K E Browne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K E Browne |
| GIVEN NAMES | K E |
| FAMILY NAME | Browne |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNE K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5435-9065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups in society. We confirm that coherence is perceived to be beneficial for most groups. However, we find vuln…
Dichotomy or continuum? A global review of the interaction between autonomous and planned adaptations
Adaptation to climate change is often conceptualized as a dichotomy, with responses being either planned (formal and structured) or autonomous (organic and self-organized, often known as “everyday adaptation”). Recent literature on adaptation responses has highlighted the existence and importance of the interplay between autonomous and planned adaptation, but examination of this interaction has been limited to date. We use a global database of 16…
Informal institutions and “Imperfect Equity” in internationally financed adaptation in Madagascar and Mauritius
How does policy coherence shape effectiveness and inequality? Implications for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda
During the formulation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, many promoted policy coherence as a key tool to ensure achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a way that “leaves no one behind.” Their argument assumed that coherent policymaking contributes to more effective policies and supports over‐arching efforts to reduce inequality. As the 2030 Agenda reaches the halfway point, however, countries are falling short on…
Futures of conservation funding: Can Indonesia sustain financing of the Bird’s Head Seascape
Rethinking governance in international climate finance: Structural change and alternative approaches
International public finance plays an increasingly prominent role in global efforts to combat climate change and, as it grows, it faces a familiar challenge: governance. Global organizations not only disburse climate funding, but are also expected to ensure the “good governance” of climate programs in recipient countries. Many of these same organizations faced similar challenges in disbursing development finance. In what became known as the “inst…
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
What Can We Learn from Practitioners' Stories
A National Adaptation Programme of Action: Ethiopia’s responses to climate change
This innovative sustainability case on Ethiopia’s National Adaptation Programme of Action was created through collaboration among professionals, scholars, students and media design professionals under the auspices of the Michigan Sustainability Case (MSC) initiative. It comprises a terse narrative about a decision maker, multimedia sources including a podcast that link to and enrich the text, and an engaged learning exercise that walks users thro…
Towards a revolution in sustainability education: Vision, architecture, and assessment in a case-based approach
The challenges of sustainability and sustainable development are multifaceted and complex. Addressing them in the long run requires a revolution in the training of future generations of learners so that they can devise solutions for sustainability dilemmas in environments characterized by uncertainty, information deficits, and asymmetric power relationships. Such a revolution is under way in many disciplines. Within the field of sustainability st…
Resisting LGBT Rights Where “We Have Won”: Canada and Great Britain
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) human rights are often assumed to travel from the core to the periphery, namely from the Global North to the Global South. However, these rights flows and resistances are more complex than a unidirectional model might suggest. Using a transnational perspective, we consider resistances to LGBT rights in places where LGBT rights are supposedly assured. In Canada and Great Britain, where various forms of equi…
Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean by Mark Moberg
The cultural study of work - Editors by Douglas Harper & Helene M. Lawson
Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag
What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that …
Creole Economics and theDébrouillard: From Slave-Based Adaptations to the Informal Economy in Martinique
This article introduces the concept of creole economics, a culturally informed view of the informal economy in Martinique, French West Indies. Local actors engaged in this economic practice are commonly known asdébrouillards. Drawing on studies of French slavery and folklore, literary works by Caribbean authors, archival materials from Martinique, and the author's own ethnographic fieldwork, this argument suggests that cultural history and creole…
Female Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: A Multisite, Pilot Investigation of Gender and Work
This paper introduces a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and comparative study of how female entrepreneurship is patterned according to a society's particular configuration of gendered institutions and ideologies. The islands of Puerto Rico, Martinique, and Barbados, colonized by Spain, France, and Britain respectively, exhibit strong differences in the incidence of female self-employment and in local patterns of gender roles. Although these so…
Work Style and Network Management: Gendered Patterns and Economic Consequences in Martinique
Working women in the Caribbean and Latin America are more active in the labor market than their counterparts in most other regions of the world. Yet, they remain much less economically mobile than working men. Using research from a long-term study in Martinique, this article offers a new view of the cross-class construction of women's economic immobility. Research results suggest that irrespective of a woman's socioeconomic status, household stru…
The Informal Economy in Martinique: Insights from the Field, Implications for Development Policy
The informal economy is a growing phenomenon in cities of developing countries, a fact which has aroused the attention of many development planners who view it as the key to solving urban poverty. This article presents new research on the cross-class dimensions of informal economic activity in Martinique, French West Indies. Research results about the cross-class linkages of informal exchanges suggest obstacles for planners who consider poor info…
Resisting LGBT Rights Where “We Have Won”: Canada and Great Britain
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) human rights are often assumed to travel from the core to the periphery, namely from the Global North to the Global South. However, these rights flows and resistances are more complex than a unidirectional model might suggest. Using a transnational perspective, we consider resistances to LGBT rights in places where LGBT rights are supposedly assured. In Canada and Great Britain, where various forms of equi…
How does policy coherence shape effectiveness and inequality? Implications for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda
During the formulation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, many promoted policy coherence as a key tool to ensure achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a way that “leaves no one behind.” Their argument assumed that coherent policymaking contributes to more effective policies and supports over‐arching efforts to reduce inequality. As the 2030 Agenda reaches the halfway point, however, countries are falling short on…
Rethinking governance in international climate finance: Structural change and alternative approaches
International public finance plays an increasingly prominent role in global efforts to combat climate change and, as it grows, it faces a familiar challenge: governance. Global organizations not only disburse climate funding, but are also expected to ensure the “good governance” of climate programs in recipient countries. Many of these same organizations faced similar challenges in disbursing development finance. In what became known as the “inst…
