Per Olsson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the social dimension that enables adaptive ecosystem-based management, focusing on experiences of adaptive governance of social-ecological systems during periods of abrupt change and investigates social sources of renewal and reorganization.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the self-organizing process of adaptive comanagement development, facilitated by rules and incentives of higher levels, has the potential to expand desirable stability domains of a region and make social–ecological systems more robust to change.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the advent of co-management structures and conscious boundary management that includes knowledge co-production, mediation, translation, and negotiation across scale-related boundaries may facilitate solutions to complex problems that decision makers have historically been unable to solve.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a synthesis of scale and cross-scale dynamics in managing the environment and suggest that the advent of co-management structures and conscious boundary management that includes knowledge co-production, mediation, translation and negotiation across scale-related boundaries may facilitate solutions to complex problems that decision makers have historically been unable to solve.

TL;DR: The case studies of Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden; the Northern Highlands Lake District and the Everglades in the USA; the Mae Nam Ping Basin, Thailand; and the Goulburn-Broken Catchment were compared to assess the outcome of different actions for transforming social-ecological systems.