It is time to move past the concept of sustainability. The realities of the Anthropocene warrant this conclusion. They include unprecedented and irreversible rates of human induced biodiversity loss, exponential increases in per-capita resource consumption, and global climate change. These...

Comparative Ocean Governance examines how the drive to improve governance of the oceans through place-based management - such as marine protected areas, ecosystem-based management, and ocean zoning - can be adapted to a world already experiencing the impacts of climate change. The author...

Adaptive management is gaining influence with natural resource decisionmakers. Current laws and regulations in the United States, however, limit effective implementation of adaptive management. Wyoming's Pinedale Anticline can be examined as a case study focusing on barriers to adaptive...

The Valles Caldera National Preserve is the largest and most ambitious public land management experiment in the United States' history. Congress created the Preserve in 2000 as a wholly owned Government Corporation managed not by a federal agency, but instead by a Board of Trustees. The...

Current controversies over uranium mining in the American West are about more than competing legal requirements; they are about competing conceptualisations of space that are grounded in different ontologies. Laws — in this case the General Mining Law of 1872 and the National Historic...

Despite mounting evidence regarding global climate change and its associated impacts, the United States has not transitioned away from oil and other fossil fuels toward more sustainable sources of energy. This article examines a common cultural narrative regarding U.S. energy policy – the...

The concept of resilience is now frequently invoked by natural resource agencies in the US. This reflects growing trends within ecology, conservation biology, and other disciplines acknowledging that social-ecological systems require management approaches recognizing their complexity. In this...

Environmental law plays a key role in shaping policy for sustainability of social-ecological systems. In particular, the types of legal instruments, institutions, and the response of law to the inherent variability in social-ecological systems are critical. Sustainability likely must occur via...