Highlights•Distinguishing a spectrum from coordination to collaboration is important.•
Coordination seems to be easier and less costly to achieve than collaboration.•Coordination …

The ecosystem approach—as endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) in
2000—is a strategy for holistic, sustainable, and equitable natural resource management, to …

Commons projects, such as community-based natural resource management, have
widespread appeal, which has enabled them to shrug off a mixed performance in practice …

Over decades, biodiversity conservation researchers and practitioners have developed
theories and conceptual frameworks to inform the planning, implementation, and evaluation …

Indonesian smallholder oil palm generally yield much less than corporate plantations. We
analysed a smallholder oil palm production system in West Sumatra which outperformed its …

Community-based approaches to conservation and natural resource management are
considered essential to meeting global conservation targets. Despite widespread adoption …

The global land community has increasingly recognized the need to work towards practical,
coordinated integration and scalable implementation of alternative approaches to land …

Several examples of community-based natural resource management in Latin American
social-ecological systems exist in which communities control the management of common …

This paper integrates insights from political ecology with a politics of scaling to discuss the
construction and transformation of scalar topographies as part of the politics and power …

Crafting local institutions to allow more effective decision-making in the management of and
access to natural resources in and beyond parks has long been considered key to …