Relational Thinking for Landscape Management and Conservation: can we really embrace a human/nature continuity?

This research paper examines the potential for relational thinking to transform landscape management and conservation. The authors analyze how restoration, reconciliation, and reclamation ecologies have incorporated social and cultural dimensions, moving beyond a purely systemic approach. The findings highlight the need to understand human-nature relationships as continuous, integrating diverse values and worldviews. However, this requires larger, interdisciplinary research and management teams, which can be difficult to fund. The significance lies in the call to bridge the human-nature divide and embrace social-ecological complexity for more effective and inclusive conservation efforts.