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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tara Slough, Daniel Rubenson, Ro'ee Levy, Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez, Maria Bernedo del Carpio, Mark T. Buntaine, Darin Christensen, Alicia Cooperman, Sabrina Eisenbarth, Paul J. Ferraro, Louis Graham, Alexandra C. Hartman, Jacob Kopas, Sasha McLarty, Anouk S. Rigterink, Cyrus Samii, Brigitte Seim, Johannes Urpelainen, Bing Zhang
Summary: Research shows that community monitoring can improve the management of common pool resources in various contexts, even when initiated externally. These findings provide guidance for future program and policy design and offer a sustainable scientific approach for studying the complexity of socioecological systems and improving common pool resource management.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Ecology
Victoria J. Bennett, Elizabeth J. Agpalo
Summary: This study used citizen science to investigate the impact of pool characteristics on bat activity. It found that unlit pools without bush or shrub borders attracted more bats, while pools with borders, textured interiors, and visible trees showed lower activity. Features such as fountains and the presence of pets also reduced bat observations. By considering these characteristics, swimming pools can be made more bat-friendly to improve urban habitats for bats.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
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Ecology
Jean-Christian Tisserand, Astrid Hopfensitz, Serge Blondel, Youenn Loheac, Cesar Mantilla, Guillermo Mateu, Julie Rosaz, Anne Rozan, Marc Willinger, Angela Sutan
Summary: This study conducted a nationwide experiment on common pool resources and found that individuals reduce resource extraction in local dilemmas, providing recommendations improves resource sustainability, women are more concerned about preserving local resources, and older participants extract more resources.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Business
Hubert Stahn, Agnes Tomini
Summary: This study focuses on a specific class of common-pool resources, such as artesian aquifers, where competition for resource stock is not the defining characteristic. A dynamic model is proposed to account for the features of such aquifers and compare the social optimum with private exploitation of open-access aquifers, revealing a new source of inefficiency known as pressure externality. In the long run, this externality results in additional wells for the same water consumption, leading to increased costs, and a specific stock-dependent tax is proposed to offset this externality.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ethmadalage Dineth Perera, Magnus Moglia, Stephen Glackin
Summary: Urban waterways are important for urban ecosystems and can provide various benefits to communities and nature when well-managed. Collaboration is believed to be a key to unlocking these benefits, but there is a gap between intention and implementation, limiting community collaboration in urban waterways governance. This paper presents two case studies in Melbourne, Australia, to understand the factors behind this dilemma. The results highlight bureaucratic processes, inclusivity challenges, and resource intensive implementation as key hindrances to effective community involvement. Overcoming these challenges requires changes in bureaucratic procedures, improved engagement methods, and better resource management.
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Environmental Sciences
Connor Mullen, Marc F. Mueller, Gopal Penny, Fengwei Hung, Diogo Bolster
Summary: The common-pool nature of groundwater resources leads to over-pumping. In transboundary aquifers, differences in economic and hydrogeologic conditions between users can either dampen or amplify incentives to over-pump. Combinations of different types of user asymmetry can enhance common-pool overdraft.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2022)
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Urban Studies
Eddie Chi-man Hui, Tingting Chen, Wei Lang, Yunbei Ou
Summary: This study investigates China's increasing focus on urban regeneration through community redevelopment, highlighting the importance of public participation in community planning and the revitalization of communities. Findings suggest that local resident participation is crucial in urban planning and regeneration, with micro-construction and fishing-port culture playing key roles in reproducing local community vitality.
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Environmental Sciences
Alicia Cooperman, Alexandra R. McLarty, Brigitte Seim
Summary: This study investigates how different management features affect users' perception of common-pool resource (CPR) management systems. The results show that discussion complements monitoring, while payment substitutes for rules. This has important implications for water resource management in rural, semi-arid regions.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Pablo J. Ordonez, Kathy Baylis, Isabel Ramirez
Summary: More than half of Mexico's forests and about a third of the forests of the world are communally owned. Despite this, community forest management (CFM) is the least studied forest management policy, and existing studies have focused on the effects of CFM on deforestation.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Birgitta Hoernschemeyer, Anne Soefker-Rieniets, Jan Niesten, Rosalie Arendt, Jonas Kleckers, Christian Klemm, Celestin Julian Stretz, Christa Reicher, Winona Grimsehl-Schmitz, Daniel Wirbals, Vanessa Bach, Matthias Finkbeiner, Jens Haberkamp, Janik Budde, Peter Vennemann, Gotthard Walter, Sabine Flamme, Mathias Uhl
Summary: In Germany, sectoral urban planning often leads to inefficient resource use due to a lack of integrated planning instruments. This paper introduces the ResourcePlan as a legal and planning instrument to support resource efficiency in urban neighborhoods. The approach focuses on natural resource use in water management, building and infrastructure construction and maintenance, urban energy system planning, and land-use planning. The ResourcePlan integrates resource protection into municipal planning and decision-making processes, while a multi-methodological evaluation framework helps assess interdisciplinary resource efficiency and contribute to transparent, resource-optimized planning decisions.
