Carlos Tornel
“In times of civilizational collapse, the preservation of dignity can only come from below.”*
In conversations ranging from coffee shops to university classrooms, the language and notion of “civilizational collapse” is becoming increasingly common. The disaffection …
Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Natalie Holmes
Susu is a centuries-old financial system in Ghana. A type of rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), it’s one of a number of informal, collective financial institutions practiced across West Africa. For their study, …
Neema Pathak Broome and Akshay Chettri
With looming ecological calamities and the failure of the current systems and measures to conserve biodiversity, the need for alternative transformative pathways is being felt acutely and being discussed widely – alternatives to address …
Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai and Mukesh Shende
Introduction
Mainstream governance and development models – characterized by seemingly democratic but inherently centralized and top-down governance systems and extractive, commercially motivated, capitalist economic policies – have failed to achieve minimum levels …
Aaditeshwar Seth
The world faces large and intersecting challenges of environmental collapse, inequality, exploitation, health, and poverty, among others. Technologies, especially those emerging from information and communication tools (ICTs) are often projected as ideal solutions to address these challenges – …
Clem McCartney
A butterfly flaps its wings in the African jungle, and a few weeks later a hurricane results in North America. That was the image that chaos theory used in order to show that small changes can have big …
Dennis L. Avilés Irahola
“We hereby decide to build a new form of public coexistence, in diversity and in harmony with nature, to achieve the good way of living, the Sumak Kawsay…” This path breaking declaration formed a part …
Terry Leahy
Over the last fifteen years, I have focussed my research on food security projects in the rural areas of Southern and Eastern Africa, in countries previously colonized by Britain. I became aware of the situation there through contact …
Paul Robbins and Marcy West
The Kickapoo River is a slowly twisting watercourse, carved into the unglaciated landscapes of Wisconsin’s “Driftless” region, abutted by magnificent bluffs with flora and fauna handed down from the Pleistocene Epoch. But the Kickapoo’s serene …
By Neema Pathak Broome and Ashish Kothari
A decade ago, Ecuador became the first country in the world to formally include rights of nature into its constitution. Soon after, along with Bolivia, it also declared itself to be “plurinational”, an …
Emerging Judicial And Civil Society Convergence In India
(A version of this paper was presented at the 7th Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature, addressing Earth Jurisprudence and the Sustainable Development Agenda, in commemoration of the …
In a nut-shell, CELDF describes themselves as: a non-profit, public interest law firm providing free and affordable legal services to communities facing threats to their local environment, local agriculture, the local economy, and quality of life. Our mission is to …