Background Localisation is a pervasive challenge in achieving sustainable development.
Contextual particularities may render generalized strategies to achieve the Sustainable …

In this paper, I address a gap in the literature on environmental social science by providing a
basic rubric for the conduct of empirical research in this interdisciplinary field. Current …

With the continuous development of the social economy, ecosystem services are very
important for human production and living ecology, and human activities also affect the …

This paper combines primary and secondary data to highlight the history of resource use
and ongoing change in a coastal social-ecological system (SES) in Japan. We focus on …

Ecosystem services are dynamically interdependent. When conducting studies on
ecosystem services valuation and assessment, the interdependencies and feedback …

Coastal and marine areas are increasingly recognized as coupled social-ecological systems
(SES) or seascapes consisting of highly interlinked human and ecological elements (Berkes …

How much do ecosystems contribute to the wellbeing of rural populations in developing
nations? In this article we provide an answer to this question through an eco-social study of …

ABSTRACT Published in 2005, the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
stressed that influencing governments, businesses and communities to address the supra …

Transdisciplinarity is a demanding paradigm, considered by many in the literature as the
way to move forward in terms of science and policy integration. In this paper we present the …

The concept of co-benefits developed in the context of climate change policies can be
extended to the strategies aimed at protecting natural resources. A co-effects-based policy …