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This book explores ways in which creative research practice can be explicitly and mindfully geared to make a difference to the quality of social and ecological existence. It offers a range of examples of how different research methods can be employed (and re-tuned) with this intention. The book suggests that what Romm names "active" research involves using the research space responsibly to open up new avenues for thinking and acting on the part of those involved in the inquiry and wider stakeholders. The book includes a discussion of a range of epistemological, ontological, methodological and axiological positions (or paradigms) that can be embraced by inquirers implicitly or explicitly. It details the contours of an epistemology where knowing is recognized to be grounded in social relations, as a matter of ethics. While focusing on discussing the "transformative paradigm" and attendant view of research ethics, it considers to what extent the borders between paradigms can be treated as being permeable in creative and active inquiries. Apart from considering options for enhancing responsible research practice during the process of inquiry (and reconsidering mixed-research designs) the book also considers options for responsible theorizing that is inspirational for pursuing goals of social and ecological justice

"This book explores ways in which creative research practice can be explicitly and mindfully geared to make a difference to the quality of social and ecological existence. It offers a range of examples of how different research methods can be employed (and re-tuned) with this intention. The book suggests that what Romm names "active" research involves using the research space responsibly to open up new avenues for thinking and acting on the part of those involved in the inquiry and wider stakeholders. The book includes a discussion of a range of epistemological, ontological, methodological and axiological positions (or paradigms) that can be embraced by inquirers implicitly or explicitly. It details the contours of an epistemology where knowing is recognized to be grounded in social relations, as a matter of ethics. While focusing on discussing the "transformative paradigm" and attendant view of research ethics, it considers to what extent the borders between paradigms can be treated as being permeable in creative and active inquiries. Apart from considering options for enhancing responsible research practice during the process of inquiry (and reconsidering mixed-research designs) the book also considers options for responsible theorizing that is inspirational for pursuing goals of social and ecological justice."--

Chapter 1. Summary and key themes: We are the land and the waters -- Chapter 2. Dynamic weaving together strands of experience: Multiple mixed methods approaches to resilience and re-generation based on intra-, inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches -- Chapter 3. Maintaining space for dialogue and diversity -- Chapter 4. Displacement, loss and enclosure of the commons: the role of the Dutch East India Company -- Chapter 5. Food and the home front: New Guinea Villagers' survival during the Pacific War -- Chapter 6. Limits to Growth, the Rohingya, and Planetary Health -- Chapter 7. Vignette: Human rights issue of the Rohingya Refugees -- Chapter 8. Transnational Corporations and West Papua: A Friend or Foe for Indigenous People of this Region?- Chapter 9. Avoiding another East-Timor atrocity: The fight for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination in West Papua Caring for people and place: transformative practice -- Chapter 10. Ubuntu : A dialogue on connectedness, environmental protection and education -- Chapter 11. Putting communal land into productive use through collaboration, networking and partnerships in rural South Africa -- Chapter 12. Designing a policy response to populism and the 'wicked' issues of exclusion, unemployment, poverty and climate change -- Chapter 13. Transformation: a change in perspective -- Chapter 14. Strengthening social reform in rural areas through women's self-employment -- Chapter 15. Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 16. Enhancing Agency by listening and hearing to enhance capacity of the most marginalised in New Zealand Our Respective Journeys -- Chapter 17. Reserved seats for women in rural local government: achieving a level playing field Social economic and environmental challenges for transformation -- Chapter 18. Water mis-management as a wicked problem in Nauli City, Indonesia A mixed-method approach -- Chapter 19. Fostering ecological citizenship through recognising non-anthropocentric right to habitat -- Chapter 20. Concluding note -- Chapter 21. Being Systemic and Caring

In this article we offer an account of research undertaken for the International Labour Organization (on behalf of the National Aids Council in Zambia) in relation to HIV/AIDS and the informal economy in Zambia. We concentrate on how we tried to operate in terms of a conscious recognition of (and acceptance of responsibility for) our complicity as inquirers (together with others) in the development of the unfolding situations being explored. We indicate why we define as `active research' the approach adopted, and how we see this as related to the broader category of `action research'. We suggest that this kind of approach may be helpful for others wishing to engage in development programmes broadly understood and intended to support people's efforts to develop viable ways of knowing-and-living.

