Resilience
Measuring Tomorrow
There are piles of critiques of economic indicators driving decision making, and a range of proposals for alternatives. In 2018 Eloi Laurent published “Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century”, which proposes new metrics. The book gives concrete examples of metrics and existing data sets – for those interested in […]
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New Publications (2018, Jan-Mar)
New publications from 2018: Cochrane, L, Boulanger, R. F., Sheikheldin, G. H. and Song, G. (2018) The Case for Local Ethics Oversight in International Development Research. Canadian Journal of Bioethics 1: 8-16. [from journal here] Cochrane, L. and Cafer, A. (2018) Does Diversification Enhance Community Resilience? A Critical Perspective. Resilience. [from journal here] Cochrane, L. and Rao, […]
Tags: #Ethics #Ethiopia #Gender #Research for Development #Resilience
New Publication: Does diversification enhance community resilience? A critical perspective
Cochrane, L. and Cafer, A. (2018) Does Diversification Enhance Community Resilience? A Critical Perspective. Resilience. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2017.1406849 Abstract: Resilience has become a key component of how practitioners and scholars conceptualize sustainable communities. Given sustainability’s focal role in shaping international development funding, policies and programming it is imperative that we critically engage with the concepts embedded within the […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Diversification #Ethiopia #Resilience #Sustainability
PhD Studentships: Disaster Resilience
Developing New Approaches to Community Resilience Assessment: Using technology, including web-based software, crowd-sourced data, & knowledge-based systems, as co-creative tools Resilience across all sectors of society is imperative for global efforts to reduce the adverse effects of disasters and to build a society that is change-ready and seeking opportunities for future wellbeing. Building robust pathways […]
Tags: #Co-create #Crowdsourced #Disasters #Resilience #Technology
Post-doc: Social Innovation
University of Waterloo – Institute for Social Innovation and Resiliance One year fulltime postdoctoral fellowship: $50,000 annual salary, office and administrative support provided Supervision by Frances Westley, McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, and Dan McCarthy, Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) The University of Waterloo’s Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience […]
Tags: #Complexity #Post-doc #Resilience #Social Innovation #Transformation
African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Award
African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Awards (hereafter ACCER Awards) is Africa’s premier environmental and climate change reporting program, run and founded by the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) in 2013. Over a period of 7 weeks, (8th March – 26th April 2016) journalists and other media practitioners from across Africa submit entries which […]
Tags: #African Reporting Award #Award #Climate change #Environmental Reporting #Resilience
Links I Liked
More Wealth, More Inequality (Guardian) On book reviewing (from John Toye): What did I learn from book reviewing? For a start, I learned how important it was to keep abreast of the latest literature. Instead of relying on inevitably dated student reading lists, book reviewing brought me the excitement of exploring the cutting edge of […]
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Links I Liked
Can You Win a War on Facebook? (Burundi) Jimmy Carter on US Democracy Discussion on food security, the article is interesting, I recommend browsing the comments Literature Scan of Resilience (ODI)
Tags: #Democracy #Facebook #Food Security #Links #Resilience
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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