C Prell
Biographic Data
| ID | 19553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Prell |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Prell |
| SIGNATURE | PRELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2693-0065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Assessing the unequal distribution between social benefits and costs across countries along global supply chains
Social sustainability is largely challenged by unequal exchange within global supply chains (GSCs). Unequal exchange, commonly understood as the net appropriation of value from the Global South to the Global North, arises from power asymmetries in the world economy. As a consequence of the power asymmetries, the distributions of social costs and benefits across countries along GSCs are largely imbalanced. This intensifies regional disparities and…
Urban resilience in Ancient Mesopotamia: Insights into the socioeconomic system of the Bronze and Iron Age Khabur Valley
The ability of urban centres to grow and persist through crises is often assessed qualitatively in archaeology but quantitative assessment is more elusive. Here, the authors explore urban resilience in ancient Mesopotamia by applying an adaptive cycle framework to the settlement dynamics of the Bronze and Iron Age Khabur Valley ( c . 3000–600 BC). Using an integrated dataset of settlements and hollow ways, they identify patterns of growth, conser…
The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks
Networks are increasingly used to describe and analyse complex archaeological data in terms of nodes (archaeological sites or places) and edges (representing relationships or connections between each pair of nodes). Network analysis can then be applied to express local and global properties of the system, including structure ( e.g. modularity) or connectivity. However, the usually high amount of missing data in archaeology and the uncertainty the…
Global spillover effects of the European Green Deal and plausible mitigation options
Achieving European Green Deal (EGD) targets for carbon removal and ecological restoration would reduce agricultural and forestry production within the European Union yet simultaneously extend ecosystem impacts elsewhere. Here we quantify such spillover impacts by coupling an extended multi-regional input–output analysis with an agro-ecological zones model. We find that EGD’s agricultural and forestry targets set for 2030 could result in a 23.9 Mh…
Corruption dynamics in public procurement: A longitudinal network analysis of local construction contracts in Guatemala
Spending concentration, political influence, and collusion violate rules and principles of open and fair public procurement, leading to corrupt contract allocation. This study adopts stochastic actor-oriented models to test the evolution of these forms of procurement corruption risks in a longitudinal network study of 33579 construction contracts pertaining to Guatemalan local governments from 2012 to 2020. We identify a range of network configur…
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption
Reprint of: Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research
Learning to understand: Disentangling the outcomes of stakeholder participation in climate change governance
Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research
Transdisciplinarity and Shifting Network Boundaries: The Challenges of Studying an Evolving Stakeholder Network in Participatory Settings
Participatory research engages a transdisciplinary team of stakeholders in all aspects of the research process. Such engagement can lead to shifts in the research design, as well as who is considered a participant. We detail our experiences of studying an evolving stakeholder network in the context of a 2.5-year transdisciplinary, participatory project. We show how participation leads to shifts in the network boundary overtime and how a transdisc…
Enhancing socio-ecological resilience in coastal regions through collaborative science, knowledge exchange and social networks: A case study of the Deal Island Peninsula, USA
Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job
Various tools and methods are used in participatory modelling, at different stages of the process and for different purposes. The diversity of tools and methods can create challenges for stakeholders and modelers when selecting the ones most appropriate for their projects. We offer a systematic overview, assessment, and categorization of methods to assist modelers and stakeholders with their choices and decisions. Most available literature provid…
Participatory Modeling
Participatory modeling (PM) links science and modeling to stakeholder knowledge and experiences, thus supporting and enabling participatory decision‐making when dealing with complex social‐ecological problems. Whereas traditional model building emphasizes expert‐driven collection of information, PM emphasizes collective deliberation, where learning outcomes emerge from ongoing discussions. Stakeholder involvement can range from simply providing i…
Why rely on friends instead of family? The role of exchanges and civic engagement in a rural sub-Saharan African context
