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Managing uncertainty in decision‐making for conservation science

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Science‐based decision‐making is the ideal. However, scientific knowledge is incomplete, and sometimes wrong. Responsible science‐based policy, planning, and action must exploit knowledge while managing uncertainty. I considered the info‐gap method to manage deep uncertainty surrounding knowledge that is used for decision‐making in ...
Yakov Ben‐Haim
wiley   +1 more source

A theoretical framework for upscaling species distribution models

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 11, Page 2888-2899, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Species distribution models (SDM) have become one of the most popular predictive tools in ecology. With the advent of new computation and remote sensing technology, high‐resolution environmental data sets are becoming more and more common predictors in these modelling efforts.
Christine N. Meynard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A rural‐centric model for understanding women's later life precarity in an agrarian economy in Uganda

open access: yesPoverty &Public Policy, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 290-307, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Aging as a woman within the context of agricultural transformation where production and consumption values shape everyday life raises concerns of later life precarity. Gender economic inclusion is imperative in the achievement of inclusive rural development.
Teddy Nagaddya
wiley   +1 more source

De‐peripheralization and rural land capitalization: An empirical study of a public–private partnership in Zhaoqing, China

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 7, Page 1596-1611, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Classical urban geography theories determine the distribution of population, production and economic activities on geospatial features. Under this assumption, peripheral regions are rarely prosperous. Depopulation, weak industrial and employment structure and inefficient and fragmented land use form a negative feedback loop. Within the context
Yu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Making a case for the consideration of trust, justice, and power in conservation relationships

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 4, August 2022., 2022
Abstract In conservation, trust and justice are increasingly recognized as both intrinsically valuable and critical for successful socioecological outcomes. However, the interdependence between these concepts has not been explored. The conservation trust literature provides examples of efforts to build trust between conservationists and local actors ...
Omar Saif, Aidan Keane, Sam Staddon
wiley   +1 more source

Care Without Justice: Moral Obligation and Food Politics in an Authoritarian Moment

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Contemporary food politics is often grounded in a normative alignment of care and justice, in which attentiveness to vulnerability, embodiment, and lived experience is understood to reinforce commitments to equity, redistribution, and institutional responsibility. This synthesis has been central to food justice scholarship.
Michael S. Carolan
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory fuzzy cognitive modelling reveals leverage points for agroecological adoption in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1817-1831, June 2026.
Abstract Global institutions are increasingly calling for an agroecological transition of our food systems to promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, safeguard agrobiodiversity and foster socio‐ecological resilience to a changing climate. Yet adoption remains limited, and there is a paucity of research examining how local conditions enable and ...
Gabriela Marie Garcia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The City as an Anti‐Growth Machine

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This paper argues that under financialized capitalism, the dynamics have inverted: asset appreciation now outweighs productive investment, and urban ...
Petter Törnberg
wiley   +1 more source

Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home‐based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's ...
L. Kaifa Roland
wiley   +1 more source

To Ban or Not to Ban: The UK's Hamlet Moment With Farm Antibiotics

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 6, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article applies the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to examine post‐Brexit antimicrobial resistance (AMR) governance in UK agriculture, focusing on the contested regulation of prophylactic antibiotic use in farm animals. The study reveals how Brexit created a structural policy window, yet political and ideological dynamics rendered it ...
George Asiamah
wiley   +1 more source

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