Conservation planning has historically been restricted to planning within single realms (ie,
marine, terrestrial, or freshwater). Recently progress has been made in approaches for cross …

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 …

Intensification of the use of natural resources is a world-wide trend driven by the increasing
demand for water, food, fibre, minerals and energy. These demands are the result of a rising …

Concerns for the ongoing and increasing degradation of the natural environment worldwide
have increased the impetus for action, and development of governance arrangements to …

Good governance is widely seen as a prerequisite for effective natural resources
management in the context of environmental decline and increasing anthropogenic …

Abstract The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is a World Heritage site off the north-eastern coast of
Australia. The GBR is worth A $15–20 billion/year to the Australian economy and provides …

Abstract The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) region of Queensland, Australia, encompasses a
complex and diverse array of tropical marine ecosystems of global significance. The region …

Governance has long been identified as a crucial part of solving environmental problems.
Effective governance supports and encourages adaptive capacity to maintain or improve the …

Gold-mining regions like Madre de Dios, Peru, present considerable sustainable
development challenges, with opportunities obscured.'Illegal'artisanal miners embody …

Existing planning theories tend to be limited in their analytical scope and often fail to account
for the impact of many interactions between the multitudes of stakeholders involved in …