This is the fifth episode in our future fisheries management series, which we are running in collaboration with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh.

Today’s guest, Kerrlene Wills, participated in the negotiation process for the 2022 World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on fishing subsidies as a representative of the nation of Guayana, and has written about the resulting agreement. This is primarily aimed towards curbing subsidies for what is known as illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. It also tried curb the fishing of over-depleted populations, and vessels fishing on the unregulated high seas. A point that Kerrlene makes is that not all subsidies are the same, and therefore should not be subject to the same rules and constraints. The main category that Kerrlene highlights are subsidies that developing countries give to small-scale fishers, which are important for local livelihoods and which don’t necessarily lead to overfishing through overcaptilazition.

Kerrlene is currently the director of Ocean and Climate at the UN Foundation, and she discusses her current work with Michael, in which she is involved in efforts to decarbonize the global transportation industry trough some type of pricing mechanism along the lines of a carbon tax or a cap and trade scheme.

Resources:

Kerrlene’s website at the UN Foundation: https://unfoundation.org/author/kerrlene-wills/

Kerrlene’s article on fisheries subsidies: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4607279

WTO agreement on fisheries webpage: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/rulesneg_e/fish_e/fish_e.htm

Guardian piece about the WTO agreement: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/21/first-wto-deal-on-fishing-subsidies-hailed-as-historic-despite-big-holes

In this episode, Michael speaks with Alex Smalley, an expert in Environmental Psychology and researcher at the University of Exeter. Alex’s research program explores, in his words, “the cognitive and emotional impacts of virtual encounters with the natural world”. He has collaborated extensively with the BBC in the UK, including in the creation of a wonderful podcast entitled “The Healing Power of Nature”.

An important take-away from Alex’s work is that virtual experiences with nature can have a positive impact on our well-being, and that this effect is stronger for those with previous experiences with the natural environment itself. This undelies another important lesson, that virtual experiences in nature should be seen as an important complement of but not a substitute for the real world. But with many of us spending most of our time indoors, such a complement can prove to be very important, as Alex explains during the interview.

 

References:

Alex’s website: https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?web_id=Alexander_Smalley

Audible podcast: https://www.audible.com/podcast/The-Healing-Power-of-Nature/B0CLW481KM

Smalley, Alexander J., Mathew P. White, Rebecca Ripley, Timothy X. Atack, Eliza Lomas, Mike Sharples, Peter A. Coates, et al. 2022. “Forest 404: Using a BBC Drama Series to Explore the Impact of Nature’s Changing Soundscapes on Human Wellbeing and Behavior.” Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions 74 (May): 102497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102497.

Smalley, Alexander J., Mathew P. White, Rebecca Sandiford, Nainita Desai, Chris Watson, Nick Smalley, Janet Tuppen, Laura Sakka, and Lora E. Fleming. 2023. “Soundscapes, Music, and Memories: Exploring the Factors That Influence Emotional Responses to Virtual Nature Content.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 89 (August): 102060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102060.

In our final episode of 2023, Michael speaks with the editors of the International Journal of the Commons, which In Common has worked with for the past few years, producing podcast episodes based on articles published there.

Today’s guests are Frank van Laerhoven, Associate Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Mike Schoon, Associate Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Ramon y Cajal Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology in Barcelona, Spain, and the journal's new editor-in-chief, Maria Claudia lopez, Associate Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University.

Michael and the IJC editors talk about the journal and its role in the commons research community, and how the editors think about issues such as journal impact factor, one of many metrics that seem to be exerting more and more influence over our professional lives and affecting how we think about ourselves individually and collectively. Frank describes his view of the journal as a means for community development, applying the same principles of the commons and commoning that many in the commons community use in their research activities. This is also how we view the role of the In Common Podcast. Thank you for listening to us this year. Feel free to reach out with feedback and suggestions for what you like like to hear moving forward. See you in 2024!

In this episode, Michael and Stefan spoke with Arun Agrawal, the Samuel Trask Dana Professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Arun has played an important role in the development of the Commons field and the study of the related subjects of conservation and development. They talked about Arun's path to an academic career, his thoughts about the history and current developments of the study of the Commons, and his thoughts on the categories and dichotomies that structure so much of our thinking in this field. They also talked about Arun's professional roles, including being editor-in-chief of World Development and the director of the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) program.

Arun's website: http://www.arunagrawal.org/

References:

Agrawal, Arun. 2005. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Ferraro, Paul J., and Arun Agrawal. 2021. “Synthesizing Evidence in Sustainability Science through Harmonized Experiments: Community Monitoring in Common Pool Resources.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (29). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106489118.

In this episode, Michael spoke with Courtney Carothers, a professor in the college of Fisheries and Oceans at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. They discussed Courtney’s work on "catch share", or individual transferable quota policies in fisheries, indigenous fisheries management systems, and the negative impacts that catch shares have often had on indigenous fishers. Catch shares are a dominant panacea being employed by the U.S. government to manage our shared fisheries resources, and a important critique of them discussed during the interview is the ways in which they prioritize efficiency and profit, lead to rights consolidation, and alienate local users from their traditional livelihoods. Courtney framed this process as being a symptomatic component of the broader processes of forced integration and colonization that has occurred in the U.S. and Canada. They also talked about how collaborative relationships can be built for transdisciplinary work. References:

Carothers, Courtney, and Catherine Chambers. 2012. “Fisheries Privatization and the Remaking of Fishery Systems.” Environment and Society 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2012.030104.

Donkersloot, Rachel, and Courtney Carothers. 2017. “Chapter 12 - Beyond Privatization: Rethinking Fisheries Stewardship and Conservation in the North Pacific.” In Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean, edited by Phillip S. Levin and Melissa R. Poe, 253–70. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805375-1.00012-X.

Voo, Lee van der. 2016. The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate. St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

 

Media:

Talk by Dr. Leroy Little Bear on Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJSJ28eEUjI  

Talks and videos posted by Dr. Seth Macinko: http://sethmacinko.com/videos

Talk by Courtney that provides more depth on some of her ITQ research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_2qlfDngO4  

Talk by Jessica Black, Courtney Carothers, and Janessa Esquible on Indigenizing Fisheries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=448tr90KUWQ

Planet Money episode that Michael mentions: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/04/454698093/episode-661-the-less-deadly-catch Other links:

Survival denied report that Courtney mentions: http://allianceforajustsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Survival-Denied2.pdf

https://www.tamamta.org/

https://www.uaf.edu/ankn/publications/collective-works-of-angay/

https://oceans.ubc.ca/centre-for-indigenous-fisheries/

https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/

In this episode, Stefan interviews Guido Caniglia.

