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View article: Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership Open
Notwithstanding actions taken to date through policy, programmes and practices, the planet remains on an unsustainable pathway. System level and individual actions are needed to address the challenges that confront us. Finding approaches t…
View article: Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada Open
Adaptive approaches to flood governance are gaining attention as climate change is expected to alter historic flooding patterns around the world. Collaboration networks are essential to adaptive governance as they create a cohesive system …
View article: A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized Open
Just over ten years ago, resilience scholars proposed seven principles for enhancing the resilience of social-ecological systems. The authors argued that there was a pressing need for a better understanding of how the principles can be ope…
View article: Assessing the Impact of Social and Ecological Change during COVID-19 in Natural Areas Through the Subjective Well-Being and Place Attachment of Natural Area Users
Assessing the Impact of Social and Ecological Change during COVID-19 in Natural Areas Through the Subjective Well-Being and Place Attachment of Natural Area Users Open
The devastating impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and well-being of individuals has led researchers to increasingly consider the importance of people-place interactions as drivers of positive mental health. This study explores people…
View article: Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response
Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response Open
Disasters occurring in the wake of extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate and anthropogenic changes and require urgent responses under uncertain and dynamic conditions. In these situations, multi-age…
View article: How Do Outdoor Recreationists Perceive the State of the Environment and Do Interpretive Programs Make a Difference?
How Do Outdoor Recreationists Perceive the State of the Environment and Do Interpretive Programs Make a Difference? Open
Environmental interpretation provides visitors with positive experiences in nature while managing their impacts. Existing research has concentrated on the influence of interpretive programs on visitor knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. …
View article: Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance Open
Social-ecological fit demands that governance systems align with and function at the appropriate scales of social and ecological processes being governed. While multilevel social-ecological network analysis has been applied to assess fit i…
View article: Appraising HEI-community Partnerships: Assessing Performance, Monitoring Progress, and Evaluating Impacts
Appraising HEI-community Partnerships: Assessing Performance, Monitoring Progress, and Evaluating Impacts Open
Momentum of the creation of partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and communities is strong. As their significance intensifies, the question of how to judge their value is garnering increasing attention. In this perspec…
View article: Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters
Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters Open
Responding to disastrous wildfires traversing geographical scales requires multi‐actor collaboration to address a series of interdependent operational tasks. While this type of distributed collective action problem is salient across govern…
View article: The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature Open
Reconnecting to nature is imperative for the sustainability of humans on Earth, offering a leverage point for system change. Connections to nature have been conceptualized as a typology of five types as follows: material; experiential; cog…
View article: Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide
Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide Open
Transdisciplinary research, in which academics and actors from outside the academy co-produce knowledge, is an important approach to address urgent sustainability challenges. Indeed, to meet these real-world challenges, governments, univer…
View article: Higher Education Institution–Community Partnerships: Measuring the Performance of Sustainability Science Initiatives
Higher Education Institution–Community Partnerships: Measuring the Performance of Sustainability Science Initiatives Open
The enterprise of sustainability science extends beyond the academy to address pressing environmental issues through collaboration. It coincides with trends in higher education institutions (HEIs) towards an expanded mission for addressing…
View article: Understanding Preferences for Coastal Climate Change Adaptation: A Systematic Literature Review
Understanding Preferences for Coastal Climate Change Adaptation: A Systematic Literature Review Open
Lack of public support for coastal adaptation can present significant barriers for implementation. In response, policy makers and academics are seeking strategies to build public support for coastal adaptation, which requires a deeper unde…
View article: Evaluating ecological outcomes from environmental stewardship initiatives: A comparative analysis of approaches
Evaluating ecological outcomes from environmental stewardship initiatives: A comparative analysis of approaches Open
Understanding the extent to which stewardship initiatives achieve objectives of enhanced ecological outcomes is important for enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of environmental management initiatives. Alternative approaches - communit…
View article: Canadian wildfire responder network
Canadian wildfire responder network Open
Data for the Canadian wildfire responder network case. Contains qualitative and quantitative information on the conditions, processes, and outcomes of a specific instance of collaborative governance involving public, private, and/or commun…
View article: Seeing things differently: How are environmental conditions perceived and why does it matter?
