Rights / Voice

As in her earlier writings, Robin Wall Kimmerer challenges us to view the Earth not as a resource to be managed but as a partner in an ongoing exchange of gifts, where abundance is nurtured through flow and cycles of giving and receiving. This book is all about reciprocity and developing a “gift...

Updated version of an earlier work, "this second framework paper (NWP2) is targeted at practitioners involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of natural resource–based rural development activities around the world, trying to make them more equitable, efficient, and effective. We also...

Excerpt: "We identified and analysed 409 initiatives in 39 countries, creating the most comprehensive database of RoN initiatives to date. We developed a taxonomy that may guide further research. We also present two detailed maps which can help policymakers, legislators, judges, researchers, and the...

Joe Culhane will be a guide and share about Relational Being, he is a passionate advocate for ecological regeneration, exploring accessible pathways to help us humans of modernity to bridge the gap between disconnection and regeneration. He strives to be of service by helping to illuminate and...

With examples drawn from India, Australia, the Amazon, among others, the authors illustrate the widespread practice and importance of bio-cultural innovation. They say: "Biocultural innovations... emphasize the integral role that Indigenous peoples play as stewards of the biosphere. Thus biocultural...

Join us for an afternoon of immersive role-play, exploring the park in fantastical new ways as one of the Mentor Species of Finsbury Park: the dogs, the stag beetles, the bees, the Canada geese, the grass, the squirrels and the London plane tree….

Transform into another species with a totally...

Author Coralie Gervaise provides a useful examination of approaches toward inclusion of non-humans in public administration in her dissertation. After an an exploration of thinking around the topic she examines a care approach and a related framework to help think about and apply such an approach...

From the article: "Tordoff says that what set the collaborative apart from other outside funders of Southeast Asia conservation and development projects was its commitment to helping local organizations set the tone for their own objectives—taking a bottom-up approach instead of a top-down one, with...

A series of essays from a diverse group--some globally known and others who should be--this collection show the diversity of visions revolving around people-centered leadership, offering social, ecological, economic, spiritual, and ethical frames and practices to shift from the destructive and...