In Common

This ‘Insight’ clip is taken from full episode 026, Michael and Stefan’s conversation with Emily Darling and Georgina Gurney. Emily is a Conservation Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Georgina is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. In the clip, they both reflect on lessons learned from a transdisciplinary social-ecological coral reef monitoring project conducted in multiple countries. Emily’s website: http://www.emilysdarling.com/ Georgina’s website: https://www.coralcoe.org.au/person/georgina-gurney New paper led by Georgina: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632071931420X Smith Conservation Research Fellowship that Emily enrolled in: https://conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows SNAPP program website: https://snappartnership.net/ Data mermaid tool website: datamermaid.org In Common Podcast www.incommonpodcast.org Twitter & Instagram @incommonpod Patreon https://www.patreon.com/incommonpodcast  

This insight episode is taken from full episode 30, Stefan’s conversation with Ina Möller.   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 degree in Political Science and Public Administration.   She currently works together with Prof. Aarti Gupta on anticipation, governance and transparency in the politics of climate change. Her principal focus has been on the case of climate engineering, which describes large-scale interventions into natural systems that are envisioned to stabilize global temperatures. She continues to study the reaction of actors throughout society as the idea of engineering the climate becomes more normalized in climate science. https://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Ina-dr.-IM-Ina-Moller.htm https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ina_Moeller   -------- www.incommonpodcast.org https://www.patreon.com/incommonpodcast Twitter & Instagram @incommonpod  

In this episode, Stefan interviews Joerg Niewoehner.  Joerg is a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where he is also the director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, with the acronym (IRI THESys). He holds a PhD in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia. In 2004, he joined the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin to develop a collaborative program between Social Anthropology and the Life Sciences. He now holds a chair in Social Anthropology of Human-Environment Relations. He conducts ethnographic research at the intersection of science and technology studies, social anthropology and environmental sciences focusing particularly on the qualities of urbanisation, social-ecological change, and metabolic and market dynamics. He also serves on the board of the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies. In episode, we discuss how reflecting on theory of science can help position scholars towards understanding interdisciplinary challenges. We also discuss the challenges with inter- and trans-discipliarity, along with his perspectives on the challenges and paths forward. We touch on how the structural organization of universities and institutes balance traditional disciplinary orientation and more innovative forms of academic organization to foster interdisciplinarity. Joerg also talk about his future research interests in long social-ecological research with a focus on qualitative and quality change using qualitative data. For this he is interested in pushing forward innovative ways to archive qualitative data in social groups as living knowledge and archives rather than traditional digital repositories. https://www.iri-thesys.org/ https://www.iri-thesys.org/people/niewoehner https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=PGZ0pdcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate   --------- Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @incommonpod www.incommonpodcast.org        

In this episode, Stefan interviews Emily Boyd, an in-person interview recorded back in January 2020. Emily is Director of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and Professor in Sustainability Science. She is a leading social scientist with a background in international development, environment and climate change, with a focus on the interdisciplinary nexus of poverty, livelihoods and resilience in relation to global environmental change. Emily is currently leading work on undesirable resilience, politics of loss and damage and intersectionality in societal transitions, including on transformations under climate change.  Emily Boyd is also an author for the IPCC, IPBES, and UKCCRA and is an Earth System Governance Senior Fellow.    https://www.lucsus.lu.se/emily-boyd   https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=CatOY9oAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao   In Common Podcast If you enjoy this podcast, please give us a rating in Apple Podcasts, or your podcast app! www.incommonpodcast.org   Twitter @incommonpod Instagram @incommonpod   Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/incommonpodcast

In this episode Michael spoke with Brent Loken, a Global Food Lead Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Together they discussed Brent's realization that conservation ultimately needs to engage with how we meet peoples' needs, and that food is at the center of this. After describing the path he has taken leading up to his current position, Brent talked about his work at the WWF to promote a global transformation in our food system. Brent's information: Website: https://www.worldwildlife.org/experts/brent-loken Twitter: @brentloken Email: brent.loken@wwf.org Link to a WWF project on Planet-based diets that Brent is involved in:  https://planetbaseddiets.panda.org/  

