by landscapewanderer | Apr 19, 2022 | Land Governance, Values
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...
by landscapewanderer | Jan 13, 2022 | Land Governance, Rangelands
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...
by landscapewanderer | Jul 2, 2021 | Culture, Land Governance, Resilience, Values
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...
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 | 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 | Feb 19, 2020 | Land Governance, Landscape Approaches, Participation and Facilitation
I never imagined that this man who had brought his herd into this other community’s pastures and flouted the community’s grazing rules, and whose actions had disrupted our training workshop would become a champion of our approach. The Interrupted Workshop I had...
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