Humanity faces an unprecedented set of global environmental problems. We argue that to
promote pro-environmental decisions and to achieve public consensus on the need for …

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Mental models are personal, internal representations of external reality that people use to
interact with the world around them. They are constructed by individuals based on their …

The impact of participation on transformation towards sustainability is insufficiently
researched, particularly with regard to social learning as an outcome of participation …

The study of cognition can provide key insights into the social dimension of coupled social-
ecological systems. Values are a fundamental aspect of cognition, which have largely been …

The governance of ecosystem services (ES) has been predominantly thought of in terms of
market or state-based instruments. Comparatively, collective action mechanisms have rarely …

The outcomes of a series of tests of the ARDI (Actors, Resources, Dynamics, and
Interactions) method in complex cases or conflict-ridden situations is presented. ARDI is part …

The success of adaptive management in conservation has been questioned and the
objective‐based management paradigm on which it is based has been heavily criticized …

Stakeholders' interactions with environmental resources are influenced by their mental
models of the socio-ecological system of the environmental resource. Individual differences …

Governance of ecosystem services (ES) requires an understanding of the complex dynamics
of collaboration (and contestation) of multiple stakeholders and multiple ES. However, many …