Over a period of some 20 years, different aspects of co-management (the sharing of power
and responsibility between the government and local resource users) have come to the …

This paper outlines the results of a systematic review of the literature on adaptive
comanagement (ACM). Adaptive comanagement is an emergent governance approach for …

Members of the public participate in scientific research in many different contexts, stemming
from traditions as varied as participatory action research and citizen science. Particularly in …

The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological
inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in theory and practice, and examines the …

New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed
power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic …

Much emphasis has been placed on the importance of learning to support collaborative
environmental management and achieve sustainability under conditions of social …

Transition to sustainability is a search for ways to improve the social capacity to guide
interactions between nature and society toward a more sustainable future and, thus, a …

Small-scale fisheries are an important source of livelihoods, particularly among poor coastal
populations. To improve fisheries' condition and maximize their contribution to human …

Humanity is confronted with severe and pervasive environmental challenges, highlighted by
climatic change, ecosystem degradation and resource scarcity. The complexity and …

Learning is gaining attention in relation to governance processes for contemporary
environmental challenges; however, scholarship at the nexus of learning and environmental …