Guido is the Scientific Director of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Austria. Guido’s work aims to shape epistemological and theoretical frameworks that contribute to ongoing scientific developments. Guido has worked in different scientific fields, from evolutionary-developmental biology to sustainability science and higher education for sustainable development. In his research, Guido studies how experimental and theoretical practices contribute to produce evidence and knowledge about complex phenomena of transformation, from evolutionary transitions in the history of life (e.g. the evolution of social behaviors) to purposeful transformations towards sustainability in our contemporary world (e.g. socio-ecological and socio-technical innovations).

Guido previously held a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellowship in the Faculty of Sustainability at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Florence (Italy) in 2010 while working in different academic communities mostly in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. In January 2016 Guido obtained a second PhD, this time in Biology, from the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University (USA). From 2011 to January 2016 he also worked as Post-Doctoral researcher and project manager for the Global Classroom Project, a transnational partnership between Arizona State University and Leuphana University engaging in curriculum reform for higher education for sustainable development.

We talk about how to improve collaborative processes in science, and how to learn to collaborate while collaborating. We also discuss his perspectives on the types of knowledge needed to foster sustainability transformations, and how that knowledge would be best produced, also his perspectives on radical pluralism.

Guido’s Institute page

https://www.kli.ac.at/en/people/kli_team/view/244

 

KLI homepage

https://www.kli.ac.at/en

 

Guido’s Google Scholar profile

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=NQUM-sMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

 

Freeth and Caniglia (2020) - Learning to collaborate while collaborating

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-019-00701-z

 

Caniglia, G., C. Luederitz, T. von Wirth, I. Fazey, B. Martín-López, K. Hondrila, A. König, H. von Wehrden, N. A. Schäpke, M. Laubichler, D. Lang, and D. J. Abson. 2020. A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability. Nature Sustainability.

 

Guido’s Twitter

https://twitter.com/guidocaniglia?lang=en

In this episode, Michael spoke with Derek Kauneckis, an associate professor at the Desert Research institute in Nevada. Derek spoke with Michael about his work on the waste commons as well as technological innovation, particularly with respect to water management. Throughout the program, Derek discussed the relevance of the commons literature in studying the complex, hyper-managed systems that he studies.

Derek's website: https://www.dri.edu/directory/derek-kauneckis/

In this episode, Hita, Maria and Dane were joined by Malini Ranganathan, the Faculty Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center and an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. We talked about her journey towards interdisciplinary research, and then discussed how aspects of positionality--like gender and race--influences interdisciplinary research. We ended by hearing about her epic fails.

 

Malini’s website: https://www.maliniranga.com/ 

 

References

Caldeira TP. Peripheral urbanization: Autoconstruction, transversal logics, and politics in cities of the global south. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2017;35(1):3-20. doi:10.1177/0263775816658479

Said, Edward W. Culture and imperialism. Vintage, 2012.

Fraser, Nancy. "What's critical about critical theory? The case of Habermas and gender." New German critique 35 (1985): 97-131.

In this episode Michael spoke with Hillary Angelo, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hillary is an historical sociologist who focuses on the relationship between the environment and large-scale transformations in urban contexts. They discussed Hillary's recent book "How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens."

Hillary's website: http://www.hillaryangelo.com/

Video that Michael mentions in the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txg-bPHZBV4&t=2698s

In this episode, Hita, Maria and Dane were joined by Georgina Cundill Kemp, Senior Program Specialist at the ‎International Development Research Centre in Canada, and Praneeta Mudaliar, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Science at Ithaca College. We talked about their journeys towards interdisciplinary research, then discussed building interdisciplinary collaborations and the role of trust in collaborative research. We ended by hearing about their epic fails.

Georgina’s website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YlMUPQIAAAAJ&hl 

Praneeta’s website: https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/pmudliar

In this episode, Hita, Maria and Dane were joined by Nanda Wijermans, a Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. We talked about Nanda’s journey towards interdisciplinary research, and then discussed the unique opportunities and challenges of working in an interdisciplinary environment, and how to design effective interdisciplinary environments. We ended by hearing about an epic fail.

 

Nanda’s website: https://www.nandawijermans.nl/ 

 

Dane’s website:

https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/dane-whittaker/

In this episode of the Navigating Interdisciplinarity series, Hita, Maria and Dane  were joined by Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism at the Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield; and Jennifer Vanos, Professor of Climate at Health at the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. We talked about Jenni’s and Vanesa’s journey towards interdisciplinary research, and the idea of interdisciplinarity as an interplay of disciplinary institutions. We also touched upon balancing our passion for research with strategizing for career advancement, and ended with our guests sharing some of their epic fails in their academic journey.

 

Vanesa’s website: https://urbaninstitute.group.shef.ac.uk/who-we-are/prof-vanesa-castan-broto/

 

Jenni’s website:

https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/jennifer-vanos/

 

Dane’s website:

https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/dane-whittaker/ 

 

References: Castán Broto, Vanesa, Maya Gislason, and Melf-Hinrich Ehlers. 2009. “Practising Interdisciplinarity in the Interplay between Disciplines: Experiences of Established Researchers.” Environmental Science & Policy 12 (7): 922–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2009.04.005.

Vanos, Jennifer K., Ariane Middel, Michelle N. Poletti, and Nancy J. Selover. 2018. “Evaluating the Impact of Solar Radiation on Pediatric Heat Balance within Enclosed, Hot Vehicles.” Temperature (Austin, Tex.) 5 (3): 276–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2018.1468205.

 

We also spoke about these other books and lectures

1. Bogaard, Paul, ed. Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead: Philosophical Presuppositions of Science, 1924-1925. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
2. Kuhn, Thomas S. The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago press, 2012.
3. Halberstam, Judith, and Jack Halberstam. The queer art of failure. Duke University Press, 2011.
4. Vatn, Arild. Institutions and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.