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Environmental Studies
Andrea Cristina Ramirez Herrera, Sonja Bauer, Victor Pena Guillen
Summary: Lima, the second-largest capital located in a desert, is facing water scarcity. The urbanization process has accelerated, leading to a lack of water infrastructure and services. This study aims to detect changes in the urban landscape of Lima from 1990 to 2021 and propose a water-sensitive urban plan.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maria Bernedo Del Carpio, Francisco Alpizar, Paul J. Ferraro
Summary: The externally driven community monitoring program in rural Costa Rica has achieved some positive effects, such as reducing groundwater extraction, improving water quality, and increasing user satisfaction, through providing additional information and fostering citizen engagement.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xuechen Mao, Anmin Li
Summary: This article aims to distinguish the resource pools among two working-memory subsystems and investigate the relationship between the subsystems and unconscious priming. The results show that an increase in working-memory load decreases unconscious priming in the manipulation subsystem but not in the maintenance subsystem, suggesting that the manipulation subsystem interferes with unconscious priming.
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Engineering, Environmental
Stanley B. Grant, Megan A. Rippy, Thomas A. Birkland, Todd Schenk, Kristin Rowles, Shalini Misra, Payam Aminpour, Sujay Kaushal, Peter Vikesland, Emily Berglund, Jesus D. Gomez-Velez, Erin R. Hotchkiss, Gabriel Perez, Harry X. Zhang, Kingston Armstrong, Shantanu V. Bhide, Lauren Krauss, Carly Maas, Kent Mendoza, Caitlin Shipman, Yadong Zhang, Yinman Zhong
Summary: Freshwater salinization is a growing issue globally, affecting ecosystems and human water supplies. This article proposes using a social-ecological systems framework to understand and manage this issue, using rising sodium concentrations in the Occoquan Reservoir in Northern Virginia as a case study to explore impacts, causes, solutions, and research needs.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
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Ecology
Jin Yong Jeon, Hyun In Jo, Kounseok Lee
Summary: This study investigated the potential restorative effects of urban soundscapes by recreating virtual urban sites and conducting narrative interviews to establish PR criteria. Objective characteristics and individual traits were found to significantly impact the restoration effects of urban soundscapes.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2021)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Carol Farbotko, Olivia Dun, Fanny Thornton, Karen E. McNamara, Celia McMichael
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2020)
Article
Geography
Carol Farbotko, Phillipa Watson, Taukiei Kitara, Elaine Stratford
Summary: This article documents an attempt to decolonise methodology in order to respect islands and their islanders. It discusses the challenges and complexities of applying methodologies to island research and highlights the importance of permissions, commitments to decolonisation, and deep learning. The article also presents an approach to decolonising an island research project by drawing on the concept of Fale Pili.
GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Demography
Ingrid Boas, Hanne Wiegel, Carol Farbotko, Jeroen Warner, Mimi Sheller
Summary: This article discusses the concept of climate mobilities and its relationship with human mobility, immobility, and other mobile flows, highlighting the diversity of climate mobilities. It delves into the politics of climate mobilities and calls for attention to acts of resistance against dominant climate mobility regimes.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
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Demography
Carol Farbotko
Summary: This paper explores the concept of anticipated displacement and re-emplacements in low-lying islands, particularly focusing on the case of Funafala in Tuvalu. It highlights the importance of grassroots anti-displacement mobilities and re-emplacements in resisting climate displacement and reclaiming territory and culture.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Olivia Dun, Natascha Klocker, Carol Farbotko, Celia McMichael
Summary: Climate change is expected to have a serious impact on agriculture and food security in Pacific Island countries. The combination of 'modern' and Indigenous agricultural practices and knowledge is necessary for adaptation. International labour mobility programs, such as Australia's Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), provide opportunities for knowledge exchange and climate change adaptation in agriculture in the Pacific Islands. The participation in SWP allows workers to gain adaptive knowledge from their experience in Australia and share it with other Pacific Islanders.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Carol Farbotko, John Campbell
Summary: This paper argues that the concept of 'uninhabitability' in the context of sea level rise risk is culturally and socially experienced and open to multiple truth claims. It emphasizes that habitability is not solely defined by material elements of human security, but also involves local knowledges, cosmologies, and place attachments. Furthermore, it highlights the need to recognize habitability and uninhabitability as relational concepts and to consider who has the right to define habitability in specific places. The paper introduces the idea of relational security among climate-exposed populations and advocates for the integration of habitability and uninhabitability in research and policy.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
Article
Geography
Elaine Stratford, Carol Farbotko, Phillipa Watson, Taukiei Kitara, Juno Berthelsen, Maria Chnaraki aka Maria Hnaraki, Ayano Ginoza, Christopher Cozier, Julie Edel Hardenberg
Summary: The Anthropocene is presented as an unquestionable reality, but its foundations are subject to strong criticism due to the absence, silence, or misrepresentation of certain voices and locations in this framework. Alternative explanations exist for present and future scenarios, including those focused on islands, often seen through an apocalyptic lens. Prioritizing decolonization and addressing historical and contemporary struggles are more impactful ways to secure the futures of island communities than engaging with a reified framework perpetuating colonial-imperial excesses, uneven development, and racial capitalism. This study examines the collaboration between four instigating authors and five collaborating authors to explore academic, activist, and artistic expressions of island life and concerns, aiming to understand the significance of decolonization in shaping the future of island peoples.
