Stephan Rist
Biographic Data
| ID | 97220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephan Rist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rist |
| SIGNATURE | RIST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 414 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Social multi-criteria evaluation of land-use scenarios in the Chaco Salteño: Complementing the three-pillar sustainability approach with environmental justice
Engaging national policy makers in ecosystem based disaster risk reduction through social learning: Lessons from workshops in Africa, oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean
Perceptions of deforestation in the Argentinean Chaco: Combining Q-method and environmental justice
Worldview Matters: Mosetene Ontology and Resource Use in the Pilón Lajas IndigenousTerritory and Biosphere Reserve in the Bolivian Amazon
This paper analyses the basic features and transformations of the ontology and related lifeworlds of the Mosetene people in the co-management context of the Pilón Lajas Indigenous Territory and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Our results, based on anthropological fieldwork, showed the Mosetene to be perspectivist, perceiving themselves to be embedded in the forest as part of a web of social relationships linking human and non-human societies. Mosetene …
Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia
Food system research requires an understanding of system actors and activities. To this end, we codesigned and conducted a food system mapping process in 2 regions, one in Kenya and the other in Bolivia, that stretches frommountains to lowlands and involves sites of interconnected food system strategies related to these habitats. We adapted an existing method of mapping local food webs to an approach that subdivides food systems into 4 subsystems…
The Constitutionality Approach: Conditions, Opportunities, and Challenges for Bottom-Up Institution Building
Water Justice and Integrated Water Resources Management: Constitutionality Processes Favoring Sustainable Water Governance in Mexico
Quinoa and production rules: How are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources
The sharp increase in the price and production of quinoa between 1990 and 2014 has had important impacts in Bolivia’s southern Altiplano region, previously considered one of the poorest regions in the country. The socio-economic status of most inhabitants improved significantly as a result of the “quinoa boom”. However, it also caused severe disturbances in socio-ecological systems and posed challenges to resource governance by traditional indige…
Social sustainability in agriculture – A system-based framework
Evaluating the livelihood impacts of a large-scale agricultural investment: Lessons from the case of a biofuel production company in northern Sierra Leone
Operationalizing food system resilience: An indicator-based assessment in agroindustrial, smallholder farming, and agroecological contexts in Bolivia and Kenya
Seeing land deals through the lens of the 'land-water nexus: The case of biofuel production in Piura, Peru
This contribution examines two large-scale land acquisitions on Peru's northern coast, using a 'land-water nexus' approach. The establishment of large sugarcane monocultures resulted in a massive transfer of land and water rights from smallholders to biofuel companies. Using Ribot and Peluso's theory of access, we demonstrate that this transfer of rights was enabled by the convergence of neoliberal land and water reforms and the presence of the t…
Moving Territories: Strategic Selection of Boundary Concepts by Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon - an Element of Constitutionality
Research Priorities for the Conservation and Sustainable Governance of Andean Forest Landscapes
The long-term survival of Andean forest landscapes (AFL) and of their capacity to contribute to sustainable development in a context of global change requires integrated adaptation and mitigation responses informed by a thorough understanding of the dynamic and complex interactions between their ecological and social components. This article proposes a research agenda that can help guide AFL research efforts for the next 15 years. The agenda was …
Das nossas ciências ao diálogo intercientífico para a sustentabilidade alimentar e o desenvolvimento sustentável
Este artigo discute as ciências endógenas como um sistema de conhecimentos que pode contribuir para a segurança e a soberania alimentar. Toma como premissa fundamental o reconhecimento de que todos os sistemas de conhecimentos milenares do mundo são ciências com suas próprias epistemologias e ontologias e isto implica em diferentes visões de vida e valorações, como é o caso dos conceitos de alimento e medicina. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar …
MontanAqua: Tackling Water Stress in the Alps: Water Management Options in the Crans-Montana-Sierre Region (Valais)
Transdisciplinary research is considered an appropriate mode of knowledge production in the search for pathways towards a more sustainable governance of natural resources. However, the co-production of new knowledge between scientists of different disciplines and nonacademic stakeholders is a challenge that requires novel research designs, methods, and approaches. The MontanAqua team has tackled this challenge by designing and implementing an inn…
Local views and structural determinants of poverty alleviation through payments for environmental services: Bolivian insights
Payments for environmental services (PES) are very often considered emblematic of the neoliberal trend in natural resources and ecosystem management. Even if they have been largely criticized as contributing to the commodification of nature, their worldwide application is obvious. The explanation of their diffusion in poor countries and regions can be partially attributed to the fact that PES are promoted as a “win–win” solution, capable of impro…
Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials
Conflicts of customary land tenure in rural Africa: Is Large-Scale Land Acquisition a Driver of 'Institutional Innovation
This study combines legal and anthropological approaches to investigate how the establishment of a large-scale biofuel agro-industry is reinterpreting and potentially transforming customary institutional arrangements in rural Sierra Leone. The contractual relationships established between land acquirers and local authorities can be seen as an 'institutional innovation' that aims at interpreting and overcoming the limits of the national land regim…
Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes
This article presents constitutionality as a new approach for analyzing bottom-up institution-building processes emphasizing local perceptions and local agency in common pool resource management. Using four case studies—fisheries in Zambia; pasture and forestry in Mali; fisheries in Indonesia; forestry in Bolivia—this approach analyzes examples of local institution building differing from top-down imposed participation.
