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Biocultural evolution, narratives, and emerging cultures of sustainability Open

Pierre D. Glynn, Kristan Cockerill, Jennifer Helgeson, Greg Newman, Simone A. Glynn , et al. · 2025

Biocultural evolution has created propensities that guide, largely unconsciously, how species think and behave. Human anthropocentrism leads to a lack of recognition of the propensities shared by Homo sapiens and other species. Human narra…

A just and equitable water future for all in an ever-changing environment: An urgent call for accelerated actions Open

Sunil K. Sinha, Pierre D. Glynn, Paolo Gardoni, Pingbo Tang, Meghna Sebens , et al. · 2025

Access to clean and reliable water is critically important for health, well-being, and economic development. The natural, built, and social systems – which interact with each other and comprise the water system-of-systems – are threatened …

Knowledge sources, narratives, and living in social-ecological systems Open

Kristan Cockerill, Pierre D. Glynn, Estefania Santamaria Cerrutti, John C. Little · 2024

Humans exist as part of social-ecological systems (SES) in which biological, physical, chemical, economic, political and other social processes are tightly interwoven. Global change within these systems presents an increasingly untenable s…

Recognizing political influences in participatory social-ecological systems modeling Open

Theodore Lim, Pierre D. Glynn, Gary W. Shenk, Patrick Bitterman, Joseph H. A. Guillaume , et al. · 2023

Stakeholder participation in social-ecological systems (SES) modeling is increasingly considered a desirable way to elicit diverse sources of knowledge about SES behavior and to promote inclusive decision-making in SES. Understanding how p…

Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives Open

Jennifer Helgeson, Pierre D. Glynn, Ilan Chabay · 2022

Making the profound societal transitions and transformations called for in the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (UN, 2019) and beyond is a critical and urgent challenge for humanity. We propose the collection and analysis of digit…

Value of Information and Decision Pathways: Concepts and Case Studies Open

Pierre D. Glynn, Charles Rhodes, Scott J. Chiavacci, Jennifer Helgeson, Carl D. Shapiro , et al. · 2022

Information used in decision making arises from the structuring of observations and data. The collection, dissemination, and use of information has monetary and non-monetary costs (e.g., competition for attention) and necessitates trade-of…

Value of Information: Exploring Behavioral and Social Factors Open

Pierre D. Glynn, Scott J. Chiavacci, Charles Rhodes, Jennifer Helgeson, Carl D. Shapiro , et al. · 2022

There is growing interest within and beyond the economics community in assessing the value of information (VOI) used in decision making. VOI assessments often do not consider the complex behavioral and social factors that affect the percep…

Water‐Use Data in the United States: Challenges and Future Directions Open

Landon Marston, Adel Abdallah, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Kerim E. Dickson, Pierre D. Glynn , et al. · 2022

In the United States, greater attention has been given to developing water supplies and quantifying available waters than determining who uses water, how much they withdraw and consume, and how and where water use occurs. As water supplies…

Lessons learned from development of natural capital accounts in the United States and European Union Open

Kenneth J. Bagstad, Jane Carter Ingram, Carl D. Shapiro, Alessandra La Notte, Joachim Maes , et al. · 2021

The United States and European Union (EU) face common challenges in managing natural capital and balancing conservation and resource use with consumption of other forms of capital. This paper synthesizes findings from 11 individual applica…

What's left before participatory modeling can fully support real-world environmental planning processes: A case study review Open

Beatrice Hedelin, Steven Gray, Stefan Woehlke, Todd K. BenDor, Alison Singer , et al. · 2021

Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach Open

Takuya Iwanaga, Hsiao‐Hsuan Wang, Serena H. Hamilton, Volker Grimm, Tomasz E. Koralewski , et al. · 2020

Integrating physical and economic data into experimental water accounts for the United States: Lessons and opportunities Open

Kenneth J. Bagstad, Zachary H. Ancona, Julie L. Hass, Pierre D. Glynn, Scott Wentland , et al. · 2020

Testing ecosystem accounting in the United States: A case study for the Southeast Open