This episode is the first of a six-episode miniseries we are hosting from the new Navigating Interdisciplinarity Podcast, produced by the Early Career Network of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC-ECN).

Series hosts: Hita Unnikrishnan and Maria Gerullis

Facilitators: Dane Whittaker and Nusrat Molla

In the Navigating Interdisciplinarity Series the hosts will discuss challenges faced and opportunities provided by engaging in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work, particularly from the perspective of early career researchers.

In this episode, Hita and Maria together with Dane Whittaker, PhD Student in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, were joined by Svenja Hippel, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wuerzburg and Juan Nicolas Hernandez, an Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University. We talked about Svenja and Nico’s journey towards interdisciplinary research, and then discussed building your research profile for the job market and how to answer the question “where do I fit?” We ended by hearing about some epic fails.

Svenja’s website: https://sites.google.com/view/svenjahippel

Nico’s website: https://www.jnicoha.com/ 

Dane’s website: https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/dane-whittaker/ 

Papers

Hernandez-Aguilera, J.N., Anderson, W., Bridges, A.L. et al. Supporting interdisciplinary careers for sustainability. Nat Sustain 4, 374–375 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00679-y

Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera. Coffee, hummus, and sustainability: What is the future of our careers? Supporting interdisciplinary career paths to solve sustainability crises. https://sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/coffee-hummus-and-sustainability-what-is-the-future-of-our-careers-supporting-interdisciplinary-career-paths-to-solve-sustainability-crises?channel_id=behind-the-paper

 

In this episode, Michael speaks with Billie Turner II, Regents Professor at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Billie holds other positions as well, including Distinguished Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, also at Arizona State, member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Billie is a geographer and human-environmental scientist who studies land use and land cover change from prehistory to the present, and he has also contributed to our understanding of the determinants of social vulnerability and resilience. He works on deforestation, primarily in Mexico and Central America, and urban design in arid environments, especially the American Southwest. Michael and Billie talk about two topics that Billie has written on, one being the reasons for the decline of a lowland Maya population around the years 800 to 1000, and the other being a long-standing debate between Thomas Malthus, who predicted that exponential population growth would inevitably outstrip linear growth in resources, and Esther Boserup, who argued that population-induced scarcity would motivate the necessary innovations to avoid systematic decline. The interview concludes with a discussion of the book that Billie recently wrote, entitled: The Anthropocene, 101 Questions and Answers for Understanding the Human Impact on the Global Environment.

References: Turner, B. L., and Jeremy A. Sabloff. 2012. “Classic Period Collapse of the Central Maya Lowlands: Insights about Human–environment Relationships for Sustainability.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (35): 13908–14. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210106109. Turner, B. L., and A. M. Ali. 1996. “Induced Intensification: Agricultural Change in Bangladesh with Implications for Malthus and Boserup.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 93 (25): 14984–91. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.25.14984. Turner, B. L. 2022. The Anthropocene: 101 Questions and Answers for Understanding the Human Impact on the Global Environment. Agenda Publishing.

In this episode, Stefan spoke with Graeme Cumming.  Graeme is a Professor at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia and the Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Graeme has a wide range of interests centering around understanding spatial aspects of ecology and the relevance of scale in ecosystem and social-ecological system function and resilience. He is also interested in the applications of landscape ecology and complexity theory to conservation and the sustainable management of natural resources. 

In the conversation, they discuss his extensive international experience, and the topics he has focused on throughout his career, including his upbringing in Zimbabwe. We discuss how theory is often lacking in applied research, and how building theory, particularly at the relevant scales, is an important challenge in his research program. We close the interview with his vision for examining what is beyond resilience, and the theoretical ideas he is interested in over the coming years.

Link to Post-Ostrom agenda paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1877343520300129

Link to scale mismatch on GBR paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332220303511

University page

https://www.coralcoe.org.au/person/gscumming

Google Scholar page

 

 

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In this episode Michael spoke with Sara Meerow, an assistant professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Sara is an interdisciplinary social-ecological systems scientist who focuses on urban geography and planning. Sara spoke with Michael about her work on the concept of urban resilience and on multifunctional green infrastructure projects, and the ways in which such projects often favor biophysical interventions to deal with stormwater-related sewage overflows, rather than broader environmental and social issues such as heat and pollution.

Sara's website: https://sgsup.asu.edu/sara-meerow

References:

Meerow, Sara, and Joshua P. Newell. 2019. “Urban Resilience for Whom, What, When, Where, and Why?” Urban Geography 40 (3): 309–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1206395.

Meerow, Sara. 2020. “The Politics of Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Planning in New York City.” Cities  100 (May): 102621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102621.

In this episode, Divya and Michael interview Tomas Koontz and Praneeta Mudaliar. Tomas Koontz is a Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington. Praneeta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at the Ithaca College. Tom was Divya's Ph.D. advisor, and Praneeta was her Ph.D. cohort, so doing this episode was also like a virtual reunion and served as an opportunity for Praneeta and Divya to reminisce and reflect on their journeys of navigating graduate school as international students in the United States, and Tom shared his experience of working with and mentoring international students.

 

Both Tom and Praneeta discussed their case studies on using polycentricity as a lens to study fisheries management in Lake Victoria (Praneeta) and collaborative governance of the socio-ecological systems in Puget Sound (Tom). Praneeta elaborated on how she used the concept of polycentricity to examine power dynamics in multi-level and multi-actor interactions in lake fisheries governance. Tom shared how the lens of polycentricity enabled him to examine multi-stakeholder collaboration in decision-making and collaborative governance among stakeholders across different scales. Together, both Tom and Praneeta reflected on ways science and scientific theories can inform practitioners in their decision-making process.

 

 

Praneeta's website: https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/pmudliar

Tom's website: https://directory.tacoma.uw.edu/employee/koontz31

 

References:

1. Mudaliar, P. (2020). Polycentric to monocentric governance: Power dynamics in Lake Victoria's fisheries. Environmental Policy and Governance.

2. Mudaliar, P., & O'Brien, L. (2021). Crowding-out lower-level authorities: Interactions and transformations of higher and lower-level authorities in Kenya's polycentric fisheries. Environmental Science & Policy, 118, 27-35.