Scientists’ situated knowledge: Strong objectivity in transdisciplinarity
Die Anden—Ein Geographisches Porträt
An indicator framework for assessing livelihood resilience in the context of social–ecological dynamics
Carbon Sequestration in Community Forests: Trade-offs, Multiple Outcomes and Institutional Diversity in the Bolivian Amazon
Carbon sequestration in community forests presents a major challenge for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme. This article uses a comparative analysis of the agricultural and forestry practices of indigenous peoples and settlers in the Bolivian Amazon to show how community-level institutions regulate the trade-offs between community livelihoods, forest species diversity, and carbon sequestration. The…
Assessing sustainable forest management under Redd: A community-based labour perspective
Moving from sustainable management to sustainable governance of natural resources: The role of social learning processes in rural India, Bolivia and Mali
An indicator framework for assessing livelihood resilience in the context of social–ecological dynamics
Scientists’ situated knowledge: Strong objectivity in transdisciplinarity
Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes
This article presents constitutionality as a new approach for analyzing bottom-up institution-building processes emphasizing local perceptions and local agency in common pool resource management. Using four case studies—fisheries in Zambia; pasture and forestry in Mali; fisheries in Indonesia; forestry in Bolivia—this approach analyzes examples of local institution building differing from top-down imposed participation.
Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials
Conflicts of customary land tenure in rural Africa: Is Large-Scale Land Acquisition a Driver of 'Institutional Innovation
This study combines legal and anthropological approaches to investigate how the establishment of a large-scale biofuel agro-industry is reinterpreting and potentially transforming customary institutional arrangements in rural Sierra Leone. The contractual relationships established between land acquirers and local authorities can be seen as an 'institutional innovation' that aims at interpreting and overcoming the limits of the national land regim…
Social sustainability in agriculture – A system-based framework
Envisioning sustainable water futures in a transdisciplinary learning process: Combining normative, explorative, and participatory scenario approaches
Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical healthcare? A comparison of two rural communities in Peru and Bolivia
BackgroundIt is commonly assumed that indigenous medical systems remain strong in developing countries because biomedicine is physically inaccessible or financially not affordable. This paper compares the health-seeking behavior of households from rural Andean communities at a Peruvian and a Bolivian study site. The main research question was whether the increased presence of biomedicine led to a displacement of Andean indigenous medical practice…
Changing Land Rights Means Changing Society: The Sociopolitical Effects of Agrarian Reforms under the Government of Evo Morales
Agrarian reform cannot be limited to a linear process of land distribution. It involves a societal restructuration that affects power relations, multi-level governance structures, the (re)spatialization of juridical legitimacy and symbolic boundaries between sociocultural groups (ethnicity). This paper analyses the consequences of the major Bolivian agrarian reforms of 1953, 1996 and 2006 for the current process of setting up the 'plurinational' …
Knowledge and valuation of Andean agroforestry species: The role of sex, age, and migration among members of a rural community in Bolivia
BackgroundAgroforestry is a sustainable land use method with a long tradition in the Bolivian Andes. A better understanding of people's knowledge and valuation of woody species can help to adjust actor-oriented agroforestry systems. In this case study, carried out in a peasant community of the Bolivian Andes, we aimed at calculating the cultural importance of selected agroforestry species, and at analysing the intracultural variation in the cultu…
Are the Young Less Knowledgeable? Local Knowledge of Natural Remedies and Its Transformations in the Andean Highlands
Soil conservation in Swiss agriculture—Approaching abstract and symbolic meanings in farmers’ life-worlds
Evaluating the livelihood impacts of a large-scale agricultural investment: Lessons from the case of a biofuel production company in northern Sierra Leone
Operationalizing food system resilience: An indicator-based assessment in agroindustrial, smallholder farming, and agroecological contexts in Bolivia and Kenya
Social Learning Processes in Swiss Soil Protection-The 'From Farmer - To Farmer' Project
Seeing land deals through the lens of the 'land-water nexus: The case of biofuel production in Piura, Peru
