In recent years there have been increasing calls for impact assessment to better recognise
the interconnectedness of the various components of socio-ecological systems, and to adopt …

The United Nations (UN) recently declared 2021 to 2030 the Decade on Ecosystem
Restoration. Against this background, we review recent social-ecological systems research …

Management decisions for natural resources are not made in a vacuum; the environmental
and ecological conditions as well as the socioeconomic and political contexts affect goals …

The discipline of ecology has evolved through several phases as it has developed and
defined itself and its relationship with human society. While it initially had little to do with …

Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries
and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals and global …

Environmental governance is more effective when the scales of ecological processes are
well matched with the human institutions charged with managing human–environment …

Although the growing field of research on social–ecological systems (SESs) deals with some
of the most important questions of our time, the study of SESs lacks an overarching …

The fundamental point of this paper is that constructs such as system identity stability and
changes (tips, transitions, transformations from one identity to another), are subjectively …

Sociological insights are often underutilized in sustainability science. To further strengthen
its commitment to interdisciplinary problem-driven, solutions-oriented research …

In this special issue, landscapes are conceptualized as social-ecological systems resulting
from the interaction between societal and natural processes. Landscapes produce services …