Adaptive management has the potential to make environmental management more
democratic through the involvement of different stakeholders. In this article, we examine …

Sustainability in the provision of ecosystem services requires understanding of the
vulnerability of social-ecological systems (SES) to tipping points (TPs). Assessing SES …

Transdisciplinary research is a promising approach to address sustainability challenges
arising from global environmental change, as it is characterized by an iterative process that …

There is a growing call for greater public involvement in establishing science and
technology policy, in line with democratic ideals. A variety of public participation procedures …

Public engagement is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous methods for bringing
people together to address issues of public importance. In this article, we focus on direct …

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every twelve minutes. The lifetime likelihood of a woman's getting breast cancer is one in …

A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture—they are increasingly
seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. The authors …

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of
millions of people unable to access adequate food. The international reaction was swift. In a …

Citizen participation in budgeting can be a governmental mechanism to minimize
organizational learning pathologies resulting from sole reliance on an administrative …

The recent drastic developmentof agriculture, together with the growingsocietal interest in
agricultural practices andtheir consequences, pose a challenge toagricultural science …