Michelle Bonatti
Biographic Data
| ID | 211324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Bonatti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonatti |
| SIGNATURE | BONATTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8511-5365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Collaborative Agrobiodiversity Governance
Agrobiodiversity governance, understood as the collective management and conservation of agricultural biodiversity through coordinated multi-stakeholder arrangements, is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of sustainable food systems. When led by farmers, such processes hold potential to enhance rural food security and nutrition, conserve biocultural heritage, and sustain farming traditions over time. The Peruvian Andes, considered an agrobi…
Agricultural living labs
Purpose This conceptual study addresses methodological and conceptual gaps in Agricultural Living Labs (ALLs) by integrating Mezirow’s Transformative Learning (TL) theory into their design. It aims to enhance agricultural education and knowledge co-creation, enabling stakeholder-driven resilience amid climate volatility.Design/methodology/approach This study follows a qualitative, conceptual, and meta-analytical design, developed through a four-s…
Climate-related in-situ displacement
Whereas displacement typically refers to spatial mobility, the term in-situ displacement describes the phenomenon of becoming displaced without moving. While the concept has been used to explore how unequal social relations, spatial commodification, political marginalization, violent conflict, and place-based narratives can lead to exclusion and disempowerment, in-situ displacement may also result from climate change, as it renders traditional mo…
The unequal effects of resettlement in coastal regions
Unraveling Complex Impacts Pathways of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in Global Textile Value Chains
Through the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the European Commission targets sustainable products and value chains to curb environmental and social problems. Based on a combination of a complex systems lens and the global value chain and global governance approaches, the paper uses literature analysis and expert interviews, evaluated through qualitative content and causal loop…
Between Emancipation and Domination? A Critical Analysis of Empowerment in a Women‐Only Development Program in Costa Rica's Coffee Sector
Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers in Costa Rica. Using a four‐dimensional concept of power (power within, power with, power to, power over…
Uncovering decolonial pedagogies for learning agroecological transitions
Decolonial pedagogies can facilitate agroecological transition processes. • Pedagogical models facilitate agroecological transitions by integrating diverse epistemologies in agriculture practices. • This study identifies three contextual learning narratives: Living, Resistance, and Hybrid Pedagogies. • A main archetype has been discovered, known as the 'South pedagogies archetype'. • The operational decolonial pedagogies framework shows how agroe…
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry
Agroforestry is a sustainable land-use strategy that requires better integration of diverse knowledge systems. This paper examines how formal knowledge systems for cacao agroforestry systems in Colombia are structured, and how farmers understand and manage these systems. We interviewed 42 actors involved in knowledge production and dissemination and worked with 18 farmers to create mental maps of their management practices. Our findings show that…
Global analysis of social learning’s archetypes in natural resource management
Although social learning (SL) conceptualization and implementation are flourishing in sustainability sciences, and its non-rigid conceptual fluidity is regarded as an advantage, research must advance the understanding of SL phenomenon patterns based on empirical data, thus contributing to the identification of its forms and triggering mechanisms, particularly those that can address urgent Anthropocene socio-ecological problems. This study aims to…
Does participatory research stimulate sustained adoption of energy technologies? Lessons from stove dissemination in Gurué district, rural Mozambique
Research on energy transition to clean cooking suggests that the use of participatory approaches to design and evaluate the project impacts results in sustained adoption, user satisfaction, and continuous knowledge exchange between scientists and local stakeholders. However, the results of participatory approaches are mixed, and studies on long-term effects are rather scarce. This study uses an experimental design to test whether high stakeholder…
Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin
Conceptualizing Community-based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia
In conflict studies, environmental peacebuilding (EPB) has become an established concept to explain how environmental cooperation among opposing parties provides a platform for peacebuilding. EPB literature has been shaped predominantly by political science perspectives, initially with a focus on interstate conflicts, and ecological dynamics have received little attention to date. Building on the Social-Ecological Systems Framework (SESF), we dev…
Assessing the Effectiveness and Justice of Protected Areas Governance
Protected areas are a fundamental element for the protection of ecological integrity and, in some cases, the livelihood of local communities worldwide. They are also embedded in socio-ecological systems, and their management is subject to various political, economic, and social influences. Good governance of protected areas is recognized as a decisive aspect of ecological conservation, which is at risk in institutional contexts where there is a w…
Upscaling agroforestry in the tropics through actor-networks
