Ecology and Society

Ecology and Society (formerly Conservation Ecology) is a quarterly open access interdisciplinary scientific journal published by the Resilience Alliance. It covers an array of disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the life-supporting ecosystems on which human well-being ultimately depends. Issues are available online as "in progress" as soon as articles are published. Special issues are published separately throughout the year. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 3.310.^[1]

As of October 2011^[update], the three most cited articles from Ecology and Society were:

• BH Walker, C.S. Holling, S.R. Carpenter, A Kinzig. 2004. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 9(2):5
• JM Anderies, MA Janssen, E Ostrom. 2004. A framework to analyze the robustness of social-ecological systems from an institutional perspective. Ecology and Society 9(1):18
• DW Cash, NW Adger, F Berkes et al. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society 11(2):8

References

External links

• Official website