W.N. Adger

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of place attachment and occupational identity on transformational capacity using the Australian peanut industry, which is presently assessing significant structural change in response to predicted climatic changes, is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw together diverse social science perspectives and research into a variety of cases to show how different types of power shape rule setting, issue construction, and policy implementation in polycentric governance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review perspectives on collective action for natural resource management and use insights from this area to inform our understanding of climate response capacity and demonstrate the importance of social acceptance of strategies that build social and ecological resilience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine climate signals at different increments of warming and consider the need to reconcile top-down and bottom-up approaches, synthesizing insights from recent studies in three climate-sensitive systems where change is a defining feature of the human environment system.

TL;DR: A review of the current state of evidence and the specific contribution of the articles published in this special feature can be found in this paper, which is aimed at bringing greater clarity in these matters, and thereby informing both governance theory and practice.