Operationalization of the ecosystem services (ES) concept for improved natural resource
management and decision support cannot, thus far, be rated as satisfactory. Participation of …

The social-ecological systems (SES) perspective stems from the need to rethink the ways
humans relate to the environment, given the evidence that conventional conservation and …

The growing understanding that transdisciplinary research is required for sustainable land
management (ie, co-production of knowledge by researchers and land managers) stems …

The International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network comprises> 600
scientific groups conducting site-based research within 40 countries. Its mission includes …

Concerns about ecological degradation and social inequalities have prompted increasing
calls for stewardship in the social–ecological systems and sustainability science literature …

A recurrent question in landscape ecology has been: What is at the cutting-edge of research
and application? The most thought-provoking debates and contributions in landscape …

Landscape ecology is an essential part of sustainability science (Forman 1990; Wu 2006,
2010a, b; Naveh 2007; Musacchio 2009, 2011), but so are several other disciplines, some …

Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient
consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing …

Facing the challenges of environmental and social changes, sustainable management of
ecosystem services is a worldwide priority. The Programme on Ecosystem Change and …

We discuss the epistemological aspects of social-ecological systems (SES) analysis,
particularly in relation to coastal and marine research and the integrated coastal zone …