Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems

Professor Claudia Baldwin, at the Sustainability Research Centre (SRC), University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) has applied social science and participatory methods to natural resources and the built environment, in teaching and research. The SRC focuses on collaborative and transdisciplinary research on social dimensions of environmental change. Prior to academia, Professor Baldwin worked in policy and planning for Queensland, Australian, and Canadian governments and international agencies.Dr Severine van Bommel is an interdisciplinary social scientist working in the field of extension and rural development in agri-food systems and is currently leader of the Rural Development Group within the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at University of Queensland. She holds a PhD from Wageningen University (NL), where she worked as Associate Professor with the Communication Studies Group until 2018. Her research and teaching focus on deliberative, participatory practices in agri-food systems. She has a track record of successful, innovative, social science research in this domain through international projects such as SLIM, LEARNing, and CADWAGO.

• Chapter 1 State of the art, trends and progress in work on the social aspects of social​-ecological systems in research and practice.- Chapter 2 Rural community development and facilitating change.- Chapter 3 Adaptation and changes in rural economic activities: A local community perspective on the role of rural infrastructure.- Chapter 4 Trends in extension in Australia.- Chapter 5 Promoting women's economic empowerment in achieving rural economic development.- Chapter 6 Getting the priorities right: stakeholders' involvement for a holistic view of research and extension needs in the Australian and Brazilian dairy industry.- Chapter 7 The role of rural community in tackling complexity of agriculture technology and extension system in china.- Chapter 8 Reflections on community development in the Asia-Pacific: a reseacher's perspective.- Chapter 9 Insights from community development for strengthening Landcare in Queensland.- Chapter 10 Community-based natural resource management, conservation and co-management.- Chapter 11 SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership: Reflections on an innovative and evolving collaboration.- Chapter 12 Building collaborative models for change : engaging indigenous people and country into in socially just conservation.- Chapter 13 Women's empowerment in a community-based tourism project.- Chapter 14 A Review of Coastal Resources Co-management in southeast Asia.- Chapter 15 Communities on Indonesian shortlines.- Chapter 16 Social aspects of resilience.- Chapter 17 Toward an integrated approach to community.- Chapter 18 Tracing the impact and contributions of the "Six Attributes of social Resilience".- Chapter 19 Understanding resilience in the mining sector.- Chapter 20 Mental models and values: application to natural resource management.