Finding Sustainability Podcast

This insight episode is taken from episode 024, Stefan’s conversation with Barry Ness. Barry Ness is an Associate Professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies in Sweden. He is also the Director of the local interaction platform in Skåne for the Mistra Urban Futures project, and the editor-in-chief of Challenges in Sustainability. His current research interests include inter- and transdisciplinary approaches for both comprehending and addressing complex sustainability challenges. https://www.lucsus.lu.se/barry-ness He is also a researcher and work package leader for the Globally and Locally-sustainable Food-Water-Energy Innovation in Urban Living Labs (GLOCULL) project, focusing on creating an urban living lab approach for the food-water-energy nexus. Barry is also a project researcher in LUCID project and the TRANSFORM project. https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/glocull/ Much of Barry Ness' current research involves engagement with actors outside of academia. Currently, outreach efforts foc

Michael and Stefan speak with Raul Pacheco-Vega. Raul is a professor in the Public Administration Division of the Centre for Economic Research and Teaching, CIDE (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, CIDE, AC) based out of CIDE Region Centro in Aguascalientes, Mexico. We discussed his work on waste and waste pickers, wastewater, and bottled water as untraditional commons. We also spoke about the importance of making care work and life support systems visible, and his thoughts about fieldwork and ethnography under the spectre of the Covid pandemic. Raul's personal website: http://www.raulpacheco.org/blog/ Paper on doubly engaged ethnography that Raul mentions: Pacheco-Vega, R., and K. Parizeau. 2018. Doubly Engaged Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges When Working With Vulnerable Communities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 17(1):1609406918790653.

In this episode Michael spoke with Tiffany Morrison, a professor at the Arc Center of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, associated with James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. They discussed Tiffany's analysis of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, her thoughts on professional identity, the importance of critical case studies, and the value of polycentricity as an organizing governance concept. Tiffany's website: https://www.coralcoe.org.au/person/tiffany-morrison Youtube video on Tiffany's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMA1-pFZ5q8 Tiffany's papers that are discussed in the interview: Morrison, T. H. 2017. Evolving polycentric governance of the Great Barrier Reef. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(15):E3013–E3021. Morrison, T. H., N. Adger, J. Barnett, and K. Brown. 2020. Advancing coral reef governance into the Anthropocene. One Earth. Mark Lubell's blog post on polycentricity that is mentioned: https://environmentalpolicy.ucdavis.edu/blog/pol

Michael and Stefan spoke with Jessica Cockburn, a Lecturer in Environmental Science at Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Jessica identifies as a "pracademic" who often works with local partners to explore how actors across a variety of contexts interact to address sustainability challenges. Her work is highly collaborative. Among the groups she engages with is the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS): https://pecs-science.org/. Topics of the interview include: The use of "critical realist" philosophy as a basis for engaged research. The challenge of "pracademics": practical and ethical demands of conducting transdisciplinary research with local partners. Empirical analysis of "patchy" watershed-scale governance among heterogeneous actor groups. Jessica's personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/jesscockburn/home Twitter: https://twitter.com/jess_cockburn Jessica's paper that Michael mentioned: Cockburn, Jessica, Georgina Cundill, Sheona Shackleton, Mathieu Rouget, Marijn Zwin

Michael and Stefan interview Liana Chua. Liana is a social anthropologist at Brunel University London with long-term ethnographic interests in Borneo, ethnic politics, development, more-than-human landscapes, visuality, and materiality. Her current research revolves around the social, political, aesthetic, and affective dimensions of the global nexus of orangutan conservation. Liana received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, her MPhil in Social Anthropological Analysis from the University of Cambridge, and her BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford. Topics include: How social anthropology contributes to conservation research and practice The out-group homogeneity effect Boundary objects and being open to new ideas Tips for effective collaborative research The risk of interdisciplinarity We frequently reference a recent paper led by Liana, published in the journal People and Nature, titled “Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co-optation. A case

In this episode, Michael interviews a colleague of his from Dartmouth College, Carey Nadell. Carey is a professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth, and he studies the the evolution of cooperation and conflict among bacteria in the context of their complex communities. His research program shares the same fundamental framing as many commons scholars studying how communities of resource users can avoid the tragedy of the commons. Carey and Michael discuss the relationship between their own research programs based on this shared framing.Both Michael and Carey are members of Dartmouth's interdisciplinary PhD program in Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society (EEES), which they also discuss.  Carey's website: http://nadell-lab.org/

