Overview
- Integrates knowledge and practice, creating useful material to advance human dignity
- Includes a coordinated but diverse array of examples, panels, and cases
- Draws from the field and problem-solving schema of policy sciences
Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 60)
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This book presents a comprehensive and actionable framework for individuals and leaders seeking to promote human dignity within healthy environments. Rooted in the policy sciences approach, it equips readers with the essential concepts, tools, and skills necessary to address indignity and unhealthy conditions collectively.
Despite international commitments and domestic laws advocating for human dignity, a glaring "human dignity gap" persists in numerous regions and problem contexts. This book sheds light on this disparity, examining its manifestations in global environmental change, development efforts, water insecurity, wildfires, human-wildlife conflict, access to public health, and much more. While existing scholarship often focuses on legal rights, the authors emphasize untapped opportunities for everyday citizens and leaders to foster human dignity within their communities and beyond.
By offering fresh perspectives, practical concepts, and exercises, this book empowers readers to bridge the performance gap, ultimately enabling the realization of human dignity from the grassroots level. It provides innovative strategies and frameworks to address this pressing global issue, making it an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and concerned citizens alike.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualizing Human Dignity, Closing the Gap
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Problem Solving Skills for Human Dignity
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Illustrating Problem Solving for Human Dignity
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Susan G. Clark is Professor Emeritus at Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, USA. She is a Fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Clark is also a fellow in the World Academy of Art and Science and Science and Policy Advisor for Frontiers in Environment and Ecology, The Ecological Society of America. Her interests include interdisciplinary problem solving, decision making, governance, policy processes, leadership, conservation biology, organization theory and management, natural resources policy, and the policy sciences. She is currently teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on natural resource policy, problem solving, and grand strategy.
Evan J. Andrews is a Senior Research Fellow with Too BIG To Ignore: A Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research (TBTI) and a postdoctoral fellow in the transnational research hub, Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI), based in the Department of Geography of Memorial University, Canada. He holds a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-2025) and is a current member of the Executive Council for the Society of Policy Scientists. His interests lie in making change by understanding social-ecological change, including in coastal and marine systems, and advancing human dignity through effective policy processes and transdisciplinary collaborations. He is co-Principal Investigator of Moving Together for Marine Conservation (2022-2026) and the co-founder and network lead of TBTI Canada.
Ana Lambert is pursuing her Ph.D. in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. Previously, she was the Latin America Program Manager for the Wildlife Conservation Society's "Illegal Wildlife Trade" program. Ana holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico y Estudios Superiores del Occidente (ITESO), Mexico. Shehas extensive academic and working experience in Latin America, the United States, Africa, and Australia, which spans the disciplines of social science, engineering, and wildlife conservation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policy Sciences and the Human Dignity Gap
Book Subtitle: Problem Solving for Citizens and Leaders
Authors: Susan G. Clark, Evan J. Andrews, Ana E. Lambert
Series Title: Natural Resource Management and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82775-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-82774-7Published: 13 March 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-82777-8Due: 27 March 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-82775-4Published: 12 March 2025
Series ISSN: 0929-127X
Series E-ISSN: 2511-8560
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 309
Topics: Public Policy, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Governance and Government