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John Lynham
Fifth time’s a charm!
By John Lynham PhD student Adrian Amaya and UHERO Research Fellow John Lynham recently started working on a new NSF-funded $1.6 million project entitled “Pathways…
Detecting religion from space: Nyepi Day in Bali
Daily changes in human activity are difficult to detect using nightlight imagery because many factors that influence nightlights are changing from night to night. We…
Importance of equitable cost sharing in the Convention on Biological Diversity’s protected area agenda
Principles from social equity literature can be applied to a cost-sharing framework in the CBD’s new protected area strategy.
Impact of two of the world’s largest protected areas on longline fishery catch rates
Two of the largest protected areas on earth are U.S. National Monuments in the Pacific Ocean. Numerous claims have been made about the impacts of these…
Communication, Expectations, and Trust: An Experiment with Three Media
We studied how communication media affect trust game play. Three popular media were considered: traditional face-to-face, Facebook groups, and anonymous online chat. We considered post-communication…
Risk preferences after a typhoon: An artefactual field experiment with fishers in the Philippines
When are risk preferences stable and when do they change? In general, individual preferences tend to be consistent across time and space but extreme shocks,…
Coastal armoring and sinking property values: the case of seawalls in California
Rising sea levels necessitate careful consideration of different forms of coastal protection but cost-benefit analysis is limited when important non-market social costs have not been…
Can demand-side management replicate a size limit in a small-scale fishery?
We tested whether it is possible to replicate the effects of a size limit with a voluntary mechanism – a price premium for larger fish.…
Opportunities for agent-based modelling in human dimensions of fisheries
Models of human dimensions of fisheries are important to understanding and predicting how fishing industries respond to changes in marine ecosystems and management institutions. Advances…