ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY DECEMBER 2006 ISSUE NOW PUBLISHED http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/
Editors-in-Chief Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson invite you to read Ecology and Society's latest issue - Volume 11, Issue 2 (http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/). In their Editorial, "Facing Global Change through Social-Ecological Research", Folke and Gunderson comment on the growing awareness in Western cultures of the interconnectedness of social and ecological systems, as evidenced by recent popular science publications that include "The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization" by Thomas Homer- Dixon (2006), "Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed" by Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Quinn Patton (2006), and "Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World" by Brian Walker and David Salt (2006). The contents of this issue build on these and other bodies of work that discuss global environmental change by delving even more deeply into the dynamics and feeback loops of coupled social-ecological systems. Of particular note is the article describing Glória Gaia, our first Science and Practice in Ecology and Society (SPES) Award winner, and subject of the article: "How one woman challenged researchers, ranchers, and loggers in Amazonia", by P. Shanley. The SPES Award is given to the individual or organization that is the most effective in bringing the transdisciplinary science of the interactions between ecology and society into practice. More information about the 2006 award is available in the News Release (http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/news/announcements/pressrelease122006.php ). To learn how you can nominate an individual or organization for the upcoming 2007 Award, please go to the SPES Award Call for nominations. (http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/news/announcements/spes.php). Volume 11, Issue 2 | DECEMBER 2006 *** Editorial *** Facing Global Change through Social-Ecological Research Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson *** Guest Editorials *** Editorial: Special Feature on Scenarios for Ecosystem Services Stephen R. Carpenter, Elena M. Bennett, and Garry D. Peterson Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World David W. Cash, W. Neil Adger, Fikret Berkes, Po Garden, Louis Lebel, Per Olsson, Lowell Pritchard, and Oran Young Empirically Based, Agent-based models Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom *** Research *** Response of Wolves to Corridor Restoration and Human Use Management Brenda Shepherd and Jesse Whittington Shorter Fallow Cycles Affect the Availability of Noncrop Plant Resources in a Shifting Cultivation System Sarah Paule Dalle and Sylvie de Blois Changing Use Patterns, Changing Feedback Links: Implications for Reorganization of Coastal Fisheries Management in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden Maria Åqvist Almlöv and Monica Hammer Integrating Traditional and Evolutionary Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation: a Population Level Case Study Dylan J. Fraser, Thomas Coon, Michael R. Prince, Rene Dion, and Louis Bernatchez Interactions Among Spatial Scales Constrain Species Distributions in Fragmented Urban Landscapes Will R. Turner What You Know is Who You Know? Communication Patterns Among Resource Users as a Prerequisite for Co-management Beatrice Crona and Örjan Bodin Variance as a Leading Indicator of Regime Shift in Ecosystem Services William A. Brock and Stephen R. Carpenter Characterizing Species at Risk I: Modeling Rare Species Under the Northwest Forest Plan Bruce G. Marcot Synthesis of the Storylines Steven J. Cork, Garry D. Peterson, Elena M. Bennett, Gerhard Petschel- Held, and Monika Zurek Characterizing Species at Risk II: Using Bayesian Belief Networks as Decision Support Tools to Determine Species Conservation Categories Under the Northwest Forest Plan Bruce G. Marcot, Paul A. Hohenlohe, Steve Morey, Russ Holmes, Randy Molina, Marianne C. Turley, Mark H. Huff, and John A. Laurence Sustainability of Mangrove Harvesting: How do Harvesters Perceptions Differ from Ecological Analysis? Laura López-Hoffman, Ian E. Monroe, Enrique Narváez, Miguel Martínez- Ramos, and David D. Ackerly Quantifying Expected Ecological Response to Natural Resource Legislation: a Case Study of Riparian Buffers, Aquatic Habitat, and Trout Populations Krista L. Jones, Geoffrey C. Poole, Judy L. Meyer, William Bumback, and Elizabeth A. Kramer Scale Mismatches in Management of Urban Landscapes Sara T. Borgström, Thomas Elmqvist, Per Angelstam, and Christine Alfsen- Norodom Integrating Ecosystem Management, Protected Areas, and Mammal Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon Claudia Azevedo-Ramos, Benedito Domingues do Amaral, Daniel C. Nepstad, Britaldo Soares Filho, and Robert Nasi Creating Agents and Landscapes for Multiagent Systems from Random Samples Thomas Berger and Pepijn Schreinemachers Balancing Development and Conservation? An Assessment of Livelihood and Environmental Outcomes of Nontimber Forest Product Trade in Asia, Africa, and Latin America Koen Kusters, Ramadhani Achdiawan, Brian Belcher, and Manuel Ruiz Pérez Learning, Signaling, and Social Preferences in Public-Good Games Marco