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Research news | 2020-10-01
Biocultural approaches to sustainability remains too narrow and utilitarian
Issues related to gender, power, action and transformations remain largely neglected. That needs to change
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Research news | 2020-05-29
Five ways to boost social engagement in environmental projects
Colombia has a long tradition when it comes to nature conservation, but falls short on promoting the role of ecosystem services in their strategies. Here’s how to fix it
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Research news | 2020-05-05
Why we need a more inclusive approach to transformation research
Indigenous and local knowledge still not acknowledged despite offering a more diverse understanding of sustainability transformations
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Research news | 2020-01-20
How to produce knowledge together
Study identifies four criteria necessary for successful knowledge co-production for sustainability research
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Research news | 2019-12-09
Knowledge as a tool rather than an underlying requirement
New study demonstrates the benefits of developing new ideas about what knowledge and action are and how they relate to each other
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Research news | 2019-10-24
Complex changes, collaborative solutions
Combining knowledge from local communities and policymakers holds the key to better land management for rural communities under a rapidly changing climate. That is if talk is replaced by action
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Research news | 2019-08-06
Nurturing nature
New research explores how environmental stewardship attitudes are influenced by the benefits humans receive from their environment
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Research news | 2019-06-24
Bottom-up approaches not always good for natural resource management
New study tests the theoretically popular notion that bottom-up approaches to urban environmental governance lead to a better match between social institutions and ecological realities
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Research news | 2019-06-20
Caring as Country
A collaborative research effort by Aboriginal custodians and academics in Western Sydney demonstrates how a caring attitude be applied in natural resource management
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Research news | 2019-03-08
Learning the tech-talk
By expressing their interests in technical terms, previously excluded actors are able to gain influence and have their voices heard. Others remain marginalised
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Research news | 2018-12-19
Multi-actor dialogues can unlock international negotiations on development and sustainability
How Multi-Actor Dialogues can unlock stalled negotiations
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Research news | 2018-11-09
In research, how to avoid misunderstandings about cognition
The perception of cognition and other related terms easily get misunderstood in scientific processes, leading to frustration, communication breakdown and a collaboration impasse
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Research news | 2018-09-25
A blueprint for impact
Seven steps towards increasing environmental science’s influence on policy and practice
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Research news | 2018-09-18
Creating a shared language for the stewardship concept
Why the concept of stewardship offers a platform for collaboration and dialogue between actors, even with differing perspectives
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Research news | 2018-09-12
Introducing Wayfinder
Centre launches new online platform for resilience assessments, representing a major innovation in resilience practice
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Research news | 2018-01-24
From conceptual la-la-land to rigorous sustainability science
Former and current PhD students from SRC propose a new framework to help early-career sustainability scholars to become “undisciplinary”
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Research news | 2017-06-15
Creating positive visions of southern Africa
How an ongoing project aims to develop positive visions of the Anthropocene for southern Africa and beyond
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Research news | 2017-05-30
The contribution of sense of place theory to sustainability science
Emerging research on people’s attachment to places can unlock capacity to better deal with change
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Research news | 2017-05-16
Urban development: how active citizens can partner with local authorities
Mosaic governance: introducing approach that can better account for various actors engaged in urban green development
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Research news | 2017-04-06
Healthy ecosystems are crucial for the enjoyment of universal human rights
Resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council builds on first ever UN report addressing relationships between human rights and biodiversity
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Research news | 2017-02-27
Towards solving a key puzzle in the IPBES
New publication presents progress toward tools and approaches for working with diverse knowledge systems in ecosystem assessments
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Research news | 2017-02-06
Dealing with social-ecological trade-offs in Mombasa, Kenya
Scientists, communities and actors connected to the Mombasa fisheries system join forces to support the most vulnerable in a rapidly changing environment
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Research news | 2016-11-04
Confidence is king, knowledge is queen
Why cooperation alone is not enough to secure sustainable use of a resource
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Research news | 2016-10-17
A social-ecological legacy
An integrated perspective of humans-in-nature more important than ever for both science and development
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Research news | 2015-09-23
Study: Ecologists should care about financial markets
Hidden ecological effects of algorithmic trade and new financial instruments
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Research news | 2014-11-06
Diversity of perspectives key to conservation
Centre researchers among leading experts calling in the Journal Nature for a unified and diverse conservation ethic
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Research news | 2014-06-26
Connecting diverse knowledge systems for enhanced ecosystem governanc
New approach helps connect actors with diverse knowledge about social-ecological governance
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Research news | 2014-03-21
A resilient contract with the ancestors
Amid social and environmental change, can an ancient Malagasy agropastoral tradition survive?