Building resourceful and resilient communities through adaptive and transformative environmental practice

In order to become resilient in a manner sufficiently sensitive to the specifics of ‘place’ there is an urgent need to increase the capacity of all members of civil society to engage in and become more self-determining of local environmental and resource management practices.

The aim is to equip 15 ESRs with advanced knowledge, expertise and experience in how to nurture and support the co-production of resourceful and resilient community environmental practice. RECOMS will promote a re-grounding of environmental policy, and a re-aligning of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, around embedded and collaborative forms of restorative and transformative environmental resource management.

Train 15 ESRs in transdisciplinary scientific techniques (including via input of 15 Specialist Practitioner Advisors, each aligned with an ESR project) supportive of investigating the emergent nature of community-led practices of resourcefulness and resilience, including how they unfold across different social and cultural groupings in space and time. Applying a multi-method approach with a particular emphasis on participatory and creative visualisation techniques, this involves a retained sensitivity to differentiation at a local level.

ESRs will collaborate with a range of stakeholders, combining scientific and local knowledge with practice-based cycles of action and learning. Establish long-term collaborations in research and training and between science, civil society, policy, NGO’s and private stakeholders, extending beyond the lifetime of RECOMS, via follow-up projects, doctoral training courses, participation in international networks, and collaboration agreements between participants.