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Cautionary note on data analytics
I wrote a cautionary note about the use of big data for the blog of TDA@OSU drawing on the work of Mike Agar, Joe Henrich and others.
Paper published in JASSS
Our paper Simulating the Transmission of Foot-And-Mouth Disease Among Mobile Herds in the Far North Region, Cameroon has been published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.The…
Pallavi Orunganti is a Denman Winner
Pallavi Orunganti has won third place at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum for her poster presentation Hunters' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Wildlife Diseases in Ohio. Hunters…
AJAS paper published
Our paper Studying the Logone floodplain, Cameroon, as a coupled human and natural system was published in the African Journal of Aquatic Science. Here is the abstract: African floodplains are an…
Talk at Penn State
I gave a talk at the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University at 12 February 2016 about my research on open property regimes in pastoral systems.
Complex Systems Digital Campus (CS-DC)
Together with Elizabeth Gardiner and Amber Johnson I presented preliminary results of our Comparative study of Pastoral Tenure Systems at the CS-DC'15, the first world e-conference organized by…
Abigail Buffington awarded NSF grant
Abby Buffington, who is working on our EAGER project, has received word that her National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) proposal has been approved for…
Confronting Drought in Africa's Drylands
The World Bank report on resilience in Africa's drylands is available on the web as conference edition or a work in progress for the forthcoming book, Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands:…
Governance of Rangelands
The book Governance of Rangelands: Collective Action for Sustainable Pastoralism, edited by Pedro Herrera Jonathan Davies, and Pablo Manzano Baena is freely available through the IUCN website.