HUman Resilience

Focusing on the Disaster Resilient Futures of Small-Scale Fisheries, the Kolleru Community Camp is engaging the participants in exploratory discussions on the topic of ‘Social-Ecological Systems and Commons Approaches for Vulnerability to Viability Transitions in India’s Kolleru Lake.’ It has initiated a creative platform to deliberate collaboratively and learn about concepts, approaches, and methods helpful to develop knowledge, skills, experience, and expertise in applying the concepts of social-ecological systems and commons to the notion of Vulnerability to Viability (V2V) transitions. The Camp follows a pedagogy that includes a creative mix of classroom teaching and field training focusing on experiential learning processes. Participants are gaining firsthand experience and creatively engaging in furthering their understanding and knowledge of commons theory and practice as they apply to transitions from vulnerability to viability in aquatic systems and with concepts and approaches that are novel, transdisciplinary, and problem-oriented in nature.

Kolleru Community Camp is V2V Global Partnership’s latest addition to the suite of field schools that promotes experiential, cross-cultural, and place-based learning as a way to engage students and early-career researchers and practitioners in exploring pathways toward viable futures coastal-marine social-ecological systems. 

Photo credit: Prateep Kumar Nayak, 2024 
Contributors: Prateep Kumar Nayak, Sisir Kanta Pradhan, Bala Nikku, 2024