Kaufman Co-Authors Three New Papers on Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored three related papers exploring fish food webs in systems undergoing rapid change: coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific, small lakes and reservoirs in Brazil, and large lakes in Cambodia.

The first paper, in collaboration with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, was published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. The second paper, a product of work with Conservation International (CI), was published in the journal Ecosphere. The third paper, in collaboration with CI and the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute in Cambodia, was published in the journal Freshwater Biology.

The papers are part of the Pardee Center’s Coupled Human and Natural Systems research project, which Prof. Kaufman leads with Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Suchi Gopal and Visiting Research Fellow Roel Boumans. The CHANS project explores how governance, social, and economic systems are intricately connected to natural systems, and investigates the trade-offs that confront those making resource management decisions.