Understanding Fertility Preferences in Ethiopia

In a world where family planning is becoming an increasingly important environmental concern, understanding the factors that influence women’s fertility preferences is crucial. Population growth can exacerbate food insecurity and poverty, especially in the Global South and Africa in particular. To date, fertility research has focused on demographic factors while environmental stressors have been under-explored.

Using a visual tool to move from theory to action after a scenario planning exercise

Social-ecological governance demands the inclusion of diverse values and knowledge systems, and collective action to catalyze transformations toward sustainability. To meet this calling, there has been a push by the scientific community to provide several participatory approaches. This effort has been widely successful, yet one underdeveloped area remains- tools to support collective action. Collective action

Exploring how tourist’s valuation of nature has been measured

Revenues from nature-based tourism is one of the key measures to finance protected areas and hence, contributes to bending the curve of biodiversity loss. The positive impacts of nature-based tourism are not limited to economic arguments but also the tourists themselves benefit from experiences with nature in protected areas through, for example, recreational and touristic

Don’t Forget the Next Global Conversation

It is two weeks away! Are local people maintaining ecological traditions because they want to, or because they lack other options? you are welcome to distribute this email and help us advertise this event! June 1th 2023, 1:30pm – 2:30pm CET The Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Conundrum: A Global Conversation Tibor Hartel, Joern Fischer, Girma

Measuring “sense of place” for better land management

Understanding how stakeholders relate to and value their environment is key to effective social-ecological systems management. This emotional connection to an area or a place is called “sense of place.” Understanding how and why stakeholders value a place can help better achieve management goals or alleviate conflicts between different parties. While “sense of place” has

Creating nature-based solutions while in lockdown: overcoming physical immobility in Costa Rica

The Grande de Tárcoles River Basin in Costa Rica is where we lay our scene. The river basin, which makes up 4.2% of Costa Rica’s land area, is home to more than half of the country’s population. The 22 smaller rivers that are part of the Grande de Tárcoles basin are the main source of

Upcoming Global Conversation

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What exactly is landscape sustainability? Searching for clarity through Q-analysis of 45 landscape case studies

Business-as-usual land use has failed as a land management strategy during the Anthropocene. As a result, landscape approaches to land use, which take a more holistic understanding of natural processes, have cropped up around the globe. Roughly, a landscape approach is “a framework that integrates policy and practice to address the multi-scalar pressures on social-ecological

Conservation Planning to support Local Decision-Making

Biodiversity modeling is a useful tool when it comes to preparing for land-use change. However, most models work on a global or regional level, making it difficult to predict what land-use change might look like at a specific location. In their recent paper, Duguma et al. (2023) focus on landscape-scale analysis to support local decision-making

Mosaic landscapes provide conservation pockets for an endangered species: Colias myrmidone in Romania

Anthropogenic climate change and other human impacts are causing an unprecedented decline in insects. Even insects that have prevailed in human-dominated landscapes can be sensitive towards changes in the landscape, such as land abandonment and land use intensification. Few insects enjoy the celebrity that the Danube Clouded Yellow (Colias myrmidone) has attained by going extinct