Socio-ecological Systems

An agenda for plastics crisis research in the synthetic age

We Recasts the plastics crisis as a structural feature of growth-dependent economies and set an ecological economics research agenda to address it.

A bibliometric analysis of plastic pollution research- mapping the structure of influential research networks and its knowledge gaps

We perform bibliometric analyses on high influence plastics research, finding a lack or research about the drivers of plastic pollution.

Planning for the complexity and uncertainty of urban socio-environmental futures

With the aim of addressing rapidly evolving complexity within urban social and environmental systems, we build on a range of literature on uncertainty in decision-making to develop the RAFT (reversibility, adaptability, flexibility and tailoring) framework.

Community water system privatization and the water access crisis

A discussion of the form that debates over privatization of water resources have taken, as well as how the act of privatization has been found to impact access to water systems and the quality of the service they provide.

Designing spatiotemporal multifunctional landscapes to support dynamic wildlife conservation

We use migratory birds as a working example to present a dynamic conservation opportunity and related challenges.

Social drivers of water utility privatization in the United States- an examination of the presence of variegated neoliberal strategies in the water utility sector

Water utility privatization in the United States follows the logic of a variegated neoliberalism and constitutes a form of environmental injustice.