixed Visions and Visionaries  

Jaswinder S Sandhu

Theories, Computer Models, and Sustainable Futures  

Hsin Chi

Path Dependence, Escaping Sustained Yield  

Bill Henderson

Theories for Sustainable Futures  

C. S. Holling

Global-Scale Patterns of Forest Fragmentation  

Kurt Riitters, James D Wickham, Robert O'Neill, K. Bruce Jones and Elizabeth Smith

Calopteryx Damselfly Dispersions Arising from Multiscale Responses to Landscape Structure  

Ian Jonsen and Philip D Taylor

Marsh Creation in a Northern Pacific Estuary: Is Thirteen Years of Monitoring Vegetation Dynamics Enough?  

Neil K Dawe, Gary E Bradfield, W. Sean Boyd, Donald E. C. Trethewey and A. Nana Zolbrod

Ecosystem Modeling for Evaluation of Adaptive Management Policies in the Grand Canyon  

Carl J Walters, Josh Korman, Lawrence E Stevens and Barry Gold

Adaptive Ecosystem Management in the Pacific Northwest: a Case Study from Coastal Oregon  

Andrew N Gray

A Classification of Collaborative Management Methods  

Dana M Blumenthal and Jean-Luc Jannink

Ecologists as the New Management Elite?  

Johan Colding

Complex Issues: Complex Methods?  

Ernesto Ráez-Luna

Emery Roe on Complexity: Avoiding Triangulation-Strangulation  

K. Michael Bessey

Author’s Response to Reviews  

Emery Roe

Bonnicksen, T. M. 2000. America's Ancient Forests: From the Ice Age to the Age of Discovery. Wiley, New York.  

John Warren Williams

Berkes, F., and C. Folke, editors. 1998. Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience. Cambridge University Press, New York.  

Emmanuel Raufflet

Reasoning without Data, Default Assumptions  

Michael Tillotson

Suspect Visions  

Wayne Tyson

God, Nature, and Interpretation  

Wayne Tyson

On Nature, Models, and Simplicity  

Michael Baumann

Public Attitudes to GM Technology and Public Policy Comments  

Shane Morris

A Marketing Professional's Perspective  

Randall Luttenberg

Getting the "Policy Implications" into Policy  

George Robinson

The Risks and Benefits of Genetically Modified Crops: A Multidisciplinary Perspective  

Garry D Peterson, Saul Cunningham, Lisa Deutsch, Jon Erickson, Allyson Quinlan, Ernesto Ráez-Luna, Robert Tinch, Max Troell, Peter Woodbury and Scot Zens

Toward a Panther-centered View of the Forests of South Florida  

Andrew J Kerkhoff, Bruce T Milne and David S Maehr

Differences and Congruencies between PVA Packages: the Importance of Sex Ratio for Predictions of Extinction Risk  

Barry W Brook, Mark A Burgman and Richard Frankham

Spatial Dynamics of Sea Turtle Abundance and Shrimping Intensity in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico  

Carrie J McDaniel, Larry B Crowder and Jeffery A Priddy

Scaling of Natal Dispersal Distances in Terrestrial Birds and Mammals  

Glenn D Sutherland, Alton S Harestad, Karen Price and Ken Lertzman

Comments on "Cross-cultural Conflicts in Fire Management in Northern Australia: Not so Black and White" by Alan Andersen  

Thomas Elmqvist

Drivers of Resource Management Practices - Fire in the Belly? Comments on "Cross-cultural Conflicts in Fire Management in Northern Australia: Not so Black and White" by Alan Andersen  

David H. M. Cumming

Genetically Modified Crops and the Agroecosystem: Comments on "Genetically Modified Crops: Risks and Promise" by Gordon Conway  

David Pimentel

Comments on "Genetically Modified Crops: Risks and Promise" by Gordon Conway  

Madhav Gadgil

GM Foods in the UK between 1996 and 1999: Comments on "Genetically Modified Crops: Risks and Promise" by Gordon Conway  

John R Krebs

Genetically Modified Organisms at the Crossroads: Comments on "Genetically Modified Crops: Risks and Promise" by Gordon Conway  

Brian Walker and Mark Lonsdale

The Elephant that is Biotechnology: Comments on "Genetically Modified Crops: Risks and Promise" by Gordon Conway  

Norman Ellstrand

Visions of Alternative (Unpredictable) Futures and Their Use in Policy Analysis  

Robert Costanza

Policy Dialogue: Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture  

C. S. Holling

Genetically Modified Crops: Risks and Promise  

Gordon Conway

Uncertainty as Information: Narrowing the Science-policy Gap  

G. A. Bradshaw and Jeffrey G Borchers

National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development. 1999. Our Common Journey, a Transition Toward Sustainability. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C..  

Hartmut Bossel

de Geus, M. 1999. Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society. International Books, Utrecht, The Netherlands.  

