I just about found some moments of soliloquy to pen my thoughts on what struck me most on the first day of the Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. My focus will be on Professor Louis Lebel’s presentation on...

Coming to grips with development that lasts has been an elusive search for humankind. While the discourse in social science has traipsed along the trajectory that saw newer ways of defining development, as sustainable development and now adaptive...