Oral Presentation Session - Invited Status Awarded

Invited by: Society for Anthropological Sciences

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Primary Theme: Environment and Environmental Inequality

Secondary Theme: Evolution

(3-0475) Networked Environments

Social network analysis is a powerful tool for modeling interactions between individuals, communities, and their environments. A network approach highlights the connections between elements in a system, both between individuals and at a broader structural level. Attention to networks reveals how patterns of interaction - whether between households, trade partners, communities and resources, or institutions - influence complex human-natural dynamics. This session applies network analysis to a range of socioecological problems, from understanding how property rights regimes can help maintain sustainable mushroom harvests in SW China to human foragers’ position in West Australian food webs. These papers illustrate both the wide applicability of social network methods to human-environmental dynamics and highlight the novel policy implications that can be derived from a network perspective.

Organizer(s)

• Madeline Brown

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Florida

Chair(s)

• Madeline Brown

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Florida

Presenter(s)

• Madeline Brown

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Florida

Organizer(s)

• David Nolin

  Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
  Pennsylvania State University

Chair(s)

• David Nolin

  Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
  Pennsylvania State University

Presenter(s)

• David Nolin

  Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
  Pennsylvania State University

• Stefani Crabtree

  Pennsylvania State University

• Ashley Hazel

  Stanford University

• James Magdanz

  University of Alaska

• Drew Gerkey

  Oregon State University

• Sibyl Diver

  Stanford University

Presentations:

• 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

  The Embedded Social Capital of Forest Mushroom Harvesting: A Case from Yunnan, China
  Madeline T. Brown – University of Florida
• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  Why Whale-Watching Tourism Would Be a Poor Substitute for Subsistence Whaling in Lamalera, Indonesia
  David A. Nolin – Pennsylvania State University
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  Examining Environmental Resilience Through Coupled Human-Natural Systems: A Case from Western Australia
  Stefani Crabtree – Pennsylvania State University
• 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  Dynamic Network Regression Models Reveal Spatial-Temporal Dimensions in Sexual Networks in Rural Namibia: Implications for the Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections
  Ashley Hazel – Stanford University
• 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

  Network Data Collection and Application to Natural Resource Management in Alaska
  James Magdanz – University of Alaska
• 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

  Social Network Analysis and Environmental Anthropology: Metaphors and Measurements
  Drew Gerkey – Oregon State University
• 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mapping Indigenous water governance and colonial legacies in the lower Klamath, California
  Sibyl Diver – Stanford University