Leslie Paul Thiele

The Value of Visions and Art of Visionaries  

Kevin Rogers, Dirk Roux and Harry Biggs

Ecological Dominants vs. Keystone Species: A Call for Reason  

Robert D Davic

Human Agency, External Factors, and Discourse  

James Evans

Naturalistic Golf Courses: Stepping Stones for Nature  

Max Terman

The "Yellow Pages of Life": On-line Catalogue of World Biodiversity  

Robert D Davic

Advancing Toward “Eden”  

Wayne Tyson

Are There Scientific Criteria for Putting Short-term Conservation Ahead of Learning? No.  

Richard A Hinrichsen

Scientific Research or Advocacy? Emotive Labels and Selection Bias Confound Survey Results  

Jerome K Vanclay

Comments on Costanza Article  

Timothy D Mead

Lessons for Sustaining Ecological Science and Policy through the Internet  

C. S. Holling

Linkages Among Water Vapor Flows, Food Production, and Terrestrial Ecosystem Services  

Johan Rockström, Line Gordon, Carl Folke, Malin Falkenmark and Maria Engwall

Managing the Resilience of Lakes: A Multi-agent Modeling Approach  

Marco A Janssen and Stephen R Carpenter

Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management  

Stephen R Carpenter, William Brock and Paul Hanson

Resilient Management: Comments on "Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management" by S. R. Carpenter, W. A. Brock, and P. Hanson.  

Lance Gunderson

Towards a Science of Ecological Management  

Simon A Levin

The Power of Politics in Agent-based Models of Ecosystem Management: Comment on "Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management" by S. R. Carpenter, W. A. Brock, and P. Hanson  

Lowell, Jr. Pritchard and Steven Sanderson

Comment on "Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management" by S. R. Carpenter, W. A. Brock, and P. Hanson  

Charles Perrings

Searching Explanations of Nature in the Mirror World of Math  

Marten Scheffer

The Role of Adaptive Management as an Operational Approach for Resource Management Agencies  

Barry L Johnson

Introduction to the Special Feature: Just Complex Enough for Understanding; Just Simple Enough for Communication  

C. S. Holling

The Mathematical Biology of Human Infections  

Martin A Nowak

Appraising Adaptive Management  

Kai N Lee

Developing a Scientific Basis for Managing Earth's Life Support Systems  

Gretchen C Daily

Factors in Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Co-management in British Columbia Salmon Fisheries  

Evelyn Pinkerton

Adaptive Analysis of Locally Complex Systems in a Globally Complex World  

Timothy Lynam

Power Corrupts - Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely...  

Harini Nagendra

No Vision = Wandering in the Wilderness  

Mel Kotyk

Complex Models and the Conjunction Fallacy: A Caution  

Eric Schauber

Visions: A Personal Essay  

C. S. Holling

Invasion of Matrix Species in Small Habitat Patches  

Stefan Ås

Adaptive Management of the Water Cycle on the Urban Fringe: Three Australian Case Studies  

Alistair Gilmour, Greg Walkerden and James Scandol

Commonness and Rarity: Theory and Application of a New Model to Mediterranean Montane Grasslands  

José M. Rey Benayas, Samuel M Scheiner, Manuel García Sánchez-Colomer and Catherine Levassor

Integrating Citizens in Adaptive Management: A Propositional Analysis  

Bruce Shindler and Kristin Aldred Cheek

Animal Dispersal in Fragmented Habitat: Measuring Habitat Connectivity, Corridor Use, and Dispersal Mortality  

Lesley Brooker, Michael Brooker and Peter Cale

Assessing Extinction Risk: Integrating Genetic Information  

Jason Dunham, Mary Peacock, C. Richard Tracy, Jennifer Nielsen and Gary Vinyard

Resilience, Flexibility and Adaptive Management - - Antidotes for Spurious Certitude?  

Lance Gunderson

Protocol and Practice in the Adaptive Management of Waterfowl Harvests  

Fred Johnson and Ken Williams

Cross-cultural Conflicts in Fire Management in Northern Australia: Not so Black and White  

Alan Andersen

Introduction to the Special Feature: Adaptive Management - Scientifically Sound, Socially Challenged?  

Barry L Johnson

Sustainability for the Planet: A Marketing Perspective  

Gail Whiteman

Conservation Policy in Time and Space: Lessons from Divergent Approaches to Salvage Logging on Public Lands  

George Robinson and Jeffrey Zappieri

Asking the Right Question  

Clifford Duke

Two Cultures: Not Unique to Ecology  

Marc A Saner

On the nature of keystone species  

Jerome Vanclay

Keystone Species: What Are We Talking About?  