In this episode, Stefan interviews Klara Winkler. Klara is a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Canada, where she is also the Deputy Science Director of the ResNet project, which aims to “To transform Canada's capacity to monitor, model, and manage its working landscapes and all the ecosystem services they provide for long-term shared health, prosperity and resilience for all Canadians.” Klara is from Germany, where she earned her PhD from the University of Oldenburg. Her thesis was titled “Once more with feelings: Harnessing human-nature relationships for the governance of social-ecological systems”. She received a MSc from Lund University in Sweden, with a thesis titled, “More than wine: cultural ecosystem services in vineyard landscapes”. In the podcast we discuss: The challenges and opportunities of further digitizing academia Reflexivity in research practice, including our own emissions The challenges of being far away from our objects of study Skype a Scientist initiative Klara’s lab page h

In this episode, Stefan interviews Henrik von Wehrden. Henrik is the Dean of the Faculty of Sustainability at Leuphana University in Germany, where he also holds a professorship in quantitative methods in sustainability science. Henrik was one of the first guests on the podcast, and you can hear our previous interview in episode 003, which gives a more general overview of his background and work. In this episode we discuss: Henrik’s understanding of the COVID19 data, and how he used existing models to foresee its spread The usefulness of using mixed methods to understand the data The role of sustainability science How COVID19 may change academia What we can learn from this global challenge   Henrik’s university page https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/institute-of-ecology/team/henrik-von-wehrden.html   Henrik’s lab page https://henrikvonwehrden.leuphana.de/   Henrik's Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=RmW1avAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao   Finding Sustainability Podcast @find_sust_pod htt

In this episode Michael is joined by Courtney Hammond Wagner to interview Meredith Niles. They spoke about Meredith's past life as a policy professional, her transition to the world of academia, her applied work on food systems and use of psychological theory. Also, Michael and Meredith shared their passion for open science resources! Meredith's website: www.meredithtniles.com Resources on open science: Sherpa Romeo: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php SPARC: https://sparcopen.org/  

This insight clip is taken from episode 004 of the podcast with Jeremy Caradonna. Jeremy holds a PhD in the history of scientific, environmental, and political thought, and teaches Environmental Studies and Human Dimensions of Climate Change at the University of Victoria. He is also the author of the book ‘Sustainability: A history’, published by Oxford University Press in 2014. In the podcast we discuss:  Indigenous versus modern notions of sustainable societies The rise of sustainability thinking in Europe Early links between environmental degradation and human wellbeing The link between economic thought and sustainability Jeremy's website https://www.jeremycaradonna.com/   Link to Jeremy's book 'Sustainability: A history' https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sustainability-9780199372409?cc=de&lang=en&   Cool video summary of the book 'Sustainability: A history' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hho1h7OR6l8   Finding Sustainability Podcast @find_sust_pod https://twitter.com/find_sust_pod Environmen

Michael Cox and Stefan Partelow interview Jose Luis Vivero-Pol. Jose Luis is an engaged scholar associated with the Universities of Louvain, Cordoba, Edinburgh and the Spanish Right to Food Observatory. His research interests include food valuations (rights, commodity, public good, commons) and food systems in transition. In particular, how normative food narratives shape food policies, and collective arrangements in customary and contemporary food commons. In the podcast we discuss the following topics: Current food narratives and policy implications The “food as a commons” framework Different schools of thought on commons Difference between water and food being framed as commons Influence of COVID19 on food systems What Ostrom’s school of thought can learn from reframing food as a commons Why interdisciplinarity is necessary but difficult to exercise   Jose’s Twitter https://twitter.com/JoseLViveroPol?s=20   Jose’s articles, books and presentation referenced in the podcast: https://www.routledge.com/Routled

This insight clip is taken from Michael Cox’s interview with Mark Lubell in episode 023 of the podcast. In the clip, Mark talks about the ecology of games theory and its link to the history of research on polycentric governance. Mark is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, where he is also the Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior. https://environmentalpolicy.ucdavis.edu/ https://environmentalpolicy.ucdavis.edu/people/lubell Mark’s research focuses on human behavior and the role of governance institutions in solving collective action problems and facilitating cooperation. The collective action problems associated with environmental policy provide a laboratory for his research. Current projects include watershed management, environmental activism, agricultural best management practices, and institutional change in local governments. He also dabbles in experimental economics and simulation techniques to further explore c

