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Participation and Watershed Management: Experiences from Brazil
(University Press, 2007)Public participation is emphasized in many new institutional approaches to resource management, especially watershed governance. The implementation of participatory management frameworks, and capacity-building for civil ... -
Pedagogies of resistance: community-based education for women’s participation in watershed management in São Paulo, Brazil
(2009)Informal and community-based education and organizing are fundamental to creating the conditions for equitable democratic participation by women and marginalized people. This paper overviews recent Brazilian initiatives ... -
Port City Relations: Global Spaces of Urban Waterfront Development
(2007)Urban waterfronts have become key sites where global restructuring processes and local interests are engaged in complex struggles that are influencing the future of cities. The author discusses three issues related to these ... -
Power of the People: A Review of Citizen Science Programs for Conservation
(Biological Conservation, 2020-09)Citizen science is a rapidly growing field whereby volunteers can collect and/or analyze data to contribute to research and gain an appreciation for the environment. There are countless programs currently underway around ... -
Praxis Mapping: A methodology for evaluating the political impacts of international projects
(2012)This report describes the participatory development of a process we have used to consider the political implications of a climate justice project we worked on together from 2010 to 2013, called Strengthening the role of ... -
Promoting Health and Well-Being by Managing for Social–Ecological Resilience: the Potential of Integrating Ecohealth and Water Resources Management Approaches
(Ecology and Society, 2011)In coupled social–ecological systems, the same driving forces can result in combined social and environmental health inequities, hazards, and impacts. Policies that decrease social inequities and improve social cohesion, ... -
Public Participation and Ecological Valuation: Inclusive=Radical
(2005)This paper discusses the gender and class implications of “public participation” processes, which are increasingly used in Europe, North America, and elsewhere as a basic component of environmental and public policy ... -
Public participation in watershed management:international practices for inclusiveness
(Elsevier, 2011)This paper outlines a number of examples from around the world of participatory processes for watershed decision-making, and discusses how they work, why they are important, their social and ecological potential, and the ... -
Re-establishing Justice as a Pillar of Ecological Economics Through Feminist
(Ecological Economics, 2018)Ecological economics has long claimed distributive justice as a central tenet, yet discussions of equity and justice have received relatively little attention over the history of the field. While ecological economics has ... -
Ringed Seal Monitoring and Planning Workshop
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SCALE, ECOLOGY AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS
(2020-02)The relationship between political jurisdictions and ecologically-sensible geographic areas is a central concern of political ecologists; few are the cities, provinces, states or countries which map closely onto watersheds, ... -
The Social and Political Dimensions of the Ebola Response: Global Inequality, Climate Change, and Infectious Disease
(Springer, 2016)The 2014 Ebola crisis has highlighted public-health vulnerabilities in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea – countries ravaged by extreme poverty, deforestation and mining-related disruption of livelihoods and ecosystems, ... -
Social diversity and the sustainability of community economies
(The Bootstrap Press, 1997)Economic restructuring related to globalization is producing a bifurcation in economic activity throughout the OECD countries: a split between those workers/industries/areas which are competitive in the global market, and ... -
Social Diversity, Globalization, and Sustainability in Community-Based Economies
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Strengthening the role of civil society in water sector governance towards climate change adaptation in African cities – Durban, Maputo, Nairobi
(2013)Water resources management is one of the most important climate change-related issues on international, national and urban public policy agendas. Income inequality in South Africa, Mozambique, and Kenya is among the largest ... -
Trade, transition paths, and sustainable economies
(Routledge, 1999)The main criticisms of trade from a sustainability viewpoint are that it accelerates resource depletion and pollution, harms income distribution both locally and internationally, and undermines democratic institutions. ... -
De tragédia a solução: A atualidade teórica e empírica dos recursos comuns no Brasil
(Nova Economía, 2019)This article provides a recent update on common-pool resource studies in Brazil, presenting how the subject is evolving, both in theory and in practice. First, a theoretical review presents the most recent academic ... -
UnderCurrents
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2008)UnderCurrents is an independent non-profit journal of critical environmental studies produced by students, faculty and staff in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Since 1988, with a brief hiatus from ...