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A tipping point for tipping points

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 10, October 2026.
Tipping points (TPs) – often understood as abrupt changes to a system – have become a popular framework for ecology and environmental science across spatial and temporal scales. The underlying, quantitative foundation of TP theory is built on mathematical models from catastrophe and predator–prey theories.
David G. Jenkins, Alexandria G. Lacoursière   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do cultural taboos regulate hunting in transitioning Indigenous communities? The case of the Idu Mishmi of Northeast India

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 10, Page 3402-3415, October 2026.
Abstract There is rising recognition of resource‐use rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) within wildlife conservation. Historically, sociocultural institutions ensured wildlife sustainability in many IPLC areas. However, the future viability of such institutions is uncertain as IPLCs change in response to external pressures and ...
Sahil Nijhawan, Achili Mihu, Iho Tapo, Alinji Rondo, Jibi Pulu, Marcus Rowcliffe   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Competition‐Based Programs Promote Conservation in Agriculture? Evidence From the “Most Crop per Drop” Contest

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 10, October 2026.
Abstract This paper evaluates the Arkansas “Most Crop per Drop” Irrigation Yield Contest, a novel competition‐based Extension program designed to increase the adoption of Irrigation Water Management (IWM) practices among farmers. We use survey data to classify producers into three categories: contestants, informed non‐participants with some connection ...
Shahin Bahrami, Qiuqiong Huang, Christopher Henry, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr., Eva Stephani Caroline   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘A simple outgrowth of the democracy’: Women's Suffrage, Democracy, and the Third Reform Act

Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 407-430, October 2026.
Abstract The 1884 Reform Act was a landmark in the history of British democracy, creating almost three million voters and bringing farm labourers, miners, and shipworkers cascading onto the register. Yet 1884 was also a moment of democratic exclusion.
Robert Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 108, Issue 5, Page 1376-1401, October 2026.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate, Kibrom A. Abay, Jordan Chamberlin, Samuel Sebsibie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Bureaucratic Paradox of Citizen Agency: Institutional Crowding‐Out in Government‐Catalyzed Co‐Production in Shanghai, China

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Public service co‐production is often framed as a means of creating public value, yet its dynamics are complex when citizen‐led participation is catalyzed by strong public institutions. This mixed‐methods study examines government‐catalyzed, citizen‐centric co‐production in Shanghai, China, where the state provides institutional support ...
Huanming Wang, Xiaoyun Sun, Bing Ran
wiley   +1 more source

Satire and Silence under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous water governance in a China-Vietnam borderland: ethnographic insights from Nung and Tay communities. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Truong LV.
europepmc   +1 more source

Carbon Taxation in a Second‐Best Setting: Impacts of Sectoral Differences on Optimal Rates

Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 28, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the Ramsey‐optimal fiscal and environmental policy in an economy with two differentiated final‐goods sectors: brown (pollutive) and green (zero emissions). This analysis provides new insights into the interaction between distortionary taxes and carbon taxes in both the short run and long run.
Mehrab Kiarsi, Nahid Masoudi
wiley   +1 more source

A complex adaptive systems model of labour reciprocity and normative reasoning in swidden agriculture. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Tverskoi D, Scaggs SA, Downey SS.
europepmc   +1 more source