Desire lines in Brighton, UK (Hulme, 2013): people do what works for them - might as well make it easier

Desire lines in Brighton, UK (Hulme, 2013): people do what works for them – might as well make it easier

A new open access paper is out today in People & Nature led by PhD candidate Bernard Soubry. This one uses the fun metaphor of ‘desire lines’ — those behavioural grooves that facilitate common activities and help negotiate obstacles — to explore adaptation to climate change among small-scale farms in the Maritimes. They don’t fit a lot of the government programming designed for climate adaptation in larger operations, so they innovate with collective action to fill the gaps. Bernard did interviews across all three Maritime provinces to elicit these ‘grass routes’ alternatives.  Read all about it!