3. Koontz, T. M. (2021). Science and scale mismatch: Horizontal and vertical information sharing in the Puget Sound polycentric governance system. Journal of Environmental Management, 290, 112600.

4. Koontz, T. M. (2019). Cooperation in polycentric governance systems. Governing complexity: Analyzing and applying polycentricity, 115-132.

In this Commoning episode, Courtney speaks to Edella Schlager, Tomás Olivier, and Ruth Meinzen Dick on the Water Commons. Edella, Tomás and Ruth were part of the organizing team for the IASC 2021 Virtual Water Commons conference held in May. Edella Schlager is the Director of the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Tomás Olivier is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. Finally, Ruth Meinzen Dick is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. In this conversation, we run the gamut on water commons, discussing Ruth, Tomás and Edella's take on the state of water commons research, core canonical topics, such as collective action in governance of water that remains of top relevance today, and new directions, such as the need for greater theorizing on complexity and coordination around collective action in water commons. We also get some insights from the field, drawing on Edella and Tomás research linking institutions and behavior in the New York City watershed, Tomás insights from work in Argentina and Ruth's recent work on irrigation games for social learning in India.   You can find more about the Water commons Conference and other IASC events on their website: https://iasc-commons.org/    Here are a couple of the publications that we reference in the conversation: Ruth Meinzen-Dick's paper on property rights and collective action in irrigation : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377414000894 Edella Schlager and Tomás Olivier's paper on integrating institutional analysis and behavior: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/psj.12429?casa_token=qby9ACV3S74AAAAA:XyZjtK25Sat87uRHnJ3Uctwl3wVNrFLdN50vCAlkwgWlkCGg2IDCouQ8yp3C3UH_vxYREuUAkG0I   For more information about our guests, you can check out their webpages: Ruth Meinzen-Dick: https://www.ifpri.org/profile/ruth-meinzen-dick Tomás Olivier: https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/public-administration/people/olivier/ Edella Schlager: https://sgpp.arizona.edu/people/edella-schlager

In this episode Michael is joined by a guest host, Karen Bieluch, a colleague of his at Dartmouth College. Karen led a conversation with her friend and colleague, Bridie McGreavy. Bridie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine, Orono. During the interview, Karen asked Bridie about her work studying the shellfish fisheries in Maine, with a focus on the ways in which communication affects collaborative freshwater conversation efforts.

Bridie's website: https://bmcgreavy.org/

Also check out: The Mudflat, a collaborative website of the Maine Shellfish Learning Network

Michael and Courtney interviewed Nicola Ulibarri, an assistant professor in the department of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Irvine.  We talked about Nicola's work on collaborative governance and water management plans in the Central valley of California, where Nicola has been studying the ability of a variety of such plans to address climate change and social equity. We also highlighted one of the best figures we've seen depicting a groundwater-based social-ecological system! This is from the first reference listed below.

 

Nicola's website: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ulibarri/

 

References mentioned:

Ulibarri, Nicola, and Nataly Escobedo Garcia. 2020. “Comparing Complexity in Watershed Governance: The Case of California.” WATER 12 (3): 766. Ulibarri, Nicola, Nataly Escobedo Garcia, Rebecca L. Nelson, Amanda E. Cravens, and Ryan J. McCarty. 2021. “Assessing the Feasibility of Managed Aquifer Recharge in California.” Water Resources Research 57 (3).

In this episode, Michael is joined by a new co-host of the podcast, Divya Gupta, to interview Forrest Fleischman, their friend and colleague currently working as a professor of forest resources at the University of Minnesota. Forrest talked to Michael and Divya about the two years he spent in India studying forest governance, his examination of joint forest management programs there, and his discovery that such projects seem to have often focused more on simplified metrics around tree planting and plantations than engaging with local communities. He also discussed his empirical examination of the policy known as forest landscape restoration, a supposedly transformative approach that generates win-wins for all involved. Forrest has become an important voice in this space, raising doubts about the ability of projects oriented primarily around tree plantings to solve local to global environmental issues.

Forrest's website: https://forestry.umn.edu/people/forrest-fleischman

References:

Fleischman, F. 2014. Why do Foresters Plant Trees? Testing Theories of Bureaucratic Decision-Making in Central India. World Development 62: 62-74.   Fleischman, F. et al. 2018. Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions. BioScience 70(11): 947–950.   Veldman, J.W. et al. 2019. Comment on The global tree restoration potential. Science 366 (6463).

Maria Claudia Lopez and Frank van Laerhoven are speaking with Beril Ocaklı.

Beril co-authored a recent contribution to the International Journal of the Commons titled ‘Shades of Conflict in Kyrgyzstan: National Actor Perceptions and Behaviour in Mining’ with her colleagues Tobias Krueger and Jörg Niewöhner.

The episode starts with the proper pronunciation of Beril’s name, and wraps up with reflections on the importance of diversity in approaching the commons and commons scholarship. In between, the discussion gears around the article – the prequel, its message, and the sequel.

Beril Ocaklı is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys. She holds a BA in International Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest (2006) and a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) (2007). She has a track record of leading international transdisciplinary cooperation projects on behalf of the German Federal Government, EU and other multinational organizations in resource governance in Eurasia.

• To find more details on Beril and her work, her profile page at IRI THESys is a good place to start;
• To get a taste of some of Beril’s unsalted opinions we suggest you look her up on Twitter;
• To hear Beril talk some more about the topic of gold mining in Kyrgyzstan go to The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT) Podcast Talk March 2021 and the Voices on Central Asia for her recent interview on politics of gold mining.

 

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Stefan Partelow speaks with Elke Kellner and Andreas Thiel on topics related to polycentricity, linked to the upcoming International Association for the Study of the Commons virtual conference on Polycentricity May 17-19, 2021. You can find more information about the conference and other IASC events on their website iasc-commons.org/.

Polycentricity conference:

https://2021polycentricity.iasc-commons.org/

Elke Kellner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland.

https://www.wsl.ch/en/employees/kellner.html

Andreas Thiel is a professor of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance at the University of Kassel in Germany.

https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb11agrar/fachgebiete-/-einrichtungen/internationale-agrarpolitik-und-umweltgovernance/team/prof-dr-andreas-thiel

 

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In today’s episode, Courtney and Stefan are speaking with Kimberley Peters.

