The practice of conservation occurs within complex socioecological systems fraught with
challenges that require transparent, defensible, and often socially engaged project planning …

With the high rate of ecosystem change, effective systematic conservation planning must
account for ongoing and imminent threats to biodiversity to ensure its persistence …

Landscape approaches attempt to achieve balance amongst multiple goals over long time
periods and to adapt to changing conditions. We review project reports and the literature on …

Abstract Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 provides a vision for the world's oceans;
however, the management interventions that are needed to achieve SDG 14 remain less …

Governance across the land-sea interface is an emerging challenge. The propensity for, and
intensity of social-ecological interactions across this interface (eg, eutrophication …

The coastal zone is a locus where many activities of society intersect with natural processes
that shape the coastal zone and the resource base available. In the EU, regional legislation …

Ecosystem-services scholarship has largely focused on monetary valuation and the material
contributions of ecosystems to human well-being. Increasingly, research is calling for a …

Ecosystems are increasingly degraded, fragmented and lost because of human activities
globally. These impacts cause changes in the distribution of biodiversity and key ecological …

Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to
identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well …

There is a growing recognition that conservation strategies should be designed accounting
for cross-realm connections, such as freshwater connections to land and sea, to ensure …