Social science research has shown there is a nearly universal norm of seeking assistance from family members in times of need. However, when do individuals prefer to rely on friends, rather than family members, when they need support? This question has not been carefully addressed. To fill this gap in the literature we examine why rural Malawians - who typically have strong bonds with kin - might prefer to rely on friends instead of family if a c…
Unequal Carbon Exchanges: The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Iconic U.S. Consumption Items
In this article, we track how consumption in the United States, a highly developed “core” country, triggers value added and carbon inequalities around the globe. We consider these two sources of inequality for all commodities and services consumed in the United States, and then for three specific sectors, these being electronics, motor vehicles, and wearing apparel. Our findings show how the production of commodities for U.S. consumption tends to…
The evolution of global trade and impacts on countries’ carbon trade imbalances
Past and present biophysical redundancy of countries as a buffer to changes in food supply
Spatially diverse trends in population growth, climate change, industrialization, urbanization and \neconomic development are expected to change future food supply and demand. These changes may \naffect the suitability of land for food production, implying elevated risks especially for resourceconstrained, \nfood-importing countries. We present the evolution of biophysical redundancy for \nagricultural production at country level, from 1992 to 20…
Network formation and knowledge gains
Incentive-based models for network formation link micro actions to changes in network structure. Sociologists have extended these models on a number of fronts, but there remains a tendency to treat actors as homogenous agents and to disregard social theory. Drawing upon literature on the strategic use of networks for knowledge gains, we specify models exploring the co-evolution of networks and knowledge gains. Our findings suggest that pursuing t…
Unequal carbon exchanges: Understanding pollution embodied in global trade
We examine carbon emission transfers via trade among countries over a 20-year period. A net transfer of carbon emission means that the emission embodied in a country’s imports exceeds the emission embodied in exports. We consider a number of socio-economic drivers to explain variations in such net transfers across countries. Our findings show a U-shaped curvilinear relationship between countries’ GDP per capita and their net carbon transfer, sugg…
Wealth and pollution inequalities of global trade: A network and input-output approach
We examine distributions of pollution and wealth among countries over a 20 year period. We distinguish between pollution produced within a country and pollution triggered along global supply chains by a country's consumption. We explain pollution and wealth distributions via network characteristics. Our findings show a positive, (log-) linear relationship between a country's network position and both ways of accounting for pollution. In addition,…
The Economic Gains and Environmental Losses of US Consumption: A World-Systems and Input-Output Approach
Although research has shown that countries' world-systems positions can predict levels of pollution and wealth, there has been little research looking at how consumption in the core triggers both pollution and wealth elsewhere in the world economy. In this article, we track how consumption in the United States, a core country, triggers value added and pollution throughout global commodity chains. We track these distributions for all commodities a…
Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil
Combining analytical frameworks to assess livelihood vulnerability to climate change and analyse adaptation options
Experts working on behalf of international development organisations need better tools to assist land managers in developing countries maintain their livelihoods, as climate change puts pressure on the ecosystem services that they depend upon. However, current understanding of livelihood vulnerability to climate change is based on a fractured and disparate set of theories and methods. This review therefore combines theoretical insights from susta…
Perceptions of desert landscape: A case study in southern N ew M exico
This research investigates perceptions of desert landscape held by different actor groups (resident versus expert group – including land developers, local politicians, city planners and NGOs ) in N ew M exico, USA . The results of this study found that although people share common appreciation of cultural and aesthetic landscape values, different perceptions and valuations are conflicting when special interests and needs of actors are apparent. N…
Stakeholder Analysis and Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Management
The increasing use of stakeholder analysis in natural resource management reflects a growing recognition that stakeholders can and should influence environmental decision making. Stakeholder analysis can be used to avoid inflaming conflicts, ensure that the marginalization of certain groups is not reinforced, and fairly represent diverse interests. We present a case study from the Peak District National Park in the United Kingdom, where we used s…
