Management is failing to adequately protect coastal ecosystems. Here we reviewed the
policies, legislation, plans and management frameworks intended to protect seagrass …

Abstract The Problem Structuring Methods (PSMs) are a set of interactive and participatory
modeling approaches for dealing with unstructured complex problems, which are …

Mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes or collectively known as blue carbon ecosystems
are gaining salience because of their essential roles in reducing the risks and impacts of …

Reservoirs supply drinking water to many major cities in China, and their ecological security
ensures the economic development, drinking water safety and ecological balance of cities …

Marine ecological security is an important precondition and foundation for the development
of marine business. Scientific and effective assessment of marine ecological security is of …

Coastal zones are complex systems where sustainability needs local participative
governance, whose absence may result in conflicts between social actors. In its absence …

This empirical study examines the factors enhancing environmental governance for marine
plastic litter abatement in Manila, the Philippines. We use a combined covariance-based …

The assessment of comprehensiveness of soil conservation measures (SCMs), along with
economic, social, and environmental assessments of these projects, is a prerequisite for …

Awareness of watershed problems and their consequences based on causal models is a
fundamental step in the implementation of integrated watershed management plans and …

This paper combines the Social-Ecological System (SES), the Driving Forces-Pressure-State-
Impact-Response (DPSIR) and Adaptive Co-management frameworks to provide practical …