Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
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    Development pathways at the agriculture–urban interface: the case of Central Arizona
    with Julia C. Bausch, Hallie Eakin, Skaidra Smith-Heisters, Abigail M. York, Cathy Rubiños, and Rimjhim M. Aggarwal
    Agriculture and Human Values 32 (4): 743-759. 2015.
    Particular visions of urban development are often codified in multi-year resource management policies. These policies, and the negotiations leading to them, are based in specific problem frames and narratives with long legacies. As conditions change and knowledge improves, there is often a need to revisit how problems, opportunities, and development pathways were defined historically, and to consider the viability of alternative pathways for development. In this article, we examine the case of a…Read more
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    Participatory Convergence: Integrating Convergence and Participatory Action Research
    with Laura Castro-Diaz, Anais Roque, Amber Wutich, Laura Landes, WenWen Li, Rhett Larson, Paul Westerhoff, Mariana Marcos-Hernandez, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain, Yushiou Tsai, Ramon Lucero, Griffin Todd, and Michael Hanemann
    Minerva 1-21. forthcoming.
    This paper introduces the concept of “Participatory Convergence” as a framework to meet grand social-ecological challenges. Participatory Convergence combines the principles of Convergence Research with Participatory Action Research (PAR), offering a novel approach to tackling complex societal problems. Convergence Research seeks to foster high-level integration between diverse disciplines to address multifaceted issues, emphasizing systems thinking and solutions orientation; however, existing l…Read more