Opening Windows

The third decennial review from the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, Opening Windows simultaneously examines the breadth and societal relevance of Society and Natural Resources (SNR) knowledge, explores emergent issues and new directions in SNR scholarship, and captures the increasing diversity of SNR research. Authors from various backgrounds—career stage, gender and sexuality, race/ethnicity, and global region—provide a fresh, nuanced, and critical look at the field from both researchers’ and practitioners’ perspectives. 

This reflexive book is organized around four key themes: diversity and justice, governance and power, engagement and elicitation, and relationships and place. This is not a complacent volume—chapters point to gaps in conventional scholarship and to how much work remains to be done. Power is a central focus, including the role of cultural and economic power in “participatory” approaches to natural resource management and the biases encoded into the very concepts that guide scholarly and practical work. The chapters include robust literature syntheses, conceptual models, and case studies that provide examples of best practices and recommend research directions to improve and transform natural resource social sciences. An unmistakable spirit of hope is exemplified by findings suggesting positive roles for research in the progress ahead. 

Bringing fresh perspectives on the assumptions and interests that underlie and entangle scholarship on natural resource decisionmaking and the justness of its outcomes, Opening Windows is significant for scholars, students, natural resource practitioners, managers and decision makers, and policy makers.

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Contributors: Full bios
Evan J. Andrews, Ian Babelon, Robert Berry, Wiebren J. Boonstra, Beth Brockett, Jasmine K. Brown, Angie Carter, Yan Chen, Jessica Cockburn, Ana Carolina Esteves Dias, Michael Dockry, Rebecca M. Ford, Madu Galappaththi, Caitlin Hafferty, Paul Hebinck, Sarah Hitchner, Michaela Hoffelmeyer, James Hoggett, Durdana Islam, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Christopher Jadallah, Robert Emmet Jones, Rachel Kelly, E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Richard Dimba Kiaka, Christine Knott, Bryanne Lamoureux, María Andrée López Gómez, Rodgers Lubilo, Vanessa Masterson, Jaye Mejía-Duwan, Brett Alan Miller, Maddison Miller, Abraham Miller-Rushing, Nosiseko Mtati, Solange Nadeau, Sarah Naiman, Polly Nguyen, Eliza Oldach, John R. Parkins, Courtenay Parlee, Sasha Quahe, Archi Rastogi, Andrea Rawluk, Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, Prativa Sapkota, John Schelhas, Tobin N. Walton, Grace Wang, Simon West, Daniel R. Williams, Kathryn J. H. Williams, Melanie Zurba

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