Uncertainty can take many forms, can be represented in many ways, and can have important
implications in decision-making and policy development. This book provides a rigorous …

The concept of resilience has captured the imagination of urbanists and city managers.
While the literature on urban and regional resilience has proliferated, our understanding of …

Changes in land use and land cover, water systems, and climate are inextricably linked, and
their combined stresses have had severe impacts in many regions worldwide. Integrated …

By examining three policy-oriented research projects funded by the European Union
(RAMSES, RESIN, SMR) the paper critically discusses operationalization efforts of urban …

Organic sheep milk production under a protected designation of origin for Roquefort cheese
in Aveyron, France, has developed over the past several years. This niche market provides …

Water resource managers contend with and leverage uncertainty in complex decision-
making processes. Uncertainty has passive characteristics (context and type), but it is also …

In classic resilience thinking, there is an implicit focus on controlling functional variation to
maintain system stability. Modern approaches to resilience thinking deal with complex …

The continuing unsustainable pattern of human behavior creates enormous risks of
increasingly frequent and severe disasters impacting the complex social-ecological …

This thesis investigates the application of resilience thinking in different real-world settings
and research-practice interfaces, for example in the context of natural resource …

This commentary discusses strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in the context of
global environmental change and presents a brief overview of the science of social …