Brian Robinson

Datos Biográficos

ID3606565
NOMBREBrian Robinson
NOMBRESBrian
APELLIDORobinson
FIRMAROBINSON B
AFILIACIONESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-8972-8318
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS61
TOTAL DE CITAS268
TOTAL COMO AUTOR61
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1973
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H8

  • How do common pool natural resources relate to rural income, poverty and inequality? A multi-country assessment

    Open AccessAnamika Das, Subhash Lele et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2026

  • Comparative Philosophy of Science Through the Lens of Science Textbooks

    Open AccessChad Gonnerman, Brian Robinson et al.ARTICLEJournal for General Philosophy of…2026

  • Servicesheds connect people to the landscapes upon which they depend

    Open AccessYiyi Zhang, Hugo Thierry et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Ecosystem services (ES) are benefits people receive from nature. To sustain these benefits, we need to spatially connect communities benefitting from specific ES with landscape features that generate the ES. A variety of process‐based models support ES assessments by estimating the biophysical supply of ES that comes from landscapes. However, less attention has been given to how ES flow from landscapes to beneficiary groups. A ‘serviceshed’ is de…

  • Four Principles of Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change‐Exacerbated Hazards in Informal Settlements

    Open AccessBen Howard, Simon Moulds et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2025Referencias: 22

    Residents of urban informal settlements are among the most at-risk of climate change-exacerbated hazards. Yet, traditional approaches to adaptation have failed to reduce risk sustainably and equitably. In contrast, transformative adaptation recognizes the inextricable nature of complex climate risk and social inequality, embedding principles of social justice in pathways to societal resilience. Its potential for impact may be greatest in informal…

  • Is this a bullshit question? Just asking

    Open AccessBrian Robinson, Mark Alfano et al.ARTICLESynthese2025Referencias: 36

    We develop an account of bullshit questions that draws on the literature on bullshit assertions. We distinguish bullshit questions from other sorts of anomalous questions. According to our account, bullshit questions are characterized chiefly by the indifference of the speaker to the truth of any answer she might receive. Instead, the bullshit questioner is up to something else, typically a non-interrogative illocutionary act such as introducing …

  • Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions

    Open AccessCharlotte H Chang, James T Erbaugh et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024Referencias: 14

  • Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity

    Open AccessJennifer Holzer, J M Holzer et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024

    Environmental knowledge networks (EKNs) link research collaborators in a common purpose to produce data and knowledge to better understand social-ecological phenomena and address environmental challenges. Over recent years, as scientists have grappled with how to produce data and actionable knowledge for conservation and sustainability, more EKNs have been established. Although each network is founded for its own purposes and maintains its own go…

  • Substitutability of natural and human capitals

    Open AccessJesse T Rieb, Brian Robinson et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023

    Most ecosystem services (ES) are co-produced, to varying degrees, by interactions between people and ecosystems. Although ES research has tended to emphasize the role of ecosystems, or natural capital, in ES provision, the need for a deeper understanding of the role of human-derived capitals, like technology, labour, and management, is increasingly being recognized. Understanding the capacity for, and limitations of, human-derived capitals to enh…

  • Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being

    Open AccessGeoff Wells, Casey M Ryan et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023

    of millions of people in the tropics harvest ''wild'' common-pool resources d Wild harvests are correlated with high relative well-being in remote and poor areas d Access to infrastructure, cities, assets, and skills also increase well-being overall d The well-being of many people relies on both wild resources and economic development

  • Environmental impacts of renting rangelands

    Open AccessLuci Lu, Ping Li et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Land rental markets are growing worldwide and facilitate efficient utilization of land. However, the short duration of occupancy and limited property rights mean that rental contracts may discourage longer-term sustainable land management. Direct investigation into the relationship between land tenure and ecological outcomes has been hampered by scale-appropriate data on land tenure, resource management, and land outcomes. In this paper, we addre…

  • Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data

    Open AccessRobert MacTavish, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    Our approach using ubiquitously available administrative and satellite data can be used to identify deprived neighbourhoods where interventions are warranted to improve living conditions, and track progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals aiming to reduce the population living in unsafe or vulnerable human settlements