Creole Economics and theDébrouillard: From Slave-Based Adaptations to the Informal Economy in Martinique
This article introduces the concept of creole economics, a culturally informed view of the informal economy in Martinique, French West Indies. Local actors engaged in this economic practice are commonly known asdébrouillards. Drawing on studies of French slavery and folklore, literary works by Caribbean authors, archival materials from Martinique, and the author's own ethnographic fieldwork, this argument suggests that cultural history and creole…
Work Style and Network Management: Gendered Patterns and Economic Consequences in Martinique
Working women in the Caribbean and Latin America are more active in the labor market than their counterparts in most other regions of the world. Yet, they remain much less economically mobile than working men. Using research from a long-term study in Martinique, this article offers a new view of the cross-class construction of women's economic immobility. Research results suggest that irrespective of a woman's socioeconomic status, household stru…
Informal institutions and “Imperfect Equity” in internationally financed adaptation in Madagascar and Mauritius
Towards a revolution in sustainability education: Vision, architecture, and assessment in a case-based approach
The challenges of sustainability and sustainable development are multifaceted and complex. Addressing them in the long run requires a revolution in the training of future generations of learners so that they can devise solutions for sustainability dilemmas in environments characterized by uncertainty, information deficits, and asymmetric power relationships. Such a revolution is under way in many disciplines. Within the field of sustainability st…
The Informal Economy in Martinique: Insights from the Field, Implications for Development Policy
The informal economy is a growing phenomenon in cities of developing countries, a fact which has aroused the attention of many development planners who view it as the key to solving urban poverty. This article presents new research on the cross-class dimensions of informal economic activity in Martinique, French West Indies. Research results about the cross-class linkages of informal exchanges suggest obstacles for planners who consider poor info…
Work Style and Network Management: Gendered Patterns and Economic Consequences in Martinique
Working women in the Caribbean and Latin America are more active in the labor market than their counterparts in most other regions of the world. Yet, they remain much less economically mobile than working men. Using research from a long-term study in Martinique, this article offers a new view of the cross-class construction of women's economic immobility. Research results suggest that irrespective of a woman's socioeconomic status, household stru…
Female Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: A Multisite, Pilot Investigation of Gender and Work
This paper introduces a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and comparative study of how female entrepreneurship is patterned according to a society's particular configuration of gendered institutions and ideologies. The islands of Puerto Rico, Martinique, and Barbados, colonized by Spain, France, and Britain respectively, exhibit strong differences in the incidence of female self-employment and in local patterns of gender roles. Although these so…
Creole Economics and theDébrouillard: From Slave-Based Adaptations to the Informal Economy in Martinique
This article introduces the concept of creole economics, a culturally informed view of the informal economy in Martinique, French West Indies. Local actors engaged in this economic practice are commonly known asdébrouillards. Drawing on studies of French slavery and folklore, literary works by Caribbean authors, archival materials from Martinique, and the author's own ethnographic fieldwork, this argument suggests that cultural history and creole…
Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag
What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that …
The cultural study of work - Editors by Douglas Harper & Helene M. Lawson
Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean by Mark Moberg
Resisting LGBT Rights Where “We Have Won”: Canada and Great Britain
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) human rights are often assumed to travel from the core to the periphery, namely from the Global North to the Global South. However, these rights flows and resistances are more complex than a unidirectional model might suggest. Using a transnational perspective, we consider resistances to LGBT rights in places where LGBT rights are supposedly assured. In Canada and Great Britain, where various forms of equi…
A National Adaptation Programme of Action: Ethiopia’s responses to climate change
This innovative sustainability case on Ethiopia’s National Adaptation Programme of Action was created through collaboration among professionals, scholars, students and media design professionals under the auspices of the Michigan Sustainability Case (MSC) initiative. It comprises a terse narrative about a decision maker, multimedia sources including a podcast that link to and enrich the text, and an engaged learning exercise that walks users thro…
Towards a revolution in sustainability education: Vision, architecture, and assessment in a case-based approach
The challenges of sustainability and sustainable development are multifaceted and complex. Addressing them in the long run requires a revolution in the training of future generations of learners so that they can devise solutions for sustainability dilemmas in environments characterized by uncertainty, information deficits, and asymmetric power relationships. Such a revolution is under way in many disciplines. Within the field of sustainability st…
What Can We Learn from Practitioners' Stories
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
Futures of conservation funding: Can Indonesia sustain financing of the Bird’s Head Seascape
Rethinking governance in international climate finance: Structural change and alternative approaches
International public finance plays an increasingly prominent role in global efforts to combat climate change and, as it grows, it faces a familiar challenge: governance. Global organizations not only disburse climate funding, but are also expected to ensure the “good governance” of climate programs in recipient countries. Many of these same organizations faced similar challenges in disbursing development finance. In what became known as the “inst…
How does policy coherence shape effectiveness and inequality? Implications for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda
During the formulation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, many promoted policy coherence as a key tool to ensure achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a way that “leaves no one behind.” Their argument assumed that coherent policymaking contributes to more effective policies and supports over‐arching efforts to reduce inequality. As the 2030 Agenda reaches the halfway point, however, countries are falling short on…
Informal institutions and “Imperfect Equity” in internationally financed adaptation in Madagascar and Mauritius
Dichotomy or continuum? A global review of the interaction between autonomous and planned adaptations
Adaptation to climate change is often conceptualized as a dichotomy, with responses being either planned (formal and structured) or autonomous (organic and self-organized, often known as “everyday adaptation”). Recent literature on adaptation responses has highlighted the existence and importance of the interplay between autonomous and planned adaptation, but examination of this interaction has been limited to date. We use a global database of 16…
National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups in society. We confirm that coherence is perceived to be beneficial for most groups. However, we find vuln…
Political science (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Martinique (5 works) · West indies (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate change (4 works)