In Common

Elena Finkbeiner is the Fisheries Science Program Manager at Conservation International’s Center for Oceans. She wants to understand and improve adaptive capacity and equality within and across fishing communities and integrate a human rights-based approach to fisheries governance. She has over a decade of experience working in small-scale fisheries along the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. Elena holds a degree from UC Santa Cruz, a master’s degree from Duke University’s Nicholas School for the Environment and a PhD from Stanford University. Conservation International is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with over 30 years of experience, with a mission statement to empower societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity.  https://www.conservation.org/about/center-for-oceans https://www.riseseafood.org/

Juan Camilo Cárdenas is a professor of economics a la Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He is considered a leading expert in the field of experimental economics, applying field-based methods to explore how actors can resolve real-world social dilemmas. Much of his work involves the use of games to simulate these dilemmas. Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yfeFFpIAAAAJ&hl= Faculty website: https://economia.uniandes.edu.co/index.php?option=com_profesor&view=profesorp&profesor=9&Itemid=474

Helen Rozwadowski is an associate professor of History and founder the Maritime Studies program at the University of Connecticut. Her teaching includes environmental history, history of science, and public history, as well as interdisciplinary maritime studies courses. Twitter @oceanhistories  https://history.uconn.edu/faculty-by-name/helen-m-rozwadowski/# Helen is the author of numerous books about the history of the ocean, including her most recent book titled ‘Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans’. In the book she demonstrates that the human relationship with the ocean began in evolutionary time and has tightened dramatically since them, aims to provide a model for writing ocean history, and argues that ocean histories must examine and historicize the technologies and knowledges systems that enabled and accompanied human interactions with the sea.  http://fathomingtheocean.com/books/ Her book, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (2005), which reveals the simultaneous scientific and cultural discovery of the ocean’s depths in the mid nineteenth century, won the History of Science Society’s Davis Prize for best book directed to a wide public audience.  She has written a history of 20th century marine science, The Sea Knows No Boundaries (2002), a history of 20th century marine sciences supporting international fisheries policy.  She has co-edited three volumes that have helped establish the field of history of oceanography: Soundings and Crossings: Doing Science at Sea 1800-1970 (2017), The Machine in Neptune’s Garden: Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment (2004), and Extremes: Oceanography’s Adventures at the Poles (2007). Helen has worked in the past both as a public historian and also in academia. She won the Ida and Henry Schuman Prize from the History of Science Society, was awarded the William E. & Mary B. Ritter Fellowship of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and has received grants and fellowships from the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the UConn Humanities Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Neal Haddaway is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden. He works on various projects involving evidence synthesis in environmental and development topics, and has been with SEI since the start of 2016. Neal has a PhD in conservation biology, and since 2012 Neal has been helping to establish and improve guidance for formalized systematic reviews and maps in environmental management and more recently in international development. Neal's SEI page: https://www.sei.org/people/neal-haddaway/   Other resources mentioned:   www.environmentalevidence.org - Center for Environmental Evidence   www.environmentalevidencejournal.org - Environmental Evidence Journal   www.eshackathon.org - Evidence Synthesis Hackathon   www.campbellcollaboration.org - Campbell Collaboration   www.roses-reporting.com - Systematic review reporting standards   www.predicter.org - Tool for estimating systematic review time requirements

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. 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  

Stefan has a conversation with David Abson. Dave holds a Professorship for Sustainability Economics and Assessment at Leuphana University in Germany. Dave explains the path that led him to academia, and then we discuss his understanding of sustainability premised on justice. The concept of land sparing vs land sharing is discussed as well as the ecosystem services concept, including its operationalization and dimensions of governance. Dave also explains the leverage points concept, and its usefulness for sustainability science research. We touch on numerous other topics including open access publishing and how he thinks about interdisciplinarity. Dave's University page https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/centre-for-sustainability-management-csm/persons/david-abson.html Dave's Google Scholar page https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=gyyNJWMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao  

Jeremy Caradonna has 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 'Sustainability: A history' published by Oxford University Press in 2014. In the podcast, we discuss Jeremy's background as a historian and how it has shaped his thinking about sustainability. We go over the content of his book, and then he explains his thoughts about changing academia, and his career path, to be more impactful in the age increasing social and environmental change. https://www.jeremycaradonna.com/

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. Topics include meditation, philosophy, value of literature reviews, and organizing his working group.   Henrik's Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=RmW1avAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Stefan and Michael have a conversation with Dr. Emma McKinley about her research career and the Marine Social Science (MarSocSci) Network. Emma is a Research Fellow at Cardiff University and co-founder of the Marine Social Science Network. www.marsocsci.net

Stefan Partelow introduces the podcast and then interviews Michael Cox about his academic career. Stefan and Michael discuss why they are starting the podcast.