A central concern about achieving global food security is reconfiguring agri-food systems
towards sustainability. However, historically-informed trajectories of agri-food system …

Sustainability transitions literature is a rapidly growing and influential field of research. It
argues for a radical change of systems providing human needs. Being triggered by the …

The convergence of climate change and post-Soviet socio-economic and institutional
transformations has been underexplored so far, as have the consequences of such …

Population growth demands sustainable spatial planning strategies for settlements in
Uzbekistan, Central Asia, especially in rural areas that are inhabited by approximately 64 …

This book offers a unique perspective on rural development, by discussing the most
influential perspectives and rendering their risks and benefits visible. The authors do not …

In this paper, we present a framework for the analysis of shock and conflict in social-
ecological systems and investigate the implications of this perspective for the understanding …

In this article we investigate the value and utility of Machiavelli's work for Community-Based
Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). We made a selection of five topics derived from …

Nighttime light (NTL) images provide uniform, consistent, and valuable data sources. Based
on four reference regions, the NTL imagery of China was fully intercalibrated during the …

This special issue analyses and reflects on relations between long term perspectives and
strategies in governance. While dismissing high modernist planning and acknowledging …

We review historical and contemporary literature on change in water-management
institutions in post-socialist Uzbekistan, exploring the dynamics of change of formal …