Ecology and Society (formerly Conservation Ecology) is a quarterly open access interdisciplinary academic 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. The journal's editors-in-chief are Marco Janssen (Arizona State University) and Lance Gunderson (Emory University). C. S. Holling was the founding editor.

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Ecology and Society

Discipline	Ecology, environmental studies
Language	English
Edited by	Lance Gunderson, Marco Janssen
Publication details
Former name(s)	Conservation Ecology
History	1997–present
Publisher	Resilience Alliance
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Impact factor	4.403 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Ecol. Soc.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1708-3087
OCLC no.	818984142
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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.403.^[1]

As of June 2019, the three most cited articles 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
• J Rockström, W Steffen, K Noone et al. 2009 Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Ecology and Society 14(2):32
• 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