Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality. In this collection academic researchers and practitioners who have lived and worked in countries as geographically and culturally diverse as Brazil China India Ghana Palestine Uganda and Venezuela draw on their wide-ranging international and inter-sectoral experience to offer valuable comparative insights into the relationship between research and evidence-based policy for sustaining natural resources. Their contributions provide a novel mix of disciplinary perspectives ranging across geography ecology social policy the political economy philosophy international development engineering technology architecture and urban planning. They examine the institutions involved in generating and mediating evidence about the sustainability of natural resources in a changing environment and the different methodologies employed in collecting and assessing evidence informing policy and contributing to governance. The authors demonstrate not only that social science evidence on governance and policy implementation to sustain natural resources must complement natural science inputs but also that local communities must be an integral part of any programme development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science. | Sustaining Natural Resources in a Changing Environment
Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality. In this collection academic researchers and practitioners who have lived and worked in countries as geographically and culturally diverse as Brazil China India Ghana Palestine Uganda and Venezuela draw on their wide-ranging international and inter-sectoral experience to offer valuable comparative insights into the relationship between research and evidence-based policy for sustaining natural resources. Their contributions provide a novel mix of disciplinary perspectives ranging across geography ecology social policy the political economy philosophy international development engineering technology architecture and urban planning. They examine the institutions involved in generating and mediating evidence about the sustainability of natural resources in a changing environment and the different methodologies employed in collecting and assessing evidence informing policy and contributing to governance. The authors demonstrate not only that social science evidence on governance and policy implementation to sustain natural resources must complement natural science inputs but also that local communities must be an integral part of any programme development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science. | Sustaining Natural Resources in a Changing Environment
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