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Reforesting the Earth: The Human Drivers of Forest Conservation, Restoration, and Expansion Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 John Schelhas
Published in Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Jannie Staffansson, Inger-Ann Omma, Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh
In the European north, there is a growing trend for Sámi reindeer herding communities to enter negotiated agreements with developers on projects that aim to exploit land and natural resources. This...
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Accurately Characterizing Climate Change Scenario Planning in the U.S. National Park Service: Comment on Murphy et al. 2023 Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Joel H. Reynolds, Brian W. Miller, Gregor W. Schuurman, Wylie A. Carr, Amy J. Symstad, John E. Gross, Amber N. Runyon
We more accurately locate the boundary between current practice and research priorities regarding climate change scenario planning in U.S. federal land management agencies by supplementing the char...
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Southeast Alaskans Want Food Sovereignty and Reimagined Rural Futures Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Hailey Wilmer, Abigail R. Kaminski, Kendra Wendel, Nicole Grewe, Tracy Hruska, Lee K. Cerveny, J. Ryan Bellmore, Chanda L. Meek, Kellen Nelson
United States federal lands are managed for multiple conservation, social, and commercial goals shaped by the visions of diverse interest groups. The rural economic and food-security needs of local...
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Correction Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-21
Published in Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Market Economy and Norms of Grassland Utilization in Mongolia Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Shunji Oniki, Kadirbyek Dagys, Myeruyert Yetyekbai
As market economies develop, traditional social norms regarding common pool natural resource utilization can change. This study estimates how social norms of nomadic herders’ communities, trust amo...
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Misgivings about Environmental Outreach as a Barrier in a Neighborhood Opinion Leader Campaign Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Theresa M. Vander Woude, Bret R. Shaw, Karen S. Oberhauser
We examined socially influential residents’ beliefs about pro-environmental outreach in a Midwestern city, identifying factors influencing willingness to participate in an urban water quality outre...
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Conservation-Based Estate Planning: Toward a Sustainable Future for Private Lands Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Paul A. Roth, Allyson B. Muth, Alexander L. Metcalf, James C. Finley
Landowners who seek to manage ownership transitions while preserving conservation-related values must engage in the notoriously complex process of estate planning. Most scholarship on conservation-...
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How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Sarah A. Ebel, Benjamin Ortman
Despite decades of restoration efforts in the U.S. Columbia River Basin (CRB), recovery of anadromous fish remains elusive. Regional stakeholder conflicts about objectives for fish restoration comp...
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“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Elijah E. Loftis, Matthew S. Carroll, Kara Whitman
In Washington State in the US, the story of the Washington Department of Natural Resources’ (WA DNR) work to manage increased wildfire threat and the resulting internal and external shifts in agenc...
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The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Marta Aguilar, Jose M. Bleda, Beatriz Larraz, Raúl Urquiaga
This research recovers the collective memory of elderly people who recall experiences lived alongside the Tagus River in the city of Toledo (Spain). The study develops an individual and collective ...
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Unveiling Perspectives and Insights: A Survey of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociologists and Social Scientists Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, John Aloysius Zinda, Hua Qin, David Matarrita-Cascante, Jennifer E. Givens, Chuntian Lu
Existing literature on the intersection of environmental sociology (ES) and natural resource sociology (NRS) suggests that a better understanding of the diverse perceptions, experiences, and practi...
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Correction Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-18
Published in Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Kotryna Klizentyte, Andres Susaeta, Damian C. Adams, Taylor V. Stein
Water-based recreation areas provide many benefits to society and the ecosystem services they provide are increasingly being considered in land planning and conservation decisions. We examine the v...
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A Cultural Approach to Politicization of Science: How the Forestry Coalition Challenged the Scientific Consensus in the Finnish News Media Debate on Increased Logging Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Anna Kukkonen, Arttu Malkamäki
Politicization of science is often described as the process of political actors overemphasizing scientific uncertainty to cast doubt on a scientific consensus. We argue that in addition to exploiti...
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Perception of the Vulnerability of Quilombola Farmers in Alcântara, Eastern Amazonia, Brazil Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jhonatan Andrés Muñoz Gutiérrez, Ceália Cristine dos Santos, Danielle Celentano, Guillaume Xavier Rousseau, Taline Cristina da Silva
This study addresses the contextual vulnerability of farmers using participatory risk mapping with different stakeholders. Additionally, through logistic regression, it identifies factors that infl...
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Social and Cultural Values and Representation Justice: Implications for Water Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mae A. Davenport, Bonnie L. Keeler, Sarah Roth, Amelia Kreiter, Amit Pradhananga, Emily Green, Jaren Peplinski
Water management involves the provision of water uses and benefits for people and communities, with direct environmental justice implications. Beyond water supply for physiological survival, people...
