ecosystems

Stockholm Resilience Centre advances the understanding of complex social-ecological systems and generates new insights and development to improve ecosystem management practices and long-term sustainability.

J. M. Howarth outlines how phenomenological enquiry can reveal and criticise modernist assumptions, while traditional phenomenological notions might form a more eco-friendly framework for the value bases of interactions within nature.

Dale Jamieson develops several objections to the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ in environmental policy, outlining problems in governance institutions, value structures, and knowledge systems.

Bryan Norton discusses limitations to James Nelson’s concept of ecosystem health as having both descriptive and normative content.

Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia brings together case studies from across the globe to reveal underlying cultural ontologies and call for more integration between the work of scholars and practitioners.

This film focuses on the causes of the decimation of honey bees and their hives around the globe, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder,” and its consequences for not only the economy but for humans’ very survival.

This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.

This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.