Kim is a Professor Marine Governance at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), a research organisation in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and University of Oldenburg (UOL), in Germany.

As a human geographer, she is interested in the social, cultural and political workings of the world around us. Her research group seeks to explore how governance does not just happen anywhere, but somewhere, and is shaped by spatial processes. Her work investigates how the geography of what we seek to govern, or do govern, is shaped by location, the character and qualities of place and relations with surrounding spaces.

In the episode, she reflects on how geography has dealt with and is influenced by its historical legacy, and how much of the current perspectives in human geography are critical because of that history. We also discuss her relationship to teaching and her students, working in an interdisciplinary institute, leaving your disciplinary comfort zone, and the research topics she is currently pursuing.

Kim has provided a list of references below regarding the history of geography for further information, as she notes that her perspectives are only one of many and not fully comprehensive. She encourages listeners to read the pieces below:

For a good overview of the history and 'turns' of geography see: Cresswell T (2013) Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford

On geography's relation with colonial and imperial practice: Driver F (1993) Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford.

On geography's relation with 20th Century German geopolitics: Klinke, I., & Bassin, M. (2018). Introduction: Lebensraum and its discontents. Journal of Historical Geography, 61, 53-58.

On closing Geography departments: Sacks B (2015) What happened to the American geography department?​ Geography Directions (online): https://blog.geographydirections.com/2015/04/08/what-happened-to-the-american-geography-department/ 

On decolonialism and geography: Esson, J., Noxolo, P., Baxter, R., Daley, P., & Byron, M. (2017). The 2017 RGS‐IBG chair's theme: Decolonising geographical knowledges, or reproducing coloniality?. Area, 49(3), 384-388

 

https://kimberleypeters.com/

Your Human Geography Dissertation:

https://study.sagepub.com/yourhumangeography

Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity:

https://hifmb.de/

Kim's Twitter

https://twitter.com/drkimpeters?lang=en

 

 

In this episode, Michael speaks with Victoria Bikowski, a PhD student in the Department of Politics at York University in Toronto, Canada, and a consultant for Suslop Incorporated, a consulting firm that specializes in sustainability and community development. The conversation primarily focuses on the main topic of Victoria’s PhD dissertation: the duty to consult, or the obligation held by provincial governments and the Federal Canadian Government to consult with indigenous peoples about the potential consequences of government-supported projects, such as natural resource development. Victoria’s primary question that she is addressing is about the effects that consultation processes have on the uncertainties that each of the groups involved faces. Victoria also talks about her role as a consultant for Suslop Incorporated, and how she navigates her dual role as an academic and a practitioner.

In today’s commoning episode we are talking about the Urban Commons in advance of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) virtual conference on this topic, which is happening May 6-8: https://2021urban.iasc-commons.org/

Michael spoke with three of the organizers of this conference: Hita Unnikrishnan from the University of Sheffield, Rimjhim Aggarwal from Arizona State University, and Harini Nagendra from Azim Premji University. 

In today’s commoning episode we are talking about topics related to commoning and the Anthropocene, in advance of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) virtual conference on Commoning the Anthropocene. To do this, Stefan Partelow is talking with two organizers of the conference, Therese Lindahl and Jean-Denis Mathias, about the topics and organization of the conference as well as their own research, and of course interdisciplinarity and science cooperation.

https://2021anthropocene.iasc-commons.org/

Therese Lindahl is the program director for behavior, economics, and nature and the Beijer institute of ecological economics in Stockholm Sweden. She conducts research on collective action problems around shared natural resources, and investigates how local resource users perceive and respond to the increasingly challenging resource conditions that they are confronted with. 

https://beijer.kva.se/people-beijer/therese-lindahl/

https://beijer.kva.se/programmes/ben/

 

Jean-Denis Mathias is research director at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment in  Clermont-Ferrand, France, and is part of the Complex System lab.

He has a background in physics and mechanics of material, and his current research deals with the dynamical modeling of social-ecological systems  such as agent-based models and differential equations. Specifically, this work aims to understand the sustainable management and transitions of these systems for short-term and long-term benefits.

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In this episode Michael spoke with Natalie Ban, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Natalie spoke with Michael about her work with coastal indigenous communities in British Columbia, and the importance she places on engaging with her local partners in the right way, without imposing her own research questions or hypotheses, looking for windows of opportunity for her work, and trying to make sure that her work has local value. Natalie also described a distinction between two fundamentally different ways of viewing natural resource use: one that views use as extractive and detrimental, and the other which combines use with stewardship, as the indigenous communities that Natalie works with do.

Natalie's website: https://natalieban.wordpress.com/ Relevant articles by Natalie: Ban, N. C., E. Wilson, and D. Neasloss. 2020. Historical and contemporary indigenous marine conservation strategies in the North Pacific. Conservation biology: the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology 34(1):5–14.

Ban, N., E. Wilson, and D. Neasloss. 2019. Strong historical and ongoing indigenous marine governance in the northeast Pacific Ocean: a case study of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation. Ecology and Society 24(4):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11091-240410

Frank van Laerhoven and Stefan Partelow are speaking with Karen Bradshaw. Karen was a recent guest editor in a special issue of the International Journal of the Commons titled ‘Overlapping Resources and Mismatched Property Rights’ with her colleagues Billy Christmas and Dean Lueck. The special issue features 9 articles including and editorial led by guest editors.

https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.5334/ijc.1070/

Karen Bradshaw is a Professor at Arizona State University in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and holds a joint position as a Senior Sustainability Scientist in Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. She researches governance of natural resources, with an emphasis on emerging regulatory approaches including certification regimes, public-private partnerships, and collaborative settlements. She is an expert on wildfire law and has also written about land development and forest management.

Karen's University page:

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2188921

https://twitter.com/km_bradshaw/

 

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In this episode Michael spoke with Marta Berbes, a professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. During their conversation, Marta discussed her work on ecosystem service provision in several agricultural communities in Costa Rica and the importance of asking who gets what services, and why? Michael also asked Marta about her emphasis on participatory action research and her more recent work in South Phoenix on resilience and youth perspectives on green space.

