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| Ralf Yorque Memorial Competition Announcement "Novel Approaches of Integrative Science for the Future" Ecology and Society invites our 11,000+ subscribers and all other readers to participate in a manuscript competition that exploits novel ways of performing integrative science and policy research. Transdisciplinary science is often promoted in words and not in practice. Young scholars derive many incentives to specialize in certain disciplines, and experience few incentives to be creative in combining insights from various scientific disciplines and performing science in nontraditional ways. We ask our readers to be part of an effort to stimulate novelty and creativity of new ways of performing science. All Ecology and Society submissions will be considered for the Ralf Yorque Memorial competition. A prize of 500 Euro and a place on the main index page of the journal will be awarded to the author(s) of the most novel paper that integrates different streams of science to assess fundamental questions in the ecological, political, and social foundations for sustainable social-ecological systems. Manuscript submissions, while exploring new ways of science, should include a balance of novelty and content. Each submission will be peer-reviewed for content and assessed by the Ecology and Society Editorial Board for novelty.. We are grateful to the Foundation of Scientific Symbiosis www.scientificsymbiosis.org for providing the resources to finance this competition. 2012: Suitability of local resource management practices based on supernatural enforcement mechanisms in the local social-cultural context. 2011: Rebuilding resilience in the Sahel: regreening in the Maradi and Zinder regions of Niger 2010: Robustness, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in small-scale social-ecological systems: the Pumpa Irrigation system in Nepal 2009: Evaluating Functional Fit between a Set of Institutions and an Ecosystem 2008: From Invisibility to Transparency: Identifying the Implications 2007: Expert and Generalist Local Knowledge about Land-cover Change on South Africa’s Wild Coast: Can Local Ecological Knowledge Add Value to Science? 2006: Companion Modeling, Conflict Resolution, and Institution Building: Sharing Irrigation Water in the Lingmuteychu Watershed, Bhutan 2005: Understanding the stability of forest reserve boundaries in the West Mengo region of Uganda |