Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science Experiences Around the World

Abstract

Preface -- 1. Introduction: Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science; Stephen G. Perz -- 2. 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 Cordoba, Xoco Shinbrot, Sergio Miguel Lopez Ramirez, Kelly W. Jones, Russell G. Congalton, Robert H. Manson, Juan Jose Von Thaden Ugalde, Theresa Selfa, Sophie Avila, Heidi Asbjornsen -- 3. Adapting to the Challenges of International and Interdisciplinary Research of Coupled Human and Natural Systems; Sarah Laborde, Sui Chian Phang, and Mark Moritz -- 4. 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 Castaneda-Moya, Arthur J. Gold, Todd Guilfoos, Mario F. Hernandez, Razack Lokina, Mwita M. Mangora, Stephen R. Midway; Catherine McNally, Michael J. Polito; Matthew Robertson, Robert V. Rohli, Hirotsugu Uchida, Lindsey West, and Xiaochen Zhao -- 5. 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, Klaus Keller, Dennis Vickers, Melissa Lucash, Robert E. Nicholas, Stacey Olson, Kelsey Ruckert, Jared Oyler, Casey Helgeson, and Jiawei Huang -- 6. Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration across Continents and Cultures: Lessons from the Mongolian Rangelands and Resilience Project; Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez, Arren Allegretti , Jay Angerer, Batkhishig Baival, Batbuyan Batjav, Steven Fassnacht, Chantsallkham Jamsranjav, Khishigbayar Jamiyansharav, Melinda Laituri, Robin Reid, Jessica Thompson, Tungalag Ulambayar, Niah Venable -- 7. Challenges of Boundary Crossing in Graduate Training for Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research Elizabeth G. King and Nathan Nibbelink -- 8. 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 Aistrup, David Haukos, Aleksey Y. Sheshukov, Matthew Sanderson, and Jessica L. Heier Stamm -- 9. 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, and Stephanie A. Bohlman -- 10. 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 Munoz-Carpena, Gregory Kiker, Christopher Baraloto, Matthew Marsik and Jane Southworth -- 11. 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, Thomas A. Bianchette, Heng Cai, Lei Zou, Kenan Li, Sanjeev Joshi, and Volodymyr Mihunov -- 12. Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration in Comparative Perspective: Key Insights, Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Future Practice; Stephen G. Perz.