Marta's website: https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/marta-berbes/

Marta's paper on ecosystem services in Costa Rica:

Berbés-Blázquez, M., M. J. Bunch, P. R. Mulvihill, G. D. Peterson, and B. van Wendel de Joode. 2017. Understanding how access shapes the transformation of ecosystem services to human well-being with an example from Costa Rica. Ecosystem Services 28:320–327.

Paper from Jesse Ribot and Nancy Peluso describing the theory of access that Marta mentions:

Ribot, J. C., and N. L. Peluso. 2009. A theory of access. Rural sociology 68(2):153–181

 

 

This insight episode is taken from full episode 058, Stefan's conversation with Anna-Katharina Hornidge.

Anna is the Director of the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany, one of the leading research institutions and think tanks for global development and international cooperation worldwide. She is also a Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn.

Anna refers to herself as a Development and Knowledge Sociologist with a focus on natural resource governance and sense-making, the social construction of knowledges and 'realities', as well as cultures of knowledge production and sharing. She is also an advocate of transformative science to advance inter- and transdisciplinary science cooperation.

In the clip, we explore Anna’s views on social constructivism, how it contrasts with other science perspectives, and how it is useful for understanding challenges at the science-policy interface.

Anna’s homepage

https://www.die-gdi.de/en/anna-katharina-hornidge/

Anna’s twitter

https://twitter.com/AnnaK_Hornidge

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In this episode, Courtney speaks with Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz, a PhD candidate in Food Systems at the University of Vermont. They discuss Luis' unexpected path to his research on Puerto Ricans farmer adaptation and food security following Hurricane Maria. Courtney and Luis also talk about Luis' efforts in science communication, sharing his research in Puerto Rico and beyond. Finally, they discuss a blog post Luis recently published on "How to not suffer (much) in graduate school" and his take-aways for taking care of yourself in academia.   If you'd like to dig a little deeper into the content Luis discusses in this podcast, here are a few resources:   Luis' blog post on "On Not Suffering (Much) in Graduate School: Part 2" can be found on Luis' blog here: https://luisalexis.com/2020/10/28/on-not-suffering-much-in-the-phd-part-2/ and can also be found on the In Common Podcast blog.   Luis' recent, open access article in PLOS ONE on "Awareness of climate change's impacts and motivation to adapt are not enough to drive action: A look of Puerto Rican farmers after Hurricane Maria" can be found here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0244512   Luis' piece in Science Working Life on staying connected to Puerto Rican politics and current events while studying in Vermont: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/946?_ga=2.123471695.530166458.1615833515-1952206471.1615833515 He also has a Spanish version of this piece on his blog here: https://luisalexis.com/2019/08/29/queria-involucrarme-en-las-protestas-del-verano-pero-me-encontraba-lejos-de-puerto-rico/   To learn about the Puerto Rico Science Policy Action Network that Luis is involved in: https://www.cienciapr.org/en/blogs/pr-span/about

In this episode Michael spoke with Josh Stoll, an assistant professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. Josh spoke with Michael about the trends in and relationship between wild catch fisheries and aquaculture in Maine. He also spoke about his professional identity, place attachment to Maine, and his oyster farm that he manages. Finally, they discussed the Local Catch Network that Josh co-founded to strengthen community-based fishing systems.

 

Links:

Josh's website: https://joshua-stoll.com/

Local catch website: https://localcatch.org/

 

References:

Stoll, J. S., H. M. Leslie, M. L. Britsch, and C. M. Cleaver. 2019. Evaluating aquaculture as a diversification strategy for Maine’s commercial fishing sector in the face of change. Marine Policy 107:103583.

Today’s insight episode is from episode 043, Stefan’s interview with Kennith Wallen.

Kenny is an Assistant Professor of Human Dimensions of Fish and Wildlife at the University of Idaho. His professorship is a joint position with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, so Kenny has one foot in academia and one in practice.  He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources; his M.S. at Oklahoma State University in Zoology; B.A. at Truman State University in Psychology.

In the clip, Kenny explains the need for a platform that can help us better find like-minded researchers with similar interests for collaborating. Kenny is helping to develop and online platform, called the Conservation Social Sciences Community Network, which is now online. On the site you can sign-up for free and find others to collaborate with around the world.

Conservation Social Sciences Community Network map:

https://arcg.is/1uG4m8

Sign-up:

https://arcg.is/10LivT

 

Kenny’s lab website

https://www.human-element-lab.com/

Kenny’s Google Scholar page

 

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Stefan and Michael interview Erik Thulin, Jessica Blythe and Caroline Ferguson on topics related to the upcoming Fisheries and Aquaculture Commons virtual conference hosted by the IASC on March 9-12. This is the second episode in a series covering this year’s thematic conferences from the International Association for the Study of the Commons. 

 

Erik Thulin is the applied behavioral science lead at Rare, and is directing the agenda for Center for Behavior and the Environment. He focuses on bridging the academic-practice gap through collaborations with research partners and environmental practitioners. 

 

Jessica Blythe is an Assistant Professor at the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre at Brock University in Canada. Trained as a human geographer, Jessica’s research explores how various groups of people experience social-ecological change and what explains their differential capacities to respond.

 

Caroline Ferguson is a fourth year PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. Her current research investigates gender in Palau's sea cucumber fishery through an intersectional lens, as well as forced migration and climate adaptation in the Marshall Islands.

 

Conference website

https://2021fisheries.iasc-commons.org/

 

Erik Thulin

https://rare.org/person/erik-thulin/

https://behavior.rare.org/

https://twitter.com/EThulin

[Cooperative Behavior Adoption Guide]

https://behavior.rare.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cooperative-Behavior-Adoption-Guide.pdf

 

Jessica Blythe

https://brocku.ca/esrc/jessica-blythe/

 

Caroline Ferguson

https://profiles.stanford.edu/caroline-ferguson

www.ceferguson.com

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.625389/abstract

This is the first episode in a new series on the Future of Fisheries Management (FFM), conducted in collaboration with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University as well as the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh.

In this episode, Michael speaks with Elizabeth Mendenhall, Associate Professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. Elizabeth is an expert in international marine policy with a particular emphasis on the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS. During the conversation, she speaks with Michael about the origins of this policy, the elements of it that she admires, and the promise and challenges it presents for helping states deal with their shared environmental problems. At the end of the interview Michael and Elizabeth discuss the workshop on fisheries policy where they met, co-hosted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University as well as the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

Elizabeth’s website: http://www.elizabeth-mendenhall.com/

References:

Mendenhall, Elizabeth. 2023. “Making the Most of What We Already Have: Activating UNCLOS to Combat Marine Plastic Pollution.” Marine Policy 155 (September): 105786. 

