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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Finding Ourselves in the Messy Entanglement of Complexity: An Introduction to the Challenges and Opportunities in Social Ecological Systems -- Context in Which We Write the Book -- Why This Book -- Approach Taken in the Book -- Who Is the Book for? -- Structure of the Book and the Function of Each Chapter -- References -- Chapter 2 Engaging with a Social Ecological System: The Swamp -- The Biophysical Setting -- The Social Setting -- Example Narratives About Tarerer/Kelly Swamp -- Scientists -- Farmers -- Artists -- The Gunditjmara -- References -- Chapter 3 A Critical Reflection on Social Ecological Research and Turning to Practice -- Embedded Assumptions in the Language of Social Ecological Systems Research -- Examples of the Difficulty with Language in Practice: Non-linearity -- Critical Reflection for Social Ecological Systems Research -- A New Chapter of Social Ecological Interdisciplinarity -- Bringing Critical Reflection to the Ordering of Knowledge -- Turning Away from the Assumption of Social and Ecological Determinism -- Structure and Function -- Attending to Time in Social Ecological Research -- Centring on Learning and Practice: Turning to an Epistemology of Practice -- References -- Chapter 4 Adaptive Doing: Reimagining Social Ecological Practice -- Adaptive Doing: a Process for Changing and Integrating Knowledge and Practice -- The Agora: a Deliberate Space for Creating Change in Understanding -- Navigating Adaptive Doing: Engaging Process in the Agora -- Phase A-Disrupting the Status Quo: Invoking the Agora -- Phase B-Engaging in the Agora: Critical Reflection and Discussion -- Phase C-Orienting to Understandings of a Shared Concern -- Three Reframing Tools for Fostering Critical Reflection -- Phase D-Returning to Practice: Embracing a Changed Perspective.

© 2019, The Author(s). This paper concludes a special feature of Sustainability Science that explores a broad range of social value theoretical traditions, such as religious studies, social psychology, indigenous knowledge, economics, sociology, and philosophy. We introduce a novel transdisciplinary conceptual framework that revolves around concepts of 'lenses' and 'tensions' to help navigate value diversity. First, we consider the notion of lenses: perspectives on value and valuation along diverse dimensions that describe what values focus on, how their sociality is envisioned, and what epistemic and procedural assumptions are made. We characterise fourteen of such dimensions. This provides a foundation for exploration of seven areas of tension, between: (1) the values of individuals vs collectives; (2) values as discrete and held vs embedded and constructed; (3) value as static or changeable; (4) valuation as descriptive vs normative and transformative; (5) social vs relational values; (6) different rationalities and their relation to value integration; (7) degrees of acknowledgment of the role of power in navigating value conflicts. In doing so, we embrace the 'mess' of diversity, yet also provide a framework to organise this mess and support and encourage active transdisciplinary collaboration. We identify key research areas where such collaborations can be harnessed for sustainability transformation. Here it is crucial to understand how certain social value lenses are privileged over others and build capacity in decision-making for understanding and drawing on multiple value, epistemic and procedural lenses.