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Insight #28: Anna-Katharina Hornidge on social constructivism

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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065: Food systems, communicating science and taking care of yourself in academia with Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz

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

064: Where does wild catch end and aquaculture begin? with Josh Stoll

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.

Insight #27: Kennith Wallen on science communities

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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Commoning #4: Fisheries and aquaculture commons with Erik Thulin, Jessica Blythe and Caroline Ferguson

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

IJC #1: Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons, Revisited

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/

Commoning # 3: The Commons in Space with Alice Gorman and Akhil Rao

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/

 

 

063: Social network analysis with Ramiro Berardo

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.

062: Ocean governance, unsustainable science and the Stockholm Resilience Center with Henrik Österblom

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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Insight #26: Emily Darling and Georgina Gurney on inclusion and transdisciplinarity

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

Smith Conservation Research Fellowship that Emily enrolled in: https://conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows

SNAPP program website: https://snappartnership.net/

Data mermaid tool website: datamermaid.org

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