Mendenhall, Elizabeth, and Kahlil Hassanali. 2023. “The BBNJ Agreement and Liability.” Marine Policy 150 (April): 105549.

Mendenhall, Elizabeth, Cullen Hendrix, Elizabeth Nyman, Paige M. Roberts, John Robison Hoopes, James R. Watson, Vicky W. Y. Lam, and U. Rashid Sumaila. 2020. “Climate Change Increases the Risk of Fisheries Conflict.” Marine Policy 117 (July): 103954. 

Mendenhall, Elizabeth, Rachel Tiller, and Elizabeth Nyman. 2023. “The Ship Has Reached the Shore: The Final Session of the ‘Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction’ Negotiations.” Marine Policy 155 (105686): 105686.

This episode is the first of our new Journal series. 

Here our team will interview authors who have published in the International Journal of the Commons (IJC), asking them about their specific published paper, its purpose and future directions. The interviews wont simply summarize the articles, but aim to add additional insight into the author's intentions and reflections.

We won’t be interviewing authors from every published piece, but are partnering with the journal editors to develop a selection process. In the future, our ambition is to work with other community oriented journals that embody the values we put forward with this podcast and platform, and to conduct interviews with a wider diversity of authors.

In this first episode, Stefan Partelow and Michael Cox interview the editors of the International Journal of the Commons (IJC) about a recent editorial reviewing the state of the field of commons research and lay out their vision for addressing some of the gaps and challenges in the journal and community going forward. The three editors are Frank van Laerhoven, Micael Schoon and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas.

The editorial is titled: “Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Ostrom’s Governing the Commons: Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons, Revisited”

Link to article:

https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.5334/ijc.1030/

In this episode, Michael spoke with two organizers of an upcoming virtual conference being held by the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). This conference is taking place February 24-26, and is the first in a series of virtual conferences being held by the IASC.

Conference website: https://2021space.iasc-commons.org/

IASC events website: https://iasc-commons.org/future-conferences/

 

 

In this episode, Michael spoke with Ramiro Berardo, a professor in the School of Environment & Natural Resources at the Ohio State University. Ramiro discussed with Michael his research on natural resource governance using social network analysis (SNA), the diversity of resources that are now available for scholars trying to learn SNA, and the more recent trend towards social-ecological network analysis. Michael also asked Ramiro to talk about the extensive effort he has put in to his online teaching during the pandemic.

Ramiro's website: http://www.ramiroberardo.net/

Papers that Michael and Ramiro discuss:

Berardo, R., & Scholz, J. T. (2010). Self‐organizing policy networks: Risk, partner selection, and cooperation in estuaries. American Journal of Political Science, 54(3), 632-649.

Berardo, R., & Lubell, M. (2016). Understanding what shapes a polycentric governance system. Public Administration Review, 76(5), 738-751.

Stefan and Michael interview Henrik Österblom.

Henrik is the Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Center and a Professor at the University of Stockholm in Sweden.

He has a PhD in Marine Ecology from the Department of Systems Ecology at Stockholm University, and a Master’s Degree in Behavioural Ecology from the Department of Zoology at Uppsala University.

He is interested in marine ecosystems and ways to improve ocean stewardship. Starting as a seabird ecologist, with a particular interest in social interactions between alcids, he has worked on understanding how the Baltic Sea is managed, how international collaboration emerged to address non-compliance in Southern Ocean fisheries, and how transnational corporations shape the present and future ocean. Ongoing work is focusing on the role of science in society and the cultural evolution of global prosocial behavior. He has worked at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and as Special Advisor to the Swedish Government in the Secretariat for the Environmental Advisory Council.

Österblom has facilitated the Keystone Dialogues, a global co-production project including major private actors in global seafood, which has resulted in the establishment of the Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS) initiative, aimed to transform global seafood towards more sustainable practices. This project is funded by the Walton Family Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He is also principal investigator of project New solutions to marine problems, aimed at accelerating marine ecosystem knowledge through the use of autonomous drones and artificial intelligence and funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

Österblom is a member of the Expert Group for the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and member of the IMBER Human Dimensions Working Group. He serves on the international advisory board of the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS²), as board member of Race for the Baltic, and as chairman of the SeaBOS Fundraising foundation. He is subject editor for Ecology and Society, and PLOS One.

Henrik’s SRC page

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2008-01-09-osterblom.html

Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship project

https://seabos.org/

 

Unsustainable science (extended pdf also includes a Spanish version of the paper): https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(19)30017-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS259033221930017X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

SARAS work on connecting science and art: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/view.php?sf=112

The keystone actor analysis:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127533

Developing SeaBOS and its initial results:

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/34/9038

The “Ocean 100” analysis: 

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/3/eabc8041

 

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This ‘Insight’ clip is taken from full episode 026, Michael and Stefan’s conversation with Emily Darling and Georgina Gurney.

Emily is a Conservation Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Georgina is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

In the clip, they both reflect on lessons learned from a transdisciplinary social-ecological coral reef monitoring project conducted in multiple countries.

Emily’s website: http://www.emilysdarling.com/

Georgina’s website: https://www.coralcoe.org.au/person/georgina-gurney

New paper led by Georgina: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632071931420X

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This insight episode is taken from full episode 30, Stefan’s conversation with Ina Möller.

 

Ina Möller is a postdoctoral researcher in the environmental policy group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Ina completed her PhD in the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden, where her thesis was titled The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering. She also has a Master degree in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University, and a Bachelor degree in Political Science and Public Administration.

 

She currently works together with Prof. Aarti Gupta on anticipation, governance and transparency in the politics of climate change. Her principal focus has been on the case of climate engineering, which describes large-scale interventions into natural systems that are envisioned to stabilize global temperatures. She continues to study the reaction of actors throughout society as the idea of engineering the climate becomes more normalized in climate science.

https://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Ina-dr.-IM-Ina-Moller.htm

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ina_Moeller

 

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In this episode, Stefan interviews Joerg Niewoehner. 

