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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Jul 30

#SciencePolicy #Care #Knowledge #Biodiversity #BPBES #Brazil #EnvironmentalGovernance #STS #PhDResearch #AcademicPublishing #EnvironmentalScience&PolicyJournal #EnvironmentalScience&Policy

Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Jul 30

Let’s rethink how we relate knowledge, care, and policy relevance.
Can we build science-policy interfaces that are more plural, reflective, and just?

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Jul 30

I am grateful for the excellent collaboration with my co-authors:
Giulia De Fusco, @davidludwig.bsky.social , @charbelelhani.bsky.social , @estherturnhout.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone at @bpbes.bsky.social who shared their time and knowledge with us.

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Jul 30

We investigate this through the case of BPBES and its Summaries for Decision-Makers. Our analysis shows that care shapes the content, process, and impact of BPBES assessments — but it's often constrained by dominant, linear models of the science-policy interface.

Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Jul 30

Can knowledge for decision-making be both policy-relevant and caring?
Can it be attentive not only to scientific credibility, but also to people, more-than-human beings, and the messy realities of biodiversity governance?

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌀 I am excited to share our just-published article in Environmental Science & Policy:
“Caring policy-relevant knowledge? The case of the Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES)”
Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Caring policy-relevant knowledge? The case of the Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Science-policy interfaces like the Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES) aim to provide policy-relevant knowledge that gu…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · May 22

Next step: I’ll use the award to travel to Brazil to deliver the book in person, to listen and give thanks.
A small gesture toward a world where babassu breakers and mother palm trees can thrive. 🌴💚
#CareNarratives #GeoforumAward #MIQCB #FeministGeographies #Geoforum

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · May 22

In response to the MIQCB’s call to return shared knowledge, I’m creating a retribution book—a collaborative return of the research in their voices. It’s supported by the GEOS project (NWO Vidi grant, led by
@davidludwig.bsky.social).

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · May 22

This paper is a result of collective care, knowledge, and resistance. I owe deep thanks to the Interstate Movement of Babassu Breakers (MIQCB), my co-authors Prof. Carmen Lucia Lima, @estherturnhout.bsky.social, and everyone who supported this work.

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · May 22

🌴 Grateful to share that I’ve been selected as one of the winners of the Geoforum 2024 Best Student Paper Award for my article:
“Care narratives: Babassu breakers and mother palm trees”
🔗 Read: lnkd.in/d9U7rCYs
🔗 Award announcement: lnkd.in/dSv9mm63

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · May 22

Next step: I’ll use the award to travel to Brazil to deliver the book in person, to listen and give thanks.
A small gesture toward a world where babassu breakers and mother palm trees can thrive. 🌴💚
#CareNarratives #GeoforumAward #MIQCB #FeministGeographies #Geoforum

Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · May 22

In response to the MIQCB’s call to return shared knowledge, I’m creating a retribution book—a collaborative return of the research in their voices. It’s supported by the GEOS project (NWO Vidi grant, led by @davidludwig.bsky.social).

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · May 22

This paper is a result of collective care, knowledge, and resistance. I owe deep thanks to the Interstate Movement of Babassu Breakers (MIQCB), my co-authors Prof. Carmen Lucia Lima, @estherturnhout.bsky.social, and everyone who supported this work.

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 16

The article is now available and open access at @geoopenaccess.bsky.social . Thanks for the attentive work of the editor and the reviewer

Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 16

Amazing!! Looking forward to reading it!

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

#Conservation #MoreThanHumanCare #GlobalSouth #Biodiversity #care

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

We conclude by reflecting on how more-than-human care can illuminate the invisible, while critically examining its role in fieldwork practices, theoretical insights, and biodiversity conservation.

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

We highlight 4 key dimensions:
1️⃣ Care as vital & everyday
2️⃣ Human-nonhuman relationality
3️⃣ Interspecies reciprocity
4️⃣ Flourishing for as many as possible

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

We connect feminist care ethics, post-humanist thinking, & local knowledge & practices of care. By engaging with humans & non-humans, we investigate care’s role in transformative biodiversity conservation. 🌿

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

🐠🛶🦀 Thrilled to share my new article in collaboration with new @davidludwig.bsky.social & @charbelelhani.bsky.social about the conceptual potential of more-than-human care in Siribinha, a fishing village in Brazil. 🌴 Read it here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The conceptual potential of ‘more‐than‐human care’: A reflection with an artisanal fishing village in Brazil

This article investigates the conceptual potential of more-than-human care as a transformative framework for biodiversity conservation; interplaying feminist and post-humanist care debates with empir...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

We conclude by reflecting on how more-than-human care can illuminate the invisible, while critically examining its role in fieldwork practices, theoretical insights, and biodiversity conservation.

Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

We highlight 4 key dimensions:
1️⃣ Care as vital & everyday
2️⃣ Human-nonhuman relationality
3️⃣ Interspecies reciprocity
4️⃣ Flourishing for as many as possible

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Dec 11

We connect feminist care ethics, post-humanist thinking, & local knowledge & practices of care. By engaging with humans & non-humans, we investigate care’s role in transformative biodiversity conservation. 🌿

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Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Oct 1

- Feminist care theory offers valuable perspectives for understanding the politics of conflict, existence, and resistance.

Adriana Ressiore @aressiorec.bsky.social · Oct 1

Here are some key insights:
- Care practices and narratives can resist the homogenizing effects of development.
- Interspecies relationships and care are crucial to maintaining radical hope in social movements.

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