Events

Triangulating Ecological Variability, Pastoralist Livelihoods, and Knowledge Systems in Kenya

A wide range of social science research has shown how the expertise of pastoralists enables them to thrive in highly variable rangeland environments, often modifying their livelihood practices in complex

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global fisheries. Restaurant closures, transportation and border restrictions, and surging demand for non-perishable seafood products are examples of supply and demand shifts in the seafood industry. Fisheries workers have been economically affected by these

Providing adequate water supply to the growing number of urban residents will be a challenge faced by many utility managers throughout the remainder of this century. This challenge will be exacerbated by intensifying climate change that is likely to bring more frequent and intense droughts to some

This discussion will focus on the question of how sustainability students, researchers and practitioners can move towards a more just world through their praxis. In arguing for a process, rather than an object-oriented sustainability,  Dr. Julie Sze (with others) suggests that we need to move and

The Northeast Shelf Regional Ecosystem (NSRE) is experiencing some of the highest rates of ocean temperature change in the world. High-resolution climate models have predicted future temperatures may be higher than originally estimated from lower resolution models. These changes in temperature will

Social science research in rangelands has increasingly shown how the expertise of pastoralists enables them to thrive in highly variable environments. This work has also shown how pastoralists are modifying their practices in complex ways in response to new social, political, economic, and

Managing ecosystems to provide ecosystem services in the face of global change is a pressing challenge for policy and science. The consequences of global change (e.g., extreme events and species loss) for ecosystem services will depend on how different populations and species respond, as well as on

Large carnivores have been recovering in Europe for the last 50 years. There are currently 17.000 brown bears, 17.000 wolves, 8.000 Eurasian lynx, and 1.000 wolverines sharing space with 500 million humans in a landscape that has almost been totally transformed by human activity for millennia. This

Pandemics are increasingly used to explain historical transformations, but pandemics alone do not inevitably lead to drastic change. As the ongoing COVID pandemic has made all too clear, the impact of a pandemic is a result of a dynamic interaction between human societies and the environments they

Climate is changing worldwide and even more rapidly in the Arctic than elsewhere on earth, even as human industrial developments are expanding in remote Arctic regions. In tandem with these changes, many barren-ground caribou populations—of immeasurable importance to arctic ecosystems and local

Urban food systems like the Victory Gardens of WWI and WWII emerge and react to socio-economic distress but often disappear post disaster. Distress from the COVID-19 pandemic places cities dependent on long-distance supply chains at risk of both disease and food insecurity. One alternative urban