West
Biographic Data
| ID | 34667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | West |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm Resilience Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9738-0593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
What role for deliberative minipublics in sustainability transformations? An emerging topic for sustainability science
Democracies struggle to translate sustainability science, and public concern into sufficiently transformative actions. Ongoing polarization, politicization and disinformation extenuate this challenge. Some scholars suggest that deliberative democratic innovations can help to bridge science, public understanding and will formation, and policy implementation in the face of vested interests. In light of these challenges, we introduce deliberative mi…
Principles for ethical boundary spanning between science, policy and practice: A guide for knowledge brokers
Knowledge brokers have emerged as a key mechanism for facilitating knowledge exchange across institutional and epistemic divides to enable more inclusive, informed, and context-sensitive decision-making. However, despite growing recognition about their value and importance, critical gaps remain related to how knowledge brokers operate that hinders their effectiveness and efficiency in practice. One such gap relates to the ethical dimensions of th…
Relational approaches to sustainability transformations: Walking together in a world of many worlds
Transformations to sustainability require alternatives to the paradigms, practices, and policies that have generated social-ecological destruction and the Anthropocene. In sustainability science, several conceptual frameworks have been developed for transformations, including social-ecological, multi-level, transformative adaptation, and pathways approaches. There is a growing shift towards recognising transformations as ‘shared spaces’ involving…
Framing science-based targets: Reformist and radical discourses in an Earth system governance initiative
Science-Based Targets (SBTs) are being developed for companies to contribute to global sustainability goals, including for ‘nature’. The literature has not yet explored multiple understandings of SBTs. We adopt an interpretive approach, using Q methodology to explore framings of SBTs amongst 22 scientists and practitioners engaged in SBT development. Results show two distinct framings: ‘we need science-based targets to help economic systems move …
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science: Embracing the elephant in the room
Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research, ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized in pursuit of solutions. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability science by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability…
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management
Indigenous peoples are increasingly entering conservation partnerships with non-Indigenous actors. While these partnerships can provide resources to assist in the care of ancestral homelands, a lack of appreciation for ontological difference can lead to the restriction of self-determination and harm Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being. For conservation to succeed globally, it is vital to share practical approaches that can help to better …
Negotiating the ethical-political dimensions of research methods: A key competency in mixed methods, inter- and transdisciplinary, and co-production research
Methods are often thought of as neutral tools that researchers can pick up and use to learn about a reality ‘out there.’ Motivated by growing recognition of complexity, there have been widespread calls to mix methods, both within and across disciplines, to generate richer scientific understandings and more effective policy interventions. However, bringing methods together often reveals their tacit, inherently contestable, and sometimes directly o…
Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations
This perspective paper synthesises the special issue 'Human-nature connectedness as a leverage point for sustainability transformation'. Based on the articles in this special issue, we aim to foster the operationalisation of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations to enable sustainability transformations. Specifically, we draw on four key advantages of the leverage points perspective: (i) the explicit recognition of deep l…
Putting relational thinking to work in sustainability science – reply to Raymond et al
We welcome Raymond et al.s invitation to further discuss the pragmatics of relational thinking in sustainability science. We clarify that relational approaches provide distinct theoretical and methodological resources that may be adopted on their own, or used to enrich other approaches, including systems research. We situate Raymond et al.s characterization of relational thinking in a broader landscape of differing approaches to mobilizing relati…
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations
In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is considered a powerful 'leverage point' in pursuit of transformations. The coupled social-ecological and human-environment systems perspectives at the heart of sustainability science have, in many ways, enhanced recognition across academic, civil, policy and business spheres that humans and nature are inextricably connected. However, in retaining substantialist a…
Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research
Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management
