In Common

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.mereditht niles.com Resources on open...

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...

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 collec...

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 Environme...

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 arra...

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 deg...

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...

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 di...

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 i...

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 b...

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...

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 re...

This insight is taken from our full interview with María José Barragán in episode 018 of the podcast, where you can listen to the full interview.  Our ‘Insight’ episodes feature short interview segments taken from our previous regular interviews, highlighting noteworthy topics discussed. María José is the Science Director of the Charles Darwin Foundation on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. She over...

This insight episode is taken from episode 007 of the podcast, our conversation with Neal Haddaway. In the clip, Neal outlines the steps of a systematic literature review, talks about which databases to use, as well as the benefits and downsides to using Google Scholar as a search platform. Neal Haddaway is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He wo...

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, Sweden 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 sust...

This insight is taken from episode 020 of the podcast, where Michael and Stefan have a conversation with Courtney Hammond Wagner. Courtney is a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, working on water governance in the Western United States. In the clip the three of us discuss challenges in academic working culture, including being a parent in academia, productivist mentality and self...

This past fall we spoke with Mark Lubell, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the co-director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior (CEPB) at the University of California, Davis. We spoke about Mark's interdisciplinary engagements at his institution, the value of doing used-based research, the ecology of games framework that he has pioneered, and how...

This insight is taken from episode 020 of the podcast, a conversation between Stefan, Michael and Courtney Hammond Wagner. Courtney is a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, working on water governance in the Western United States. We discuss the challenge of using frameworks in science, with the example of Elinor Ostrom's social-ecological systems (SES) framework.   Finding Sustai...

Liz Carlisle is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at University of California, Santa Barbara, where her work focuses on fostering a more just and sustainable food system. She holds a Ph. D. in Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, and she formerly served as Legislative Correspondent for Agriculture and Natural Resources i...

This insight clip is taken from episode 017 of the podcast with Harini Nagendra. Harini explains some of the challenges and bias of the science system between the global north and the global south. 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) examine...

Kai Whiting is a researcher and lecturer in sustainability and Stoicism at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His main research interests are how to better account for resource use and the practical application of Stoic philosophy to the challenges of the 21st century. He has a background in Environmental Engineering, but believes that without philosophy we will never understand the “why” we do w...

This ‘Insight’ episode is taken from episode 010 of the podcast with Elena Finkbeiner. In this short segment, Elena discusses reflexivity in the scientific process and then explains the usefulness of games or behavioral economics experiments with fishers in Mexico.  Elena Finkbeiner is the Fisheries Science Program Manager at Conservation International’s Center for Oceans. She is interested in und...

This ‘Insight’ episode is taken from episode 005 of the podcast with David Abson. In this short segment, Dave discusses economic valuation of the ecosystem services concept, governance in ecosystem service frameworks and the challenge with operationalizing them.  Dave holds a Professorship for Sustainability Economics and Assessment at Leuphana University in Germany. Dave explains the path that le...

In this podcast, Michael and Stefan have a conversation with Courtney Hammond Wagner. Courtney is a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University. We discuss some of the challenges of navigating a career in academia, particularly as a young parent and changing rules and norms of the science system itself. We then get into Courtney’s research on water governance in California, and challenges...

This 'Insight' episode is a clip from episode 12 of the podcast with Larry Crowder. Insight episodes feature noteworthy and insightful clips from previous episodes.   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 Stan...