Here we establish and enforce community standards and strive for consistent consequences when standards are violated. The Social Ecological Model attends to the aforementioned levels creating ...

Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is ...

Many of the world’s impoverished communities rely on the environment for their livelihoods. Dominant livelihood approaches focus on increasing incomes and trigger processes that disregard underlying ...

It is usually the case that scientists examine either ecological systems or social systems, yet the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of environmental management and sustainable ...