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 focus on how to improve the sustainability of craft beer production and consumption systems in southern Sweden, SustBeerLab, endorsed by Future Earth.

Barry’s Google Scholar page

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=zRPHAlAAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

Article on reflexivity mentioned in the podcast

https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss4/art20/

Link to M.Sc. LUMES program

https://www.lumes.lu.se/

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/

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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/polycentric-governance-concept-searching-theory

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.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jess_cockburn

Jessica's paper that Michael mentioned:

Cockburn, Jessica, Georgina Cundill, Sheona Shackleton, Mathieu Rouget, Marijn Zwinkels, Susanna (ancia) Cornelius, Liz Metcalfe, and Dieter van den Broeck. 2019. “Collaborative Stewardship in Multifunctional Landscapes: Toward Relational, Pluralistic Approaches.” Ecology and Society 24 (4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11085-240432.

Tiny book title: A story of hope from a patchy place.

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

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 study from orangutan conservation”. 

Link to paper Liana’s recent paper in the journal People and Nature:

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10072

Liana’s university page:

https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/liana-chua

Liana’s Twitter:

https://twitter.com/liana_chua?lang=en

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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.

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

Klara’s lab page

http://bennettlab.weebly.com/klara.html

ResNet project page

https://www.nsercresnet.ca/index.html

https://www.aaas.org/programs/center-public-engagement-science-and-technology/reflections/suddenly-find-yourself-needing

https://www.skypeascientist.com/

Klara’s Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6wI_zcIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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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

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

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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

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

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