Governments are no longer the most important source of decision making in the
environmental field. Instead, new actors are playing critical decision‐making roles, and new …

The circulation of seed among farmers is central to agrobiodiversity conservation and
dynamics. Agrobiodiversity, the diversity of agricultural systems from genes to varieties and …

The need to adapt to climate change is now widely recognised as evidence of its impacts on
social and natural systems grows and greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated. Yet …

Despite growing interest and investment in ecosystem services across global science and
policy arenas, it remains unclear how ecosystem services–and particularly changes in those …

Social learning has become a central theme in natural resource management. This growing
interest is underpinned by a number of assertions about the outcomes of social learning …

Growing a resilient landscape depends heavily on finding an appropriate match between
the scales of demands on ecosystems by human societies and the scales at which …

Alternative livelihood project (ALP) is a widely used term for interventions that aim to reduce
the prevalence of activities deemed to be environmentally damaging by substituting them …

Aim Decision‐making for conservation management often involves evaluating risks in the
face of environmental uncertainty. Models support decision‐making by (1) synthesizing …

Social–ecological systems research suffers from a disconnect between hierarchical (top-
down or bottom-up) and network (peer-to-peer) analyses. The concept of the heterarchy …

In acknowledgement of the complexity of environmental challenges, research on learning in
environmental policy has grown substantially over the past two decades across a range of …