  • Strangers in a strange land

    Open AccessAlicia Cavanaugh, Jennifer Baumgartner et al.ARTICLECities2023Referencias: 63

    Urban poverty is not limited to informal settlements, rather it extends throughout cities, with the poor and affluent often living in close proximity. Using a novel dataset derived from the full Ghanaian Census, we investigate how neighbourhood versus household socio-economic status (SES) relates to a set of household development outcomes (related to housing quality, energy, water and sanitation, and information technology) in Accra, Ghana. We th…

  • Property rights play a pivotal role in the distribution of ecosystem services among beneficiaries

    Open AccessMarie C Dade, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Property rights are fundamental institutions that set the rules for who is allowed to use, manage, and control natural resources. Though the literature on property rights over natural resources is well developed. However, our understanding of the ways by which property rights govern actors’ ability to obtain ecosystem services provided by these natural resources remains under-explored. Using the Adirondack Park, USA, as a case study, we develop a…

  • Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking

    Open AccessClaude García, Sini Savilaakso et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 7

  • Impacts of agricultural commodity frontier expansion on smallholder livelihoods

    Open AccessOlivia Del Giorgio, Brian Robinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2022Citada por: 6Referencias: 28

  • Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (Gama), Ghana

    Open AccessJacob Doku Tetteh, Michael R Templeton et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Environment2022Citada por: 3Referencias: 75

    Universal access to safe drinking water is essential to population health and well-being, as recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). To develop targeted policies which improve urban access to improved water and ensure equity, there is the need to understand the spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources and the factors underlying these patterns. Using the Shannon Entropy Index and the Index of Concentration at the Extremes at …

  • Building community capacity with philosophy

    Open AccessBryan Cwik, Chad Gonnerman et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022

    In this article, we describe a project in which philosophy, in combination with methods drawn from mental modeling, was used to structure dialogue among stakeholders in a region-scale climate adaptation process. The case study we discuss synthesizes the Toolbox dialogue method, a philosophically grounded approach to enhancing communication and collaboration in complex research and practice, with a mental modeling approach rooted in risk analysis,…

  • Facing the challenges of using place-based social-ecological research to support ecosystem service governance at multiple scales

    Open AccessEdward M Bennett, P Morrison et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2021

    Place-based social-ecological research is often designed to improve local environmental governance, but it can also inform decisions at larger scales or in other places. However, the focus on local perspectives in such research creates challenges for transferring insights to other locations, and for aggregating understanding to larger scales. In this paper, we discuss how ResNet, a new pan-Canadian network of researchers working on place-based so…

  • The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair

    Open AccessClaude García, Claude A Garcia et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    Forests across the world stand at a crossroads where climate and land-use changes are shaping their future. Despite demonstrations of political will and global efforts, forest loss, fragmentation, and degradation continue unabated. No clear evidence exists to suggest that these initiatives are working. A key reason for this apparent ineffectiveness could lie in the failure to recognize the agency of all stakeholders involved. Landscapes do not ha…

  • Geographic versus institutional drivers of nitrogen footprints

    Open AccessGraham K MacDonald, Julie Talbot et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Excess reactive nitrogen (N) is linked to a myriad of environmental problems that carry large social costs. Nitrogen footprint tools can help institutions understand how their direct and indirect activities are associated with N release to the environment through energy use, food, and transportation. However, little is known about how geographic context shapes the environmental footprints of institutions. Defining the system boundaries over which…

  • The Impact of Snowstorms, Droughts and Locust Outbreaks on Livestock Production in Inner Mongolia

    Open AccessDavid R Crook, Brian Robinson et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2020

  • Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science

    Open AccessLisa Mandle, Analisa Shields‐Estrada et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Citada por: 14Referencias: 10

  • Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes

    Open AccessTzu-Wei Joy Tseng, Brian Robinson et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Citada por: 9Referencias: 11

  • A factor-income approach to estimating grassland protection subsidy payments to livestock herders in Inner Mongolia, China

    Open AccessAnne T Byrne, Joleen C Hadrich et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020Referencias: 60

  • A cross-cultural assessment of the semantic dimensions of intellectual humility

    Open AccessMarkus Christen, Mark Alfano et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2019