Joerg is a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where he is also the director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, with the acronym (IRI THESys). He holds a PhD in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia. In 2004, he joined the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin to develop a collaborative program between Social Anthropology and the Life Sciences. He now holds a chair in Social Anthropology of Human-Environment Relations. He conducts ethnographic research at the intersection of science and technology studies, social anthropology and environmental sciences focusing particularly on the qualities of urbanisation, social-ecological change, and metabolic and market dynamics. He also serves on the board of the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies.

In episode, we discuss how reflecting on theory of science can help position scholars towards understanding interdisciplinary challenges. We also discuss the challenges with inter- and trans-discipliarity, along with his perspectives on the challenges and paths forward. We touch on how the structural organization of universities and institutes balance traditional disciplinary orientation and more innovative forms of academic organization to foster interdisciplinarity. Joerg also talk about his future research interests in long social-ecological research with a focus on qualitative and quality change using qualitative data. For this he is interested in pushing forward innovative ways to archive qualitative data in social groups as living knowledge and archives rather than traditional digital repositories.

https://www.iri-thesys.org/

https://www.iri-thesys.org/people/niewoehner

https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=PGZ0pdcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

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In this episode, Stefan interviews Emily Boyd, an in-person interview recorded back in January 2020.

Emily is Director of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and Professor in Sustainability Science. She is a leading social scientist with a background in international development, environment and climate change, with a focus on the interdisciplinary nexus of poverty, livelihoods and resilience in relation to global environmental change. Emily is currently leading work on undesirable resilience, politics of loss and damage and intersectionality in societal transitions, including on transformations under climate change. 

Emily Boyd is also an author for the IPCC, IPBES, and UKCCRA and is an Earth System Governance Senior Fellow. 

 

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/emily-boyd

 

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In this episode Michael spoke with Brent Loken, a Global Food Lead Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Together they discussed Brent's realization that conservation ultimately needs to engage with how we meet peoples' needs, and that food is at the center of this. After describing the path he has taken leading up to his current position, Brent talked about his work at the WWF to promote a global transformation in our food system.

Brent's information:

Website: https://www.worldwildlife.org/experts/brent-loken

Twitter: @brentloken

Email: brent.loken@wwf.org

Link to a WWF project on Planet-based diets that Brent is involved in: 

https://planetbaseddiets.panda.org/

 

This insight episode is from episode 006, Stefan’s interview with Sonya Graci.

 

Sonya Graci is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson, University in Toronto, Ontario. She is also the Director of the Hospitality and Tourism Research Institute. Sonya has worked on numerous projects around the world related to sustainable tourism development and has focused her attention on community capacity building in Honduras, Indonesia, Canada, Fiji and China. She has a keen interest in working with Aboriginal communities in developing sustainable forms of tourism. She also has a passion for increasing sustainability in marine environments and has focused much of her research on sustainable tourism development in island states. Sonya is the author of two books and several journal articles and industry publications.

Sonya's links

https://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/hospitality-tourism-management/faculty-and-research/sonya-graci/

https://accommodatinggreen.com/

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=GVQ1fy8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

 

 

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In this episode, Michael speaks with Eric Klopfer, the chair of the department of Comparative Media Studies and Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT. At MIT Eric is also the director of the Scheller Teacher Education program as well as the Education Arcade.

Eric is a leader in the space of game design for education. He recently co-authored a book on the subject: Resonant Games, Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds and the Everyday. During the conversation, Eric discusses games as an example of experiential learning and emphasizes the importance of combining a game exercise with reflection, which is where the real learning happens through what Eric calls an action-reflection cycle.

Eric and Michael also discuss the game that originally led Michael to speak to Eric: a simulation of the tragedy of the commons in a fishery, which Eric led the development of. In addition to this episode, Michael discusses his implementations of this game in a recent blog post on the In Common website. You can find more about this game and Eric's work at this web address:

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In this episode, Stefan interviews Anna-Katharina Hornidge. Anna is the Director of the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany, one of the leading research institutions and think tanks for global development and international cooperation worldwide. She is also a Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn.

Anne refers to herself as a Development and Knowledge Sociologist with a focus on natural resource governance and sense-making, the social construction of knowledges and 'realities', as well as cultures of knowledge production and sharing. She is also an advocate of transformative science to advance inter- and transdisciplinary science cooperation.

In the episode, Anna tells us about her career and path into science leadership through Southeast Asian Studies, sociology, development and environmental governance research. We then discuss how she draws on a constructivist perspective, and how this can be applied to understand how and why knowledge is produced within the science system, and the implications this had on funding structures, outcomes and development politics. Anna also gives her take on making interdisciplinary research work in practice, and the challenges with pushing forward a transformative science agenda.

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https://www.die-gdi.de/en/anna-katharina-hornidge/

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In this episode we talked about our favorite books of 2020, as well as some we want to read in 2021. The books we discussed are listed below in alphabetical order by title:

 

All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Control of Nature by John McPhee

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

Far-fetched Facts by Richard Rottenburg

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen

Invisible women by Caroline Criado Perez

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler

Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

On the Backs of Tortoises by Elizabeth Hennessy

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

The Paradoxes of Transparency by Doug Wilson

Range by David Epstein

Seeing Like a State by James Scott

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Unhinged by Daniel Carlat

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

In this episode, Courtney speaks with Bill Blomquist, a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a fellow at the Ostrom Workshop. We explore Bill's ground-breaking and decade-spanning research into California groundwater governance. We talk about Bill's work tracking the evolution of groundwater policy and institutions, the unique theoretical insights we can learn about natural resource governance from California's most recent groundwater experiment, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and finally we end with some reflections on Bill's time working with the Ostrom Workshop.   If you'd like to dig a little deeper into the content Bill discusses in this podcast, here are a few resources:

 

The Commons Governance program at the Ostrom Workshop: https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/research/commons/index.html   The special issue of Society and Natural Resources on the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, featuring a few articles by Bill: https://t.co/66njZziLk6?amp=1   NSF-funded project led by Anita Milman at UMass Amherst on California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act that Bill is a collaborator on. This project focuses on inter-agency coordination and Bill mentions it in the discussion in this podcast on mandated-coordination-vs-local-autonomy: https://watergovernance.umasscreate.net/groundwater-sustainability/sgma/