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

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

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

Research news | 2020-01-20

How to produce knowledge together

Study identifies four criteria necessary for successful knowledge co-production for sustainability research

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

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

Research news | 2019-08-06

Nurturing nature

New research explores how environmental stewardship attitudes are influenced by the benefits humans receive from their environment

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

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

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

Research news | 2018-12-19

Multi-actor dialogues can unlock international negotiations on development and sustainability

How Multi-Actor Dialogues can unlock stalled negotiations

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

Research news | 2018-09-25

A blueprint for impact

Seven steps towards increasing environmental science’s influence on policy and practice

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

Research news | 2018-09-12

Introducing Wayfinder

Centre launches new online platform for resilience assessments, representing a major innovation in resilience practice

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Research news | 2016-11-04

Confidence is king, knowledge is queen

Why cooperation alone is not enough to secure sustainable use of a resource

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

Research news | 2015-09-23

Study: Ecologists should care about financial markets

Hidden ecological effects of algorithmic trade and new financial instruments

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

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

Research news | 2014-03-21

A resilient contract with the ancestors

Amid social and environmental change, can an ancient Malagasy agropastoral tradition survive?