This insight episode is from episode 006, Stefan’s interview with Sonya Graci.   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, Indonesia, Canada, Fiji and China. She has a keen interest in working with Aboriginal communities in developing sustainable forms of tourism. She also has a passion for increasing sustainability in marine environments and has focused much of her research on sustainable tourism development in island states. Sonya is the author of two books and several journal articles and industry publications. Sonya's links https://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/hospitality-tourism-management/faculty-and-research/sonya-graci/ https://accommodatinggreen.com/ https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=GVQ1fy8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao     Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/incommonpodcast Twitter https://twitter.com/InCommonPod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/InCommonPod/ Our website https://www.incommonpodcast.org/

In this episode, Stefan interviews Anna-Katharina Hornidge. Anna is the Director of the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany, one of the leading research institutions and think tanks for global development and international cooperation worldwide. She is also a Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn. Anne refers to herself as a Development and Knowledge Sociologist with a focus on natural resource governance and sense-making, the social construction of knowledges and 'realities', as well as cultures of knowledge production and sharing. She is also an advocate of transformative science to advance inter- and transdisciplinary science cooperation. In the episode, Anna tells us about her career and path into science leadership through Southeast Asian Studies, sociology, development and environmental governance research. We then discuss how she draws on a constructivist perspective, and how this can be applied to understand how and why knowledge is produced within the science system, and the implications this had on funding structures, outcomes and development politics. Anna also gives her take on making interdisciplinary research work in practice, and the challenges with pushing forward a transformative science agenda. Anna’s homepage https://www.die-gdi.de/en/anna-katharina-hornidge/ Anna’s twitter https://twitter.com/AnnaK_Hornidge German Development Institute twitter   Our website www.incommonpodcast.org Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/InCommonPod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/incommonpod Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/incommonpodcast

In this episode we talked about our favorite books of 2020, as well as some we want to read in 2021. The books we discussed are listed below in alphabetical order by title:   All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Control of Nature by John McPhee Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams Far-fetched Facts by Richard Rottenburg How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen Invisible women by Caroline Criado Perez Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein On the Backs of Tortoises by Elizabeth Hennessy The Overstory by Richard Powers Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler The Paradoxes of Transparency by Doug Wilson Range by David Epstein Seeing Like a State by James Scott Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Unhinged by Daniel Carlat Untamed by Glennon Doyle Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

In this episode, Courtney speaks with Bill Blomquist, a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a fellow at the Ostrom Workshop. We explore Bill's ground-breaking and decade-spanning research into California groundwater governance. We talk about Bill's work tracking the evolution of groundwater policy and institutions, the unique theoretical insights we can learn about natural resource governance from California's most recent groundwater experiment, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and finally we end with some reflections on Bill's time working with the Ostrom Workshop.   If you'd like to dig a little deeper into the content Bill discusses in this podcast, here are a few resources:   The Commons Governance program at the Ostrom Workshop: https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/research/commons/index.html   The special issue of Society and Natural Resources on the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, featuring a few articles by Bill: https://t.co/66njZziLk6?amp=1   NSF-funded project led by Anita Milman at UMass Amherst on California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act that Bill is a collaborator on. This project focuses on inter-agency coordination and Bill mentions it in the discussion in this podcast on mandated-coordination-vs-local-autonomy: https://watergovernance.umasscreate.net/groundwater-sustainability/sgma/

This insight clip is from full episode 53, Michael and Courtney’s interview with Jacopo Baggio. Jacopo is an assistant professor at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida. In this insight clip, Jacopo answers a few questions related to the need for multiple methods and the challenges associated with social science research. Jacopo's website:   In Common website www.incommonpodcast.org Connect with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/InCommonPod Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/incommonpodcast