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Volume 30, Issue 2April 2025
Table of Contents List of Special Features Past Issues

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Maladaptive state reinforcement of greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Louisville, Kentucky’s failed cooperative extension partnership
Daniel A. DeCaro, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Mary A. Rudolph, Gifty Amma Adusei
Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
State-reinforced co-provision of community-governed greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Chicago’s innovative NeighborSpace Land Trust and Partnership
Daniel A. DeCaro, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Mary A. Rudolph, Gifty Amma Adusei
Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems

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Featured Contributors

Daniel A. DeCaro

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Department of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

Edella C. Schlager

School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Just Institutions Lab, Community for Global Health Equity, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Getzville, New York

Gifty Amma Adusei

Department of Integrative Studies, University of South Alabama

Mary A. Rudolph

Department of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

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Special Features

State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
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The Next Wave in Water Governance
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Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures
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The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods
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Convergent Science for Sustainable Regional Systems
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Oceans

05/2023
12/2020
12/2014

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  3. Sweden
  4. Canada
  5. Germany
  6. Spain
  7. South Africa
  8. Netherlands
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  10. Colombia

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5.275

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Maladaptive state reinforcement of greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Louisville, Kentucky’s failed cooperative extension partnership
Daniel A. DeCaro, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Mary A. Rudolph, Gifty Amma Adusei
Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
State-reinforced co-provision of community-governed greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Chicago’s innovative NeighborSpace Land Trust and Partnership
Daniel A. DeCaro, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Mary A. Rudolph, Gifty Amma Adusei
Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
The State-reinforced self-governance framework: conceptualizing and diagnosing legal and other institutional foundations of adaptive and transformative environmental governance
Daniel A. DeCaro, Edella C. Schlager, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
Special Feature State-Reinforced Transformative and Adaptive Governance of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
Governing sinking worlds: sensemakings of subsidence in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Richard F. Pompoes, Wieke D. Pot, Art R. P. J. Dewulf
Special Feature The Next Wave in Water Governance
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
Special Feature Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures

Archive Highlights

Ecology & Society has been publishing since 1997. Take a look back at some of our articles from years past.

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12/2015
Participation in protected areas: a social network case study in Catalonia, Spain
Laura Calvet-Mir, Sara Maestre-Andrés, Jeroen van den Bergh
Special Feature Networking the Environment: Social Network Analysis in Environmental Management and Local Ecological Knowledge Studies
12/2015
Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance
Felicitas Egunyu, Maureen G. Reed
12/2015
Ecological restoration as objective, target, and tool in international biodiversity policy
Dolly Jørgensen
Special Feature Ecological Restoration, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use
12/2015
Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web
Jordan Levine, Michael Muthukrishna, Kai M.A. Chan, Terre Satterfield