by landscapewanderer | Dec 20, 2020 | Landscape Approaches, Participation and Facilitation, Research and Science
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...
by landscapewanderer | Nov 19, 2020 | Participation and Facilitation, Values
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...
by landscapewanderer | Oct 19, 2020 | Landscape Approaches, Rangelands
Objectives of the IYRP During its meeting in late September and early October of this year, the United Nations Committee on Agriculture (COAG) endorsed the proposal to declare 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP). There are further...
by landscapewanderer | Sep 19, 2020 | Environmentalism, Ontology
I recently had a lively conversation with my teenage daughter about our environmental footprint, a concept that she was studying in school. Like a lot of young people, she is quite concerned about the direction the world is going, about how many planet Earths we...
by landscapewanderer | Aug 21, 2020 | Justice, Landscape Approaches
I am generally optimistic about approaches for environmental management and governance that are based on dialogue and deliberation, bringing together diverse stakeholders, and searching for common ground. And I am, obviously enough, a believer in the potential of...
by landscapewanderer | Jul 19, 2020 | Land Governance, Research and Science
Last year I postponed a rant about the ill-named “the tragedy of the commons” concept. I can contain myself no longer. Since Garrett Hardin published his influential 1968 paper of that name, decades of scholarship has shown that he got it wrong. In the right...
by landscapewanderer | Jun 19, 2020 | Environmentalism, Justice, Values
Regular readers of the Deliberative Landscapes Wanderer may see in this post a deviation from the topics I normally cover. The turmoil unfolding in the United States of America right now seems to have captured the attention of the whole world, including me, and the...
by landscapewanderer | May 18, 2020 | Land Governance, Rangelands
Commons thinking has had a profound influence on how we understand sustainability, land rights, and natural resource management. This school of thought traces its origins most notably to Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom and believes that under the right circumstances...
by landscapewanderer | Apr 25, 2020 | Landscape Approaches, Resilience, Values
Connectivity and resilience Are you also having a feeling of déjà vu? The events of the past few months surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic are retelling a story that was told during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The characters in the story have different names, but...
by landscapewanderer | Apr 4, 2020 | Landscape Approaches, Participation and Facilitation, Spirituality
The nature-religion connection Those of us working toward sustainable landscapes should be ready, in fact should actively seek out, to engage with religion. For huge numbers of people, religion frames what life is about and for and what is important. It guides how...
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