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1. Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities

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Reyes-García, Victoria, García-Del-Amo, David, Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna, Schlingmann, Anna, Abazeri, Mariam, Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N., Vieira da Cunha Ávila, Julia, Ayanlade, Ayansina, Babai, Daniel, Benyei, Petra, Calvet-Mir, Laura, Carmona, Rosario, Caviedes, Julián, Chah, Jane, Chakauya, Rumbidzayi, Cuní-Sanchez, Aida, Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro, Galappaththi, Eranga K., Gerkey, Drew, Graham, Sonia, Guillerminet, Théo, Huanca, Tomás, Ibarra, José Tomás, Junqueira, André B., Li, Xiaoyue, López-Maldonado, Yolanda, Mattalia, Giulia, Samakov, Aibek, Schunko, Christoph, Seidler, Reinmar, Sharakhmatova, Victoria, Singh, Priyatma, Tofighi-Niaki, Adrien, and Torrents-Ticó, Miquel

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2024
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15. An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points

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Graham, Sonia, primary, Wary, Melanie, additional, Calcagni, Fulvia, additional, Cisneros, Mercè, additional, de Luca, Claudia, additional, Gorostiza, Santiago, additional, Stedje Hanserud, Ola, additional, Kallis, Giorgos, additional, Kotsila, Panagiota, additional, Leipold, Sina, additional, Malumbres‐Olarte, Jagoba, additional, Partridge, Tristan, additional, Petit‐Boix, Anna, additional, Schaffartzik, Anke, additional, Shokry, Galia, additional, Tirado‐Herrero, Sergio, additional, van den Bergh, Jeroen, additional, and Ziveri, Patrizia, additional

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2023
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18. Extreme Climatic Events Shape Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems

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Holmgren, Milena, Stapp, Paul, Dickman, Chris R., Gracia, Carlos, Graham, Sonia, Gutiérrez, Julio R., Hice, Christine, Jaksic, Fabián, Kelt, Douglas A., Letnic, Mike, Lima, Mauricio, López, Bernat C., Meserve, Peter L., Milstead, W. Bryan, Polis, Gary A., Previtali, M. Andrea, Richter, Michael, Sabaté, Santi, and Squeo, Francisco A.

Published
2006

29. Collaborating with care in virtual sessions

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Bernstein, Michael, Pitt, Hannah, Haider, Jamila, Friis, Cecilie, Chapman, Mollie, Zähringer, Julie, Hoffmann, Harry, Haenke, Hendrik, Seufert, Verena, Graham, Sonia, Nicol, Poppy, Schill, Caroline, Shu, Kesheng, Reviriego, Isabel, Dressler, Gunnar, Valencia, Vivian, Hernandez-Morcillo, Monica, Kernecker, Maria, Felipe-Lucia, Maria, and Piñeiro, Concepción

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Working paper A group of 20 international colleagues reflect on how to invite care into productive, creative spaces without being physically together.

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2022
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34. Obnoxious Plants and Pestiferous Growths: how figurative language reinforces the management of weeds in Victoria, Australia.

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Height, Kaitlyn, Jefferson, Rachael, and Graham, Sonia

Subjects
FIGURES of speech, WEED control, PLANT growth, INVASIVE plants, INTRODUCED species
Abstract

The militaristic metaphors common in public discourses about invasive species have been criticised for promoting combative management approaches and constraining policy responses. But are they really to blame for entrenching a command-and-control approach to managing weeds in Australia? Since 2000, almost every state and territory has introduced new biosecurity legislation encouraging 'shared responsibility'. Yet, this term remains noticeably absent from new legislation in Victoria. We aim to examine whether public discourses around invasive plants have remained unchanged to better understand how invasive plants have been framed and whether this can provide insight into the lack of engagement with 'shared responsibility' in Victorian legislation. This study investigates figurative language used in Victorian newspapers from 1885 to 2020 to describe three invasive plants and their management: Bathurst burr, blackberry and gorse. The figurative language reveals limited acknowledgement of humans' role in the spread of weeds and emphasis on the diverse impacts of weeds on humans. Militaristic metaphors have existed for over 130 years, but are neither the most predominant nor community-mobilising. Overall, figurative language has focused on individual efforts to control weeds, without critical analysis of the inter-relationships between humans and weeds nor having created opportunities for caring or collaborative weed management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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47. A history of education in relation to the development of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria 1900-1919, with special reference to the work of Hanns Vischer

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Graham, Sonia F.

