Research news | 2022-09-13

Mutual interests and benefits are no guarantee for increased collaboration

Awareness of interdependencies may not promote, but instead even inhibit, exchange and dialogue between different policy actors

Research news | 2022-03-09

Why crop-residue burning is part of a bigger problem

Burning in northern India affects millions of people across South Asia. But the farmers doing it are stuck in a vicious cycle

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 | 2019-10-11

Unsustainable science

With ever-rising demands of publications and endless tasks leaving little space for creative insight, current practice of science is unsustainable

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 | 2015-05-19

Uncomfortable truths

Ecosystem management that ignores "taboo tradeoffs" is likely to fail

Research news | 2013-04-12

Cut down the right tree

Smarter forest logging based on knowledge of habitat connectivity can curb biodiversity loss