What is Social Learning
Reed, M. S., A. C. Evely, G. Cundill, I. Fazey, J. Glass, A. Laing, J. Newig, B. Parrish, C. Prell, C. Raymond, and L. C. Stringer. 2010. What is social learning? Ecology and Society 15(4): r1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03564-1504r01
Combining analytical frameworks to assess livelihood vulnerability to climate change and analyse adaptation options
Experts working on behalf of international development organisations need better tools to assist land managers in developing countries maintain their livelihoods, as climate change puts pressure on the ecosystem services that they depend upon. However, current understanding of livelihood vulnerability to climate change is based on a fractured and disparate set of theories and methods. This review therefore combines theoretical insights from susta…
If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail: Traditional versus participatory model building
Affairs Department. The research was conducted in close collaboration with staff from the Moors for the Future
The future of the uplands
Competing Structure, Competing Views: The Role of Formal and Informal Social Structures in Shaping Stakeholder Perceptions
Prell, C., M. Reed, L. Racin, and K. Hubacek. 2010. Competing structure, competing views: the role of formal and informal social structures in shaping stakeholder perceptions. Ecology and Society 15(4): 34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03652-150434
Network formation and knowledge gains
Incentive-based models for network formation link micro actions to changes in network structure. Sociologists have extended these models on a number of fronts, but there remains a tendency to treat actors as homogenous agents and to disregard social theory. Drawing upon literature on the strategic use of networks for knowledge gains, we specify models exploring the co-evolution of networks and knowledge gains. Our findings suggest that pursuing t…
Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil
Unequal carbon exchanges: Understanding pollution embodied in global trade
We examine carbon emission transfers via trade among countries over a 20-year period. A net transfer of carbon emission means that the emission embodied in a country’s imports exceeds the emission embodied in exports. We consider a number of socio-economic drivers to explain variations in such net transfers across countries. Our findings show a U-shaped curvilinear relationship between countries’ GDP per capita and their net carbon transfer, sugg…
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption
Transdisciplinarity and Shifting Network Boundaries: The Challenges of Studying an Evolving Stakeholder Network in Participatory Settings
Participatory research engages a transdisciplinary team of stakeholders in all aspects of the research process. Such engagement can lead to shifts in the research design, as well as who is considered a participant. We detail our experiences of studying an evolving stakeholder network in the context of a 2.5-year transdisciplinary, participatory project. We show how participation leads to shifts in the network boundary overtime and how a transdisc…
Wealth and pollution inequalities of global trade: A network and input-output approach
We examine distributions of pollution and wealth among countries over a 20 year period. We distinguish between pollution produced within a country and pollution triggered along global supply chains by a country's consumption. We explain pollution and wealth distributions via network characteristics. Our findings show a positive, (log-) linear relationship between a country's network position and both ways of accounting for pollution. In addition,…
Social Network Analysis: Introduction to Special Edition
This special issue on social networks comes out of a National Research Methods Centre/ESRC funded seminar series, led by Nick Crossley, and co-led by John Scott and Christina Prell. The seminar series focused around various themes and issues pertaining to social networks. Part of this series' aim was to reinvigorate UK interest in a field that had, in the past, been significantly shaped by the contributions of UK scholars, but in more recent time…
Why rely on friends instead of family? The role of exchanges and civic engagement in a rural sub-Saharan African context
Social science research has shown there is a nearly universal norm of seeking assistance from family members in times of need. However, when do individuals prefer to rely on friends, rather than family members, when they need support? This question has not been carefully addressed. To fill this gap in the literature we examine why rural Malawians - who typically have strong bonds with kin - might prefer to rely on friends instead of family if a c…
Anticipating and Managing Future Trade-offs and Complementarities between Ecosystem Services