Katherine J.D. Warnell, Marc Russell, Charles Rhodes, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Lydia Olander , et al. · 2020

Combining Bow-Ties and BBNs to inform environmental decision-making Open

Tim Crowe, P. Archambault, Edward B. Barbier, J. Brannigan, Michael Bruen , et al. · 2020

Try, try again: Lessons learned from success and failure in participatory modeling Open

Eleanor J. Sterling, Moira Zellner, Karen E. Jenni, Kirsten M. Leong, Pierre D. Glynn , et al. · 2019

Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater recognition of the importance of engaging a diverse array of stake…

The Natural Capital Accounting Opportunity: Let's Really Do the Numbers Open

James Boyd, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Jane Carter Ingram, Carl D. Shapiro, Jeffery Adkins , et al. · 2018

The nation's economic accounts provide objective, regular, and standardized information routinely relied on by public and private decision-makers. But they are incomplete. The United States and many other nations currently do not account f…

Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job Open

Alexey Voinov, Karen E. Jenni, Steven Gray, Nagesh Kolagani, Pierre D. Glynn , et al. · 2018

Twelve Questions for the Participatory Modeling Community Open

Rebecca Jordan, Steven Gray, Moira Zellner, Pierre D. Glynn, Alexey Voinov , et al. · 2018

Participatory modeling engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representations of reality and has evolved into a field of study as well as a practice. Participatory modeling researchers a…

Response to Comment by Walker et al. on “From Data to Decisions: Processing Information, Biases, and Beliefs for Improved Management of Natural Resources and Environments” Open

Pierre D. Glynn, Alexey Voinov, Carl D. Shapiro, Paul White · 2018

Our different kinds of minds and types of thinking affect the ways we decide, take action, and cooperate (or not). The comment by Walker et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017EF000750 ) illustrates several points made by Glynn et al. (…

From Needs to Decisions: Creating Records of Engagement for Participatory Modeling and Governance Open

Pierre D. Glynn, Alexey Voinov, Carl D. Shapiro, Karen E. Jenni, Nicole M. Herman‐Mercer , et al. · 2018

Science and policy governance, including the development of modeling and decision support tools for the management of natural resources and environments, can be improved with enhanced: (1) stakeholder and public engagement; (2) societal an…

Issue Information Open

David Schimel, Jill S. Baron, Timothy E. Essington, Andrew O. Finley, Erik J. Nelson , et al. · 2018

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Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products: four Ps to advance participatory socio‐environmental modeling Open

Steven A. Gray, Alexey Voinov, Michael Paolisso, Rebecca Jordan, Todd K. BenDor , et al. · 2017

Including stakeholders in environmental model building and analysis is an increasingly popular approach to understanding ecological change. This is because stakeholders often hold valuable knowledge about socio‐environmental dynamics and c…

From data to decisions: Processing information, biases, and beliefs for improved management of natural resources and environments Open

Pierre D. Glynn, Alexey Voinov, Carl D. Shapiro, Paul White · 2017

Our different kinds of minds and types of thinking affect the ways we decide, take action, and cooperate (or not). Derived from these types of minds, innate biases, beliefs, heuristics, and values ( BBHV ) influence behaviors, often benefi…

Modelling with stakeholders – Next generation Open

Alexey Voinov, Nagesh Kolagani, Michael K. McCall, Pierre D. Glynn, Marit E. Kragt , et al. · 2015

Integrated Environmental Modelling: human decisions, human challenges Open

Pierre D. Glynn · 2015

Integrated Environmental Modelling (IEM) is an invaluable tool for understanding the complex, dynamic ecosystems that house our natural resources and control our environments. Human behaviour affects the ways in which the science of IEM is…

Review of the USA National Phenology Network Open

Brian F. Powell, Pierre D. Glynn, T. Owen, Geoffrey M. Henebry, Jake F. Weltzin , et al. · 2015

A, Plants and animals often lead symbiotic lives: plants provide nectar, pollen, habitat, or other resources to animals, and animals provide services to plants such as pollination or seed dispersal.The USA-NPN focuses on understanding spat…

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