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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Science: general issues --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- freshwater ecosystems --- water resource management --- irrigation --- dams --- water governance --- science-policy interface --- freshwater ecosystems --- water resource management --- irrigation --- dams --- water governance --- science-policy interface

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This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the importance of an integrative understanding of socio-ecological systems, where healthy ecosystems underpin the quality of life and societal activities largely drive environmental changes. Readers will obtain a comprehensive overview of the many and diverse ways the relationships between people and nature can be characterized. This includes understanding how people assign values to nature, discuss how human-nature interactions are shaped and provide examples of how these values and interactions can be systematically assessed across different land systems in Europe and beyond. This open access book is produced by internationally recognized scientists in the field but written in an accessible format to be of interest to a large audience, including prospective students, lecturers, young professionals and scientists embarking to the interdisciplinary field of socio-ecological research and environmental valuation.

Biodiversitat --- Medi ambient --- Ecologia aplicada --- Protecció --- Ecologia --- Natura --- Protecció ambiental --- Protecció mediambiental --- Protecció del medi ambient --- Ciències ambientals --- Enginyeria ambiental --- Qualitat ambiental --- Política ambiental --- Diversitat biològica --- Diversitat ecològica --- Biologia --- Heterogeneïtat ecològica --- Conservació --- Human nature interactions --- Nature's benefits to society --- Science-policy interface --- Scale and gradient analyses --- Environmental and human impacts --- Spatial planning and conservation --- Urban Geography and Urbanism --- Ecologia humana --- Efecte del clima sobre l'home --- Desenvolupament sostenible

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Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to identify transformative innovations, assess future risks, and support precautionary decisions for sustainability is growing by the day in business and politics. Scenarios are a means of simplification, reducing the real-world complexity to a limited number of essential factors to analyze their interactions and support policy formulation, with indicators as communication and monitoring tools. In particular, in a time of fake news and alternative truths a critical reflection amongst producers and users of scenarios and indicators is overdue; the capability for critical self-reflection is what distinguishes science from pseudo-science, and is a condition of trust. The authors of this book test established measurement and modeling approaches against new challenges, assess the weaknesses of prevailing innovation theories and the political-ideological embedment of archetypical scenarios, highlight deficits in taking the physical basics into account, and the need to understand global interaction and the stepwise process of energy transitions, point out technical as well as conceptual weaknesses in data collection, harmonization and indicator generation, always with a view to solving problems.

sustainable development goals --- science-policy interface --- long-wave theory --- scenarios --- tweets --- sustainability indicators --- models and modes of science --- environmental innovation --- energy supply --- renewable energy --- gross domestic product --- GDP --- bio-economics --- data needs --- fake news --- European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) --- climate change --- goals --- Agenda 2030 --- Visit South Sardinia --- tourist destination --- indicators --- monitoring --- modelling --- institutions --- sustainable development --- grid flexibility --- global indicator framework --- microdata --- decision-making --- world views --- SDGs --- Germany --- challenges --- values --- sustainable production and consumption --- policies --- sustainability transition --- storage --- stakeholders --- innovation systems --- societal impact --- fossil energy system --- multi-level perspective --- household consumption --- biodiversity --- agency --- evolutionary economics --- energy transition --- material footprint --- transformation --- sustainable tourism --- opportunities --- policy advice --- international inequality --- resource indicator --- curtailment

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Flood risks worldwide are being exacerbated due to urbanisation and the consequences of climate change. This poses a challenge to traditional managerial approaches to flood risk management that try to be ‘fail-safe’. This book presents innovative and practical lessons on how to make flood risk management strategies ‘safe-to-fail’ and therewith more resilient. The book focuses on governance – rather than technical/managerial – approaches. As the book shows, new governance strategies are needed that ensure that flood risk management is not left to water managers alone. Various actors, including spatial planners, contingency agencies, NGOs and individual citizens, have a role to play in flood risk governance. Ten chapters assess different case studies from around the globe. These highlight the challenges and good practices related to learning, inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation, and debating and meeting the normative end-goals of flood risk governance. This book is essential reading for grounded scholars, reflexive policymakers and practitioners, and everyone else who is interested in contributing to more resilient and future-proof flood risk governance.

Research & information: general --- Environmental economics --- city-to-city learning --- policy transfer --- resilient cities --- water squares --- flooding --- erosion --- coping --- adaptation --- Jamuna River --- Bangladesh --- citizen engagement --- flood risk governance --- governance capacity --- climate adaptation --- science–policy interface --- flood risk management --- climate change --- social learning --- integrated flood risk management --- Room for the River program --- multilevel governance --- IAD framework --- adaptive governance --- multi-level safety --- untaming --- disaster risk reduction --- climate change adaptation --- river restoration --- green infrastructure --- ecosystem services --- acceptability --- attitudes --- co-benefits --- preferences --- participation --- adaptive capacities --- diversified flood risk management strategies --- pilot project --- governance networks --- learning --- flood prevention --- policy instruments --- spatial planning --- governance --- resilience --- science-policy interactions --- interdisciplinarity --- city-to-city learning --- policy transfer --- resilient cities --- water squares --- flooding --- erosion --- coping --- adaptation --- Jamuna River --- Bangladesh --- citizen engagement --- flood risk governance --- governance capacity --- climate adaptation --- science–policy interface --- flood risk management --- climate change --- social learning --- integrated flood risk management --- Room for the River program --- multilevel governance --- IAD framework --- adaptive governance --- multi-level safety --- untaming --- disaster risk reduction --- climate change adaptation --- river restoration --- green infrastructure --- ecosystem services --- acceptability --- attitudes --- co-benefits --- preferences --- participation --- adaptive capacities --- diversified flood risk management strategies --- pilot project --- governance networks --- learning --- flood prevention --- policy instruments --- spatial planning --- governance --- resilience --- science-policy interactions --- interdisciplinarity