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Perceptions of Missouri Landowners With Land Trust Conservation Easements: Motivations, Challenges and Suggestions Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Sarah Brown, Sonja A. Wilhelm Stanis, Robin Rotman, Jacob Worsham
Conservation easements are a legal tool to preserve and manage private lands. Understanding the factors that influence private landowners to place their land under a conservation easement provides ...
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What Determines the Adoption of Agroforestry Practices in Farmlands and Public Lands? A Case Study from the Terai Region in Nepal Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Prabin Bhusal, Kavi Raj Awasthi, Matthew Low, Naresh Shrestha, Asmit Neupane, Naya Sharma Paudel, Bir Bahadur Khanal Chhetri, Rajan Parajuli
While agroforestry has been well acknowledged for its influential role and benefits in integrated resource management in the global south, its adoption in forest-rich countries with existing commun...
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Spatial Analysis of Attitudes Toward Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus Horridus) Where Encounters Occur Within an Exurban Landscape Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Abigail R. Dunn, Anita T. Morzillo, Lindsay S. Keener-Eck Larson, Rebecca A. Christoffel
Most human-wildlife conflict research has focused on large species, with less attention to smaller, less-charismatic species. Our objective was to evaluate landscape-level spatial relationships amo...
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A Critical Biocultural Identity Framework Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Christina T. Cavaliere, Julia R. Branstrator
Extractive capitalism threatens biocultural diversity through the erosion of identity in the Anthropocene. The coastal community of Ketchikan, Alaska, while remote, contends with overtourism and ec...
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Socio-Political and Ecological Dimensions of Municipal Wildlife Management Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Émilie Edelblutte, John P. Casellas Connors, Sara E. Cavallo, Anne G. Short Gianotti
In urban and suburban areas, the complex socio-environmental landscapes and diverging interests of stakeholders make wildlife management difficult. We analyze how municipalities in Massachusetts ma...
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A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Jacob Cabral, Anita T. Morzillo, Ran Xu
Roadside forests are susceptible to damage from storm events given their exposure and related vulnerability to impacts of multiple stressors. Challenges to management are further complicated in exu...
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Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Kent Curtis
Published in Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Placing Stakeholder Formation in Central Oregon’s Deschutes Basin Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Noel Vineyard, Alida Cantor
This paper examines the processes by which “stakeholder” status is constructed, and the importance of sense of place to that construction in collaborative water resource governance processes. Water...
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Does Measuring Trust in Groups Also Measure Distrust? It Depends Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Brian D. Erickson, Kelly Biedenweg
Trust and distrust are important factors influencing the success or failure of natural resource management, yet the relationship between them is unclear. Using questionnaires and interviews with 53...
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Promoting Conservation Behaviors by Leveraging Optimistic and Pessimistic Messages and Emotions Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Josephine E. M. Martell, Amanda D. Rodewald
Meeting the challenge of the global biodiversity crisis requires evidence-driven communication strategies to engage public and political audiences in conservation. This study used a real-world cons...
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Drilling Setbacks vs Government Takings: The Case of Colorado’s 2018 Colorado Ballot Initiatives Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Jonathan M. Fisk, Joseph A. Aistrup, Binita Mahato, John C. Morris
State policymaking is at the center of many oil and gas related disputes. Driven by the promise of affordable energy, economic development, and new revenues, supporters of oil and gas have pushed f...
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Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Mavis Adjei, Huaming Song, Emmanuel Nketiah, Gibbson Adu-Gyamfi, Bright Obuobi, Javier Cifuentes-Faura
Litter is a global issue that pollutes water, air, and land, and has esthetic and environmental repercussions. Therefore, this study utilized the value -belief -norm (VBN) theory to analyze residen...
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A Classification of Poachers from the Sea: Four Types to Rule Them All Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Hugo M. Ballesteros, Gonzalo Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Pierre Failler, Andy Forse, Benjamin M. Drakeford
The poaching of marine resources has been defined as the conscious breaking of fishery regulations, a situation that occurs at severe levels and high frequencies in many socio-ecological contexts a...
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Troubling the Waters: Gendered Dispossession, Violence, and Sea Cucumber Aquaculture in Madagascar Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Merrill Baker-Médard, Elizabeth Kroger
Poverty reduction and fisheries management in Madagascar have converged on the marine seascape, directed at an unassuming creature: the sea cucumber. In southwestern Madagascar, the enclosure of wh...
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Using Media Framing to Explore the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: The Case of the Rio Negro Basin in Uruguay Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Glorynel Ojeda-Matos, J. Leah Jones-Crank, Anaís Delilah Roque, Dave D. White
Addressing the call for qualitative and empirical approaches to the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus studies, this research examined newspapers to explore public discussion framing the understan...
