The 6^th International Conference on Environmental Future: Interdisciplinary Progress in Environmental Science and Management was held from 18-22 July 2011 at Newcastle University in the UK.

Before the conference, a series of review papers and regular contributions were published in Environmental Conservation in a thematic section on Interdisciplinary Progress in Environmental Science and Management. The review papers formed the basis of keynote presentations at the conference. All papers are listed below with links to the full versions which are available via Cambridge University Press. If you do not have journal access and would like a copy of a paper please contact Jason Flower.

• Acevedo M. F. (2011) Interdisciplinary progress in food production, food security and environment research. Environmental Conservation 38: 151–171
• Agrawal A. & Benson C. S. (2011) Common property theory and resource governance institutions: strengthening explanations of multiple outcomes. Environmental Conservation 38: 199–210
• Beder S. (2011) Environmental economics and ecological economics: the contribution of interdisciplinarity to understanding, influence and effectiveness. Environmental Conservation 38: 140–150
• Brekes F. (2010) Devolution of environment and resources governance: trends and future. Environmental Conservation 37: 489–500
• Christie P. (2011) Creating space for interdisciplinary marine and coastal research: five dilemmas and suggested resolutions. Environmental Conservation 38: 172–186
• D’Agnes L., D’Agnes H., Schwartz J. B., Amarillo M. L. & Castro J. (2010) Integrated management of coastal resources and human health yields added value: a comparative study in Palawan (Philippines). Environmental Conservation 37: 398–409
• Duncan D. H., Kyle G. & Race D. (2010) Combining facilitated dialogue and spatial data analysis to compile landscape history. Environmental Conservation 37: 432–441
• Evely A. C., Fazey I., Lambin X., Lambert E., Allen S. & Pinard M. (2010) Defining and evaluating the impact of cross-disciplinary conservation research. Environmental Conservation 37: 442–450
• Fearnside P. M. (2010) Interdisciplinary research as a strategy for environmental science and management in Brazilian Amazonia: potential and limitations. Environmental Conservation 37: 376–379
• Filer C. (2011) Interdisciplinary perspectives on historical ecology and environmental policy in Papua New Guinea. Environmental Conservation 38: 256–269
• Fisher N. S. & Chen C. Y. (2011) Interdisciplinary approaches for addressing marine contamination issues. Environmental Conservation 38: 187–198
• Frodeman R. (2011) Interdisciplinary research and academic sustainability: managing knowledge in an age of accountability. Environmental Conservation 38: 105–112
• Hicks C. C., Fitzsimmons C. & Polunin N. V. C. (2010) Interdisciplinarity in the environmental sciences: barriers and frontiers. Environmental Conservation 37: 464–477
• Jost Robinson C. A., Daspit L. L. & Remis M. J. (2011) Multi-faceted approaches to understanding changes in wildlife and livelihoods in a protected area: a conservation case study from the Central African Republic. Environmental Conservation 38: 247–255
• Khagram S., Nicholas K. A., Bever D. M., Warren J., Richards E. H., Oleson K., Kitzes J., Katz R., Hwang R., Goldman R., Funk J. & Brauman K. A. (2010) Thinking about knowing: conceptual foundations for interdisciplinary environmental research. Environmental Conservation 37: 388–397
• Lele S. & Kurien A. (2011) Interdisciplinary analysis of the environment: insights from tropical forest research. Environmental Conservation 38: 211–233
• Newing H. (2010) Interdisciplinary training in environmental conservation: definitions, progress and future directions. Environmental Conservation 37: 410–418
• Ommer R. E. (2010) The Coasts Under Stress project: a Canadian case study of interdisciplinary methodology. Environmental Conservation 37: 478–488
• Ostrom E. & Cox M. (2010) Moving beyond panaceas: a multi-tiered diagnostic approach for social-ecological analysis. Environmental Conservation 37: 451–463
• Perz S. G., Brilhante S., Brown I. F., Michaelsen A. C., Mendoza E., Passos V., Pinedo R., Reyes J. F., Rojas D. & Selaya G. (2010) Crossing boundaries for environmental science and management: combining interdisciplinary, interorganizational and international collaboration. Environmental Conservation 37: 419–431
• Pretty J. (2011) Interdisciplinary progress in approaches to address social-ecological and ecocultural systems. Environmental Conservation 38: 127–139
• Reyers B., Roux D. J. & O’Farrell P. J. (2010) Can ecosystem services lead ecology on a transdisciplinary pathway? Environmental Conservation 37: 501–511
• Szabó P. (2010) Why history matters in ecology: an interdisciplinary perspective. Environmental Conservation 37: 380–387
• Tacconi L. (2011) Developing environmental governance research: the example of forest cover change studies. Environmental Conservation 38: 234–246
• Trompf G. W. (2011) The classification of the sciences and the quest for interdisciplinarity: a brief history of ideas from ancient philosophy to contemporary environmental science. Environmental Conservation 38: 113–126
• Young J. C. & Marzano M. (2010) Embodied interdisciplinarity: what is the role of polymaths in environmental research? Environmental Conservation 37: 373–375