Agroforestry systems (AFS) upscaling has the potential to integrate sustainability and resilience objectives into agriculture. However, this is a daunting task requiring multi-actor collaboration across public and private sectors at multiple governance levels, coupled with innovative approaches to jointly managing AFS knowledge. Understanding such multi-actor interactions from a network perspective may help to unravel how social structures, creat…
Women of the revolution and a politics of care
The Buckets Revolution is a local non‐governmental organization arisen from an initiative implemented in a favela, a marginalized community in the South of Brazil, led and conducted by its women to resist their condition of intersected subordinations and address the socioenvironmental problems caused by the lack of public care. Based on the understanding that women of the Buckets Revolution developed a particular politics of care, this study inve…
Fires in the Amazon Region
Agroecology as a grassroots approach for environmental peacebuilding
In the Colombian Andes, farming communities face complex challenges involving conflict, climate change, peacebuilding and rural reconstruction. Organized around agroecology, farmers generate associativity processes, self-managed extension work and popular education pedagogies. This strengthens the social fabric of these communities and enhances their adaptive capacities, enabling them to persist in the context of adversity.This study investigates…
Social learning as an underlying mechanism for sustainability in neglected communities
In neglected communities, waste and organic residues are not only a vector of several problems, like diseases and water pollution, but also a contributor to increasing forms of vulnerability and marginalization. At the same time, these communities also have presented innovative local initiatives and transformative learning about natural resources management that can be a vehicle for achieving more sustainable food systems. In the south of Brazil,…
Forest cover changes and public policy
Co-Benefits Through Coordination of Climate Action and Peacebuilding
Climate disasters affect human security and development, moreso in fragile and conflict-affected contexts where population’ capacities to cope with climate change are compromised. Responses to such crises lie at the nexus of humanitarian assistance, development, and peacebuilding. Yet, there are still too few integrated programmatic responses coordinating peacebuilding and climate actions to ensure a progressive human development. This research d…
Integrating the concept of peacebuilding in sustainability impact assessment
Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in Rural Tanzania
In Tanzania, a high level of hunger persists. Several factors compound a complex scenario of food insecurity. Contextual aspects at the community level can influence the maintenance of the vulnerable local conditions. This article aims to better understand these aspects by investigating community problem perceptions in n = 04 remote rural villages in Tanzania. Furthermore, how to include community perceptions as a pedagogical element of food secu…
The what, who and how of socio-ecological justice
Since modernity, the mechanistic paradigm has determined how Western and Westernised societies live, produce knowledge, and regulate their interactions and institutions, profoundly influencing law and undermining ecological integrity. This paradigm's key features induce the adoption of a reductionist notion of justice by international law, here called mechanistic justice. Following ecological approaches to law, earth system law offers innovative …
Governance in post-conflict scenarios
Local and environmental governance is crucial for contending with the complex problems of land-use systems and socio-ecological conflicts that bedevil progress toward sustainable development. The community-based governance (CBG) framework is a practical instrument designed to identify collective problems, source the appropriate institutions and articulate joint solutions. It uses community perspectives to construct local and environmental governa…
Understanding institutional change mechanisms for land use
Ecuador constitutes a fascinating case study to explore land policies and reforms. Since colonial times, it has experienced prolonged and ongoing struggles to transform land institutions. This paper investigates how, across levels, historic institutional factors affected land-use decision making in the Mindo parish and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador, as perceived by its landowners. Following techniques and procedures for developing groun…
Collective Perception of Anthropic and Extractive Interventions in the Colombian Llanos
Increasingly, the developmental model of anthropic and extractive interventions is a global concern. Its impacts are challenging not only the precarious equilibrium of natural resources but also the one of local communities and identities. The case of the Colombian Llanos shows how the local culture of the Cultura Llanera (CL) is deep-rooted with natural resources, their use and their management. Throughout the use of a survey based on the Govern…
Climate vulnerability and contrasting climate perceptions as an element for the development of community adaptation strategies
The what, who and how of socio-ecological justice
Since modernity, the mechanistic paradigm has determined how Western and Westernised societies live, produce knowledge, and regulate their interactions and institutions, profoundly influencing law and undermining ecological integrity. This paradigm's key features induce the adoption of a reductionist notion of justice by international law, here called mechanistic justice. Following ecological approaches to law, earth system law offers innovative …
Governance in post-conflict scenarios
