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Essay über die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Israels seit der Staatsgründung und den Wandel der Wirtschaftsphilosophie. (DÜI-Hns)

I am recently back from the Transformations Community gathering in Prague in the Czech Republic and still savoring and making sense of the time. That trip capped a flurry of work travel that began in May and took me from Jackson, Mississippi (Food Policy Council Network COLP) to New York City (Ford Foundation Global Leadership... Read More
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Transformation as an adaptive response to climate change opens a range of novel policy options. Used to describe responses that produce non-linear changes in systems or their host social and ecological environments, transformation also raises distinct ethical and procedural questions for decision-makers. Expanding adaptation to include transformation foregrounds questions of power and preference that have so far been underdeveloped in adaptation theory and practice. We build on David Harvey's notion of activity space to derive a framework and research agenda for climate change adaptation seen as a political decisionpoint and as an opportunity for transformation, incremental adjustment or resistance to change in development pathway. Decision-making is unpacked through the notion of the activity space into seven coevolving sites: the individual, technology, livelihoods, discourse, behaviour, the environment and institutions. The framework is tested against practitioner priorities to define an agenda that can make coherent advances in research and practice on climate change adaptation.

The aim of this conference was to provide an informal opportunity for people concerned about agriculture in Southern Africa to share concrete experiences of alternatives in agriculture, to identify common themes, to analyse problems and strategies for overcoming them, and to make recommendations. There were 28 participants from South Africa, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, as well as 6 members of the Transformation Resource Centre staff

Reviews and discusses: Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge, M. Strathern (ed.), (London 1995); The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations, W. James (ed.), (London, 1995); and Worlds Apart: Modernity through the Prism of the Local, D. Miller (ed.), (London, 1995). (Original abstract-amended)