Rehabilitating degraded lands, restoring fisheries, or reducing greenhouse gas emissions all demand changes by actors at multiple scales; and power, profit, and livelihoods are at stake. Blake Ratner of Collaborating for Resilience recounts his experiences of pursuing big, systemic change when people don’t agree what the problem is, or how to solve it.

Policy, PracticeBlake RatnerSeptember 7, 2018Cambodia, Tonle Sap, Collaboration, collective action, governance, facilitation, stakeholders, Southeast Asia, water, fisheries, climate change, innovation, transformation, resilience

Strengthening Women’s Voices in Environmental Governance

It’s become popular to say that the health of the environment and the health of human communities are interlinked. Yet much of the investment aimed at solving environmental crises still fails to make these connections. How can we do better?

Policy, PracticeAllie AstellJanuary 29, 2016gender equality, governance, Uganda, East Africa, health, sanitation, collective action, accountability, government, adelphi, Makerere University

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