The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions—the lives and homes lost, the expense of
suppression and the damage to ecosystem services—necessitate a more sustainable …

Abstract Purpose of Review Resilience is a key concept to deal with an uncertain future in
forestry. In recent years, it has received increasing attention from both research and practice …

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Resilience thinking addresses the dynamics and development of complex social–ecological
systems (SES). Three aspects are central: resilience, adaptability and transformability …

Disturbance regimes are changing rapidly, and the consequences of such changes for
ecosystems and linked social‐ecological systems will be profound. This paper synthesizes …

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) introduced a new framework for analyzing
social–ecological systems that has had wide influence in the policy and scientific …

Climate change creates new challenges for biodiversity conservation. Species ranges and
ecological dynamics are already responding to recent climate shifts, and current reserves …

The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its
fundamental properties and their in-ence on society. These changes include climate; the …

Protected areas (PAs) remain central to the conservation of biodiversity. Classical PAs were
conceived as areas that would be set aside to maintain a natural state with minimal human …

Numerous international scientific assessments and related articles have, during the last
decade, described the observed and potential impacts of climate change as well as other …