Local and environmental governance is crucial for contending with the complex problems of land-use systems and socio-ecological conflicts that bedevil progress toward sustainable development. The community-based governance (CBG) framework is a practical instrument designed to identify collective problems, source the appropriate institutions and articulate joint solutions. It uses community perspectives to construct local and environmental governa…
Theatre methods for food security and sovereignty
Innovative educational tools development for food security
Upscaling agroforestry in the tropics through actor-networks
Agroforestry systems (AFS) upscaling has the potential to integrate sustainability and resilience objectives into agriculture. However, this is a daunting task requiring multi-actor collaboration across public and private sectors at multiple governance levels, coupled with innovative approaches to jointly managing AFS knowledge. Understanding such multi-actor interactions from a network perspective may help to unravel how social structures, creat…
Co-Benefits Through Coordination of Climate Action and Peacebuilding
Climate disasters affect human security and development, moreso in fragile and conflict-affected contexts where population’ capacities to cope with climate change are compromised. Responses to such crises lie at the nexus of humanitarian assistance, development, and peacebuilding. Yet, there are still too few integrated programmatic responses coordinating peacebuilding and climate actions to ensure a progressive human development. This research d…
Understanding institutional change mechanisms for land use
Ecuador constitutes a fascinating case study to explore land policies and reforms. Since colonial times, it has experienced prolonged and ongoing struggles to transform land institutions. This paper investigates how, across levels, historic institutional factors affected land-use decision making in the Mindo parish and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador, as perceived by its landowners. Following techniques and procedures for developing groun…
Landraces as an adaptation strategy to climate change for smallholders in Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil
Assessing impacts of environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia
A major challenge in the field of environmental peacebuilding is showing the impact of its initiatives. Questions emerge, such as what kind of postwar peacebuilding dimensions are more likely to be affected by natural resource management projects? Although quantitative studies assess the relation between natural resource management programmes and conflict, the question remains: what are the mechanisms involved in implementing projects designed fo…
Landraces as an adaptation strategy to climate change for smallholders in Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil
Climate vulnerability and contrasting climate perceptions as an element for the development of community adaptation strategies
Theatre methods for food security and sovereignty
Innovative educational tools development for food security
Collective Perception of Anthropic and Extractive Interventions in the Colombian Llanos
Increasingly, the developmental model of anthropic and extractive interventions is a global concern. Its impacts are challenging not only the precarious equilibrium of natural resources but also the one of local communities and identities. The case of the Colombian Llanos shows how the local culture of the Cultura Llanera (CL) is deep-rooted with natural resources, their use and their management. Throughout the use of a survey based on the Govern…
Peacebuilding in times of Covid-19
National and international cooperation and development projects (CDP) are fundamental for peacebuilding. However, unforeseen global crises, like COVID-19, can endanger such projects, requiring rapid adaption. In Colombia, the coronavirus outbreak threatens to slow the implementation of peace-related projects, while simultaneously violence over control and ownership of land increases. Although the mid- to long-term consequences for peacebuilding a…
Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in Rural Tanzania
In Tanzania, a high level of hunger persists. Several factors compound a complex scenario of food insecurity. Contextual aspects at the community level can influence the maintenance of the vulnerable local conditions. This article aims to better understand these aspects by investigating community problem perceptions in n = 04 remote rural villages in Tanzania. Furthermore, how to include community perceptions as a pedagogical element of food secu…
The what, who and how of socio-ecological justice
Since modernity, the mechanistic paradigm has determined how Western and Westernised societies live, produce knowledge, and regulate their interactions and institutions, profoundly influencing law and undermining ecological integrity. This paradigm's key features induce the adoption of a reductionist notion of justice by international law, here called mechanistic justice. Following ecological approaches to law, earth system law offers innovative …
Governance in post-conflict scenarios
Local and environmental governance is crucial for contending with the complex problems of land-use systems and socio-ecological conflicts that bedevil progress toward sustainable development. The community-based governance (CBG) framework is a practical instrument designed to identify collective problems, source the appropriate institutions and articulate joint solutions. It uses community perspectives to construct local and environmental governa…
Understanding institutional change mechanisms for land use
Ecuador constitutes a fascinating case study to explore land policies and reforms. Since colonial times, it has experienced prolonged and ongoing struggles to transform land institutions. This paper investigates how, across levels, historic institutional factors affected land-use decision making in the Mindo parish and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador, as perceived by its landowners. Following techniques and procedures for developing groun…
