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Journal / article | 2016
Van Holt, T., W. Weisman. 2016. Global production network mapping for transforming social-ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 20: 61 – 66
In the seafood industry, global production networks (GPNs) are so complex that working with individual supply chains to improve sustainability is not enough to create systemic change. A system-level perspective can build upon supply-chain focused seafood certification and scorecard programs that currently dominate the sustainable seafood arena. We present a system-mapping method we piloted with seafood industry leaders, resear...
Van Holt, T., W. Weisman, J.C. Johnson, S. Käll, J. Whalen, B. Spear, P. Sousa. 2016. A social wellbeing in fisheries tool (SWIFT) to help improve fisheries performance. Sustainability (Switzerland) 8(8): 667
We report on a rapid and practical method to assess social dimensions of performance in small-scale and industrial fisheries globally (SocialWellbeing in Fisheries Tool (SWIFT)). SWIFT incorporates aspects of security (fairness and stability of earnings, benefits of employment to local fishing communities, worker protection, and personal safety and health in communities associated with fisheries); flexibility (including oppor...
Wallner-Hahn, S., F. Molander, G. Gallardo, S. Villasante, J.S. Eklöf, N.S. Jiddawi, M. de la Torre-Castro. 2016. Destructive gear use in a tropical fishery: Institutional factors influencing the willingness-and capacity to change. Marine Policy 72: 199 – 210.
The aim of this study was to empirically assess institutional aspects shaping fishers’ behavior leading to unsustainable resource use, by using the example of destructive drag-net fishing in Zanzibar, Tanzania. A broad institutional approach was used to specifically assess institutional factors influencing the fishers’ reasons for the current use of destructive drag-nets as well as their willingness- and economic capacity to c...
Wang-Erlandsson, L., W.G.M. Bastiaanssen, H. Gao, J. Jägermeyr, G.B. Senay, A.I.J.M. Van Dijk, J.P. Guerschman, P.W. Keys, L.J. Gordon, H.H.G. Savenije. 2016. Global root zone storage capacity from satellite-based evaporation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20: 1459 – 1481
This study presents an "Earth observation-based" method for estimating root zone storage capacity – a critical, yet uncertain parameter in hydrological and land surface modelling. By assuming that vegetation optimises its root zone storage capacity to bridge critical dry periods, we were able to use state-of-the-art satellite-based evaporation data computed with independent energy balance equations to derive gridded root zone ...
West, S., R. Cairns, L. Schultz. 2016. What constitutes a successful biodiversity corridor? A Q-study in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Biological Conservation 198: 183 – 192
‘Success’ is a vigorously debated concept in conservation. There is a drive to develop quantitative, comparable metrics of success to improve conservation interventions. Yet the qualitative, normative choices inherent in decisions about what to measure — emerging from fundamental philosophical commitments about what conservation is and should be — have received scant attention. We address this gap by exploring perceptions of w...
West, S., L. Schultz, S. Bekessy. 2016. Rethinking social barriers to effective adaptive management. Environmental Management 58: 399 – 416
Adaptive management is an approach to environmental management based on learning-by-doing, where complexity, uncertainty, and incomplete knowledge are acknowledged and management actions are treated as experiments. However, while adaptive management has received significant uptake in theory, it remains elusively difficult to enact in practice. Proponents have blamed social barriers and have called for social science contributi...
Wijermans, N., C. Conrado, M. van Steen, C. Martella, J. Li. 2016. A landscape of crowd-management support: An integrative approach. Safety Science 86: 142 – 164
Of the many crowd behavior models, very few have been used in assisting crowd management practice. This lack of usage is partly due to crowd management involving a diversity of situations that require competencies in observing, sense-making, anticipating and acting. Crowd research is similarly scattered across disciplines and needs integration to advance the field towards supporting practice. To address these needs, we present...
Willcock, S., D. Hooftman, N. Sitas, P. O’Farrell, M.D. Hudson, B. Reyers, F. Eigenbrod, J.M. Bullock. 2016. Do ecosystem service maps and models meet stakeholders’ needs? A preliminary survey across sub-Saharan Africa. Ecosystem Services 18: 110 – 117.
To achieve sustainability goals, it is important to incorporate ecosystem service (ES) information into decision-making processes. However, little is known about the correspondence between the needs of ES information users and the data provided by the researcher community. We surveyed stakeholders within sub-Saharan Africa, determining their ES data requirements using a targeted sampling strategy. Of those respondents utilisin...
Yearworth, M., S.E. Cornell. 2016. Contested modelling: A critical examination of expert modelling in sustainability. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 33: 45 – 63
We discuss the role of expert modelling in sustainability using a framework designed to improve the effectiveness of the modelling process. Based on the development of a set of reflective questions that can be used at certain key stages in the lifecycle of projects developing such models, we discuss how using the framework would lead to improvements in the coupling of the process of expert modelling with the process of interve...
Yletyinen, J., Ö. Bodin, B. Weigel, M.C. Nordström, E. Bonsdorff, T. Blenckner. 2016. Regime shifts in marine communities: A complex systems perspective on food web dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283: 20152569
Species composition and habitats are changing at unprecedented rates in the world's oceans, potentially causing entire food webs to shift to structurally and functionally different regimes. Despite the severity of these regime shifts, elucidating the precise nature of their underlying processes has remained difficult. We address this challenge with a new analytic approach to detect and assess the relative strength of different...
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