Blogpost by Ricardo Rocha
On the cold winter night of January 13, 1888, thirty-tree adventurous men braved a soggy frog to make history. They had assembled at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. to discuss establishing a society that would promote science and exploration – this was the night the National Geographic Society was born. Continue reading
Today’s discussion article was a 2011 TREE review paper, ‘Decision making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change’, by Polasky, Carpenter, et al. (2011). The article provides an introduction to the issue of decision making under ‘deep’ uncertainty – situations where the high uncertainty levels prevent realistic assessments of the probabilities and outcomes that are traditionally used in decision-theory based approaches like maximising expected utility. Continue reading
Wanting to update myself on the Community-Based Conservation literature of the past decade, and inspired by much of Kothari’s work recently, I decided to bring to this week’s journal club a paper (published earlier this year in Conservation and Society) that touches upon several themes and issues that researchers at GCC are working with currently (e.g. conservation, governance, protected areas, and indigenous peoples, just to mention a few). Continue reading