A. Janssen and T. K. Ahn Resilience Lost: Intersecting Land Use and Landscape Dynamics in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States Matthew A. Peeples, C. Michael Barton, and Steven Schmich Are Direct Payments for Environmental Services Spelling Doom for Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics? Sven Wunder Use of a Bayesian Belief Network to Predict the Impacts of Commercializing Non-timber Forest Products on Livelihoods Adrian C. Newton, Elaine Marshall, Kathrin Schreckenberg, Duncan Golicher, Dirk W. te Velde, Fabrice Edouard, and Erik Arancibia The Future of Vascular Plant Diversity Under Four Global Scenarios Detlef P. van Vuuren, Osvaldo E. Sala, and Henrique M. Pereira Environmental Flows: Striking the Balance between Development and Resource Protection Jackie King and Cate Brown Cultural or Ecological Sustainability? The Effect of Cultural Change on Sabal Palm Management Among the Lowland Maya of Mexico Andrea Martínez-Ballesté, Carlos Martorell, and Javier Caballero Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview Gerald C. Nelson, Elena Bennett, Asmeret A. Berhe, Kenneth Cassman, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Achim Dobermann, Andrew Dobson, Anthony Janetos, Marc Levy, Diana Marco, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Brian O'Neill, Richard Norgaard, Gerhard Petschel-Held, Dennis Ojima, Prabhu Pingali, Robert Watson, and Monika Zurek Multiactor Modeling of Settling Decisions and Behavior in the San Mariano Watershed, the Philippines: a First Application with the MameLuke Framework Marco G. A. Huigen, Koen P. Overmars, and Wouter T. de Groot Beyond Regulations in Fisheries Management: The Dilemmas of the Beach Recorders Bwana Dikos in Zanzibar, Tanzania Maricela de la Torre-Castro Companion Modeling, Conflict Resolution, and Institution Building: Sharing Irrigation Water in the Lingmuteychu Watershed, Bhutan Tayan Raj Gurung, Francois Bousquet, and Guy Trébuil Dietary Changes over Time in a Caiçara Community from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Priscila L. MacCord and Alpina Begossi Unpacking Participation in the Adaptive Management of Socialecological Systems: a Critical Review Lindsay C. Stringer, Andrew J. Dougill, Evan Fraser, Klaus Hubacek, Christina Prell, and Mark S. Reed Viable Reserve Networks Arise From Individual Landholder Responses To Conservation Incentives Kenneth M. Chomitz, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Keith Alger, David M. Stoms, Miroslav Honzák, Elena Charlotte Landau, Timothy S. Thomas, W. Wayt Thomas, and Frank Davis Australian Pastoralists in Time and Space: The Evolution of a Complex Adaptive System Ryan R J McAllister, Nick Abel, Chris J. Stokes, and Iain J. Gordon *** Insight *** Process-Based Ecological River Restoration: Visualizing Three-Dimensional Connectivity and Dynamic Vectors to Recover Lost Linkages G. Mathias Kondolf, Andrew J. Boulton, Scott O'Daniel, Geoffrey C. Poole, Frank J. Rahel, Emily H. Stanley, Ellen Wohl, Asa Bång, Julia Carlstrom, Chiara Cristoni, Harald Huber, Saija Koljonen, Pauliina Louhi, and Keigo Nakamura Access and Resilience: Analyzing the Construction of Social Resilience to the Threat of Water Scarcity Ruth Langridge, Juliet Christian-Smith, and Kathleen A. Lohse A Portfolio Approach to Analyzing Complex Human-Environment Interactions: Institutions and Land Change Oran R. Young, Eric F. Lambin, Frank Alcock, Helmut Haberl, Sylvia I. Karlsson, William J. McConnell, Tun Myint, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Colin Polsky, P. S. Ramakrishnan, Heike Schroeder, Marie Scouvart, and Peter H. Verburg River Restoration and Meanders G. Mathias Kondolf *** Synthesis *** >From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long- term Socioecological Research Helmut Haberl, Verena Winiwarter, Krister Andersson, Robert U. Ayres, Christopher Boone, Alicia Castillo, Geoff Cunfer, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, William R. Freudenburg, Eeva Furman, Rüdiger Kaufmann, Fridolin Krausmann, Ernst Langthaler, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Michael Mirtl, Charles L. Redman, Anette Reenberg, Andrew Wardell, Benjamin Warr, and Harald Zechmeister Landscape-scale Approaches for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes Peter Frost, Bruce Campbell, Gabriel Medina, and Leonard Usongo Conservation Biology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Integrating Academic Disciplines for Better Conservation Practice Joshua A. Drew and Adam P. Henne *** Perspective *** Science for the Poor: How One Woman Challenged Researchers, Ranchers, and Loggers in Amazonia Patricia Shanley *** Response *** A response to: Stevenson et al. 2003. Electronic Field Guides and User Communities in the Eco-informatics Revolution John A. Burton Social Networks in Natural Resource Management: What Is There to Learn from a Structural Perspective? A response to: Newman and Dale. 2005. Network Structure, Diversity, and Proactive Resilience Building: a Response to Tompkins and Adger Örjan Bodin, Beatrice Crona, and Henrik Ernstson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ecology and Society is published by the Resilience Alliance. For more information about Resilience Alliance Publishing, or Ecology and Society, please contact Michelle Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
