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Volume 2 Environment Pollution and Climate Change
ISSN: 2573-458X Climate Change 2018 &
Global ENVITOX 2018
October 04-06, 2018 Page 43
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October 04-06, 2018
London, UK
16th Annual Meeting on
Environmental Toxicology and Biological Systems
&
5th World Conference on Climate Change
JOINT EVENT
Recent Publications
1. Palmer C G, Biggs R and Cumming G S (2015) Applied research for enhancing human well-being and environmental
stewardship: using complexity thinking in Southern Africa. Ecology and Society 20(1):53.
2. Lang D J, Wiek A, Bermann M, Stauffacher M, Martens P, et al. (2012) Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science:
practice, principles, and challenges. Sustainability Science 7(5):25–43.
3. Folke C (2006) Resilience: the emergence of a perspective for social-ecological systems analyses. Global Environmental
Change 16(3):253–267.
4. Cilliers P (2000) What can we learn from a theory of complexity? Emergence 2(1):23-33.
Biography
Carolyn (Tally) Palmer has a research trajectory from aquatic ecology and environmental water quality, together with water law and policy development, to a commitment
to the transformative capacity of engaged, transdisciplinary action research praxis, based on a conceptual faming of complex social-ecological systems. Her concept of
Adaptive Integrated Water Resource Management includes the recognition that participatory governance – people at the interface of knowledge production, practice and
politics creates a sustainability platform and pathway that can be the foundation of local to at least national scale climate-change adaptation. At the interface of sustainability
science, policy, and practice it is practice that most often fails. Carolyn brings a coherent set of transdisciplinary case studies from across South Africa to argue that
participatory governance can be a key lever to embed climate change adaptation practice, making the most of linked research and development interventions.