Agricultural intensification is required to feed the growing and increasingly demanding
human population. Intensification is associated with increasing use of resources, applied as …

Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly
called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in …

Greening roofs or walls to cool down city areas during summer, to capture storm water, to
abate pollution, and to increase human well-being while enhancing biodiversity: nature …

Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the
capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological …

Participatory scenario planning (PSP) is an increasingly popular tool in place-based
environmental research for evaluating alternative futures of social-ecological systems …

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human–environment relations,
and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power? Is resilience a …

The concept of panarchy provides a framework that characterizes complex systems of
people and nature as dynamically organized and structured within and across scales of …

Food systems are under increasing pressure to produce sufficient food for the global
population, decrease the environmental impacts of production, and buffer against complex …

This article synthesizes and compares environmental governance theories. For each theory
we outline its main tenets, claims, origin, and supporting literature. We then group the …

Cities and settlements (C&S) by the sea are on the frontline of climate change—they face
climate-compounded risks that are amongst the highest, but are a key source of innovation …