Subjects
966.9, African History
Abstract

Mission societies provided most education in British West African dependencies in 1900. Education followed a different pattern in the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria because Lugard, short of money and men, preserved the Mohammedan emirates in the system known as Indirect Rule, Mohammedan dislike of Christianity and his own insecurity led Lugard to promise non-interference with the Mohammedan religion, a promise later used to exclude missionaries from emirates. Indirect Rule requires at least educated governing and clerical classes. Lugard disliked on principle Government-supported mission education for Mohammedans, and he feared from past experience the disruptive effect on the social fabric of African life of mission stations. Yet financial difficulties compelled his interest in Dr. Miller's (C.M.S.) Zaria Schools plan. This plan was too secular by C.M.S. standards end yet condemned by Administration for over-great religious bias. Girouard, Lugard's successor, determined on a Government Education Department as the only alternative, and he seconded Vischer - a political officer by temperament and experience sympathetic to Indirect Rule - to Education. Vischer wished to lessen the strain of the culture-clash in Northern Nigeria and to use "adapted" education as part of the evolutionary process whereby Indirect Rule would eventually give way to self-government. Slow, sure progress was made in education from 1909 to 1914, Mohammedan suspicion was lulled. Meanwhile some emirates had become Native Administrations with Treasuries, and mission expansion was considered more dangerous than ever to the political experiment. Education, religion and politics were so bound together any action resulted in a complex chain of reactions. After the amalgamation in 1914 of Northern and Southern Nigeria, the Colonial Office insisted on Vischer's education system being safeguarded in the Education Ordinance of 1916 and by subsequent legislation. On political groups this attitude was acceptable to many Residents. War checked progress. Yet the Education Department opened new schools and in its 1918 Report "adapted" education was shown to be an evolutionary process rather than a static method. From 1923 to 1939 Vischer was secretary to the Colonial Office's Advisory Council on Education, and from 1926 to 1945 to the International African Institute. He preached the doctrine of mutual enrichment through culture-clash without the disruption of either society. The ultimate choice in West Africa lay, he realized, with the African.

Published
1955

48. This group rid one Australian river of its privet problem - and strengthened community along the way.

Author

Graham, Sonia

Subjects
INTRODUCED plants, GRANT writing, WEED control
Abstract

Deua Rivercare, a community group in Australia, has been working for 20 years to control the spread of privet and other weeds along a 42-kilometer stretch of the Deua River. The group's success can be attributed to several factors, including a clear goal, collaboration with the local council, and securing funding for weed removal. Additionally, the group has emphasized social connections by organizing regular working bees and providing opportunities for residents to connect and reflect on their achievements. The removal of privet has not only had ecological benefits but has also strengthened the community, providing support during natural disasters such as bushfires and floods. The key lessons from Deua Rivercare's success include shared leadership, a clear goal, regular and strategic activities, and the importance of social connection. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2024

49. Can your community cope with rising tides?

Author

Ramm, Timothy D, White, Christopher J, Watson, Christopher S, and Graham, Sonia

Subjects
TA170
Abstract

As Texas and the Caribbean recover from the North Atlantic hurricane season, it is time for coastal communities to reflect on what makes a resilient community in the face of more frequent storm events, rising sea levels and changing coastal flooding patterns. How would you be affected? Would we fare any better in Australia?

Published
2018

50. Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management

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Graham, Sonia, Metcalf, Alexander L., Gill, Nicholas, Niemiec, Rebecca, Moreno, Carlo, Bach, Thomas, Ikutegbe, Victoria, Hallstrom, Lars, Ma, Zhao, Lubeck, Alice, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, coordination, Knowledge management, alien species, Review, Collective action, 01 natural sciences, dilema social, participation, Sanctions, Social dilemma, non‐native species, comanagement, Ecology, Participation, Agriculture, Plants, Public good, cooperación, especie invasora, Incentive, 外来物种, 非本地物种, 共同管理, 合作, 协调, 社会困境, 参与, especie no nativa, Social capital, social dilemma, Conservation of Natural Resources, Non-native species, Reviews, cooperation, Public policy, Alien species, 010603 evolutionary biology, coordinación, Animals, Ecosystem, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, business.industry, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, co‐manejo, Comanagement, 15. Life on land, Social learning, Dilemma, Cooperation, 13. Climate action, Coordination, Business, Introduced Species, participación
Abstract

Controlling invasive species presents a public‐good dilemma. Although environmental, social, and economic benefits of control accrue to society, costs are borne by only a few individuals and organizations. For decades, policy makers have used incentives and sanctions to encourage or coerce individual actors to contribute to the public good, with limited success. Diverse, subnational efforts to collectively manage invasive plants, insects, and animals provide effective alternatives to traditional command‐and‐control approaches. Despite this work, there has been little systematic evaluation of collective efforts to determine whether there are consistent principles underpinning success. We reviewed 32 studies to identify the extent to which collective‐action theories from related agricultural and environmental fields explain collaborative invasive species management approaches; describe and differentiate emergent invasive species collective‐action efforts; and provide guidance on how to enable more collaborative approaches to invasive species management. We identified 4 types of collective action aimed at invasive species—externally led, community led, comanaged, and organizational coalitions—that provide blueprints for future invasive species management. Existing collective‐action theories could explain the importance attributed to developing shared knowledge of the social‐ecological system and the need for social capital. Yet, collection action on invasive species requires different types of monitoring, sanctions, and boundary definitions. We argue that future government policies can benefit from establishing flexible boundaries that encourage social learning and enable colocated individuals and organizations to identify common goals, pool resources, and coordinate efforts., Article impact statement: Invasive species control requires collective actions that prioritize flexible boundaries and social learning over monitoring and sanctions.

Published
2018

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