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with many different geographical settings and scales. The issues discussed and the interrogation of methods have much broader applicability. The methods themselves and the investigation of mental models can be applied to communities of place as well as communities of practice. In addition, some of the methods have been tested in other contexts and the reports of these applications greatly enrich the learning that is reflected in this special feature. In 2006 a mental models group was established within the Resilience Alliance to explore the contributions that different stakeholders and stakeholder groupings make to natural resources dynamics and the resilience of social-ecological systems. A study of water management practices associated with the National Water Act in South Africa provided an excellent opportunity to study mental models, and to assess the application of different methods for studying them, and the role that improved understanding of mental models could make in integrated water resource management at the catchment and other scales. It was felt in particular that the development of multistakeholder water management in the form of Catchment Management Agencies within the context of the National Water Act increased the potential relevance of understanding mental models and their consequences for water resource management. A central part of the collaborative research process that produced these papers was a 10-day long intensive workshop held in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The workshop was not only a data gathering and method testing exercise. Importantly it was an interdisciplinary learning experience with shared explorations of methods, theory, and ultimately the analysis of mental models of human-environment interactions. There were good reasons to choose the Inkomati Catchment as the site for the empirical research reported in these papers. Among these were the extent of existing research and good access to and knowledge of social and professional networks. However, even with the links to these established networks of knowledge and practice and with the direct involvement of individuals with long experience of the context, there was still not enough time to complete a full suite of techniques prescribed by the methods tested. This highlights one of the core lessons from this research exercise: that the process of

Mental Models in Human-Environment Interactions: Theory, Policy Implications, and Methodological Explorations