Adaptive management (AM) is one of the most prominent ways ecologists contribute to ecosystem management, policy, and planning. AM treats management actions as experiments to monitor and learn from, creating a central role for ecologists in constructing the monitoring programs intended to guide learning. Yet, ecologists have found monitoring for AM challenging. They face a daunting series of dilemmas: How to produce monitoring programs that are r…
Beyond “linking knowledge and action”: Towards a practice-based approach to transdisciplinary sustainability interventions
The imperative to “link knowledge and action” is widely invoked as a defining characteristic of sustainability research. The complexities of sustainability challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss mean that linear models of knowledge and action, where knowledge is produced first (by researchers) then “applied to” action (by policy actors), are considered insufficient. Researchers have developed more dynamic, open-ended and collabor…
Gobernanza adaptativa en construcción: Personas, prácticas y políticas en una reserva de biosfera de la Unesco
La gobernanza adaptativa (GA) ha surgido como un enfoque prominente para comprender y mejorar las respuestas de la gobernanza a los complejos desafos de la sustentabilidad. Los elementos clave incluyen el aprendizaje y la colaboracin entre sectores y escalas hacia una visin compartida, a travs del monitoreo, el intercambio de informacin, la construccin de redes y la resolucin de conflictos. Presentamos brevemente la GA a un pblico amplio e identi…
By Us, For Us: The Impact of a Professional Counterspace on African American Women in Student Affairs
This study investigated outcomes associated with consistently participating in a professional counterspace developed by and for African American women higher education administrators. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with seven African American women student affairs professionals employed at predominantly White institutions, who consistently attended the African American Women's Summit (AAWS) between 2006-2011. Participants note…
Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research: Linking care, knowledge and agency
Current sustainability challenges – including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change – require new ways of understanding, acting in and caring for the landscapes we live in. The concept of stewardship is increasingly used in research, policy and practice to articulate and describe responses to these challenges. However, there are multiple meanings and framings of stewardship across this wide user base that reflect different disciplinary…
Stewardship, care and relational values
Learning to live with social-ecological complexity: An interpretive analysis of learning in 11 Unesco Biosphere Reserves
Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management: Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes
Peer-reviewed
Dwelling in the biosphere: Exploring an Embodied Human-Environment Connection in Resilience Thinking
Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society
Environmental narratives have become an increasingly important area of study in the environmental humanities. Rob Nixon has drawn attention to the difficulties of representing the complex processes of environmental change that inflict 'slow violence' on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of "arresting stories, images and symbols" reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodiversity loss, climate chan…
Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights: Adjudication as an Adaptive Governance Practice
West, S. P., and L. Schultz. 2015. Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights: adjudication as an adaptive governance practice. Ecology and Society 20(1): 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07190-200131
Translating the ideal lady: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's treatment of Guido Cavalcanti inThe Early Italian Poets
Translating the ideal lady: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's treatment of Guido Cavalcanti in The Early Italian Poets
Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research
Stewardship, care and relational values
Dwelling in the biosphere: Exploring an Embodied Human-Environment Connection in Resilience Thinking
Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society
Environmental narratives have become an increasingly important area of study in the environmental humanities. Rob Nixon has drawn attention to the difficulties of representing the complex processes of environmental change that inflict 'slow violence' on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of "arresting stories, images and symbols" reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodiversity loss, climate chan…
Beyond “linking knowledge and action”: Towards a practice-based approach to transdisciplinary sustainability interventions
The imperative to “link knowledge and action” is widely invoked as a defining characteristic of sustainability research. The complexities of sustainability challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss mean that linear models of knowledge and action, where knowledge is produced first (by researchers) then “applied to” action (by policy actors), are considered insufficient. Researchers have developed more dynamic, open-ended and collabor…
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management
Indigenous peoples are increasingly entering conservation partnerships with non-Indigenous actors. While these partnerships can provide resources to assist in the care of ancestral homelands, a lack of appreciation for ontological difference can lead to the restriction of self-determination and harm Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being. For conservation to succeed globally, it is vital to share practical approaches that can help to better …
