Understanding the resilience of social-ecological systems can advance our ability to
transform environmental governance and achieve ecologically sustainable and socially just …

Several frameworks have been developed to assess the resilience of social-ecological
systems, but most require substantial data inputs, time, and technical expertise …

We developed an empirical approach to consider social-ecological system change and
transformation by drawing on resource users' knowledge and perceptions. We applied this …

The Adaptive Water Governance project is an interdisciplinary collaborative synthesis
project aimed at identifying the features of adaptive governance in complex social …

Fisheries are critically important for nutrition, food security, livelihoods, and culture of
hundreds of millions of people globally. As climate impacts on ocean ecosystems increase …

Significant and growing concerns relating to global social and environmental conditions and
processes have raised deep questions relating to the ability of traditional governance …

As we are confronted with mounting evidence of the profound and potentially irreversible
impacts of human activities on the planet—encapsulated in the notion of the Anthropocene …

The concept of spatial resilience has brought a new focus on the influence of multi-scale
processes on the dynamics of ecosystems. Initial ideas about spatial resilience focused on …

If resilience theory is to be of practical value for policy makers and resource managers, the
theory must be translated into sensible decision-support tools. We present herein a set of …

Ecological resilience is developing into a credible paradigm for policy development and
environmental management for preserving natural capital in a rapidly changing world …