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Friendship, kinship and social risk management strategies among pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda
This paper describes risk-pooling friendships and other social networks among pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda. Social networks are of critical...
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Newly evolving pastoral and post-pastoral rangelands of Eastern Africa
Over the past two decades, the rangelands of Eastern Africa have experienced swee** changes associated with growing human populations, shifting...
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Back to the Future: Richardson’s Multilateral Arms Race Model
Lewis Fry Richardson was a groundbreaking scholar, not only in modern meteorology but also in world affairs. His two major books, both published...
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Adding Value to Open and Distance Learning Programmes in Nature Conservation Through Sustainability Related Work-Integrated Learning
In response to worldwide criticism that universities do not produce graduates that are work ready, the incorporation of real-world learning...
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Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia
This study examines the hypothesis that social capital can be a foundation for community disaster resilience with an analysis of empirical findings...
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Analyzing Fishing Effort Dynamics in a Multispecies Artisanal Fishery in Costa Rica: Social and Ecological System Linkages
Research on fishery fleet dynamics and fisher behavior often rely on rational economic assumptions to explain decision-making processes based on cost...
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Livable Cities: Concepts and Role in Improving Health
The purpose of the International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) movement, founded in 1985, is to enhance the wellbeing of all inhabitants, strengthen...
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Evaluating knowledge integration and co-production in a 2-year collaborative learning process with smallholder dairy farmer groups
Although knowledge integration and co-production are integral to transdisciplinary approaches to foster sustainable change in social–ecological...
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Methods and Cases
The chapter lays out the methods applied to conduct the research and the case studies the study investigates. The chapter takes King et al.’s (1994)...
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The Importance of Social Capital in Building Community Resilience
This chapter uses examples from a number of recent disasters to illuminate the ways that social capital serves as a critical part of resilience....
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Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
In this chapter we describe what an “ecological economy” could look like and how we could get there. We believe that this future can provide full...
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The Lady Who Started All This
Travel north out of Washington, DC, on New Hampshire Avenue. After passing under the Capitol Beltway, turn left onto Quaint Acres Drive, and then...
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Transdisciplinary research in support of land and water management in China and Southeast Asia: evaluation of four research projects
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) aims at identifying implementable solutions to difficult sustainability problems and at fostering social learning....
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Tourism and Social Capital: Case Studies from Rural Nepal
Tourism has a wide range of impacts on develo** societies. The positive impacts of tourism on local economic growth are widely acknowledged....
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Rethinking Social Barriers to Effective Adaptive Management
Adaptive management is an approach to environmental management based on learning-by-doing, where complexity, uncertainty, and incomplete knowledge...
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Why the Mainstream Economic Paradigm Cannot Inform Sustainability Transformations
Long before I discovered Polanyi, my decision to study political economy was a key turning point in my quest to find an answer to the question of why...
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Frictions in the Urban Fabric
Chapter 1 begins with the space and at the level of the city, examining how industrial and modernist developments have served to compile an urban...