Research news | 2020-06-04

Conflict and collaboration in pandemic times

How network analysis can help understand why some actors choose to pick a fight while others want to collaborate

Research news | 2020-05-25

In some cases, a push and pull between interests can prevent unsustainable outcomes

How resource management can benefit from competition between interest groups

Research news | 2019-11-26

A digital backlash on the planetary health diet

How a pro-meat social media campaign attacking research related to healthy diets may have influenced social media audiences

Research news | 2019-11-21

Privileged people, privileged plants

A study of Cape Town’s plant life shows how post-apartheid poverty and inequality is mirrored in and exacerbated by ecological patterns

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 | 2019-06-03

How green is green economic development?

Poor farmers in the forested uplands of Laos provide a reality check on a much embraced concept

Research news | 2019-03-08

Disrupted food practices in the Himalayas

How remote villages in the Eastern Himalayas have become symbols of forced-upon policies and globalisation

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 | 2018-12-09

Gender inequalities revealed in transitions from swidden landscapes to oil plant industry

Amid transitions from swidden agriculture to market-driven oil palm plantations, women remain disadvantaged when it comes to access to land, labour and social capital

Research news | 2018-11-17

On the other side of the ditch

Study reveals deeply contrasting realities for farmers in South Africa

Research news | 2018-05-28

Rubber production in Laos and Myanmar struggle to become sustainable

Amid financial struggle and environmental degradation, prospects of sustainable rubber production in Laos and Myanmar look dim

Research news | 2017-05-03

Studying fisheries governance in Northwest Mexico

How modellers and field experts joined forces to develop agent-based models that account for complex human interactions

Research news | 2017-02-10

Power, conflicts and intentional agents in resilience research

Contrary to critics, resilience research is not blind to power structures or conflicts

Research news | 2016-07-21

New understanding of power shows relations between human and nature

New understanding of power shows important relations between humans and nature

Research news | 2013-04-08

The degrowth paradox

Degrowth diverges from capitalist economies, but is also dependent on them