Politics and the Selection of Ecosystem Services
New Book Chapter Oonsie (Reinette) Biggs and colleagues have recently published an edited book ‘Principles for Building Resilience’ which critically examines and tests some of... Read More
Exploring Well-being, Community Resilience, Governance, Place, Identity and Culture in the Great Barrier Reef
Early Career Researcher Workshop Townville and Magnetic Island 23 March – 3 April 2015 We convened a truly inspiring two weeks with co-researchers from ESI,... Read More
Do ecosystem services approaches change conservation?
My latest paper with Janet Fisher published in Ecological Economics seeks to empirically address this question. The paper uses Q method and qualitative interviews with... Read More
How can we build resilience to extreme weather?
The Royal Society Report ‘Resilience to Extreme Weather’ was launched today – you can access the report and summaries and some interactive maps from the... Read More
How resilient is New Orleans?
I recently spent four days in New Orleans with a film crew from National Geographic exploring facets of social resilience. We were fortunate to talk... Read More
Climate Change, Poverty and Resilience
Our new project, entitled ‘You, Me and Our Resilience: Cross-cultural insights on Resilience, Poverty and Climate Change,’ was recently launched at AXA headquarters in Paris.... Read More
A social turn for Resilience?
My latest paper, a Progress Report in the journal Progress in Human Geography, questions whether there is a more nuanced and sophisticated analysis and understanding... Read More
Social Ecological Resilience and Human Security
My chapter on ‘Social Ecological Resilience and Human Security’ is published this month in a new book edited by the Linda Synga, Karen O’Brien and... Read More
Global Environmental Change top of the pops!
Global Environmental Change, which I co-edit with Neil Adger (Geography, Exeter) and Declan Conway (International Development, UEA) and with superb support from our Managing Editor... Read More
ESI Official Opening
On 23 April our institute was formally opened by the Children of Cornwall. We ran a series of workshops for 130 children from schools around... Read More