In Common

In this episode we spoke with Margaret Palmer. Dr. Palmer is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the director of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center ( https://www.sesync.org/ ). Much of our discussion focused on the inception and development of SESYNC over the past ten years. We dug a bit into the philosophies and practices at SESYNC,...

María José Barragán is the Science Director for the Charles Darwin Foundation on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. She oversees the organization's 20 marine and terrestrial research projects, and is helping to make many of them interdisciplinary and inclusive of local stakeholder needs and knowledge. https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/ María José received a PhD in Human Geography at Memorial Univer...

Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University. Her recent book "Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future" (Oxford University Press India, 2016) examines the transformation of human-nature interactions in Bangalore from the 6th century CE to the present, addressing the implications of such change for the urban sustainability of fast-growing cities...

This week we spoke with Nate Engle, a Senior Climate Change Specialist with the World Bank's Water Global Practice. We discussed his time in graduate school at the University of Michigan, the value of a PhD, his experience on the Hill as a AAAS fellow, and his move to the World Bank where he now supports programs on adaptation and resilience. Here is the paper that Nate mentioned co-authoring with...

J.T. Erbaugh is a postdoc in the EEES PhD program at Dartmouth ( https://sites.dartmouth.edu/EEES/ ). We spoke about his PhD education with Arun Agrawal at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability ( https://seas.umich.edu/ ), his time in the field studying agroforestry in Indonesia when he got "hooked", and his subsequent research studying forest policy and governance...

Kirsty Nash (@nasherk) is the founder of ‘aKIDemic Life’ (@akidemiclife), a platform providing resources empowering parents to navigate life and academia. Kirsty is passionate about developing aKIDemica Life, sparked by the help she received during her first year of motherhood. It was only due to the great help she received from both health professionals and colleagues that she got back on track a...

Jeremy Pittman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Jeremy holds a Ph. D. in Social and Ecological Sustainability from the University of Waterloo, and an M.Sc. in Geography from the University of Regina. His research focuses on environmental policy, governance and social-ecological connectivity in rangelands, coastal areas and small-scale fishe...

Larry Crowder is a professor of Biology and Marine Conservation at the  Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute of the Environment , and affiliated faculty at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions. During our discussion Larry described how he began his career in ecology, his seminal work on sea turtle ecology and conservation, and...

Krister Andersson is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center of the Governance of Natural Resources at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Krister primarily studies forest governance and the effects of governmental reforms and local institutional arrangements on social and environmental outcomes. In our talk, Krister discusses his time at the Food and Agriculture Organizatio...

Elena Finkbeiner is the Fisheries Science Program Manager at Conservation International’s Center for Oceans. She wants to understand and improve adaptive capacity and equality within and across fishing communities and integrate a human rights-based approach to fisheries governance. She has over a decade of experience working in small-scale fisheries along the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. Elena holds...

Juan Camilo Cárdenas is a professor of economics a la Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He is considered a leading expert in the field of experimental economics, applying field-based methods to explore how actors can resolve real-world social dilemmas. Much of his work involves the use of games to simulate these dilemmas. Google scholar page:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yfeFFpIA...

Helen Rozwadowski is an associate professor of History and founder the Maritime Studies program at the University of Connecticut. Her teaching includes environmental history, history of science, and public history, as well as interdisciplinary maritime studies courses. Twitter @oceanhistories  https://history.uconn.edu/faculty-by-name/helen-m-rozwadowski/# Helen is the author of numerous books abo...

Neal Haddaway is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden. He works on various projects involving evidence synthesis in environmental and development topics, and has been with SEI since the start of 2016. Neal has a PhD in conservation biology, and since 2012 Neal has been helping to establish and improve guidance for formalized systematic reviews and maps in...

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, Indone...

Stefan has a conversation with David Abson. Dave holds a Professorship for Sustainability Economics and Assessment at Leuphana University in Germany. Dave explains the path that led him to academia, and then we discuss his understanding of sustainability premised on justice. The concept of land sparing vs land sharing is discussed as well as the ecosystem services concept, including its operationa...

Jeremy Caradonna has 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 'Sustainability: A history' published by Oxford University Press in 2014. In the podcast, we discuss Jeremy's background as a historian and how it has shaped his thinking about...

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. Topics include meditation, philosophy, value of literature reviews, and organizing his working group.   Henrik's Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=RmW1avAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Stefan and Michael have a conversation with Dr. Emma McKinley about her research career and the Marine Social Science (MarSocSci) Network. Emma is a Research Fellow at Cardiff University and co-founder of the Marine Social Science Network. www.marsocsci.net

Stefan Partelow introduces the podcast and then interviews Michael Cox about his academic career. Stefan and Michael discuss why they are starting the podcast.