This contribution examines two large-scale land acquisitions on Peru's northern coast, using a 'land-water nexus' approach. The establishment of large sugarcane monocultures resulted in a massive transfer of land and water rights from smallholders to biofuel companies. Using Ribot and Peluso's theory of access, we demonstrate that this transfer of rights was enabled by the convergence of neoliberal land and water reforms and the presence of the t…
Carbon Sequestration in Community Forests: Trade-offs, Multiple Outcomes and Institutional Diversity in the Bolivian Amazon
Carbon sequestration in community forests presents a major challenge for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme. This article uses a comparative analysis of the agricultural and forestry practices of indigenous peoples and settlers in the Bolivian Amazon to show how community-level institutions regulate the trade-offs between community livelihoods, forest species diversity, and carbon sequestration. The…
Linking local knowledge, conservation practices and ecosystem diversity: Comparing two communities in the Tunari National Park (Bolivia)
Combined approaches to conserve both biological and cultural diversity are seen as an alternative to classical nature conservation instruments. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of urbanization coupled with exclusive conservation measures, on land use, local knowledge and biodiversity in two Quechua speaking communities of Bolivia located within the Tunari National Park. We assessed and compared the links between land use, …
Quinoa and production rules: How are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources
The sharp increase in the price and production of quinoa between 1990 and 2014 has had important impacts in Bolivia’s southern Altiplano region, previously considered one of the poorest regions in the country. The socio-economic status of most inhabitants improved significantly as a result of the “quinoa boom”. However, it also caused severe disturbances in socio-ecological systems and posed challenges to resource governance by traditional indige…
Local views and structural determinants of poverty alleviation through payments for environmental services: Bolivian insights
Payments for environmental services (PES) are very often considered emblematic of the neoliberal trend in natural resources and ecosystem management. Even if they have been largely criticized as contributing to the commodification of nature, their worldwide application is obvious. The explanation of their diffusion in poor countries and regions can be partially attributed to the fact that PES are promoted as a “win–win” solution, capable of impro…
Development must be based on local cultures!” The Struggle for Local Independence and Self-Determination: An Interview With Don Roman Loayza, the First Peasant Elected to the Bolivian Parliament
Linking Ethics and the Market: Campesino Economic Strategies in the Bolivian Andes
The economic behavior of campesinos has long been a prominent issue in development debates. Models used to explain economic behavior have generally been based on the theoretical assumptions of specific (Western) schools of thought. Consequently, economics is determined by the theory that informs a particular study without considering the meaning that campesinos impart to the economy as actors in a social context. For example, barter, reciprocity,…
The Role of Social Learning Processes in the Emergence and Development of Aymara Land Use Systems
A typical traditional Andean land-use system was analyzed as the outcome of long-term social learning processes. From this perspective the land-use system is the result of coevolution between society and nature, representing a successive embodiment of ethical principles corresponding to different periods in history. Ethical principles, understood in this study as the main values in which social and spiritual life is rooted, emerge from and are sh…
Water as a Multidimensional Entity: An Interview With Franklin Frederick, Advocate of the International Free Water Academy, Brazil
Between Conservation and Development: Concretizing the First World Natural Heritage Site in the Alps Through Participatory Processes
This article presents an empirical interdisciplinary study of an extensive participatory process that was carried out in 2004 in the recently established World Natural Heritage Site “Jungfrau–Aletsch–Bietschhorn” in the Swiss Alps. The study used qualitative and quantitative empirical methods of social science to address the question of success factors in establishing and concretizing a World Heritage Site. Current international scientific and po…
Ethnosciences––A step towards the integration of scientific and indigenous forms of knowledge in the management of natural resources for the future
Implications of transdisciplinarity for sustainability research
Moving from sustainable management to sustainable governance of natural resources: The role of social learning processes in rural India, Bolivia and Mali
Social learning processes and sustainable development: The emergence and transformation of an indigenous land use system in the Andes of Bolivia
Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge in the development of organic agriculture in Switzerland
Social Learning Processes in Swiss Soil Protection-The 'From Farmer - To Farmer' Project
Researchers' roles in knowledge co-production: Experience from sustainability research in Kenya, Switzerland, Bolivia and Nepal
Co-production of knowledge between academic and non-academic communities is a prerequisite for research aiming at more sustainable development paths. Sustainability researchers face three challenges in such co-production: (a) addressing power relations; (b) interrelating different perspectives on the issues at stake; and (c) promoting a previously negotiated orientation towards sustainable development. A systematic comparison of four sustainabili…
Soil conservation in Swiss agriculture—Approaching abstract and symbolic meanings in farmers’ life-worlds
Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical healthcare? A comparison of two rural communities in Peru and Bolivia
BackgroundIt is commonly assumed that indigenous medical systems remain strong in developing countries because biomedicine is physically inaccessible or financially not affordable. This paper compares the health-seeking behavior of households from rural Andean communities at a Peruvian and a Bolivian study site. The main research question was whether the increased presence of biomedicine led to a displacement of Andean indigenous medical practice…
Changing Land Rights Means Changing Society: The Sociopolitical Effects of Agrarian Reforms under the Government of Evo Morales
Agrarian reform cannot be limited to a linear process of land distribution. It involves a societal restructuration that affects power relations, multi-level governance structures, the (re)spatialization of juridical legitimacy and symbolic boundaries between sociocultural groups (ethnicity). This paper analyses the consequences of the major Bolivian agrarian reforms of 1953, 1996 and 2006 for the current process of setting up the 'plurinational' …
Are the Young Less Knowledgeable? Local Knowledge of Natural Remedies and Its Transformations in the Andean Highlands
Assessing sustainable forest management under Redd: A community-based labour perspective
Envisioning sustainable water futures in a transdisciplinary learning process: Combining normative, explorative, and participatory scenario approaches
Linking local knowledge, conservation practices and ecosystem diversity: Comparing two communities in the Tunari National Park (Bolivia)
Combined approaches to conserve both biological and cultural diversity are seen as an alternative to classical nature conservation instruments. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of urbanization coupled with exclusive conservation measures, on land use, local knowledge and biodiversity in two Quechua speaking communities of Bolivia located within the Tunari National Park. We assessed and compared the links between land use, …
Knowledge and valuation of Andean agroforestry species: The role of sex, age, and migration among members of a rural community in Bolivia
BackgroundAgroforestry is a sustainable land use method with a long tradition in the Bolivian Andes. A better understanding of people's knowledge and valuation of woody species can help to adjust actor-oriented agroforestry systems. In this case study, carried out in a peasant community of the Bolivian Andes, we aimed at calculating the cultural importance of selected agroforestry species, and at analysing the intracultural variation in the cultu…
Die Anden—Ein Geographisches Porträt
An indicator framework for assessing livelihood resilience in the context of social–ecological dynamics
Carbon Sequestration in Community Forests: Trade-offs, Multiple Outcomes and Institutional Diversity in the Bolivian Amazon
Carbon sequestration in community forests presents a major challenge for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme. This article uses a comparative analysis of the agricultural and forestry practices of indigenous peoples and settlers in the Bolivian Amazon to show how community-level institutions regulate the trade-offs between community livelihoods, forest species diversity, and carbon sequestration. The…
Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes
This article presents constitutionality as a new approach for analyzing bottom-up institution-building processes emphasizing local perceptions and local agency in common pool resource management. Using four case studies—fisheries in Zambia; pasture and forestry in Mali; fisheries in Indonesia; forestry in Bolivia—this approach analyzes examples of local institution building differing from top-down imposed participation.
Scientists’ situated knowledge: Strong objectivity in transdisciplinarity
Geography (32 works) · Political science (29 works) · Economics (28 works) · Ecology (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Business (20 works) · Environmental resource management (20 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 works) · Sustainability (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works)