Chapter 1. Summary of the papers and relevance of mixed methods for resourcing the commons -- Chapter 2. Getting lost in the city and implications for food, energy and water security: towards Non-Anthropocentric Rural-Urban governance -- Chapter 3. Everyday news: Living in the Anthropocene: auto-ethnographic reflections -- Chapter 4. Vignette: Speaking truth to power in the digital economy: can the subaltern be heard?- Chapter 5. Policy design for vocational pathways to protect biodiversity and re-generate the land -- Chapter 6. Losing millennials in the city: reflection on contemporary issues -- Chapter 7. Alam Endah: Rural camelot in West Java: a case study of empowerment and integrated rural development -- Chapter 8. Freeing the Luwaks and escaping the iron cage: Vignettes on surviving in the Anthropocene by joining up the social, economic and environmental policy dots: an application of critical systemic thinking to areas of concern -- Chapter 9. What is the problem represented to be: water scarcity, water mismanagement or misdirecting the systems?- Chapter 10. Governance of Surakarta's informal sector : implications for the Empowerment of Marginalized Stakeholders -- Chapter 11. Education to Address Social and Environmental Challenges: A Critical Pedagogy Perspective on Saudi Public Education -- Chapter 12. Education policy and governance of secondary schools in Saudi Arabia: A critical review informed by Nussbaum's capabilities approach -- Chapter 13. Researching the Impact of the South African Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign: Considering the Support for Those Otherwise Marginalized in Economic, Social, and Political Life -- Chapter 14. Cascading risks of climate change political and policy dynamics of water crisis: Consequences of modernity': implications for transformative praxis -- Chapter 15. Innovation for social and environmental justice; a way forward?- Chapter 16. Conclusion

This book addresses the social and environmental justice challenge to live sustainably and well. It considers the consequences of our social, economic and environmental policy and governance decisions for this generation and the next. The book tests out ways to improve representation, accountability and re-generation. It addresses the need to take into account the ethical implications of policy and governance decisions in the short, medium and long term based on testing out the implications for self, other and the environment. This book recognizes the negative impact that humans have had on the Earth?s ecosystem and recommends a less anthropocentric way of looking at policies and governance. The chapters discuss the geologic impact that people have had on the globe, both positive and negative, and brings awareness to the anthropocentric interventions that have influenced life on Earth during the Holocene era. Based on these observations, the authors discuss original ideas and critical reviews on ways to govern those who interpret the world in terms of human values and experience, and to conduct an egalitarian lifestyle. These ideas address the growing rise in the size of the ecological footprints of some at the expense of the majority, the growth in unsustainable food choices and of displaced people, and the need for a new sense of relationship with nature and other animals, among other issues

This book addresses the social and environmental justice challenge to live sustainably and well. It considers the consequences of our social, economic and environmental policy and governance decisions for this generation and the next. The book tests out ways to improve representation, accountability and re-generation. It addresses the need to take into account the ethical implications of policy and governance decisions in the short, medium and long term based on testing out the implications for self, other and the environment. This book recognizes the negative impact that humans have had on the Earth's ecosystem and recommends a less anthropocentric way of looking at policies and governance. The chapters discuss the geologic impact that people have had on the globe, both positive and negative, and brings awareness to the anthropocentric interventions that have influenced life on Earth during the Holocene era. Based on these observations, the authors discuss original ideas and critical reviews on ways to govern those who interpret the world in terms of human values and experience, and to conduct an egalitarian lifestyle. These ideas address the growing rise in the size of the ecological footprints of some at the expense of the majority, the growth in unsustainable food choices and of displaced people, and the need for a new sense of relationship with nature and other animals, among other issues.