Learning to live with social-ecological complexity: An interpretive analysis of learning in 11 Unesco Biosphere Reserves
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science: Embracing the elephant in the room
Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research, ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized in pursuit of solutions. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability science by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability…
Gobernanza adaptativa en construcción: Personas, prácticas y políticas en una reserva de biosfera de la Unesco
La gobernanza adaptativa (GA) ha surgido como un enfoque prominente para comprender y mejorar las respuestas de la gobernanza a los complejos desafos de la sustentabilidad. Los elementos clave incluyen el aprendizaje y la colaboracin entre sectores y escalas hacia una visin compartida, a travs del monitoreo, el intercambio de informacin, la construccin de redes y la resolucin de conflictos. Presentamos brevemente la GA a un pblico amplio e identi…
Framing science-based targets: Reformist and radical discourses in an Earth system governance initiative
Science-Based Targets (SBTs) are being developed for companies to contribute to global sustainability goals, including for ‘nature’. The literature has not yet explored multiple understandings of SBTs. We adopt an interpretive approach, using Q methodology to explore framings of SBTs amongst 22 scientists and practitioners engaged in SBT development. Results show two distinct framings: ‘we need science-based targets to help economic systems move …
By Us, For Us: The Impact of a Professional Counterspace on African American Women in Student Affairs
This study investigated outcomes associated with consistently participating in a professional counterspace developed by and for African American women higher education administrators. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with seven African American women student affairs professionals employed at predominantly White institutions, who consistently attended the African American Women's Summit (AAWS) between 2006-2011. Participants note…
The American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc., 1946 Membership List
The symbol following the address indicates membership status: (C) Charter member; (F) Fellow; (H) Honorary. Numbers in parentheses indicate year of election to membership. The chief organization connection is followed by the mailing address, which may be either the home address or that of the organization
The Hypothesis of Slow Cyclical Variation of Creativity
The hypothesis of the existence of cycles of creativity is scrutinized in the light of data available in the literature. Dates of the rise of sculpture yield a cycle length of 319 years; the numbers of known active scientists in Arabic and classical Greek cultures yield a cycle length of 164 years. The rate of growth of the American Physical Society parallels the current cycle, extrapolated, of the latter periodicity, a maximum being predicted at…
Northrhine Westphalian data on the HumTH01 Locus
A population study was carried out on 302 ethnic Germans from Düsseldorf and 273 ethnic Germans living in Northrhine Westphalia using the short tandem repeat (STR) system HumTH01 (TC11). Seven different alleles were detected. No deviations from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium could be observed. The results were compared with other population studies. The pooled sample from Germany can be used as database for forensic purposes.
Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti: Fidelity and the Masculine Spirit
This paper aims to provide a close, rigorous and systematic analysis of Ezra Pound's various English versions of the sonnet 'Chi è questa che vèn' by Guido Cavalcati. Pound's interest in Cavalcanti began as early as 1909 when he started working on translations of the Italian poet during a period in which his own verse was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, including the first English translator of Cavalcanti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In 1912 he pu…
Translating the ideal lady: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's treatment of Guido Cavalcanti inThe Early Italian Poets
Translating the ideal lady: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's treatment of Guido Cavalcanti in The Early Italian Poets
Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights: Adjudication as an Adaptive Governance Practice
West, S. P., and L. Schultz. 2015. Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights: adjudication as an adaptive governance practice. Ecology and Society 20(1): 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07190-200131
Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management: Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes
Peer-reviewed
Dwelling in the biosphere: Exploring an Embodied Human-Environment Connection in Resilience Thinking
Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society
Environmental narratives have become an increasingly important area of study in the environmental humanities. Rob Nixon has drawn attention to the difficulties of representing the complex processes of environmental change that inflict 'slow violence' on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of "arresting stories, images and symbols" reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodiversity loss, climate chan…
Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research: Linking care, knowledge and agency
