Research news | 2024-01-24

Centralised social networks can hinder innovation by making decision-making too similar

Social systems where influence is centred around one or two individuals can lead to pack mentality and groupthink in farming communities

Research news | 2024-01-08

Wild plants and animals are key for well-being in the tropics, as is economic development

Should the use of wild plants and animals be rapidly phased out in the tropics for conservation and development purposes? A new study argues that this would not be such a good idea

Research news | 2022-10-14

In Colombia, a new war rages on people and nature

Six years after the Colombian peace agreement, crucial ecosystems and local communities are still caught in the crossfire

Research news | 2022-10-13

Scientific narratives risk reinforcing colonial structures in tropical forests

Rural forest communities are made the scapegoat for environmental destruction in tropical forests

Research news | 2022-05-09

Three ways games can break sustainability deadlocks

Played by the right people, strategy games can break free from established norms and support more transparent democratic dialogues

Research news | 2021-11-16

Why background conditions should not be put in the background

We should keep our options open to understand why certain things are seen the way they are

Research news | 2021-09-22

How can intersectionality contribute to social-ecological systems research?

Intersectionality is firmly making its way into research thinking. What does it offer sustainability scientists?

Research news | 2020-06-04

Conflict and collaboration in pandemic times

How network analysis can help understand why some actors choose to pick a fight while others want to collaborate

Research news | 2020-05-25

In some cases, a push and pull between interests can prevent unsustainable outcomes

How resource management can benefit from competition between interest groups

Research news | 2019-11-26

A digital backlash on the planetary health diet

How a pro-meat social media campaign attacking research related to healthy diets may have influenced social media audiences

Research news | 2019-11-21

Privileged people, privileged plants

A study of Cape Town’s plant life shows how post-apartheid poverty and inequality is mirrored in and exacerbated by ecological patterns

Research news | 2019-08-06

Nurturing nature

New research explores how environmental stewardship attitudes are influenced by the benefits humans receive from their environment

Research news | 2019-06-24

A buzz or a baller?

New study tests the theoretically popular notion that bottom-up approaches to urban environmental governance lead to a better match between social institutions and ecological realities

Research news | 2019-06-03

How green is green economic development?

Poor farmers in the forested uplands of Laos provide a reality check on a much embraced concept

Research news | 2019-03-08

Disrupted food practices in the Himalayas

How remote villages in the Eastern Himalayas have become symbols of forced-upon policies and globalisation

Research news | 2018-12-19

They’d be MAD not to

How Multi-Actor Dialogues can unlock stalled negotiations

Research news | 2018-12-09

Capital punishment

Amid transitions from swidden agriculture to market-driven oil palm plantations, women remain disadvantaged when it comes to access to land, labour and social capital

Research news | 2018-11-17

On the other side of the ditch

Study reveals deeply contrasting realities for farmers in South Africa

Research news | 2018-05-28

Why the white gold can never be green

Amid financial struggle and environmental degradation, prospects of sustainable rubber production in Laos and Myanmar look dim

Research news | 2017-05-03

Modelling in Mexico

How modellers and field experts joined forces to develop agent-based models that account for complex human interactions