Membership nominations in international scientific assessments

Leifeld, Philip; Fisher, Dana R.

doi:10.1038/nclimate3392

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“…At the same time, there should be sufficient cohesion around goals to hold the network together. Studies on climate change networks show how similarities between actors can produce insular dynamics shaped by central people, institutions, and ideologies (Corbera et al 2016; Jasny, Waggle, and Fisher 2015; Leifeld and Fisher 2017). These similarities tend to reduce friction; however, networks that lack diverse viewpoints may encounter reduced trust by those at peripheries.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Feminisms: Disturbing Colonialism in Environmental Science Partnerships

Dhillon

2020

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Efforts have been under way by Indigenous peoples to reanimate governance that includes people of all ages and genders. Simultaneous initiatives to decolonize science within environmental fields must confront how settler colonial systems can continue to operate under the guise of partnership. Indigenous feminist theories aid understanding of ongoing colonialism alongside heteropatriarchy and racism with attempts to dismantle oppression in everyday practice. The author examines governance in a North American environmental science partnership consisting of Indigenous and non-Indigenous climate scientists. Using a mixed-methods social network approach, the author evaluates central actors in the national-scale climate science organization on the basis of intersectional identities, relational ties, and structural leadership roles. Findings indicate that Indigenous women and youth were not among core governance dominated by elder Indigenous men and White women. However, Indigenous women consistently bridged distant members back into the group and provided less visible labor to support the organization. These did not translate to decision-making roles. The author argues that Indigenous values of relational reciprocity and self-determination need to supersede the rhetoric of diversity in environmental fields. The case demonstrates the importance of inclusive Indigenous governance to decolonize environmental partnerships and the potential lack of legitimacy should unexamined notions of tradition be used to obscure settler colonial dominance.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Feminisms: Disturbing Colonialism in Environmental Science Partnerships

Dhillon

2020

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…To model the transnational human trafficking network, we use the exponential random graph model (ERGM), which has been used to study a wide range of phenomena in international relations (e.g., Cranmer, Heinrich and Desmarais 2014; Leifeld and Fisher 2017;Windzio 2018;Thurner et al 2019), including human trafficking (Goist, Chen and Boylan 2019). The ERGM is a statistical model that allows for inference on tie formation in relational systems (i.e., a network).…”

Section: Statistical Modeling For Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal Institutions and Human Trafficking in a Shifting Climate

Chen,

Wang,

Koren

2024

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While both international law and climate change researchers have shown how legal institutions and climate change impact human trafficking flows in origin and destination countries, little attention is given to the ``intermediary'' countries through which individuals are trafficked en route to their destination. This study develops a two-part theory to explain how the effects of anti-trafficking legalization and climate shocks impact these intermediary countries. First, we argue that the diffusion of anti-trafficking laws will induce pressures on traffickers to diversify their trafficking routes. We then theorize that because climate change-induced shocks impose costs on both states and traffickers, these costs confound the effect of legal institutions by incentivizing traffickers to shift their operations into less costly areas. Using data on human trafficking networks mined from the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report, we show with inferential network analysis (1) how legal institutions impact trafficking through these intermediary countries and (2) how natural shocks impact the importance of different states as preferred trafficking routes.

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“…The boundaries that these bridging ties cross can be disciplinary, scalar (Andersson et al, 2014;Hamilton & Lubell, 2018), geographic (Fischer & Jasny, 2017), or financial (Barendse, Roux, Currie, Wilson, & Fabricius, 2016), among others. Boundary organizations might be formally created to be so, as is the case of the IPCC and other international scientific assessments (Hoppe, Wesselink, & Cairns, 2013; see also Leifeld & Fisher, 2017), or may come to this position as a result of network dynamics and mechanics (Ernstson et al, 2010). While most of the literature is still overwhelmingly positive about the role of brokers in this area, a few studies have highlighted the additional amount of time, work, and resources demanded by these roles, as well as other negative results like decreased trust among those who occupy these positions (M. Stovel & Shaw, 2012).…”

Section: Network and Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%