Agricultural land use dynamics in the Brazilian part of La Plata Basin
Assessing impacts of environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia
A major challenge in the field of environmental peacebuilding is showing the impact of its initiatives. Questions emerge, such as what kind of postwar peacebuilding dimensions are more likely to be affected by natural resource management projects? Although quantitative studies assess the relation between natural resource management programmes and conflict, the question remains: what are the mechanisms involved in implementing projects designed fo…
Exploring collaboration experiences at the society-science nexus in a food security project in Tanzania
In the search for solutions to global challenges, the way scientific research is carried out is rapidly changing. Interdisciplinary approaches through collaborative research projects are replacing traditional approaches. As complex operational details, including stakeholder perspectives, are oft overlooked in these projects, conflict and failure are more likely. Analysing the conflict experience of stakeholders and project members in a transdisci…
Fires in the Amazon Region
Agroecology as a grassroots approach for environmental peacebuilding
In the Colombian Andes, farming communities face complex challenges involving conflict, climate change, peacebuilding and rural reconstruction. Organized around agroecology, farmers generate associativity processes, self-managed extension work and popular education pedagogies. This strengthens the social fabric of these communities and enhances their adaptive capacities, enabling them to persist in the context of adversity.This study investigates…
Social learning as an underlying mechanism for sustainability in neglected communities
In neglected communities, waste and organic residues are not only a vector of several problems, like diseases and water pollution, but also a contributor to increasing forms of vulnerability and marginalization. At the same time, these communities also have presented innovative local initiatives and transformative learning about natural resources management that can be a vehicle for achieving more sustainable food systems. In the south of Brazil,…
Forest cover changes and public policy
Co-Benefits Through Coordination of Climate Action and Peacebuilding
Climate disasters affect human security and development, moreso in fragile and conflict-affected contexts where population’ capacities to cope with climate change are compromised. Responses to such crises lie at the nexus of humanitarian assistance, development, and peacebuilding. Yet, there are still too few integrated programmatic responses coordinating peacebuilding and climate actions to ensure a progressive human development. This research d…
Integrating the concept of peacebuilding in sustainability impact assessment
Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin
Conceptualizing Community-based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia
In conflict studies, environmental peacebuilding (EPB) has become an established concept to explain how environmental cooperation among opposing parties provides a platform for peacebuilding. EPB literature has been shaped predominantly by political science perspectives, initially with a focus on interstate conflicts, and ecological dynamics have received little attention to date. Building on the Social-Ecological Systems Framework (SESF), we dev…
Assessing the Effectiveness and Justice of Protected Areas Governance
Protected areas are a fundamental element for the protection of ecological integrity and, in some cases, the livelihood of local communities worldwide. They are also embedded in socio-ecological systems, and their management is subject to various political, economic, and social influences. Good governance of protected areas is recognized as a decisive aspect of ecological conservation, which is at risk in institutional contexts where there is a w…
Upscaling agroforestry in the tropics through actor-networks
Agroforestry systems (AFS) upscaling has the potential to integrate sustainability and resilience objectives into agriculture. However, this is a daunting task requiring multi-actor collaboration across public and private sectors at multiple governance levels, coupled with innovative approaches to jointly managing AFS knowledge. Understanding such multi-actor interactions from a network perspective may help to unravel how social structures, creat…
Women of the revolution and a politics of care
The Buckets Revolution is a local non‐governmental organization arisen from an initiative implemented in a favela, a marginalized community in the South of Brazil, led and conducted by its women to resist their condition of intersected subordinations and address the socioenvironmental problems caused by the lack of public care. Based on the understanding that women of the Buckets Revolution developed a particular politics of care, this study inve…
Global analysis of social learning’s archetypes in natural resource management
Although social learning (SL) conceptualization and implementation are flourishing in sustainability sciences, and its non-rigid conceptual fluidity is regarded as an advantage, research must advance the understanding of SL phenomenon patterns based on empirical data, thus contributing to the identification of its forms and triggering mechanisms, particularly those that can address urgent Anthropocene socio-ecological problems. This study aims to…
Geography (24 works) · Political science (21 works) · Agriculture (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Environmental resource management (12 works) · Environmental planning (9 works) · Public Administration (8 works)