Conventional approaches to natural resource management are increasingly challenged by
environmental problems that are embedded in highly complex systems with profound …

Citizen science, defined as participation of the general public in scientific research, could
significantly help scientists to address biodiversity issues, through (i) monitoring the state of …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-
based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However …

There is an increasing drive to combine agent-based models with empirical methods. An
overview is provided of the various empirical methods that are used for different kinds of …

Societal transitions involve multiple actors, changes in institutions, values and technologies,
and interactions across multiple sectors and scales. Given this complexity, this paper takes …

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 …

Dynamic models have long been a common tool to support management of ecological and
economic systems and played a prominent role in the early days of resilience research …

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 …

Sustainability assessment oriented to improve current systems and practices is urgently
needed, particularly in the context of small farmer natural resource management systems …