Matthew J Colloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1542440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Colloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Colloff |
| SIGNATURE | COLLOFF M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3765-0627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation
Successful adaptation often involves changes to the decision context to enable new ways of thinking and acting on climate change. Using 16 adaptation initiatives the authors were engaged with, we analysed how and why decision contexts changed to identify ways to improve adaptation as a process of collective deliberation and social learning. We used the scope of the adaptation issue and governance arrangements to classify initiatives into four typ…
Cyclones and skinny dolphins: Adaptation pathways for Pacific communities under rapid global change
The Pacific region is experiencing accelerating global change with complex interactions amongst multiple drivers, yet the onus for urgent adaptation falls largely on communities. Proponents of adaptation must therefore ensure that communities are empowered and enabled to design and implement their own adaptation plans after project cycles have concluded, and that this capacity is scaled beyond the original focus. To address this challenge, we tes…
People working with nature: A theoretical perspective on the co-production of Nature’s Contributions to People
The co-production of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) is a set of processes in which anthropogenic inputs (i.e. material or non-material actions and the assets supporting these actions) and natural inputs (i.e. ecological structures and processes) interact to produce NCP. An interdisciplinary understanding of NCP co-production can support decision-making on ecosystem management or NCP use, given natural constraints, limited human inputs, po…
A tale of two rivers - Baaka and Martuwarra, Australia: Shared voices and art towards water justice
Two of Australia's iconic river systems, Baaka in New South Wales (NSW) and Martuwarra in Western Australia (WA), are described in a narrative that connects Indigenous custodianship, bio-physical features and art, and contrasts settler law with First Law to provide multiple ways of seeing the two river systems. Our narrative is a shared response to: (1) upstream water extractions that have imposed large costs on Baaka and its peoples; and (2) thr…
Using a futures orientation to enable adaptation of protected areas under climate change
Protected areas are central for long‐term conservation of biodiversity and can potentially support climate change mitigation. But protected areas are also affected by climate change. Managers and scientists are increasingly facing the difficult task of making decisions under rapid change. Understanding individual and institutional futures considerations for adaptation is fundamental to evaluate whether protected area governance is adequate to ant…
The politics of adaptive governance: Water reform, climate change, and First Nations' justice in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Adaptive water governance scholarship aspires to flexible and responsive governance that is inclusive and supports learning and collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders. Much of this scholarship assumes that polycentric arrangements will facilitate these characteristics as different nodes of decision making adapt and respond to challenges within their arena of authority. However, in the case of both adaptive water governance and polycentr…
Engaging with the future: Framings of adaptation to climate change in conservation
The term ‘adaptation’ is commonplace in conservation research and practice, but often without a reflection on the assumptions, expectations, or frames of reference used to define goals and actions. Communities of practice (e.g. conservation researchers, protected areas managers) have different interpretations of climate change impacts on biodiversity and different ways of defining, operationalizing and implementing adaptation. Their cognitive and…
In people’s minds and on the ground: Values and power in climate change adaptation
Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species
Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree ( Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social–ecological network analysis to understand the social–ecological interactions around néré. We documented the benefits néré provides and the multiple social interactions it creates amongst a large range of actors. The flows of rights over the trees and benefits from them formed two hierarchical networks, or…
Sensing, feeling, thinking: Relating to nature with the body, heart and mind
The cultural ecosystem services (CES) construct has evolved to accommodate multiple worldviews, knowledge systems and conceptualizations of nature and values, including relational and mental health values. Cultural ecosystem services research and practice has mostly focused on cognitive ways of constructing and expressing intangible values of, and relationships with, nature. But our non‐material relationships with nature are not exclusively cogni…
Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change
Actions and leverage points for ecosystem-based adaptation pathways in the Alps
Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach
Human actions have driven earth systems close to irreversible and profound change. The need to shift towards intentional transformative adaptation (ITA) is clear. Using case studies from the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA), we explore ITA as a way of thinking and acting that is transformative in concept and objectives, but achieved through a mix of incremental and transformative co-production processes that ultimately lead to t…
Nature’s contribution to adaptation: Insights from examples of the transformation of social-ecological systems
Transformation of social-ecological systems due to climate change requires, transformative adaptation responses. We propose the concept of nature’s contribution to adaptation (NCA; previously called adaptation services), to reveal properties of ecosystems that provide options for future livelihoods and adaptation to transformative change. Knowledge about the capacity of ecosystems to supply NCA can inform decisions by revealing options for adapta…
Re-framing the decision context over trade-offs among ecosystem services and wellbeing in a major river basin where water resources are highly contested
Mustering the power of ecosystems for adaptation to climate change
Researchers must be aware of their roles at the interface of ecosystem services science and policy
An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements…
"Building resilient pathways to transformation when "no one is in charge: Insights from Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Abel, N., R. M. Wise, M. J. Colloff, B. H. Walker, J. R. A. Butler, P. Ryan, C. Norman, A. Langston, J. M. Anderies, R. Gorddard, M. Dunlop, and D. O’Connell. 2016. Building resilient pathways to transformation when “no one is in charge”: insights from Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. Ecology and Society 21(2):23.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08422-210223
Values, rules and knowledge: Adaptation as change in the decision context
Responding to global change represents an unprecedented challenge for society. Decision makers tend to address this challenge by framing adaptation as a decision problem, whereby the responses to impacts of change are addressed within existing decision processes centred on defining the decision problem and selecting options. However, this ‘decision-making perspective’ is constrained by societal values and principles, regulations and norms and the…
Chapter 19 Modelling Invasive Plants in Relation to Flooding and Drying: Implications for Ecosystem Functions
This specially curated group of 178 titles covers subjects ranging from biodiversity conservation to agriculture and ecology to zoology. Books explore urban ecology, climate change, fire mitigation, and more. These titles are included in the CSIRO Publishing BioSelect Collection.
