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Research news | 2021-04-14

Exploring a sense of belonging and care

Vanessa Masterson reflects on why learning more about people’s attachment to places can bring about important change

Research news | 2020-08-05

In South Africa, access to urban green areas remains a White privilege

Racial segregation during Apartheid has influenced the distribution of and access to green infrastructure

Research news | 2020-05-11

If you want better conservation, you need to recognize and engage with local experts

Why mobilizing different types of knowledges creates opportunities for long-term sustainable governance

Research news | 2020-03-24

Towards a more inclusive valuation of nature

Researchers and practitioners present a vision and strategy to better include different worldviews on the value of nature. All with a little help of the octopus

Research news | 2019-10-24

Complex changes, collaborative solutions

Combining knowledge from local communities and policymakers holds the key to better land management for rural communities under a rapidly changing climate. That is if talk is replaced by action

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 | 2019-05-17

Making sense of place

Special feature in Sustainability Science illustrates how ‘sense of place’ as a concept can contribute more effectively to understanding environmental change

Research news | 2018-09-18

Stewardship: a user’s manual

Why the concept of stewardship offers a platform for collaboration and dialogue between actors, even with differing perspectives

Research news | 2018-08-30

Capturing life through a different lens

Scientific method using photographs helps capture local expressions of human wellbeing among vulnerable communities in Kenya and South Africa

Research news | 2018-01-24

From conceptual la-la-land to rigorous sustainability science

Former and current PhD students from SRC propose a new framework to help early-career sustainability scholars to become “undisciplinary”

Research news | 2017-10-01

Out of place?

New paper explores links between conservation, development and sense of place on the Wild Coast of South Africa

Research news | 2017-05-30

A better sense of place

Emerging research on people’s attachment to places can unlock capacity to better deal with change

Research news | 2016-11-29

How many words does a picture really say?

By putting a camera in people’s hands centre PhD student Vanessa Masterson listens to their stories

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