Current sustainability challenges – including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change – require new ways of understanding, acting in and caring for the landscapes we live in. The concept of stewardship is increasingly used in research, policy and practice to articulate and describe responses to these challenges. However, there are multiple meanings and framings of stewardship across this wide user base that reflect different disciplinary…
Stewardship, care and relational values
Learning to live with social-ecological complexity: An interpretive analysis of learning in 11 Unesco Biosphere Reserves
Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management
Adaptive management (AM) is one of the most prominent ways ecologists contribute to ecosystem management, policy, and planning. AM treats management actions as experiments to monitor and learn from, creating a central role for ecologists in constructing the monitoring programs intended to guide learning. Yet, ecologists have found monitoring for AM challenging. They face a daunting series of dilemmas: How to produce monitoring programs that are r…
Beyond “linking knowledge and action”: Towards a practice-based approach to transdisciplinary sustainability interventions
The imperative to “link knowledge and action” is widely invoked as a defining characteristic of sustainability research. The complexities of sustainability challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss mean that linear models of knowledge and action, where knowledge is produced first (by researchers) then “applied to” action (by policy actors), are considered insufficient. Researchers have developed more dynamic, open-ended and collabor…
Gobernanza adaptativa en construcción: Personas, prácticas y políticas en una reserva de biosfera de la Unesco
La gobernanza adaptativa (GA) ha surgido como un enfoque prominente para comprender y mejorar las respuestas de la gobernanza a los complejos desafos de la sustentabilidad. Los elementos clave incluyen el aprendizaje y la colaboracin entre sectores y escalas hacia una visin compartida, a travs del monitoreo, el intercambio de informacin, la construccin de redes y la resolucin de conflictos. Presentamos brevemente la GA a un pblico amplio e identi…
By Us, For Us: The Impact of a Professional Counterspace on African American Women in Student Affairs
This study investigated outcomes associated with consistently participating in a professional counterspace developed by and for African American women higher education administrators. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with seven African American women student affairs professionals employed at predominantly White institutions, who consistently attended the African American Women's Summit (AAWS) between 2006-2011. Participants note…
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations
In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is considered a powerful 'leverage point' in pursuit of transformations. The coupled social-ecological and human-environment systems perspectives at the heart of sustainability science have, in many ways, enhanced recognition across academic, civil, policy and business spheres that humans and nature are inextricably connected. However, in retaining substantialist a…
Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research
Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations
This perspective paper synthesises the special issue 'Human-nature connectedness as a leverage point for sustainability transformation'. Based on the articles in this special issue, we aim to foster the operationalisation of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations to enable sustainability transformations. Specifically, we draw on four key advantages of the leverage points perspective: (i) the explicit recognition of deep l…
Putting relational thinking to work in sustainability science – reply to Raymond et al
We welcome Raymond et al.s invitation to further discuss the pragmatics of relational thinking in sustainability science. We clarify that relational approaches provide distinct theoretical and methodological resources that may be adopted on their own, or used to enrich other approaches, including systems research. We situate Raymond et al.s characterization of relational thinking in a broader landscape of differing approaches to mobilizing relati…
Negotiating the ethical-political dimensions of research methods: A key competency in mixed methods, inter- and transdisciplinary, and co-production research
Methods are often thought of as neutral tools that researchers can pick up and use to learn about a reality ‘out there.’ Motivated by growing recognition of complexity, there have been widespread calls to mix methods, both within and across disciplines, to generate richer scientific understandings and more effective policy interventions. However, bringing methods together often reveals their tacit, inherently contestable, and sometimes directly o…
Framing science-based targets: Reformist and radical discourses in an Earth system governance initiative
Science-Based Targets (SBTs) are being developed for companies to contribute to global sustainability goals, including for ‘nature’. The literature has not yet explored multiple understandings of SBTs. We adopt an interpretive approach, using Q methodology to explore framings of SBTs amongst 22 scientists and practitioners engaged in SBT development. Results show two distinct framings: ‘we need science-based targets to help economic systems move …
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science: Embracing the elephant in the room
Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research, ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized in pursuit of solutions. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability science by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability…
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