Russell Gorddard

Biographic Data

ID2582414
NAMERussell Gorddard
GIVEN NAMESRussell
FAMILY NAMEGorddard
SIGNATUREGORDDARD R
AFFILIATIONSCSIRO Land and Water
ORCID0000-0001-5235-9902
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS139
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • The transformation-mainstreaming conundrum: Making sense of tensions in adaptation practice

    Open AccessRoger Street, Michael Dunlop et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026References: 66

    As the scale of climate change impacts become apparent, organisations globally are seeking to adapt. They face dual imperatives of transformation—going beyond business-as-usual to embrace disruptive changes to their decision-making processes—and mainstreaming—enacting adaptation initiatives with minimal change to existing capabilities and structures. In practice, these important imperatives can conflict, leading to the emergence of multiple tensi…

  • Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation

    Open AccessMatthew J Colloff, Russell Gorddard et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    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…

  • People working with nature: A theoretical perspective on the co-production of Nature’s Contributions to People

    Open AccessBruno Locatelli, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2024

    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…

  • Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species

    Open AccessHouria Djoudi, Bruno Locatelli et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2022Cited by: 1References: 70

    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…

  • Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach

    Open AccessMatthew J Colloff, Russell Gorddard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 18References: 19

    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

    Open AccessSandra Lavorel, Matthew J Colloff et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2018Cited by: 11References: 11

  • An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation

    Open AccessMatthew J Colloff, Berta Martín-López et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2016Cited by: 34References: 15

    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

    Open AccessNick Abel, Russell M Wise et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2016Cited by: 1

    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

    Open AccessRussell Gorddard, Matthew J Colloff et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015Cited by: 52References: 20

    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…

  • Biodiversity and agriculture: Production frontiers as a framework for exploring trade-offs and evaluating policy

    Open AccessF Patrick Smith, Russell Gorddard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2012Cited by: 3References: 3

  • Sea level rise, coastal development and planned retreat: Analytical framework, governance principles and an Australian case study

    Open AccessNick Abel, Russell Gorddard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2011Cited by: 19References: 8