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Participatory ecosystem management, jazz, and the obsession with scaling

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...

Why can’t we get past the “tragedy of the commons”?

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...

Science, Development, and Pizza Delivery

by landscapewanderer | Nov 19, 2019 | Research and Science

For the past seven years I have been working with an international agricultural research institute doing what is often called “research for development”, but I’m about to leave and embark on the next step in my career.  And so it seemed like the right time to reflect...
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