Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

• Polycentric Transformation in Kenyan Water Governance: A Dynamic Analysis of Institutional and Social-Ecological Change

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Beginning in 2002, Kenyan water governance transitioned from a monocentric, top‐down system to one exhibiting traits of polycentricity

• Crop diversification as a smallholder livelihood strategy within semi-arid agricultural systems near Mount Kenya

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Crop diversification is one strategy that smallholder farmers may employ to reduce their vulnerability in the face of global environmental change.

• Tsetse fly control in Kenya's spatially and temporally dynamic control reservoirs: A cost analysis

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) and animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT) are significant health concerns throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa

• Assessing multi-level drivers of adaptation to climate variability and water insecurity in smallholder irrigation systems

  Published on May 31, 2018
  In this study we investigate smallholder adaptation in Kenya from multiple levels.

• Household-level heterogeneity of water resources within common-pool resource systems

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Prior work has demonstrated the ability of common property systems to sustain institutional arrangements governing natural resources over long periods of time

• ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS - Changes in Human Well-being and Rural Livelihoods Under Natural Disasters

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Rural areas around the world are increasingly exposed to natural disasters.

• APPLIED GEOGRAPHY -- The Telecoupling GeoApp: A Web-GIS application to systematically analyze telecouplings and sustainable development

  Published on May 16, 2018
  To operationalize the framework, we have developed the Telecoupling GeoApp, a new web-based component of the Telecoupling Toolbox that provides researchers and practitioners with a useful platform to address globally important issues.

• Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability

  Published on May 9, 2018
  The world has become increasingly telecoupled through distant flows of information, energy, people, organisms, goods, and matter

• PNAS -- Importing food damages domestic environment: Evidence from global soybean trade

  Published on May 4, 2018
  Our study shows that international food trade can also lead to environmental pollution in importing countries.

• Innovation diffusion within large environmental NGOs through informal network agents

  Published on April 20, 2018
  We conducted a network experiment to estimate the role of informal boundary spanners—individuals who cross internal organizational boundaries via their informal social networks—for diffusing innovations in a large ENGO.

• Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion

  Published on March 28, 2018
  To feed the world’s growing population, more food needs to be produced using currently available cropland

• Revealing pathways from payments for ecosystem services to socioeconomic outcomes

  Published on March 22, 2018
  Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs have been widely implemented as a promising tool to conserve ecosystems while facilitating socioeconomic development

• Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases

  Published on February 21, 2018
  Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries

• Otolith chemistry as a fisheries management tool after flooding: the case of Missouri River gizzard shad

  Published on February 11, 2018
  We used otolith chemistry to quantify Hipple Lake’s natal contribution to Lake Sharpe’s gizzard shad population and forecast effects of connectivity loss on the reservoir’s socioeconomically important walleye fishery.

• Predicting habitat suitability for eleven imperiled fluvial freshwater mussels

  Published on February 6, 2018
  Understanding patterns in freshwater mussel distributions and habitat use, particularly for imperiled species, is critical for their conservation

• Cropping System Conversion led to Organic Carbon Change in China's Mollisols Regions

  Published on January 28, 2018
  Land use change driven by diet, globalization, and technology advancement have greatly influenced agricultural production and environment in the mollisols region of China

• Uncertainty of future projections of species distributions in mountainous regions

  Published on January 22, 2018
  Multiple factors introduce uncertainty into projections of species distributions under climate change. The uncertainty introduced by the choice of baseline climate information

• Effects of grain size and niche breadth on species distribution modeling

  Published on December 27, 2017
  This study investigate the effect of grain size and niche breadth on SDMs.

• Does one size fit all? A multispecies approach to regional landscape corridor planning

  Published on December 21, 2017
  We quantitatively evaluated habitat suitability of a single umbrella species, giant panda; habitat suitability of sympatric mammals; and the potential effectiveness of the planning to preserve suitable habitat and its connectivity of other focal species.

• Nature reserve requirements for landscape-dependent ungulates: The case of endangered takin (Budorcas taxicolor) in Southwestern China

  Published on December 21, 2017
  To determine the key landscape characteristics of the endangered takin (Budorcas taxicolor), we systematically surveyed for their occurrence in the Northern MinShan Mountains, China, during 2010–2011.