Chapter 20 Ecosystem Response Modelling for the Barmah-Millewa Forest: The Interface Between Science and Management
This specially curated group of 178 titles covers subjects ranging from biodiversity conservation to agriculture and ecology to zoology. Books explore urban ecology, climate change, fire mitigation, and more. These titles are included in the CSIRO Publishing BioSelect Collection.
Values, rules and knowledge: Adaptation as change in the decision context
Responding to global change represents an unprecedented challenge for society. Decision makers tend to address this challenge by framing adaptation as a decision problem, whereby the responses to impacts of change are addressed within existing decision processes centred on defining the decision problem and selecting options. However, this ‘decision-making perspective’ is constrained by societal values and principles, regulations and norms and the…
An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements…
Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach
Human actions have driven earth systems close to irreversible and profound change. The need to shift towards intentional transformative adaptation (ITA) is clear. Using case studies from the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA), we explore ITA as a way of thinking and acting that is transformative in concept and objectives, but achieved through a mix of incremental and transformative co-production processes that ultimately lead to t…
Mustering the power of ecosystems for adaptation to climate change
Researchers must be aware of their roles at the interface of ecosystem services science and policy
A tale of two rivers - Baaka and Martuwarra, Australia: Shared voices and art towards water justice
Two of Australia's iconic river systems, Baaka in New South Wales (NSW) and Martuwarra in Western Australia (WA), are described in a narrative that connects Indigenous custodianship, bio-physical features and art, and contrasts settler law with First Law to provide multiple ways of seeing the two river systems. Our narrative is a shared response to: (1) upstream water extractions that have imposed large costs on Baaka and its peoples; and (2) thr…
Actions and leverage points for ecosystem-based adaptation pathways in the Alps
In people’s minds and on the ground: Values and power in climate change adaptation
Re-framing the decision context over trade-offs among ecosystem services and wellbeing in a major river basin where water resources are highly contested
The politics of adaptive governance: Water reform, climate change, and First Nations' justice in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Adaptive water governance scholarship aspires to flexible and responsive governance that is inclusive and supports learning and collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders. Much of this scholarship assumes that polycentric arrangements will facilitate these characteristics as different nodes of decision making adapt and respond to challenges within their arena of authority. However, in the case of both adaptive water governance and polycentr…
Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species
Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree ( Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social–ecological network analysis to understand the social–ecological interactions around néré. We documented the benefits néré provides and the multiple social interactions it creates amongst a large range of actors. The flows of rights over the trees and benefits from them formed two hierarchical networks, or…
"Building resilient pathways to transformation when "no one is in charge: Insights from Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Abel, N., R. M. Wise, M. J. Colloff, B. H. Walker, J. R. A. Butler, P. Ryan, C. Norman, A. Langston, J. M. Anderies, R. Gorddard, M. Dunlop, and D. O’Connell. 2016. Building resilient pathways to transformation when “no one is in charge”: insights from Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. Ecology and Society 21(2):23.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08422-210223
Chapter 19 Modelling Invasive Plants in Relation to Flooding and Drying: Implications for Ecosystem Functions
This specially curated group of 178 titles covers subjects ranging from biodiversity conservation to agriculture and ecology to zoology. Books explore urban ecology, climate change, fire mitigation, and more. These titles are included in the CSIRO Publishing BioSelect Collection.
Chapter 20 Ecosystem Response Modelling for the Barmah-Millewa Forest: The Interface Between Science and Management
This specially curated group of 178 titles covers subjects ranging from biodiversity conservation to agriculture and ecology to zoology. Books explore urban ecology, climate change, fire mitigation, and more. These titles are included in the CSIRO Publishing BioSelect Collection.
