Conservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize that natural resource
management is both an outcome and a driver of social, economic, and ecological dynamics …

Protected areas (PAs) remain central to the conservation of biodiversity. Classical PAs were
conceived as areas that would be set aside to maintain a natural state with minimal human …

A major challenge of the twenty-first century is ensuring an adequate and reliableflow of
essential ecosystem services to meet the needs of the world's burgeoning and increasingly …

The sustainability of regional development can be usefully explored through several
different lenses. In situations in which uncertainties and change are key features of the …

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 …

Land use is expanding and intensifying in the unprotected lands surrounding many of the
world's protected areas. The influence of this land use change on ecological processes is …

Approaches to natural resource management are often based on a presumed ability to
predict probabilistic responses to management and external drivers such as climate. They …

The goal of ecosystem management is to provide a sustainable flow of multiple ecosystem
services to society today and in the future. As an integral component of natural resource …

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 …

Protected areas are the main strategy for the protection of ecosystems and biodiversity.
However, changes occurring during the Anthropocene continue to threaten biodiversity and …