BACKGROUND Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are places in the ocean that receive
protection to safeguard biodiversity from abatable threats. Confusion exists about the …

Just participation in conservation decision‐making is a moral imperative and critical to
achieving social and ecological goals. However, understanding of what constitutes a just …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

Global support is growing for the 30× 30 movement—a goal to conserve 30% of the planet
by 2030. In May, the G7 group of wealthy nations endorsed the commitment to this target that …

One of the basic purposes of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation
interventions is to achieve conservation impact, the sum of avoided biodiversity loss and …

Institutions are vital to the sustainability of social-ecological systems, balancing individual
and group interests and coordinating responses to change. Ecological decline and social …

Concerns with distributional justice invariably arise in environmental governance, especially
in the conservation and management of common-pool resources. These initiatives generate …

Many frameworks exist across the sciences and science-policy interface, but it is not always
clear how they are developed or can be applied. It is also often vague how new or existing …

4 phones we use every day. While this connectivity has brought about impressive
improvements to many people in terms of the distribution of food and other resources around …

Protected areas are widely used to stem biodiversity loss, with global conservation policy
mandating their use in meeting area-based conservation targets, such as the recent target to …