Humanity is facing many grand challenges at unprecedented rates, nearly everywhere, and
at all levels. Yet virtually all these challenges can be traced back to the decision and …

BACKGROUND Many key global sustainability challenges are closely intertwined
(examples are provided in the figure). These challenges include air pollution, biodiversity …

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 …

The study of social-ecological systems (SES) has been significantly shaped by insights from
research on complex adaptive systems (CAS). We offer a brief overview of the conceptual …

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 …

This paper distills core lessons about how researchers (scientists, engineers, planners, etc.)
interested in promoting sustainable development can increase the likelihood of producing …

The Anthropocene is characterized by rapid global change, necessitating adaptive
governance. But how can such adaptive governance be operationalized? The article offers a …

A flourishing literature assesses how sustainable business models create and capture value
in socio-ecological systems. Nevertheless, we still know relatively little about how the …

We explore opportunities for an integrated approach in community resilience to inform new
research directions and practice, using the productive common ground between two strands …

This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The
State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and …