Our Publications

Throughout 2023, members of the Wyss Academy authored or contributed to 47 articles and publications. Explore them in detail by navigating through the list below:

A

• 'A Critical Examination of Rural Out-Migration Studies in Ethiopia: Considering Impacts on Agriculture in the Sending Communities.' Dessalegn et al., https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/1/176
• 'Agricultural commercialization in borderlands: Capturing the transformation of a tropical forest frontier through participatory mapping.' Latthachack et al., https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1048470/full
• 'A Large-Scale Field Experiment to Reduce Non-Payments for Water: From Diagnosis to Treatment.' Rockenbach, Bettina; Tonke, Sebastian; Weiss, Arne R., https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01363/117709/A-Large-Scale-Field-Experiment-to-Reduce-Non
• 'Analyzing Climate Change Policy Narratives with the Character-Role Narrative Framework.' Gehring, Kai; Grigoletto, Matteo. https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2023/working-paper/analyzing-climate-change-policy-narratives-character-role-narrative
• 'Application of Free Satellite Imagery to Map Ecosystem Services in Ungwana Bay, Kenya.' Mathai, Daina; Cristina, Sónia; Owuor, Margaret Awuor. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/7/1802

B

• 'Biogeophysical Effects of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Not Detectable in Warmest Month.' Grant et al., https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/36/6/JCLI-D-22-0391.1.xml

C

• 'CHELSA-W5E5: daily 1 km meteorological forcing data for climate impact studies.' Karger et al., https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/2445/2023/
• 'Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world.' Carmenta et al., https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0006320723001489
• 'Construcción colectiva del territorio socioecológico continuo de la Reserva Nacional Tambopata y su zona de amortiguamiento en Madre de Dios, Perú.' Alca et al., https://boris.unibe.ch/178828/

D

• 'Describing complex interactions of social-ecological systems for tipping point assessments: an analytical framework.' Froese et al., https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2023.1145942
• 'Drivers and consequences of archetypical shifting cultivation transitions.' Martin et al., https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10435
• 'Drought Experience and Altruism.' Nguyen, Quynh. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01751-z

E

• 'Exploring hail and lightning diagnostics over the Alpine-Adriatic region in a km-scale climate model.' Cui et al., https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/4/905/2023/
• 'Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well-being, and conservation and development intervention: Why it matters and how to do it?' Carmenta et al.

F

• 'Future-proofing the emergency recovery plan for freshwater biodiversity.' Lynch et al., https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/er-2022-0116

G

• 'Global shocks, cascading disruptions, and (re-)connections: viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as concurrent natural experiments to understand land system dynamics.' Piquer-Rodríguez et al., https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10980-023-01604-2
• 'Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas.' Zhang et al., https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-081348
• 'Governing Land Concessions in Laos.' Kenney-Lazar et al., https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003080916

H

• 'Habitat protection and restoration: Win–win opportunities for migratory birds in the Northern Andes.' Gonzalez et al., https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2530064423000044
• 'Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?' Von Schuckmann et al., https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/1675/2023/
• 'High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: historical and future changes in Europe.' Hoffmann et al., https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/3819/2023/
• 'How social considerations improve the equity and effectiveness of ecosystem restoration.' Löfqvist et al.

I

• 'ID Water Scarcity Synthesis Report: Participatory workshop for the interdisciplinary research on water scarcity and climate change in the Ewaso Ng’iro North River Basin.' Demory et al., https://boris.unibe.ch/189258/
• 'Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict.' Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul. https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2023/working-paper/insuring-peace-index-based-livestock-insurance-droughts-and

K

• 'Klimaneutrale Region Oberland-Ost. Von der Vision zum Handeln.' Wymann von Dach et al., https://boris.unibe.ch/182433/

M

• 'Maize boom, bust and beyond: Investigating land use transitions in the northern Thai uplands.' Pravalprukskul, Pin; Bruun, Thilde Bech; Messerli, Peter. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0264837723002818
• 'Mapping suitable habitats for globally endangered raptors in Kenya: Integrating climate factors and conservation planning.' Ngila et al., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10443
• 'Mercury bioaccumulation in bats in Madre de Dios, Peru: implications for Hg bioindicators for tropical ecosystems impacted by artisanal and small-scale gold mining.' Portillo et al., https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10646-023-02719-7
• 'Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well‐being in North‐Eastern Madagascar.' Llopis et al., https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10377
• 'Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with Indigenous and local worldviews.' Ibarra et al., https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S016953472300191X

N

• 'Navigating power in conservation.' Shackleton et al., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/csp2.12877
• 'Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure.' Negret et al., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064423000263
• 'Netto-Null-Tourismus im Jahr 2050 – Ein Blick in die Zukunft und Thesen zur Transformation.' Wirth et al.
• 'New Forests and New Forest People in Central Vietnam: The Acacia Boom.' Kull et al., http://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/9781800622197.0025

P

• 'People need freshwater biodiversity.' Lynch et al., https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1633
• 'Perceptions, trends and adaptation to climate change in Yala wetland, Kenya.' Githiora et al., https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJCCSM-07-2022-0089/full/html
• 'Producción de conocimiento científico y tecnológico peruano frente a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) en el periodo 2002 – 2021.' Saravia, M., & Tostes, M. (2023). Actas Del Congreso Latino-Iberoamericano de Gestión Tecnológica y de La Innovación 2023

R

• 'Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research.' Minna et al., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01431-z
• 'Releasing global forests from human management: How much more carbon could be stored?' Roebroek et al., https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5878
• 'Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”.' Morpurgo et al., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320723001556

S

• 'Simulating Hail and Lightning Over the Alpine Adriatic Region—A Model Intercomparison Study.' Malečić et al., https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JD037989
• 'Social considerations are crucial to success in implementing the 30×30 global conservation target.' Sandbrook et al., https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02048-2
• 'Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict.' Gehring, Kai; Langlotz, Sarah; Kienberger, Stefan. https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01375/117911/Stimulant-or-Depressant-Resource-Related-Income

T

• 'Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam.' Malesky, Edmund J.; Nguyen, Quynh. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-023-09400-4
• 'The biogeophysical effects of idealized land cover and land management changes in Earth system models.' De Hertog et al., https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/14/629/2023/
• 'The role of elections as drivers of tropical deforestation.' Morpurgo et al., https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0006320722003858
• 'The youth transformative participatory evaluator education and training approach: The EvalYouth experience.' Bitar et al., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20547
• 'Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows.' Coenen et al., https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss2/art24/