by landscapewanderer | May 23, 2022 | Environmentalism, Justice, Values
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...
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 | 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 | Apr 19, 2021 | Culture, Landscape Approaches, Values
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...
by landscapewanderer | Mar 19, 2021 | Landscape Approaches, Spirituality, Values
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...
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...
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