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Volume 31, Issue 3July 2026

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Beyond the shoreline: making sense of coexistence for the marine governance realm

Claire K. Crowley-Aksamit, Maaike Knol-Kauffman, Fabienne Mannherz, Kåre Nolde Nielsen

Reflections and insights from the special feature on State-reinforced adaptive and transformative governance

Daniel A. DeCaro, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Edella C. Schlager

Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems

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Featured Contributors

Claire K. Crowley-Aksamit

The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Fabienne Mannherz

The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway; Marine Mammal Research, Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

Kåre Nolde Nielsen

The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Maaike Knol-Kauffman

The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA); The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

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Special Features

State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems

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Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures

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Unlocking Resilient Benefits from African Water Resources: The Interface between Sustainability Science Concepts and Practice

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Learning from Doing: Closing Knowledge Gaps in Integrated Landscape Research

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Beyond the Assessment on the Diverse Values of Nature: Hidden gems, Biases, Frontiers, Challenges, and Insights

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`Anthropocene`

01/2026

Seeding equity in African food systems: how can marginal, bottom-up initiatives promote transformations to more equitable and sustainable futures?

Julia L. van Velden, Nyasha Magadzire, Willem Malherbe, Joyce Atieno Ojino, Helen Bour, Keziah K. Mayer, Sungeni R. Karonga, Sènankpon Tcheton, Mulako Kabisa, Laura M. Pereira, Reinette Biggs

05/2025

Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough

Olivia St-Laurent, Karina Benessaiah, Elena M. Bennett

03/2025

The seeds’ substrate: a concept to understand how transformations toward Good Anthropocenes can be enabled

Ignacio Gianelli, Micaela Trimble, Silvana Juri, Laura M. Pereira, Blanca González-Mon, Sebastián Villasante

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Beyond the shoreline: making sense of coexistence for the marine governance realm

Claire K. Crowley-Aksamit, Maaike Knol-Kauffman, Fabienne Mannherz, Kåre Nolde Nielsen

Reflections and insights from the special feature on State-reinforced adaptive and transformative governance

Daniel A. DeCaro, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Edella C. Schlager

Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems

Spatial social-ecological land systems of the tri-national Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America

Ahuvit Trumper, Lía Montti, Valdemar João Wesz Junior, Neucir Szinwelski, Jonathan von Below, Ana Alice Eleuterio, Lucía Zarbá, Alberto Yanosky, Ignacio Gasparri, Alberto Anticoli, Gustavo Andres Zurita, Fabricio Vazquez, Jorge Luis P. Oliveira-Costa, Ignacio Minoli, Stella Mary Amarilla Rodríguez, Julio A. Trumper, Victor R. Vera Monge, Fernando Geraldo de Carvalho, Rodrigo J. Villagra Carron, Peter Lowenberg-Neto, Claudia Amicone, André B. Junqueira, María Piquer-Rodríguez

Reinterpreting resistance and resilience in ecology: a dual-coupling framework

Guanghua Xu, Guoqing Li

Social-ecological and biogeographic research biases hinder understanding of global trends in extensive livestock systems

Diego J. Soler-Navarro, Alicia Tenza-Peral, Ismael Lare-David, Ana M. Olaizola, Olivia Barrantes, Zebensui Morales-Reyes, José D. Anadón, Andrés Giménez, Francisco J. Lacosta-García, Daniel Martin-Collado, Aurora Breceda, Irene Pérez-Ibarra