Simon West
Lecturer – Resources Environment & Development Group (RE&D)
Qualifications
Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Policy Development (Charles Darwin University, 2023), Graduate Certificate in Yolngu Studies (Charles Darwin University, 2023), PhD in Sustainability Science (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 2016), MA in Environmental Law & Sustainable Development (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2011), BA in American and English Literature (University of East Anglia,2009).
Room: Crawford 3.45
Journal Articles
2023
Campion, O.B., West, S., Degnian, K., Djarrbal, M., Ignjic, E., Ramandjarri, C., Malibirr, G.W., Guwankil, M., Djigirr, P., Biridjala, F., O’Ryan, S., Austin, A. Balpara: A practical approach to working with ontological difference in Indigenous Land and Sea Management. Society & Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2199690
Caniglia, G., Freeth, R., Luederitz, C., Leventon, J., West, S., John, B., Peukert, D., Lang, D.J., von Wehrden, H., Martín-López, B., Fazey, I., Russo, F., von Wirth, T., Schlüter, M., and Vogel, C. Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01040-1
2022
Daw, T., Lindvall, D., Karlsson, M., Nasiritousi, N., Lindell, M., West, S., Snäll, T., Eggers, J., Hahn, T., and Downing, A.S. Deliberative Minipublics’ Potential for Sustainability Science and Transformation (November 21, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4283097 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4283097
West, S. and Schill, C. Negotiating the ethical-political dimensions of research methods: A key competency in mixed methods, inter- and transdisciplinary, ad co-production research. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9: 294.
2021
West, S., Haider, L.J., Stålhammar, S., and Woroniecki, S. Putting relational thinking to work in sustainability science – Reply to Raymond et al. Ecosystems and People 17(1): 108-113.
Lavery, T.H., Morgain, R., Fitzsimons, J., Fluin, J., MacGregor, N.A., Robinson, N., Scheele, B.C., Selwood, K., Spindler, R., Vuong, H., West, S., Wintle, B., and Lindenmayer, D. Impact Indicators for Biodiversity Conservation Research: Measuring Influence within and beyond Academia. BioScience, biaa159.
Riechers, M., Balázsi, Á., García-Llorente, M., Bieling, C., Burgos-Ayala, A., Chakroun, L., Mattijssen, T.J.M., Muhr, M.M., Pérez-Ramírez, I., Raatkainen, K.J., Rana, S., Richardson, M., Rosengren, L., West, S., and Loos, J. Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations. Ecosystems and People 17(1): 205-214.
2020
West, S., Haider, L.J., Stålhammar, S., and Woroniecki, S. A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations. Ecosystems and People 16(1): 304-325.
Norström, A.V., Cvitanovic, C., Löf, M.F., West, S., Wyborn, C., Balvanera, P., Bednarek, A.T., Bennett, E.M., Biggs, R., de Bremond, A., et al. Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research. Nature Sustainability 3: 182-190.
2019
West, S., van Kerkhoff, L. and Wagenaar, H. Beyond ‘linking knowledge and action’: towards a practice-based approach to transdisciplinary sustainability interventions. Policy Studies 40(5): 534-555.
West, S., Beilin, R. and Wagenaar, H. Introducing a practice perspective on adaptive management. People and Nature 1(3): 387-405.
Schultz, L., West, S., and Florencio, C. Gobernanza adaptativa en construcción: Personas, prácticas y politicas en una reserva de biosfera de la UNESCO. Revista de Geografia Norte Grande 74: 117-138.
2018
West, S., Haider, L.J., Masterson, V.A., Enqvist, J.P., Svedin, U. and Tengö, M. Stewardship, care and relational values. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 35: 1-9.
Enqvist, J.P., West, S., Masterson, V.A., Haider, L.J., Svedin, U. and Tengö, M. Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research: Linking care, knowledge and agency. Landscape and Urban Planning 179: 17-37.
Schultz, L., West, S., Juárez Bourke, A., d’Armengol, L., Torrents, P., Hardardottir, H., Jansson, A. and Mohedano Roldán, A. Learning to live with social-ecological complexity: An interpretive analysis of learning in 11 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Global Environmental Change 50: 5-87.
2016
West, S., Schultz, L. and Bekessy, S. Rethinking social barriers to effective adaptive management. Environmental Management 58(3): 399-416.
West, S., Cairns, R. and Schultz, L. What constitutes a successful biodiversity corridor? A Q-study in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Biological Conservation 198: 183-192.
Cooke, B.,** West, S.** and Boonstra, W. Dwelling in the biosphere: exploring an embodied human-environment connection in resilience thinking. Sustainability Science 11(3): 1-13.
2015
West, S. & Schultz, L. Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights: Adjudication as adaptive governance practice. Ecology and Society 20(1): 31.
Lidström, S., West, S., Katzschner, T., Pérez-Ramos, M.I. and Twidle, H. Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society. Environmental Humanities 7: 1-40.
2012
West, S. Institutionalised exclusion: the political economy of benefit sharing and intellectual property. Law, Environment and Development Journal 8(1): 19–42.
2010
West, S. Command Without Control: Are Market Mechanisms Capable of Delivering Ecological Integrity to REDD? Law, Environment and Development Journal 6(3): 298–319.
Book chapters and working papers
Accepted West, S., Boonstra, W., and Quahe, S. Theorizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Towards Decolonial Practices and Knowledge Co-production. In: Sherren, K., Thondhlana, G., and Jackson-Smith, D. Opening Windows: Emerging Perspectives, Practices and Opportunities in Natural Resource Social Sciences. Utah State University/University Press of Colorado.
2022
Tengö, M., Enqvist, J., West, S., Svedin, U., Masterson, V.A., and Haider, L.J. Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures. In: Carnell, R. and Mounsey, C. Stewardship and the Future of the Planet: Promise and Paradox. Pp. 234-251. New York & London: Routledge.
2020
Schultz, L., West, S., and Florencio, C. Adaptive governance in the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region, South Africa: People, practices, politics. In: Glückler, J., Herrigel, G., and Handke, M. Knowledge for Governance (Knowledge and Space 15). Pp. 293-318. Berlin: Springer.
2017
Beilin, R. & West, S. Performing natures: adaptive management practice in the eternally unfolding present. In: Head, L. et al., eds. Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management: Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes. Pp. 186-203. London & New York: Routledge.
2014
West, S., Haider, J., Sinare, H. and Karpouzoglou, T. Beyond Divides: Prospects for synergy between resilience and pathways approaches to sustainability. STEPS Working Paper 65. Brighton: STEPS Centre.
