Adapting to climate change is among the biggest challenges humanity faces in the next
century. An overwhelming focus of adaptation strategies to reduce climate change-related …

▪ Abstract We explore the social dimension that enables adaptive ecosystem-based
management. The review concentrates on experiences of adaptive governance of social …

Today's food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to
global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread …

We hypothesize that biological diversification across ecological, spatial, and temporal scales
maintains and regenerates the ecosystem services that provide critical inputs—such as …

Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental
management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few …

Recognition that climate change could have negative consequences for agricultural
production has generated a desire to build resilience into agricultural systems. One rational …

Despite the increasing trend worldwide of integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge in
natural resource management, there has been little stock-taking of literature on lessons …

In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research,
management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however …

Crop diversification is one strategy that smallholder farmers may employ to reduce their
vulnerability in the face of global environmental change. Diversification not only expands the …

Research in the last decade has emphasised the potential contribution of traditional
ecological knowledge to cope with challenges from global environmental change. This …