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Lindahl, T., A.-S. Crépin, C. Schill. 2016. Potential disasters can turn the tragedy into success. Environmental and Resource Economics65: 657 – 676.
This paper presents a novel experimental design that allows testing how users of a common-pool resource respond to an endogenously driven drastic drop in the supply of the resource. We show that user groups will manage a resource more efficiently when confronted with such a non-concave resource growth function, compared to groups facing a logistic growth function. Even among cooperative groups there is a significant behavioral...
Mahajan, S.L., T. Daw. 2016. Perceptions of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being from community-based marine protected areas in Kenya. Marine Policy 74: 108 – 119
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have historically been implemented and managed in a top-down way, excluding resource-dependent users from planning and management. In response to conflict and non-compliance, the governance of marine resources is increasingly embracing community-based approaches, assuming that by putting communities at the forefront of planning and management, participation will increase, causing positive social a...
Mancilla García, M. 2016. Explicit arguments, hidden biases: Uncovering the role of institutional relationships in a dispute over scientific data in Lake Titicaca (Bolivia). Society and Natural Resources 29: 1110 – 1123.
The bay of Cohana, on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca (between Bolivia and Peru), has suffered from eutrophication for the last 30 years. Heavy metals from mining activities in the basin have also entered the bay. While data on eutrophication are abundant, data on mining are scarce and public interventions have focused on the former. However, one of these interventions has been criticized for not taking into account the lin...
Martin, R., A. Linstaedter, K. Frank, B. Mueller. 2016. Livelihood security in face of drought: Assessing the vulnerability of pastoral households. Environmental Modelling & Software 75: 414 – 423.
Livestock grazing in drylands supports pastoral livelihoods but is facing multiple changes including shocks such as severe droughts. Herdsmen specifically cite drought events as a reason for the abandonment of their transhumance practices. The purpose of this study is to assess the relevance of drought as a driving force for losses of livelihood security leading to a specific systemic change – households abandoning transhumant...
Mathevet, R., J.D. Thompson, C. Folke, F.S. Chapin III. 2016. Protected areas and their surrounding territory: Socioecological systems in the context of ecological solidarity. Ecological Applications 26: 5 – 16.
The concept of ecological solidarity (ES) is a major feature of the 2006 law reforming national park policy in France. In the context of biodiversity conservation, the objectives of this study are to outline the historical development of ES, provide a working definition, and present a method for its implementation that combines environmental pragmatism and adaptive management. First, we highlight how ES provides a focus on the...
Meacham, M., C. Queiroz, A.V. Norström, G.D. Peterson. 2016. Social-ecological drivers of multiple ecosystem services: What variables explain patterns of ecosystem services across the Norrström drainage basin? Ecology and Society21(1): 14.
In human dominated landscapes many diverse, and often antagonistic, human activities are intentionally and inadvertently determining the supply of various ecosystem services. Understanding how different social and ecological factors shape the availability of ecosystem services is essential for fair and effective policy and management. In this paper, we evaluate how well alternative social-ecological models of human impact on e...
Mora, C., N.A.J. Graham, M. Nyström. 2016. Ecological limitations to the resilience of coral reefs. Coral Reefs 35: 1271 – 1280
The decline of coral reefs has been broadly attributed to human stressors being too strong and pervasive, whereas biological processes that may render coral reefs fragile have been sparsely considered. Here we review several ecological factors that can limit the ability of coral reefs to withstand disturbance. These include: (1) Many species lack the adaptive capacity to cope with the unprecedented disturbances they currently ...
Nhu, T.T., T. Schaubroeck, P.J.G. Henriksson, R. Bosma, P. Sorgeloos, J. Dewulf. 2016. Environmental impact of non-certified versus certified (ASC) intensive Pangasius aquaculture in Vietnam, a comparison based on a statistically supported LCA. Environmental Pollution 219: 156 – 165
Pangasius production in Vietnam is widely known as a success story in aquaculture, the fastest growing global food system because of its tremendous expansion by volume, value and the number of international markets to which Pangasius has been exported in recent years. While certification schemes are becoming significant features of international fish trade and marketing, an increasing number of Pangasius producers have followe...
Plummer, R., J. Baird, K. Krievins, S.J. Mitchell. 2016. Improving river health: Insights into initiating collaboration in a transboundary river basin. International Journal of River Basin Management 14: 119 – 132
River health is a concern worldwide. Governance of river basins is particularly complicated when they are large scale and cross jurisdictional boundaries. Past approaches to making decisions in transboundary basins are limited and attention is increasingly being focused on the potential of collaboration. This research investigates the initiation phase of a collaborative conservation project (WWF-Canada Freshwater Program, St. ...
Polhill, J.G., T. Filatova, M. Schlüter, A. Voinov. 2016. Preface to the thematic issue on modelling systemic change in coupled socio-environmental systems. Environmental Modelling and Software75: 317
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