The Deliberative Landscapes Wanderer
House on Fire
by landscapewanderer | May 23, 2022
The house where I grew up was perpetually catching on fire. It wasn’t all bad. Although I fought with my brothers and sisters sometimes, we really had a beautiful family. Sunday dinner was especially nice. Dad always asked each of us what we did that week. If one...
Land Governance Lenses
by landscapewanderer | Apr 19, 2022
There are multiple factors that influence the way we as human beings see the world. Education, culture, and particular disciplines, professions, and institutions all provide us with narratives, conceptual frameworks, and biases. These become lenses through which see...
Tips to help the sustainability professional to stay motivated and sane
by landscapewanderer | Feb 22, 2022
The pandemic has been driving many of us stir-crazy, although obviously it goes far beyond the usual kind of stir-crazy. The pandemic, and its lockdowns and travel restrictions, and some people’s theories about the pandemic and about the government’s response to it,...
Causal pathways in environmental governance
by landscapewanderer | Jan 13, 2022
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I’ve been silent for several months. I’m hoping that in the new year I can get back to a regular monthly schedule. In an earlier post, I argued that formal land tenure systems—including policies and laws aimed at...
Transformative Governance through the Lenses of Culture, Community and Identity
by landscapewanderer | Jul 2, 2021
The environmental crises and the coming regime shifts When the biodiversity crisis, global climate change, degradation of soils, and the other dimensions of environmental destruction now unfolding are viewed together, it is often suggested that our civilization is...
In Defense of Community
by landscapewanderer | Apr 19, 2021
In conservation, natural resource management, disaster risk reduction and various other fields, community-based approaches have been very popular, bathed in a glowing light of all that is participatory, bottom-up and democratic. But they have also attracted a widely...
Four virtues for landscape approaches
by landscapewanderer | Mar 19, 2021
In the fields of natural resource management and environmental governance, programs, projects, and advocacy often address structural factors at the community level, the landscape level or the national level, but tend to focus much less on individual behavior, except...
The webinar pandemic
by landscapewanderer | Feb 19, 2021
The downside of virtual meetings The COVID lockdowns and travel restrictions have forced people to make more use of virtual meeting technologies. People are organizing workshops, meetings and other kinds of interactions that in the past would have only happened by...
Participatory ecosystem management, jazz, and the obsession with scaling
by landscapewanderer | Dec 20, 2020
In the international development and global conservation worlds, there is a preoccupation with scaling. Doing something positive in a single community is nice, so the thinking goes, but can never be enough. If we identify something that makes one community, or one...
The inconvenient implications of community-driven development
by landscapewanderer | Nov 19, 2020
Motherhood, participatory approaches and apple pie. I’m on the board of an organization that is in the midst of some soul searching about its role in natural resource management, land rights, landscape approaches, and community-based conservation. These are things...
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