Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies

Ö Bodin, SM Alexander, J Baggio, ML Barnes… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Achieving effective, sustainable environmental governance requires a better understanding
of the causes and consequences of the complex patterns of interdependencies connecting …

Management of pharmaceutical micropollutants discharged in urban waters: 30 years of systematic review looking at opportunities for developing countries

D da Silveira Barcellos, M Procopiuck… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical micropollutants' contamination of urban waters has been studied globally for
decades, but the concentration of innovations in management initiatives is still in developed …

Research on environmental regulation, technological innovation and green transformation of manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

X Zhao, X Ding, L Li - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The green transformation of the manufacturing industry is crucial for high-quality
development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and environmental regulation and …

Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: A long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management

T Bolognesi, F Metz, S Nahrath - Policy Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Complexity is inherent to the policy processes and to more and more domains such as
environment or social policy. Complexity produces unexpected and counterintuitive effects …

Improving the socio-ecological fit in water governance by enhancing coordination of ecosystem services used

C Pahl-Wostl, E Lukat, U Stein, J Troeltzsch… - … Science & Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Water governance systems have evolved around the exploitation of provisioning ecosystem
services. The overexploitation of provisioning and the degradation of regulating services …

[HTML][HTML] Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems

HS Fried, M Hamilton, R Berardo - Ecology and Society, 2022 - ecologyandsociety.org
Modern environmental problems pose unique management challenges as they are usually
interdependent in myriad, complex ways. Climate change is the ultimate example of a …

Policy integration: Do laws or actors integrate issues relevant to flood risk management in Switzerland?

F Metz, M Angst, M Fischer - Global environmental change, 2020 - Elsevier
Existing research emphasizes interdependencies between social and ecological systems in
climate change adaptation. Ecological systems are often complex and span several issues …

Keystone actors do not act alone: A business ecosystem perspective on sustainability in the global clothing industry

J Hileman, I Kallstenius, T Häyhä, C Palm, S Cornell - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Global industries are typically dominated by a few disproportionately large and influential
transnational corporations, or keystone actors. While concentration of economic production …

A stakeholder-based decision support system to manage water resources

A Ahmadi, R Kerachian, MJE Skardi, A Abdolhay - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Based on the Social Choice Theory (SCT), a new Decision Support System (DSS)
is presented and employed to rank-order management alternatives (ie scenarios) in the …

Threats to common‐pool resources and the importance of forums: On the emergence of cooperation in CPR problem settings

LM Herzog, K Ingold - Policy Studies Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper focuses on cooperation among organizations in a common‐pool resource (CPR)
problem situation. Cooperation is particularly challenging in settings where resource …