Liberia has the most forest cover of any West African country, and these forests have sustained indigenous societies for millennia. Today, Liberia’s forested landscapes face a future that holds both great promise and peril. The sustainability challenges arise at the…
Thank you for your interest in this topic! At UGA, the ICON PhD Program endeavors to train the next generation of sustainability and conservation scientists and practitioners with the competencies needed to work effectively on teams that address wicked problems.…
Two recent articles on graduate student training for the future of environmental conservation recognized UGA’s ICON PhD program as a leader! Lucas, J., Gora, E., & Alonso, A. (2017). A view of the global conservation job market and how to…
These two papers are stellar examples of Ryan’s discipline-linking dissertation research. Congratulations, Ryan! Unks, R., E. G. King, L. A. German, N. P. Wachira and D. R. Nelson 2019. Unevenness in scale mismatches: institutional change, pastoralist livelihoods, and herding ecology…
The webinar was held on December 3, 2018 with a live audience at UGA and a virtual audience of attendees from USSEE (U.S. Society for Ecological Economics), ESA (Ecological Society of America), and AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists).…
Kristen received a Campus Sustainability Grant from the University of Georgia, to build and install bat houses on campus as well as lead educational activities. This project will provide important roosting habitat for local Athens bat species and connect people…
When households practicing small-scale livelihoods such as pastoralism experience increasing hardships due to environmental change, adopting a new livelihood strategy is often promoted as a way to regain food security and reduce vulnerability. However, livelihood adaptation is a complex process,…
King, E., Cavender-Bares, J., Balvanera, P., Mwampamba, T. H., & Polasky, S. (2015). Trade-offs in ecosystem services and varying stakeholder preferences: evaluating conflicts, obstacles, and opportunities. Ecology and Society, 20(3). doi: 10.5751/ES-07822-200325 (open access) This paper, just published in Ecology…
Dr. Eric MacDonald of the College of Environment & Design at UGA is shepherding this student-run initiative that uses prescribed grazing to control invasive species, reclaim forgotten natural areas on campus, and foster environmental stewardship in students. The goats, or the…
Drylands cover 40% of the continent of Africa, and are the basis for traditional pastoralist social-ecological systems, in which societies have adapted to rely heavily or entirely on livestock production for their livelihoods in harsh and variable environments. Modernity has…