M Lauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 16057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Lauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauer |
| SIGNATURE | LAUER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6632-3281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania
Crafting the success and failure of decentralized marine management
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the design and revision of a decentralized marine management scheme implemented on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia named Plan de Gestion de l’Espace Maritime (PGEM). Drawing on an analysis of over 50 consultative workshops and meetings, held from 2018 to 2021 during the PGEM revision, we document the materials, discourses, and practices local stakeholders (e.g., fishers, cultural and enviro…
Hedonic evaluation of coral reef fish prices on a direct sale market
Ecosystems services research in action: Reflexively valuing environments in the South Pacific
Ecosystem services (ES) are heralded as an approach that communicates across disciplines and between researchers and resource managers, encouraging more environmentally sustainable human behavior. However, most studies presuppose that "values" are ontologically distinct from "ecosystem services" without examining what this framing enables and occludes about human and otherthan-human relations. Through a reflexive research approach, we conduct a c…
Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas by Amelia Moore
Reviewed by: Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas by Amelia Moore Matthew Lauer Amelia Moore, Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 216 pp. During a boisterous academic conference in the late 1990s Paul Crutzen, an atmospheric chemist, made an off-the-cuff comment that we no longer live in the Holocene, but have entered the age of humans and are living …
Perceptions and responses of Pacific Island fishers to changing coral reefs
Archaeological Reconnaissance and the First Radiocarbon Dates From Simbo Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands
Recent archaeological fieldwork on the island of Simbo in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands has identified several new prehistoric sites. Here, we present the results of our research along with the first radiocarbon dates from Simbo. These dates and associated ceramic sherds provide a chronological and stylistic link to other islands with post-Lapita pottery and is an important step for understanding the human occupational history of th…
Who Detects Ecological Change After Catastrophic Events? Indigenous Knowledge, Social Networks, and Situated Practices
Governing uncertainty: Resilience, dwelling, and flexible resource management in Oceania
This article examines the flexible, customary land and sea tenure practices on a small island in Melanesia. I use the dwelling concept to analyse how governance practices on the island function during three different kinds of social-ecological change: 1) rapid demographic expansion; 2) a destructive tsunami; and 3) several recent development projects. In contrast to conventional resilience approaches, the dwelling concept draws attention to the i…
Calamity, kastom , and modernity: Local interpretations of vulnerability in the western Pacific
On 2 April 2007 a large tsunami struck the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. It obliterated two villages, killed 10 people, and provoked communities on the northern half of the island to permanently relocate their settlements. In this article I examine how the Simbo people experienced and perceived this catastrophic event. Local discourses about the tsunami, its aftermath, and its selective lethality reveal how Simboans do not…
Oral Traditions or Situated Practices? Understanding How Indigenous Communities Respond to Environmental Disasters
This article examines how indigenous fisherfolk of the western Solomon Islands survived a magnitude 8.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the region in 2007. I reconstruct this cataclysmic event through local narratives, surveys, and ethnographic interviews collected in villages on Simbo Island and in Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons. I then compare the responses of the Solomon Islanders to reports and analyses of similar survivor stories…
Globalization, Pacific Islands, and the paradox of resilience
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge as Situated Practices: Understanding Fishers' Knowledge in the Western Solomon Islands
In this article, we draw on research among fisherfolk of Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, to examine certain epistemological assumptions of the "indigenous knowledge" concept. We describe how approaches to knowledge in Roviana differ from prevailing models of knowledge that distinguish between cognitive aspects and other modalities of knowing. For many Roviana fishers, ecological knowledge is not analytically separated from the changing contexts …
State-led Democratic Politics and Emerging Forms of Indigenous Leadership Among the Ye'kwana of the Upper Orinoco
En este artículo analizo la política Ye'kwana del Alto Orinoco para revelar como sus nociones de liderazgo, autoridad, y comunidad han sido transformadas con la intrusión política nacional de Venezuela. Comparo las respuestas de indigenistas, misioneros, políticos regionales, e indígenas Ye'kwana sobre la ascensión al poder político de Jaime Turón, un líder polémico Ye'kwana y alcalde del municipio Alto Orinoco. Sostengo que la política de descen…
Response to Commentaries on "State-led Democratic Politics …"
Response to Commentaries on "State-led Democratic Politics . . ."
Incorporating Fishermen’s Local Knowledge and Behavior into geographical information Systems (giS) for Designing marine Protected areas in Oceania
Drawing on our experience in establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, this paper shows how a geographical information system (GIS) database can be used to incorporate sociospatial information, such as indigenous knowledge and artisanal fishing data, along with biophysical and other information to assist in MPA design. We argue that converting peoples’ knowledge and socioecologic…
State-led Democratic Politics and Emerging Forms of Indigenous Leadership Among the Ye'kwana of the Upper Orinoco
Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering Short-Term Food Stress
The 1998 El Niño significantly reduced garden productivity in the Upper Orinoco region in Venezuela. Consequently, parents were forced to allocate food carefully to their children. Nutrition data collected from village children combined with genealogical data allowed the determination of which children suffered most, and whether the patterns of food distribution accorded with predictions from parental investment theory. For boys, three social var…
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge as Situated Practices: Understanding Fishers' Knowledge in the Western Solomon Islands
In this article, we draw on research among fisherfolk of Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, to examine certain epistemological assumptions of the "indigenous knowledge" concept. We describe how approaches to knowledge in Roviana differ from prevailing models of knowledge that distinguish between cognitive aspects and other modalities of knowing. For many Roviana fishers, ecological knowledge is not analytically separated from the changing contexts …
Globalization, Pacific Islands, and the paradox of resilience
Crafting the success and failure of decentralized marine management
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the design and revision of a decentralized marine management scheme implemented on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia named Plan de Gestion de l’Espace Maritime (PGEM). Drawing on an analysis of over 50 consultative workshops and meetings, held from 2018 to 2021 during the PGEM revision, we document the materials, discourses, and practices local stakeholders (e.g., fishers, cultural and enviro…
Perceptions and responses of Pacific Island fishers to changing coral reefs
Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering Short-Term Food Stress
The 1998 El Niño significantly reduced garden productivity in the Upper Orinoco region in Venezuela. Consequently, parents were forced to allocate food carefully to their children. Nutrition data collected from village children combined with genealogical data allowed the determination of which children suffered most, and whether the patterns of food distribution accorded with predictions from parental investment theory. For boys, three social var…
Response to Commentaries on "State-led Democratic Politics . . ."
