Promoting agency for social-ecological transformation: a transformation-lab in the Xochimilco social-ecological system

Biodiversity governance and social-ecological system dynamics: transformation in the Australian Alps

Biodiversity conservation continues to be a challenging task for societies worldwide. We undertook a resilience assessment to address the following question: What are the ramifications of social-ecological system dynamics for biodiversity governance of a nationally significant landscape? Resilience assessment offers promise for guiding response strategies, potentially enabling consideration of ...

Nudging and the Ecological and Social Roots of Human Agency.

ISSN: 1526-5161 (Print) 1536-0075 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uajb20 Nudging and the Ecological and Social Roots of Human Agency Daniel Kelly & Nicolae Morar To cite this article: Daniel Kelly & Nicolae Morar (2016) Nudging and the Ecological and Social Roots of Human Agency, The American Journal of Bioethics, 16:11, 15-17, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1222018 To lin...

Earth stewardship: a strategy for social–ecological transformation to reverse planetary degradation

A century ago, stewards were responsible for managing estates or for keeping order at public events. Today, the Earth is one global estate, and improved stewardship is vital for maintaining social order and for preserving life on Earth. In this paper, we describe Earth Stewardship, a social–ecological framework for sustaining life in a rapidly changing world. The paper defines the components of...

Ecological Disaster as Contextual Transformation

Distributed agency within intersecting ecological, social, and scientific processes

Societies emerge as changing alignments of social groups, segments, and classes, without either fixed boundaries or stable internal constitutions... Therefore, instead of assuming transgenerational continuity, institutional stability, and normative consensus, we must treat these as problematic. We need to understand such characteristics historically, to note the conditions for their emergence, ...