Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Reconciling community livelihood needs and biodiversity conservation in Taita Hills forests for improved livelihoods and transformational management of the landscape.- Chapter 3. Degraded landscape transformed into foodland and woodland by village agroforestry.- Chapter 4. Long-term tracking of multiple benefits of participatory forest restoration in marginal cultural landscapes in Himalaya.- Chapter 5. Social-ecological transformation through planting mixed tree species on abandoned agricultural land in the hills of Nepal.- Chapter 6. Transformative change through ecological consumption and production of ancient wheat varieties in Tuscany, Italy.- Chapter 7. Sustainable rural development and water resources management on a hilly landscape: A case study of Gonglaoping community, Taichung, ROC (Chinese Taipei).- Chapter 8. Transformative change in peri-urban SEPLS and green infrastructure strategies: An analysis from the local to the regional scales in Galicia (NW Spain).- Chapter 9. Water with Integrated Local Delivery (WILD) for transformative change in socio-ecological management.- Chapter 10. Traditional landscape appropriation of Afro-descendants and collective titling in the Colombian Pacific region: lessons for a transformative change.- Chapter 11. Climate change resiliency through mangrove conservation: the case of Alitas farmers of Infanta, Philippines.- Chapter 12. Improvement of human and environmental health through waste management in Antigua and Barbuda.- Chapter 13. Synthesis: Conception, approaches and strategies for transformative.