Participatory research approaches address a range of problems in water research, including
the under‐valuation of local knowledge, exclusion of marginalized people, preferential …

In many countries of the Global South, aquatic ecosystems such as streams, rivers, lakes,
and wetlands are severely impacted by several simultaneous environmental stressors …

We introduce here the term “River Culture” to delineate an eco-social approach to mitigate
the biological and cultural diversity crisis in riverscapes. It is based on the insight that current …

Wetlands are among the most valuable ecosystems in the world due to their delivery of
ecosystem services (ES), but they are particularly vulnerable to drivers of land-use change …

Over the last two decades indigenous peoples in the lower Caquetá River basin in
Colombia have experienced detrimental changes in the provision of important ecosystem …

Land use, land cover, and climate change impacts are current global challenges that are
affecting many sectors, like agricultural production, socio-economic development, water …

The development of eco-trekking on the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea has used a
community-based planning approach, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), in developing …

Context Local scale assessments of ecosystem/landscape services in Africa are insufficient
and lack relevance in landscape management. Also, few studies have explored the potential …

The hydrological patterns of all natural water bodies pulse in variable rhythms of high and
low water. The biodiversity of these ecosystems is driven by the changing nature of the …

Sustainable urban and metropolitan planning is increasingly benefiting from differentiated
assessments of ecosystem services. Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are particularly …