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Structural Power Dynamics in Polycentric Water Governance Networks Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Lisa McIlwain, Julia Baird, Claudia Baldwin, Gary Pickering, Catherine Manathunga
Water security is severely threatened by climate change. Building resilient catchments is key to reduce water insecurity, yet power dynamics that generate ineffective governance responses can hinde...
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Fracking Evictions: Housing Instability in a Fossil Fuel Boomtown Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Carl Gershenson, Olivia Jin, Jacob Haas, Matthew Desmond
In 2019, North Dakota accounted for 11% of American oil production. Rural counties like Williams County, ND experienced rapid in-migration of oilfield workers and, consequently, acute housing short...
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Place Attachment among Dispersed and Event Recreationists on Public Lands Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Megha Budruk, K. Andereck, M. Sampson
Place attachment has received considerable attention in the outdoor recreation literature. While the core dimensions of place identity and dependence have been measured using a reliable scale, soci...
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By the Book: Examining California’s Private Forest Regulations from the Perspectives of Family Forest Landowners Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Brita A. Goldstein, Erin Clover Kelly, Mindy S. Crandall
Private forest land policies in the U.S. differ by state and range from regulatory to non-regulatory. The state of California has a highly regulatory policy system to ensure sustainable forest mana...
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Life is Not Useful Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Amanda McKinney
Published in Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2024)
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What Was the Norm Is No Longer the Norm: Capturing Socio-Ecological Histories of Flood Resilience in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area through Archival News Analysis Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Eveline Gordon, Rebecca Lave, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Sydney Widell, Bailey Hillis
Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, an unglaciated region defined by steep river valley systems, has been plagued by chronic flooding in part due to Euro-American agricultural practices and anthropogenic c...
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Beyond Protection, toward Respect: Struggle for Environmental Justice in the Kendeng Mountains Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Yvonne Kunz, Jonas Hein, Mokh Sobirin
The cement industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than international air traffic, it takes up massive amounts of water and energy in the production process and creates highly des...
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Correction Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-10-11
Published in Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Conditions of Conflict: Exploring Pastoralist Resettlement in Relation to African Lion Conservation Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Michael H. Kimaro, Courtney Hughes
The resettlement of pastoralists across Tanzania has been driven by socio-economic development goals and resource scarcity, as well as conservation agendas. Lion conflict with pastoralists has been...
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Being Paramuno: Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Monica Amador-Jimenez, Naomi Millner
In this paper we explore what campesino [peasant] livelihoods in the rural Andean mountains of Colombia offer to understandings of more-than-human co-existence and care. For, while new conservation...
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Using Animal Movement Theory to Inform Visitor Movement Research: Integrating Movement Ecology and Hierarchical Habitat Selection for Outdoor Recreation Contexts Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Susan A. Sidder, Troy E. Hall, Ashley D’Antonio
Abstract Visitor movement research in outdoor recreation contexts generates information about recreation activity type, timing, and distribution. Much of this work is descriptive or exploratory, limiting the extent to which findings can be used for movement prediction. This is problematic for practitioners seeking to use information on visitor movement to proactively inform management decisions. Using
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Uncertainty and Forest Concessions in a Globalized World: Insights into Local Access to Forest Resources in Mozambique Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Ida Herdieckerhoff, Irmeli Mustalahti, Almeida Sitoe, Estêvão E. Chambule
Abstract Forest-based communities are embedded in complex and uncertain global processes. We aim to understand the repercussions of uncertainty on forest-based livelihoods through a focus on implications in terms of access to resources for inhabitants of forest concessions. Uncertainty is conceptualized as unpredictability (not knowing), limited knowledge (knowing too little), and ambiguity (knowing
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Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Daniel Di Marzo, Cristina Espinosa
Abstract Protected areas (PAs) are often seen as a solution to the biodiversity crisis, however, such conservation intervention can drive environmental change and conflict. Despite being presented as neutral and technically informed, PA establishment is highly political, often concealing social, economic, and political factors. Political ecology research examines how dominant narratives shape PA establishment
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Book Review “Fishing Europe’s Troubled Waters - Fifty Years of Fisheries Policy” Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Sophia Kochalski
Published in Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2024)
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Critical Consciousness of Systemic Racism in Parks among Park Agency Directors and Policymakers: An Environmental Justice Tool for Recreation and Conservation Leaders Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Sammie L. Powers, Nicholas A. Pitas, Andrew J. Mowen
Systemic racism in parks has created significant environmental injustices for people of color. Park leaders including agency directors and policymakers are well positioned to advance environmental ...
