By Dr. David Leroy | Resilience and Sustainability Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Entering a mining territory Since my earliest work in geography, one question has guided my research: how do rural communities experience profound socio-environmental transformations in their territories? In Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico, I explored this question by working with farming communities facing …
Can AI save the world? A project by researcher Annika Bush uses AI to connect scientists and island communities to improve both community resilience and marine research.
In a new review, researchers investigate how the field of marine social science can unlock effective conservation strategies As oceans conditions are rapidly changing due to climate change, marine social scientists are on the front lines of understanding how human communities influence and are influenced by changing oceans. Utilizing this knowledge in practice will mean …
With funding from the Adrienne Arsht Community-Based Resilience Solutions Initiative, ten projects investigate how humans and nature can react, respond, and adapt to change What does it mean to be resilient? Both people and nature demonstrate resilience when they react, respond, and adapt to a variety of social and environmental challenges. With compounding threats from …
The Smithsonian Bird Friendly coffee and cocoa certification program just opened its new Latin American office at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, STRI, in Panama, making it easier for regional coffee and chocolate industries to join the global movement to produce sustainable coffee and chocolate. The Smithsonian Bird Friendly Coffee (and cocoa) initiative is a …
Multidisciplinary researchers from the global tropics published a new paper suggesting that the key to ocean conservation may lie with the tropical majority. To achieve tangible solutions for ocean conservation, we should listen to the people who are most affected by the current problems facing the ocean: the people in the tropics, say 25 co-authors …