Article
Geography
Carol Farbotko
Summary: Tuvalu, the last country to be affected by Covid-19, had no community transmission until November 2022, but is best known for its vulnerability to climate change. The pandemic offers an opportunity to challenge narratives of displacement and disease risk, and to advance the understanding of justice in terms of mobility. During the pandemic, internal migration of Tuvaluans to cultural lands revitalized a sense of community, strengthened cultural relations, and provided an opportunity to reinvigorate traditional self-sufficiency.
AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Federico Davila, Olivia Dun, Carol Farbotko, Brent Jacobs, Natascha Klocker, Ema Vueti, Lavinia Kaumaitotoya, Angela Birch, Peter Kaoh, Tikai Pitakia, Sinaitakala Tu'itahi
Summary: Pacific Island workers make significant contributions to Australia's agriculture and food security through the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). While previous studies have shown the economic benefits of the SWP, there is limited research on the agricultural knowledge exchange enabled by circular migration and the experiences of workers and employers as knowledge holders. With the merger of the SWP into the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme, this paper presents findings from interviews with 63 workers about agricultural knowledge exchange and highlights opportunities for further research in circular migration.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC POLICY STUDIES
(2023)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Carol Farbotko, Ingrid Boas, Ruben Dahm, Taukiei Kitara, Tafue Lusama, Tearinaki Tanielu
Summary: The narrative of certain areas becoming uninhabitable due to sea-level rise can silence important debates on alternative climate adaptation futures. It is crucial to centralize the narratives of low-emission and financially disadvantaged populations in adaptation discussions.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Yuwan Malakar, Luk J. M. Peeters, Andrea Walton, Dan O'Sullivan
Summary: Impact assessment as a discipline is evolving and seeking ways to address wicked and unconventional challenges. This paper explores integrating the causal network approach into environmental and social impact assessments, using a hypothetical scenario of a large-scale green hydrogen industry in Australia. The study found that the causal network approach is useful for scoping potential social and environmental impacts and suggested three areas for further strengthening the approach: evaluating causal relationships, involving stakeholders throughout the assessment process, and incorporating ecological frameworks.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Carol Farbotko, Fanny Thornton, Monika Mayrhofer, Elfriede Hermann
Summary: Climate mobility is intertwined with issues of justice and human rights. Achieving just outcomes and ensuring rights in the context of climate mobility is a complex and contested space.
FRONTIERS IN CLIMATE
(2022)
Article
Geography
Aishath Azfa, Guy Jackson, Ross Westoby, Karen E. McNamara, Celia McMichael, Carol Farbotko
Summary: This study explores the experiences of Gaadhoo Islanders in the Maldives who were involuntarily resettled to Fonadhoo Island. The research findings indicate that the resettlement process had both positive and negative outcomes, with greater access to services and employment being positive, but the loss of identity, culture, and community cohesion being negative. The study suggests that transparency, consistency, and open communication should be central to the entire resettlement process.
TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE
(2022)
Article
Demography
Celia McMichael, Carol Farbotko, Annah Piggott-McKellar, Teresia Powell, Merineta Kitara
Summary: The study found that many residents affected by emerging coastal changes choose to stay in their residences, expressing concerns about local coastal changes and attributing them to climate change. While some anticipate potential relocation in the future, for now they remain in these sites to maintain livelihoods and traditions.
POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Geography
Carol Farbotko
Summary: COVID-19 is not biologically present in every country, but it is nevertheless influencing how people interpret and experience different places. In Tuvalu, the government is advising urban residents to voluntarily return to rural islands, which are considered safer. This article provides a cultural geographic analysis of how rural places are being constructed as secure and meaningful during the pandemic.
GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
(2021)
