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Collaborative learning networks (CLNs) are a promising approach to fostering learning and adaptive change at multiple spatial and temporal scales, engaging individuals across organizations, disciplines, and jurisdictions. CLNs create a dynamic environment through which innovation can flow and shared capacity can grow. Our objective is to help CLN’s weave their networks, and through these partnerships identify how to design and facilitate adaptive CLNs that promote resilience.
CLNs members Prof Bruce Goldstein, Dr. Tom James, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey, Sarah Schweizer and Lee Frankel-Goldwater will be joining the CSTPR community.
Here is a little more about each of them:
Prof Bruce Goldstein
Bruce is an Associate Professor in the Program in Environmental Design and the Program in Environmental Studies. His work focuses on how planners, activists, public agency managers and other stakeholders collaborate to address daunting social-ecological challenges, such as restoring fire regimes in a densely populated wildlands-urban interface, harmonizing common-property resource management with international efforts to protect biodiversity, and of course climate change. Bruce is particularly interested in how learning networks can catalyze change in stable and durable institutions that are approaching dramatic social and ecological thresholds.
Tom James
Tom is an environmental social scientist interested in resilience, transformation, learning, and participatory action research. Tom’s research focuses on how social-ecological change is understood and manifests at multiple scales, and how processes of research can act as a capacity building tool for positive social change. Tom has particular specialisms in agroecological transitions and sustainable agriculture, and is now translating his experiences to fire adaptation and transformative learning networks.
Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey
Jeremiah is a PhD student in the programs of Environmental Design (ENVD) and Environmental Studies (ENVS). His work tends to focus on finding harmony in coupled natural-human systems and at the intersection of science and policy. His current research focuses on understanding the evolution of learning networks as they build resilience (social and ecological) and transform natural resource management policy, practices and culture.
Sarah Schweizer
Sarah is a PhD candidate researching networks and adaptive organizations using frames of organizational change, resilience, and social learning. Sarah works as Director of Programs for the International START Secretariat where she develops scientific leadership and transdisciplinary programs in Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Lee Frankel-Goldwater
Lee is an incoming PhD student with the Environmental Studies and Design programs. His recent work includes teaching at Pace University in NYC, co-leading community programs in Costa Rica, Brazil, and Israel, and an analysis of the 100 Resilient Cities Network with the Goldstein lab group. Lee’s research focuses on the genesis of shared narratives for action in multicultural collaborations and learning networks, the role of action research in social-ecological systems change, and developing new models for transformative learning in youth environmental education.