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Spatial Analysis of the Attributes of Working Forest Conservation Easements in the State of Georgia Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Sabhyata Lamichhane, Tyler Reeves, Jacek Siry, Bin Mei
Working forest conservation easements (WFCEs) are increasingly used to protect working forests. However, their attributes such as forest management activities, landowner goals, landscape features, ...
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Competition, Chromium, and Contracts: The Interaction Between Bidding Intensity and Toxic Waste Releases Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Dustin T. Hill, Mary B. Collins
The public procurement sector has a high impact on the environment including pollution from manufacturing. Competition is the primary way that the United States government ensures that the most eff...
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Environmental Justice and Stream Restoration: A Multiscale Spatial Analysis for North Carolina Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Sarah Praskievicz
A multiscale spatial analysis was conducted for the state of North Carolina, which provides centralized state funding for stream restoration through the North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF). ...
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Informal Water Tankers, Their Network Structure, and Drivers of Cooperation and Competition: A Case Study in Beirut, Lebanon Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Yasmina Choueiri, Francesca Vantaggiato
Areas with chronic water shortages rely on informal water tankers for daily water needs. Informal tankers operate outside the reach of the state, hence the quality and price of the services they pr...
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Overcoming Episodic Political Uncertainties and Tensions: Borderland Conservation Communities of Practice and the Bridging and Linking of Social Capital Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Kari Hibbeler, Matthew M. Mars
Episodes of political tension and extreme rhetoric make the economic and socio-political conditions of borderland regions uncertain and oftentimes contentious. Yet, there is a paucity of research o...
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More-than-Human Lifeworlds: Ethics, Ontology and Relationality in Local Environmental Struggles Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Özge Yaka
Abstract Local environmental conflicts are often framed as “resource conflicts” in the political ecology literature. Based on ethnographic research on local community struggles against run-of-river hydroelectric power plants in Turkey’s East Black Sea Region, this article aims to demonstrate the limitation of the “resource” frame in explaining the grievances of environmentally dispossessed communities
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On a Firm Footing: Coastal Foot-fishing in a User-centric Policy Design to Promote Sustainable Livelihoods of Small-scale Fishers in India Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Harini Santhanam, Sudip Kumar Kundu
Coastal Foot fishing (CFF), an undervalued fishery, is practiced by marginal communities in near-shore shallow ecosystems, such as lagoons, mangroves, estuaries, wetlands etc., with low investments...
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Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Richard M. Friend, Robert I. Arthur, Cecile Brugere, Ian G. Cowx, Bob Doherty, Sithirith Mak, Md. Monirul Islam, Fiona Nunan, Jouni Paavola, Chainarong Sretthachau, Bryce D. Stewart, Samarthia Thankappan, Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
This paper addresses why food security implications of projected losses to inland capture fisheries due to hydropower development have been neglected in policy arenas. Drawing on the case of the Lo...
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel I: An Extension of the 1985–2017 Bibliometric Analysis of Environmental and Resource Sociology Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Hua Qin, Christine Sanders, Muh Syukron, Garima Srivastava, Gloria Ndindir Mangoni
Twenty years after the organized sessions on environmental sociology (ES) and natural resource sociology (NRS) at the 2000 International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, a featured col...
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Public Opposition to Harvesting as a Barrier to Climate Change Adaptation: Perceptions and Responses of Foresters across the Northeastern United States Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Tessa C. McGann, Rachel E. Schattman, Anthony W. D’Amato, Todd A. Ontl
In the northeastern U.S., climate change concerns are fueling public movements against forest harvesting, despite experts’ assertion that harvesting is an important tool in climate adaptive forest ...
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Do Socio-demographic Factors Influence Water-fetching Practices? Evidence from the Southwestern Coastal Region of Bangladesh Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Zia Ahmed, Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed, A. H. M. Belayeth Hussain, Rafiul Alam, Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Muhammad Mustofa Kamal, Md. Alamgir Chowdhury
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to provide equitable access to safe and affordable water services. Yet, the lack of potable water in Bangladesh’s coastal region is a signific...
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Effect of Farmland Arrangements for the Protection of Natural Areas on the Basic Psychological Needs of the Farmers Involved Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Christine Léger-Bosch, Colas Chervier
Some studies question the effectiveness of incentive-based environmental public policies (IEPPS) on inducing changes in farmers’ practices due to certain psychological mechanisms. Rooted in self-de...
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From Theory to Transdisciplinary Practice: Community-Based Resilience Visioning in Urban Agriculture Society & Natural Resources (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Jennifer Hodbod, Lissy Goralnik, Linnea Vicari, Stephanie White
Using a case study of urban agriculture (UA) in the Rust Belt Midwest, we present lessons learned from a participatory resilience visioning activity rooted in social-ecological resilience principle...