Seeing things differently: How are environmental conditions perceived and why does it matter? Open
Parks and protected areas that provide recreational opportunities for visitors are often faced with a set of unique management challenges. Primarily, this includes balancing the preservation of the ecosystem with recreational use, often in…
View article: The issue of performance in Higher education institution - Community partnerships: A Canadian perspective
The issue of performance in Higher education institution - Community partnerships: A Canadian perspective Open
Higher education institutions are expected to account for their performance and this increasingly includes strengthening community relationships. However, assessment of Higher education institution (HEI)-Community partnerships is nascent. …
View article: Cultivating our urban forest future: a value-chain perspective
Cultivating our urban forest future: a value-chain perspective Open
For cities to grow their urban forest canopy the formula appears rather straightforward: the right trees, plus the right conditions, plus the right care equals success. These simplified “tree chain of custody” steps, however, represent act…
View article: Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan: Evaluating Implementation, Use of Services, and the Influence of Social Factors
Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan: Evaluating Implementation, Use of Services, and the Influence of Social Factors Open
Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) is a voluntary, self-administered education and risk assessment tool that assists farmers in developing customized action plans to address environmental risks on their farms. During 2010-11 a st…
View article: The impacts of trust, cost and risk on collaboration in environmental governance
The impacts of trust, cost and risk on collaboration in environmental governance Open
Collaborative approaches to environmental governance are drawing increased interest in research and practice. In this article we investigate the structure and functioning of actor networks engaged in collaboration. We specifically seek to …
View article: Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan: Evaluating Implementation, Use of Services, and the Influence of Social Factors
Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan: Evaluating Implementation, Use of Services, and the Influence of Social Factors Open
Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) is a voluntary, self-administered education and risk assessment tool that assists farmers in developing customized action plans to address environmental risks on their farms. During 2010-11 a study wa…
View article: Assessing the Performance of Higher Education Institution (HEI)- Community Partnerships
Assessing the Performance of Higher Education Institution (HEI)- Community Partnerships Open
As partnerships between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and communities have taken on increased importance, greater attention has been paid to how these partnerships are formed, the manner in which they operate, and what they can acco…
View article: Doom, gloom, or boom? Perceptions of climate change among Canadian winegrowers
Doom, gloom, or boom? Perceptions of climate change among Canadian winegrowers Open
Emilie Jobin-Poirier,1 Gary Pickering,1–4 Ryan Plummer1,4,5 1Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada; 2Department of Biological Sciences and Psychology, Brock University, St…
View article: Building Resilience in Ecological Restoration Processes: A Social-Ecological Perspective
Building Resilience in Ecological Restoration Processes: A Social-Ecological Perspective Open
Katrina Krievins (corresponding author), Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1, k.krievins{at}gmail.com.
View article: Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation
Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation Open
A convoluted network of different water governance systems exists around the world. Collectively, these systems provide insight into how to build sustainable regimes of water use and management. We argue that the challenge is not to make t…
View article: Expanding the contribution of the social sciences to social-ecological resilience research
Expanding the contribution of the social sciences to social-ecological resilience research Open
As we are confronted with mounting evidence of the profound and potentially irreversible impacts of human activities on the planet the need to engage across a range of ways of knowing and doing becomes increasingly urgent. The intersection…
View article: Integrating Conservation and Sustainable Development Through Adaptive Co-management in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Integrating Conservation and Sustainable Development Through Adaptive Co-management in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Open
Integrating conservation and sustainable development is difficult, but organisations charged with this mandate must move forward with implementation. Adaptive Co-Management (ACM), an approach that brings together the learning function of a…
View article: Expanding the contribution of the social sciences to social-ecological resilience research
Expanding the contribution of the social sciences to social-ecological resilience research Open
As we are confronted with mounting evidence of the profound and potentially irreversible impacts of human activities on the planet the need to engage across a range of ways of knowing and doing becomes increasingly urgent. The intersection…