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Misreading a pastoral property regime
My paper on Misreading a pastoral property regime is out in Ecology and Society. The paper is a response to an article by Haller et al. (2013) in Ecology and Society titled “How fit turns into misfit…
Video about Aboukar Mahamat's work in the floodplain
A short video about the work of Aboukar Mahamat and CACID in the Logone Floodplain in Cameroon. The video celebrates the winner of the 2002 Equator Prize: CACID.
Blog post for EnviroSociety
I just published a blog post on EnviroSociety about studying African floodplains as coupled systems. The post is inspired by a quote from Gregory Bateson, “The major problems in the world are the…
New undergraduate researchers in the lab
In the last year, four new undergraduate researchers have joined the lab. They are working on a range of different but overlapping research projects. Sophia Kiselova-Sammons works on pastoralists…
Practicing Anthropology
Our paper One Health Research in Cameroon PDF was published in Practicing Anthropology. In the paper, we argue for anthropology’s involvement in One Health research because it promotes new and…
Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation
A new edited volume Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation by Eric Jones and A.J. Faas just came out, with my chapter on networks and hazard adaptation among West…
Paper in International Journal of the Commons
My new paper on Open Property Regimes came out in the International Journal of the Commons. Here is the abstract: In the literature on the commons, open access is considered the absence of a property…
Graduate positions available in study of coupled systems
Two five-year positions supported by the National Science Foundation and The Ohio State University for an interdisciplinary research project that examines the environmental conditions that lead to…
Paper in Global Environmental Change
A new paper from our MORSL lab is out in Global Environmental Change. Sarah Laborde, Alfonso Fernandez, Sui Chian Phang, Ian M. Hamilton, Nathaniel Henry, Hahn Chul Jung, Aboukar Mahamat, Mouazamou…