Introduction to the special issue on “vulnerability and resilience of socio-ecological systems”

It is well acknowledged that sustainable development challenges involve facing three basic dimensions– –social, economic, and environmental (United Nations, 2015). Given their interrelation, strategies for sustainability need to be addressed by an integrated approach accounting for the diverse dependencies in those three fundamental pillars. Coupled human–environment systems, the so-called socioecological systems, allow gathering this complexity and are target of analysis for sustainable management, particularly in a context of globalization (Young et al., 2006).