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Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science

Experiences Around the World

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Editors:
  1. Stephen G. Perz

    1. Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

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  • Discusses the many challenges involved in large scale interdisciplinary research
  • Collates first hand information from collaborations investigating social-ecological systems
  • Provides a set of recommendations to any collaborators intending to use science as a tool to better understand social-ecological systems

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlv
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  2. Introduction: Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science

    • Stephen G. Perz
    Pages 1-33

  3. Lessons Learned About Collaborating Across Coupled Natural-Human Systems Research on Mexico’s Payments for Hydrological Services Program

    • Erin C. Pischke, Z. Carter Berry, Randall K. Kolka, Jacob Salcone, Diana Córdoba, Xoco Shinbrot et al.
    Pages 35-77

  4. Adapting to the Challenges of International and Interdisciplinary Research of Coupled Human and Natural Systems

    • Sarah Laborde, Sui Chian Phang, Mark Moritz
    Pages 79-114

  5. Collaborative Research Across Boundaries: Mangrove Ecosystem Services and Poverty Traps as a Coupled Natural-Human System

    • Emi Uchida, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Sara A. Ates, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Arthur J. Gold, Todd Guilfoos et al.
    Pages 115-152

  6. Learning About Forest Futures Under Climate Change Through Transdisciplinary Collaboration Across Traditional and Western Knowledge Systems

    • Erica A. H. Smithwick, Christopher Caldwell, Alexander Klippel, Robert M. Scheller, Nancy Tuana, Rebecca Bliege Bird et al.
    Pages 153-184

  7. Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration Across Continents and Cultures: Lessons from the Mongolian Rangelands and Resilience Project

    • María E. Fernández-Giménez, Arren Allegretti, Jay Angerer, Batkhishig Baival, Batbuyan Batjav, Steven Fassnacht et al.
    Pages 185-225

  8. Challenges of Boundary Crossing in Graduate Training for Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research

    • Elizabeth G. King, Nathan Nibbelink
    Pages 227-264

  9. Understanding the Central Great Plains as a Coupled Climatic-Hydrological-Human System: Lessons Learned in Operationalizing Interdisciplinary Collaboration

    • Marcellus Caldas, Martha Mather, Jason Bergtold, Melinda Daniels, Gabriel Granco, Joseph A. Aistrup et al.
    Pages 265-294

  10. High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data as a Boundary Object to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Collaboration

    • T. Trevor Caughlin, Sarah J. Graves, Gregory P. Asner, Bryan C. Tarbox, Stephanie A. Bohlman
    Pages 295-326

  11. Scientists and Stakeholders, Data and Diagnostics: Crossing Boundaries for Modeling the Impacts of Highway Paving in a Tri-national Frontier in the Amazon

    • Stephen G. Perz, Galia Selaya, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Gregory Kiker, Christopher Baraloto, Matthew Marsik et al.
    Pages 327-359

  12. Collaboration Across Boundaries: Reflections on Studying the Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System

    • Nina S.-N. Lam, Y. Jun Xu, R. Kelley Pace, Kam-biu Liu, Yi Qiang, Siddhartha Narra et al.
    Pages 361-393

  13. Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration in Comparative Perspective: Key Insights, Lessons Learned, and Recommendations for Future Practice

    • Stephen G. Perz
    Pages 395-429

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 431-437
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About this book

Collaboration across boundaries is widely recognized as a vital requisite for the advancement of innovative science to address problems such as environmental degradation and global change. This book takes collaboration across boundaries seriously by focusing on the many challenges and practices involved in team science when spanning disciplinary, organizational, national and other divides. The authors draw on a shared framework for managing the challenges of collaboration across boundaries as applied to the science of understanding complex social-ecological systems.


Teams working across boundaries on diverse social-ecological systems in countries around the world report their challenges and share their practices, outcomes and lessons learned. From these diverse experiences arise many commonalities and also some important differences. These provide the basis for a set of recommendations to any collaborators intending to use science as a tool to betterunderstand social-ecological systems and to improve their management and governance. 



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Stephen G. Perz

About the editor

Stephen G. Perz is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA. He works collaboratively on conservation and development issues in the Amazon, crossing disciplinary, organizational and national boundaries. This work has been funded by NASA, NSF, USAID, the Moore Foundation, and other sources, and has resulted in over 100 publications in peer-reviewed scholarly outlets.





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