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View article: Equitable technology development: A framework and methods for scientists and engineers
Equitable technology development: A framework and methods for scientists and engineers Open
Equity requires a rethinking of the processes and methods that applied scientists and engineers work through as they develop solutions that are simultaneously technical and social. By bridging insights from science and technology studies w…
View article: Co-Development of Technology for Measuring Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water
Co-Development of Technology for Measuring Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water Open
Participatory approaches to innovation aim to address persistent failures of technology to respond to end-user needs and context. Here, we present the results of a transdisciplinary project aimed at co-developing new technologies for water…
View article: How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique
How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique Open
This article responds to the general neglect of legal culture in the study of climate mobilities. It presents a case study of climate mobilities in an unplanned settlement in Maputo, Mozambique, exploring how legal culture influenced resid…
View article: Normative future visioning: a critical pedagogy for transformative adaptation
Normative future visioning: a critical pedagogy for transformative adaptation Open
Normative future visioning (NFV) offers a critical approach that can respond to the challenges of transformative adaptation. In the context of climate crisis, an understanding of the diversity of desired end-states and pathways for good ur…
View article: Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand Open
In an era of rapid urbanisation, understanding how marginalised groups shape and are shaped by planning has never been more urgent. Here, we focus on the political capability of marginalised groups, centring analysis on the control (or lac…
View article: The urban political ecology of ‘haphazard urbanisation’ and disaster risk creation in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal
The urban political ecology of ‘haphazard urbanisation’ and disaster risk creation in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal Open
This paper examines the impact of rapid urbanisation on the production of unequal disaster risk in Khokana, peri-urban town in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. It brings together scholarships in disaster risk creation and urban political ecolo…
View article: Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research
Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research Open
While climate change adaptation research has increasingly focused on aspects of culture, a systematic treatment of the role of legal culture in how communities respond to climate risk has yet to be produced. This is despite the fact that l…
View article: Food System Resilience: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges
Food System Resilience: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges Open
Food system resilience has multiple dimensions. We draw on food system and resilience concepts and review resilience framings of different communities. We present four questions to frame food system resilience (Resilience of what? Resilien…
View article: URBANISATION AND DISASTER RISKS IN THE HIMALAYA
URBANISATION AND DISASTER RISKS IN THE HIMALAYA Open
Haphazard urban expansion and poorly planned infrastructure development have increased and intensified disaster risks in the geologically fragile Himalaya. Against this backdrop, consolidating and interpreting the findings from four articl…
View article: INCLUSIVE POLICIES, EXCLUSIONARY PRACTICES: UNFOLDING THE PARADOX OF PROLONGED URBAN INFORMALITY DEBATES IN URBANISING NEPAL
INCLUSIVE POLICIES, EXCLUSIONARY PRACTICES: UNFOLDING THE PARADOX OF PROLONGED URBAN INFORMALITY DEBATES IN URBANISING NEPAL Open
Social inclusion and poverty alleviation are central to the United Nations (UN) new urban agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities. In Nepal, the goal of the National Urban A…
View article: The role of learning in farmer-led innovation
The role of learning in farmer-led innovation Open
A focus on learning helps deepen understanding of key mechanisms and processes that define and deliver innovation, and the findings suggest that priorities for farmer-led innovation process design should focus on modalities that open up sp…
View article: Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu
Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu Open
In many parts of the world, traditional institutions are the backbone of village governance and service delivery. While the effects of introducing new institutional arrangements from outside have been widely studied, autonomous changes – t…
View article: Equity in climate scholarship: a manifesto for action
Equity in climate scholarship: a manifesto for action Open
We -the Editors of Climate and Development -react in both delight and dismay to the 'Hot List' of 1000 influential scholars in climate change published by Reuters 1 on 20 April 2021.Delight because the compilation of such a list demonstrat…
View article: Designing sustainable pathways for the livestock sector: the example of Atsbi, Ethiopia and Bama, Burkina Faso
Designing sustainable pathways for the livestock sector: the example of Atsbi, Ethiopia and Bama, Burkina Faso Open
Demand for animal sourced food is predicted to double in the upcoming 20 years in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is simultaneously a big opportunity in terms of poverty reduction and a significant threat to the environment. The objective of this…
View article: Games as boundary objects: charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation
Games as boundary objects: charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation Open
Attempts to structurally transform segments of the agri-food system inevitably involve trade-offs between the priorities of actors with different incentives, perspectives and values. Trade-offs are context-specific, reflecting different so…
View article: Asking the right questions in adaptation research and practice: Seeing beyond climate impacts in rural Nepal
Asking the right questions in adaptation research and practice: Seeing beyond climate impacts in rural Nepal Open
Adaptation research and practice too often overlooks the wider social context within which climate change is experienced. Mainstream approaches frame adaptation problems in terms of the consequences that flow from biophysical impacts and a…
View article: Food systems resilience: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda
Food systems resilience: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda Open
In this article, we offer a contribution to the ongoing study of food by advancing a conceptual framework and interdisciplinary research agenda – what we term “food system resilience”. In recent years, the concept of resilience has been ex…
View article: Food Systems Resilience: Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
Food Systems Resilience: Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda Open
In this article, we offer a contribution to the ongoing study of food by advancing a conceptual framework and interdisciplinary research agenda – what we term ‘food system resilience’. In recent years, the concept of resilience has been ex…
View article: CLEANED documentation: Conceptual overview of CLEANED and parameterisation of a CLEANED tool for Lushoto, Tanzania
CLEANED documentation: Conceptual overview of CLEANED and parameterisation of a CLEANED tool for Lushoto, Tanzania Open
This companion document provides supporting information about the “Comprehensive Livestock
\nEnvironmental Assessment for improved Nutrition, a secured Environment and sustainable Development along livestock value chains” (CLEANED) tool a…