scholarly journals Towards Just Resilience: Representing and Including New Constituencies in Adaptive Governance and Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-234
Author(s):  
Margherita Pieraccini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Regulatory Strategy ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Abstract Resilience has become a key concept in the era of global environmental change in both academic and policy circles. Social scientists have singled out adaptive governance as the most appropriate regulatory strategy to build resilience. Although adaptive governance scholars are proponents of participatory decision-making, they have not explored in depth the democratic potential of adaptive governance. Questions of who should be represented and why have not been fully addressed from a normative viewpoint. Building on political theories of justice and green political thinking, this article explores more in depth the issue of procedural justice and representation in adaptive governance. In doing so the article makes a first attempt at developing the theoretical foundations for ‘just resilience’.

Livelihoods with multiple stressors: Gendered youth decision-making under global change in rural Northwest Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1096-1119
Author(s):  
Stephanie Buechler ◽  
América Lutz-Ley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Multiple Stressors ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
Northwest Mexico ◽  
Livelihood Systems ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Future

Livelihoods in rural communities have become increasingly complex due to rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental forces, with differing impacts on and responses by female and male youth. This study contributes to feminist political ecology through an explicit focus on youth and an examination of the intersections of age and gender in educational choices, livelihood systems, and human–environment interactions. We undertake double exposures analysis to explore female and male youths’ livelihood-related decision-making in Rayón, a semi-arid rural community in Northwest Mexico, undergoing global environmental change and globalization-related shifts in agriculture, climate, water, and socio-economic conditions. Global environmental change exacerbates an already fragile, local ecological context. A focus on gender issues among youth in three age categories (14–15, 16–19, and youth in their 20s) with respect to their decision-making concerning the future is critical to gaining a better understanding of the roles women and men will play in linked agricultural and non-agricultural, rural to urban livelihood systems. Agricultural employment increasingly includes global agribusiness where local youth compete with people from other areas. Access to employment, education, as well as water and land resources varied by gender, age, and social class, and played significant roles in livelihood diversification and migration decisions and outcomes. Mothers’ access to government assistance for their natural resource-based livelihoods positively impacted daughters’ opportunities. Educational curricula failed to link environmental change with local livelihoods and to prepare students for urban careers. This study offers insights related to female and male youths’ needs associated with environmental education, technology access, job training, and child and sibling care in order for them to more successfully confront the future across village, town, and city spaces.

scholarly journals Aplikace participativních metod v oblasti globálních problémů životního prostředí

Envigogika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Vačkář ◽  
Eliška Krkoška Lorencová
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
Smart Agriculture ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Adaptive Decision Making

Participatory methods gain increasing popularity in the area of sustainable development and environmental change. The reason is not only to get information from experts or key actors in the area, but also the aspect of participation and education. In this article, we focus on analyzing the experience of using the participative deliberative method of World Café in various cultural environments and various topics of global environmental change. Complex problems in the area of global environmental change, represented here by the adaptation to climate change, the assessment of ecosystem services, and climate smart agriculture, require the involvement of diverse actors in the decision-making process. The resulting knowledge, gained through the application of scientific inputs and their confrontation with the experience and values of the individual actors, provide the basis for adaptive decision-making and contribute to solving environmental problems. Participatory methods also enable the social learning of the actors involved, support knowledge co-production through sharing and exchange of experience, which ultimately promotes the more effective implementation of scientific knowledge into practice. On examples from the Czech Republic, Kyrgyzstan and Ghana, we illustrate the possibilities of participatory methods to support policy and decision-making in the area of global environmental change.

scholarly journals Anthropocene in Friction. Dis-Encounters Between Geology and History

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-168
Author(s):  
German Alfonso Palacio Castañeda ◽  
Alberto Vargas ◽  
Elizabeth Hennessy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Natural Scientists ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
The Way

This article brings attention to the need to introduce social sciences to the Global Environmental Change conversation in order to discuss the notion of the “Anthropocene” postulated by prominent natural scientists (Crutzen & Stoermer 2000; Crutzen 2002). The focus of analysis concentrates on and the way the local and the global are put into friction (Tsing 2005). If natural scientists have achieved to show the dangers Earth currently confronts, what is not yet clear is if they understand how human societies, the main driver of this geological era, work. They tend to consider humans as a specie, so they make a reductionist idea of humans as a compact unity, taking away our knowledge that teaches that they are “social” (Moore 2015). This article starts with a discussion about the apparent common understanding on the “global,” by natural and social sciences. This article poses important challenges to social scientists, is critical toward the Anthropocene concept, and aspires to suggest critical thinking contributions on the global and its friction with the local. This article illustrates how, through the idea of the Anthropocene, Geology meets History in ways that are not easy to accept for social scientists because, they are right when they argue that the “anthropos” of the Anthropocene cannot be reduced to a “specie” because he/she is a socio-ecological entity.

Global Environmental Change and Agriculture

jpa ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Rawlins
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental

Political Consumerism for Sustainable Tourism

2018 ◽  
pp. 348-366
Author(s):  
Machiel Lamers ◽  
Jeroen Nawijn ◽  
Eke Eijgelaar
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Global Environmental

Over the last decades a substantial and growing societal and academic interest has emerged for the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars have highlighted the contribution of tourism to global environmental change and to local, detrimental social and environmental effects as well as to ways in which tourism contributes to nature conservation. Nevertheless the role of tourist consumers in driving sustainable tourism has remained unconvincing and inconsistent. This chapter reviews the constraints and opportunities of political consumerism for sustainable tourism. The discussion covers stronger pockets and a key weak pocket of political consumerism for sustainable tourism and also highlights inconsistencies in sustainable tourism consumption by drawing on a range of social theory arguments and possible solutions. The chapter concludes with an agenda for future research on this topic.

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