Stefano Piraino and Giovanni Fanelli

Novelty, Rigor, and Diversity  

C. S. Holling

Two Cultures of Ecology  

C. S. Holling

Local vs. Landscape Effects of Woody Field Borders as Barriers to Crop Pest Movement  

Rod Bhar and Lenore Fahrig

Sustainability and Resilience in Boreal Regions: Sources and Consequences of Variability  

John Pastor, Steve Light and Laurie Sovell

Monitoring Impacts of Natural Resource Extraction on Lemurs of the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar  

Adina Merenlender, Claire Kremen, Marius Rakotondratsima and Andrew Weiss

Modeling Forest Succession among Ecological Land Units in Northern Minnesota  

George Host and John Pastor

In Situ Behavioral Response of Common Loons Associated with Elevated Mercury (Hg) Exposure  

Joseph J Nocera and Philip D Taylor

Winter Responses of Forest Birds to Habitat Corridors and Gaps  

Colleen Cassady St. Clair, Marc Bélisle, André Desrochers and Susan Hannon

Tracking the Genetic Effects of Global Warming: Drosophila and Other Model Systems  

Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles, Miguel A Rodríguez and Samuel M Scheiner

Variability in Fire Frequency and Forest Composition in Canada's Southeastern Boreal Forest: A Challenge for Sustainable Forest Management  

Yves Bergeron, Pierre J.H. Richard, Christopher Carcaillet, Sylvie Gauthier, Mike Flannigan and Yves T Prairie

Disturbance Severity and Threshold Responses in the Boreal Forest  

Lee E Frelich and Peter B Reich

Silviculture's Role in Managing Boreal Forests  

Russell T Graham and Theresa B Jain

Bridging the Gap Between Economics and Ecology  

Larry Leefers and Gem Castillo

Incentive Systems That Support Sustainability: A First Nations Example  

Ronald L Trosper

An Evaluation of Integrated Climate Protection Policies for the United States  

Stephen Bernow and Max Duckworth

Sustaining Aquatic Ecosystems in Boreal Regions  

David Schindler

Ecological Sustainability of Birds in Boreal Forests  

Gerald Niemi, JoAnn Hanowski, Pekka Helle, Robert Howe, Mikko Mönkkönen, Lisa Venier and Daniel Welsh

Mammalian Herbivores in the Boreal Forests: Their Numerical Fluctuations and Use by Man  

Kjell Danell, Tomas Willebrand and Leonid Baskin

Sustainable Development of the Boreal Forest: Interaction of Ecological, Social, and Business Feedbacks  

F. Stuart Chapin and Gail Whiteman

Managing Science/Management Partnerships: A Challenge of Adaptive Management  

Kevin Rogers

Determining Keystone Species  

Larisa Khanina

Conversations  

C. S. Holling

Assessment of Biomass Burning in the Conterminous United States  

Bill Leenhouts

Climate and Tickborne Encephalitis  

Elisabet Lindgren

Impacts on Canadian Competitiveness of International Climate Change Mitigation  

Christopher Holling and Robin Somerville

Economics and Ecology: The Need for Detente in Conservation Ecology  

Robert V O'Neill, James R Kahn and Clifford S Russell

Embracing Uncertainty: The Interface of Bayesian Statistics and Cognitive Psychology  

Judith L Anderson

Politics  

Michael Tillotson

Big Problems, Small Science  

Jeff Houlahan

Keystone Species and Academic-Agency Collaboration  

Stephen R Carpenter

Regional Responses to Global Change  

C. S. Holling

Uncertainty, Climate Change, and Adaptive Management  

Garry Peterson, Giulio A De Leo, Jessica J Hellmann, Marco A Janssen, Ann Kinzig, Jay R Malcolm, Karen L O'Brien, Shealagh E Pope, Dale S Rothman, Elena Shevliakova and Robert R.T. Tinch

Challenges in adaptive management of riparian and coastal ecosystems  

Carl Walters

An Overview of the Implications of Global Change for Natural and Managed Terrestrial Ecosystems  

Brian Walker and Will Steffen

The Inaugural Issue of Conservation Ecology  

C. S. Holling

Detecting Critical Scales in Fragmented Landscapes  

Timothy Keitt, Dean L Urban and Bruce T Milne

Automated Techniques for the Qualitative Analysis of Ecological Models: Continuous Models  

Lynn van Coller

The Relations Among Threatened Species, Their Protection, and Taboos  

Johan Colding and Carl Folke

Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience  

Don Ludwig, Brian Walker and C. S. Holling

Using Ants as bioindicators: Multiscale Issues in Ant Community Ecology  

Alan Andersen

Advocacy, Science, Policy, and Life in the Real World  

Gordon Baskerville

Resilience and Restoration of Lakes  

Stephen R Carpenter and Kathryn L Cottingham

The Multifaceted Aspects of Ecosystem Integrity  

Giulio A De Leo and Simon A Levin

Commentary on Gordon Baskerville's Perspective  

Jerry Franklin

Commentary on Gordon Baskerville's Perspective  

Koichi Fujii

Commentary on Gordon Baskerville's Perspective  

Gilberto C Gallopin

Management and the Problem of Scale  

Simon A Levin

Bridging the Gap between Ecology and Resource Management  

Ron Pulliam

Commentary on Gordon Baskerville's Perspective  

Brian Walker

Scientific Responsibility and Responsible Ecology  

John A Wiens

Ecology, Ethics, and Advocacy  

Garry Peterson, Shealagh E Pope, Giulio Alessandro De Leo, Marco A Janssen, Jay R Malcolm, Jennifer M Parody, Greg Hood and Malcolm North