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Blake Ratner

Dr Blake Ratner is executive director of Collaborating for Resilience, a cross-regional initiative working to address environmental resource competition and strengthen governance and livelihood resilience in interconnected resource domains and landscapes. He also serves on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility, advising on integrated approaches to achieve global environmental benefits and enhance environmental security. Blake was previously director general of WorldFish, part of CGIAR, a global partnership for a food-secure future.

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Commentary/Collaboration without consensus

Rehabilitating degraded lands, restoring fisheries, or reducing greenhouse gas emissions all demand changes by actors at multiple scales; and power, profit, and livelihoods are at stake. Blake Ratner of Collaborating for Resilience recounts his experiences of pursuing big, systemic change when people don’t agree what the problem is, or how to solve it.