I am Executive Director of the Global Land Programme, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and Associated Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern, Switzerland. In addition to my work coordinating the GLP community, my research interests include land tenure and land use and cover change; forest governance and conflict; livelihoods, climate, and biodiversity conservation trade-offs; and the role of science and knowledge production in societal transformations. I am a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute.
Themes
Telecoupling of land use systems, Land governance, Urban-rural interactions, Land use and conflict
A new paper in BioScience outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy.
A new paper in Ecology & Society emphasizes the importance of the localized distribution of social and environmental costs and benefits within broader-scale land-use regime shifts.
A new report released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is a call to action for policymakers worldwide seeking to develop sustainable and equitable solutions to our most urgent global challenges. “Ten Facts about Land Systems for Sustainability” was co-authored by 50 leading land use scientists from 20 countries, convened by the Global Land Programme. A companion report offers specific examples to help policymakers and the public understand what’s at stake at this critical moment in global development.
An increasing number of voices highlight the need for science itself to transform and to engage in the co-production of knowledge and action, in order to enable the fundamental transformations needed to advance towards sustainable futures. But how can global sustainability-oriented research networks engage in co-production of knowledge and action? A new article in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability introduces a strategic tool called the ‘network compass’ which highlights four generic, interrelated fields of action through which networks can strive to foster co-production. The Global Land Programme is one of the 11 networks involved in the study.
