Pluralism in Ecosystem Governance

Section 1: Spotlight on Indigenous and local knowledge1. Transdisciplinary agroecological research on biodiversity and ecosystem services for sustainable and climate resilient farming systems in MalawiRachel Bezner Kerr and Isaac Luginaah2. Community-scientist collaboration in the creation, management and research for two new National Wildlife Areas in Arctic CanadaMark Mallory3. Enhancing collaboration across the knowledge system boundaries of ecosystem governanceGordon Hickey and Nathan Badry Section 2: Amplifying muted voices4. Of green spaces and gray areas: An Ethnography of Ecosystem Governance in Peri-Urban Bangaluru, IndiaLingaraj Giriyapura Jayaprakesh and Gordon Hickey5. Posthumanist Pluralities: Advocating for nonhuman species' rights, agency, and welfare in ecosystem governanceBastian Thomsen, Thomas Cousins, Andrew Gosler, Kellen Copeland, Jennifer Thomsen, Sarah Coose, Abigail Mensah, Samuel Fennell, Jose Guzman, Shelby Copeland, Dane Nickerson, Max Duggan, Amy Schneider, Marley Taylor, Asier Hernandez Saez and Anant Deshwal6. Saving the Sonso Lagoon: contesting entrenched local powers and building practical authority in wetland governance in Valle del Cauca, Colombia.Renata Moreno Quintero and Theresa Selfa Section 3: Methods and approaches to foster pluralism in translational ecology7. Participation as a pathway to pluralism: a critical view over diverse disciplinesJulia Leventon, Zuzana Veronika Harmácková, Lenka Sucha, Barbora Nohlová and Simeon Vano8. Pluralistic approaches in research advance farming and freshwater sustainability efforts in the Great Lakes BasinCatherine M. Febria, Candy Donaldson, Jessica Ives and Katrina Keeshig9. Disrupting the governance of social-ecological rigidity traps: Can pluralism foster change towards sustainability?Pablo F. Méndez, David Fajardo-Ortiz and Jennifer M. Holzer10. Governance to manage the complexity of nature's contributions to people co-productionRoman Isaac, Jana Kachler, Klara Johanna Winkler, Eerika Albrecht, María Dolores Felipe-Lucia and Berta Martín-López