Values, rules and knowledge: Adaptation as change in the decision context
Responding to global change represents an unprecedented challenge for society. Decision makers tend to address this challenge by framing adaptation as a decision problem, whereby the responses to impacts of change are addressed within existing decision processes centred on defining the decision problem and selecting options. However, this ‘decision-making perspective’ is constrained by societal values and principles, regulations and norms and the…
An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements…
"Building resilient pathways to transformation when "no one is in charge: Insights from Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Abel, N., R. M. Wise, M. J. Colloff, B. H. Walker, J. R. A. Butler, P. Ryan, C. Norman, A. Langston, J. M. Anderies, R. Gorddard, M. Dunlop, and D. O’Connell. 2016. Building resilient pathways to transformation when “no one is in charge”: insights from Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. Ecology and Society 21(2):23.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08422-210223
Re-framing the decision context over trade-offs among ecosystem services and wellbeing in a major river basin where water resources are highly contested
Mustering the power of ecosystems for adaptation to climate change
Researchers must be aware of their roles at the interface of ecosystem services science and policy
Nature’s contribution to adaptation: Insights from examples of the transformation of social-ecological systems
Transformation of social-ecological systems due to climate change requires, transformative adaptation responses. We propose the concept of nature’s contribution to adaptation (NCA; previously called adaptation services), to reveal properties of ecosystems that provide options for future livelihoods and adaptation to transformative change. Knowledge about the capacity of ecosystems to supply NCA can inform decisions by revealing options for adapta…
Sensing, feeling, thinking: Relating to nature with the body, heart and mind
The cultural ecosystem services (CES) construct has evolved to accommodate multiple worldviews, knowledge systems and conceptualizations of nature and values, including relational and mental health values. Cultural ecosystem services research and practice has mostly focused on cognitive ways of constructing and expressing intangible values of, and relationships with, nature. But our non‐material relationships with nature are not exclusively cogni…
Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change
Actions and leverage points for ecosystem-based adaptation pathways in the Alps
Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach
Human actions have driven earth systems close to irreversible and profound change. The need to shift towards intentional transformative adaptation (ITA) is clear. Using case studies from the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA), we explore ITA as a way of thinking and acting that is transformative in concept and objectives, but achieved through a mix of incremental and transformative co-production processes that ultimately lead to t…
Engaging with the future: Framings of adaptation to climate change in conservation
The term ‘adaptation’ is commonplace in conservation research and practice, but often without a reflection on the assumptions, expectations, or frames of reference used to define goals and actions. Communities of practice (e.g. conservation researchers, protected areas managers) have different interpretations of climate change impacts on biodiversity and different ways of defining, operationalizing and implementing adaptation. Their cognitive and…
In people’s minds and on the ground: Values and power in climate change adaptation
Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species
Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree ( Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social–ecological network analysis to understand the social–ecological interactions around néré. We documented the benefits néré provides and the multiple social interactions it creates amongst a large range of actors. The flows of rights over the trees and benefits from them formed two hierarchical networks, or…
Using a futures orientation to enable adaptation of protected areas under climate change
Protected areas are central for long‐term conservation of biodiversity and can potentially support climate change mitigation. But protected areas are also affected by climate change. Managers and scientists are increasingly facing the difficult task of making decisions under rapid change. Understanding individual and institutional futures considerations for adaptation is fundamental to evaluate whether protected area governance is adequate to ant…
The politics of adaptive governance: Water reform, climate change, and First Nations' justice in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Adaptive water governance scholarship aspires to flexible and responsive governance that is inclusive and supports learning and collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders. Much of this scholarship assumes that polycentric arrangements will facilitate these characteristics as different nodes of decision making adapt and respond to challenges within their arena of authority. However, in the case of both adaptive water governance and polycentr…
Cyclones and skinny dolphins: Adaptation pathways for Pacific communities under rapid global change
The Pacific region is experiencing accelerating global change with complex interactions amongst multiple drivers, yet the onus for urgent adaptation falls largely on communities. Proponents of adaptation must therefore ensure that communities are empowered and enabled to design and implement their own adaptation plans after project cycles have concluded, and that this capacity is scaled beyond the original focus. To address this challenge, we tes…
People working with nature: A theoretical perspective on the co-production of Nature’s Contributions to People
The co-production of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) is a set of processes in which anthropogenic inputs (i.e. material or non-material actions and the assets supporting these actions) and natural inputs (i.e. ecological structures and processes) interact to produce NCP. An interdisciplinary understanding of NCP co-production can support decision-making on ecosystem management or NCP use, given natural constraints, limited human inputs, po…
A tale of two rivers - Baaka and Martuwarra, Australia: Shared voices and art towards water justice
Two of Australia's iconic river systems, Baaka in New South Wales (NSW) and Martuwarra in Western Australia (WA), are described in a narrative that connects Indigenous custodianship, bio-physical features and art, and contrasts settler law with First Law to provide multiple ways of seeing the two river systems. Our narrative is a shared response to: (1) upstream water extractions that have imposed large costs on Baaka and its peoples; and (2) thr…
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation
Successful adaptation often involves changes to the decision context to enable new ways of thinking and acting on climate change. Using 16 adaptation initiatives the authors were engaged with, we analysed how and why decision contexts changed to identify ways to improve adaptation as a process of collective deliberation and social learning. We used the scope of the adaptation issue and governance arrangements to classify initiatives into four typ…
Ecology (13 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Business (7 works)