Angela M. Guerrero

TL;DR: An understanding of the social networks associated with conservation planning will help determine the potential for implementing conservation actions at the required scales and social-network analyses can be used to explore whether these networks constrain or enable key social processes and how multiple scales of action are linked.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the development of empirically informed theories, which are not only able to transcend disciplinary boundaries, but are also explicit in taking these complex social-ecological interdependences into account.

TL;DR: In this article, a typology of causal assumptions explicating the causal aims of any given network-centric study of social-ecological interdependencies is presented, unifying research design considerations that facilitate conceptualizing exactly what is interdependent, through what types of relationships and in relation to what kinds of environmental problems.

TL;DR: In this article, three potential contributions of social network analysis to systematic conservation planning are identified stakeholders and their roles in social networks, and characterizing relationships between them; designing and facilitating strategic networking to strengthen linkages between local and regional conservation initiatives; and prioritizing conservation actions using measures of social connectivity alongside ecological data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a network perspective to theorize a continuum of structural capacities in social-ecological systems that set the stage for effective adaptation and transformation, and present a framework that hypothesizes seven specific socialecological network configurations.