“…First, the social sciences can be used to document and describe the diversity of conservation practices, including historic and current examples (Berkes, 1999;Cinner and Aswani, 2007;Colding and Folke, 2001;Jacquet et al, 2011), as well as conservation planning, decision-making and governance processes (Borrini-Feyerabend and Hill, 2015;Flannery et al, 2015;Osmond et al, 2010). Second, social science can help to diagnose why conservation is succeeding or failing Cinner et al, 2016;Cullman, 2015), what scales are appropriate for different conservation processes and projects (Levine, 2007;Wyborn and Bixler, 2013) and how different processes (e.g., collaboration or integration of science) might fail as a result of the interactions between groups (Gray, 2010;Walley, 2002;Wyborn, 2015b).…”