This Insight clip is taken from episode 011 of the podcast with Krister Andersson. Krister Andersson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses primarily on governmental reforms to address social and environmental problems in developing countries. He examines the politics of environmental governance and is interested in local institutional arrangements and the role they play in explaining policy outcomes. Krister’s Google Scholar page https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=PJ2c5_kAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao University webpage https://www.colorado.edu/polisci/people/faculty/krister-andersson Finding Sustainability Podcast @find_sust_pod https://twitter.com/find_sust_pod Environmental Social Science Network https://essnetwork.net/ https://twitter.com/ESS_Network @ESS_Network

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. Ina's university page https://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Ina-dr.-IM-Ina-Moller.htm Ina’s ResearchGate page https://

Steven Alexander is a Science Advisor based at Fisheries and Oceans Canada and holds an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. Steven began working at the science-policy interface as a Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow. Prior to this he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow affiliated with both the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in the US and the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. He calls himself an environmental social scientist, and his research focuses on community-based conservation and natural resource management, environmental governance, and the human dimensions of environmental change. Steven’s Google Scholar https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=naPWaUwAAAAJ&hl=en   Steven’s twitter https://twitter.com/salexander_11?lang=en   Steven’s ResearchGate profile https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Alexander2   Qualitative data sharing paper published in Nature Sustainability https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-

This Insight clip is taken from episode 009 of the podcast with Juan Camillo Cardenas. Juan Camilo is a Professor of Economics at la Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He is considered a leading expert in the field of experimental economics. His work is focused on the analysis and design of institutions (rules of the game) that promote cooperation among individuals and the solution of social dilemmas in the most fair, efficient, equitable, democratic and sustainable manners possible. In the clip, Michael Cox is interviewing Juan Camilo on the role experimental economics games can play in teaching students. Juan Camillo’s University page https://economia.uniandes.edu.co/index.php?option=com_profesor&view=profesorp&profesor=9&Itemid=474 Jaun Camilo’s Google Scholar page https://scholar.google.com.co/citations?user=yfeFFpIAAAAJ&hl=en   Finding Sustainability Podcast @find_sust_pod https://twitter.com/find_sust_pod Environmental Social Science Network https://essnetwork.net/ https://twitter.com

Fiona Nunan is a Professor of Environment and Development within the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham in the UK. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gov/nunan-fiona.aspx#staffdetails https://twitter.com/fionanunan?lang=en Her interests and experience focus on natural resource governance and management in developing country settings, particularly within inland fisheries and coastal locations in East and Southern Africa, and on exploring the links between poverty and the environment. She was appointed to Head of the department in 2014 and was previously the Director of Postgraduate Research. She leads on the new Environment, Sustainability and Politics pathway of the MSc program, and works closely with colleagues in the Political Science and International Studies Department. Fiona’s Google Scholar page https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=gjUJQYcAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao Her first book was published in 2015 by Routledge, titled: 'Understanding Poverty and the Envi

For this episode we spoke with Irene Perez Ibarra, a researcher at the AgriFood Institute of Aragon, housed within the University of Zaragoza, Spain. We chatted about her initial scientific curiosity, her trip to Arizona State University for a postdoc with Marco Janssen, her appreciation for "beautiful" (agent-based) models, the challenges of raising two young children, and ultimately her voyage back to Spain for her current position. All that's missing is a good tortilla.

In this episode we spoke with Emily Darling from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Georgina Gurney at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. They talked to us about a broadly comparative, social-ecological research project on fisheries governance they have been working on with support from the MacArthur Foundation. We discussed the challenges involved in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aspects of the project, and how they addressed these together and with their project partners.  Show notes: 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

This is a unique episode of the podcast. We have the opportunity to share the audio from a recent webinar about the current state of commons and social-ecological systems databases. The webinar was facilitated by the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), and was hosted by their current President, Marco Janssen. The IASC is devoted to bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, practitioners and policymakers for the purpose of improving governance and management, advancing understanding, and creating sustainable solutions for commons, common-pool resources, or any other form of shared resource. https://iasc-commons.org/ The webinar includes numerous leading researchers, listed below. Together they discuss their experiences with databases, including the current state of their use, challenges for user engagement and comparative research as well as directions forward and advice for researchers. Webinar participants include:  Marty Anderies - Professor, School of Sustainability, Ariz