Interconnected social and environmental systems are the domain of ecological economics,
and models can be used to explore feedbacks and adaptations inherent in these systems …

Core to the planning–implementation gap in conservation is the failure to achieve the
necessary shared vision and collaboration among typically diverse stakeholder groups to …

Mental models are personal, internal representations of external reality that people use to
interact with the world around them. They are constructed by individuals based on their …

We present a resilience-based approach for assessing sustainability in a sub-catchment of
the Murray-Darling Basin in southeast Australia. We define the regional system and identify …

Abstract The shock of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has disrupted food systems
worldwide. Such disruption, affecting multiple systems interfaces in smallholder agriculture …

Holistic Management (HM) is a decision-making framework based on triple bottom line
thinking and a proactive approach to managing complexity. Primarily associated with an …

Studies of multiple stressors in Africa often focus on vulnerable inland communities. Rising
concentrations of the world's poor live in coastal rural–urban areas with direct dependencies …

Conservation practice requires an understanding of complex social‐ecological processes of
a system and the different meanings and values that people attach to them. Mental models …

This paper describes an adaptive agent model of rangelands based on concepts of complex
adaptive systems. The behavioural and biological processes of pastoralists, regulators …

Coastal social ecological systems in eastern Africa are subject to a range of environmental,
social and economic changes. They are already vulnerable to these multiple stressors, and …