Incorporating Fishermen’s Local Knowledge and Behavior into geographical information Systems (giS) for Designing marine Protected areas in Oceania
Drawing on our experience in establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, this paper shows how a geographical information system (GIS) database can be used to incorporate sociospatial information, such as indigenous knowledge and artisanal fishing data, along with biophysical and other information to assist in MPA design. We argue that converting peoples’ knowledge and socioecologic…
State-led Democratic Politics and Emerging Forms of Indigenous Leadership Among the Ye'kwana of the Upper Orinoco
State-led Democratic Politics and Emerging Forms of Indigenous Leadership Among the Ye'kwana of the Upper Orinoco
En este artículo analizo la política Ye'kwana del Alto Orinoco para revelar como sus nociones de liderazgo, autoridad, y comunidad han sido transformadas con la intrusión política nacional de Venezuela. Comparo las respuestas de indigenistas, misioneros, políticos regionales, e indígenas Ye'kwana sobre la ascensión al poder político de Jaime Turón, un líder polémico Ye'kwana y alcalde del municipio Alto Orinoco. Sostengo que la política de descen…
Response to Commentaries on "State-led Democratic Politics …"
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge as Situated Practices: Understanding Fishers' Knowledge in the Western Solomon Islands
In this article, we draw on research among fisherfolk of Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, to examine certain epistemological assumptions of the "indigenous knowledge" concept. We describe how approaches to knowledge in Roviana differ from prevailing models of knowledge that distinguish between cognitive aspects and other modalities of knowing. For many Roviana fishers, ecological knowledge is not analytically separated from the changing contexts …
Oral Traditions or Situated Practices? Understanding How Indigenous Communities Respond to Environmental Disasters
This article examines how indigenous fisherfolk of the western Solomon Islands survived a magnitude 8.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the region in 2007. I reconstruct this cataclysmic event through local narratives, surveys, and ethnographic interviews collected in villages on Simbo Island and in Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons. I then compare the responses of the Solomon Islanders to reports and analyses of similar survivor stories…
Globalization, Pacific Islands, and the paradox of resilience
Calamity, kastom , and modernity: Local interpretations of vulnerability in the western Pacific
On 2 April 2007 a large tsunami struck the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. It obliterated two villages, killed 10 people, and provoked communities on the northern half of the island to permanently relocate their settlements. In this article I examine how the Simbo people experienced and perceived this catastrophic event. Local discourses about the tsunami, its aftermath, and its selective lethality reveal how Simboans do not…
Who Detects Ecological Change After Catastrophic Events? Indigenous Knowledge, Social Networks, and Situated Practices
Governing uncertainty: Resilience, dwelling, and flexible resource management in Oceania
This article examines the flexible, customary land and sea tenure practices on a small island in Melanesia. I use the dwelling concept to analyse how governance practices on the island function during three different kinds of social-ecological change: 1) rapid demographic expansion; 2) a destructive tsunami; and 3) several recent development projects. In contrast to conventional resilience approaches, the dwelling concept draws attention to the i…
Archaeological Reconnaissance and the First Radiocarbon Dates From Simbo Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands
Recent archaeological fieldwork on the island of Simbo in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands has identified several new prehistoric sites. Here, we present the results of our research along with the first radiocarbon dates from Simbo. These dates and associated ceramic sherds provide a chronological and stylistic link to other islands with post-Lapita pottery and is an important step for understanding the human occupational history of th…
Perceptions and responses of Pacific Island fishers to changing coral reefs
Hedonic evaluation of coral reef fish prices on a direct sale market
Ecosystems services research in action: Reflexively valuing environments in the South Pacific
Ecosystem services (ES) are heralded as an approach that communicates across disciplines and between researchers and resource managers, encouraging more environmentally sustainable human behavior. However, most studies presuppose that "values" are ontologically distinct from "ecosystem services" without examining what this framing enables and occludes about human and otherthan-human relations. Through a reflexive research approach, we conduct a c…
Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas by Amelia Moore
Reviewed by: Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas by Amelia Moore Matthew Lauer Amelia Moore, Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 216 pp. During a boisterous academic conference in the late 1990s Paul Crutzen, an atmospheric chemist, made an off-the-cuff comment that we no longer live in the Holocene, but have entered the age of humans and are living …
Crafting the success and failure of decentralized marine management
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the design and revision of a decentralized marine management scheme implemented on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia named Plan de Gestion de l’Espace Maritime (PGEM). Drawing on an analysis of over 50 consultative workshops and meetings, held from 2018 to 2021 during the PGEM revision, we document the materials, discourses, and practices local stakeholders (e.g., fishers, cultural and enviro…
Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania
Geography (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (5 works) · Ecology (5 works)