The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

As a discipline, the science of natural hazards and disaster risk aims to explain the spatial-
temporal pattern, process and mechanism, emergency response and risk mitigation of …

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 …

" 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 …

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 …

Abstract On 25 September, 2015, world leaders met at the United Nations in New York,
where they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 targets …

The central challenge of the 21st century is to develop economic, social, and governance
systems capable of ending poverty and achieving sustainable levels of population and …

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

Urban areas are expanding due to rural-urban migration and due to population increases.
Their resilience is being challenged due to socio-political consequences of increasingly …