Reed, M. S., K. Hubacek, A. Bonn, T. P. Burt, J. Holden, L. C. Stringer, N. Beharry-Borg, S. Buckmaster, D. Chapman, P. J. Chapman, G. D. Clay, S. J. Cornell, A. J. Dougill, A. C. Evely, E. D. G. Fraser, N. Jin, B. J. Irvine, M. J. Kirkby, W. E. Kunin, C. Prell, C. H. Quinn, B. Slee, S. Stagl, M. Termansen, S. Thorp, and F. Worrall. 2013. Anticipating and managing future trade-offs and complementarities between ecosystem services. Ecology and Soc…
Community Networking and Social Capital: Early Investigations
This paper draws upon an ongoing study pertaining to the early development of one component of a community network in the city of Troy, New York, USA. The component under study is that of a database to be distributed via a community network. Community networking literature posits a relationship between social capital and community networking, stating that community networking should positively affect levels of social capital in a community. This …
Social Capital as Network Capital: Looking at the Role of Social Networks among Not-For-Profits
Social capital's rise in popularity is a phenomenon many have noted (Kadushin, 2006; Warde and Tampubolon, 2002; Portes, 1998). Although the concept is a relatively old one, it is the works of Bourdieu (1986), Coleman (1988; 1990), and Putnam (1993, 2000) that often get credited for popularizing the concept. These three, while sharing a view that social networks are important for social groups and society, place differing levels of emphasis on th…
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks
Networks are increasingly used to describe and analyse complex archaeological data in terms of nodes (archaeological sites or places) and edges (representing relationships or connections between each pair of nodes). Network analysis can then be applied to express local and global properties of the system, including structure ( e.g. modularity) or connectivity. However, the usually high amount of missing data in archaeology and the uncertainty the…
Learning to understand: Disentangling the outcomes of stakeholder participation in climate change governance
Linking Social Capital to Small-Worlds: A Look at Local and Network-Level Processes and Structure
In the past decade, two topics have generated much interest in the idea of social networks and network analysis. These are social capital, popularised by Robert Putnam, and small-worlds, popularised by Duncan Watts and Albert-László Barabási. Social capital highlights local processes and network structures, theorizing the ways in which relations and their patterns link individuals and groups to resources and beneficial outcomes. Small-worlds emph…
Rethinking the Social Construction of Technology through 'Following the Actors: A Reappraisal of Technological Frames
In this paper, I summarize case study research on an information system called Connected Kids. This case study was guided by an approach to technology studies called the 'Social construction of technology' or SCOT Pinch and Bijker (1984). In discussing Connected Kids, I illustrate many of SCOT's main tenents, e.g. the various social interactions that surround and influence technology design. As the paper progresses, however, I focus on one concep…
Unpacking “Participation” in the Adaptive Management of Social–ecological Systems: A Critical Review
Stringer, L. C., A. J. Dougill, E. Fraser, K. Hubacek, C. Prell, and M. S. Reed. 2006. Unpacking “participation” in the adaptive management of social–ecological systems: a critical review. Ecology and Society 11(2): 39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01896-110239
Community Networking and Social Capital: Early Investigations
This paper draws upon an ongoing study pertaining to the early development of one component of a community network in the city of Troy, New York, USA. The component under study is that of a database to be distributed via a community network. Community networking literature posits a relationship between social capital and community networking, stating that community networking should positively affect levels of social capital in a community. This …
Social Capital as Network Capital: Looking at the Role of Social Networks among Not-For-Profits
Social capital's rise in popularity is a phenomenon many have noted (Kadushin, 2006; Warde and Tampubolon, 2002; Portes, 1998). Although the concept is a relatively old one, it is the works of Bourdieu (1986), Coleman (1988; 1990), and Putnam (1993, 2000) that often get credited for popularizing the concept. These three, while sharing a view that social networks are important for social groups and society, place differing levels of emphasis on th…
If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail: Traditional versus participatory model building
Affairs Department. The research was conducted in close collaboration with staff from the Moors for the Future
Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management
Stakeholder Analysis and Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Management
The increasing use of stakeholder analysis in natural resource management reflects a growing recognition that stakeholders can and should influence environmental decision making. Stakeholder analysis can be used to avoid inflaming conflicts, ensure that the marginalization of certain groups is not reinforced, and fairly represent diverse interests. We present a case study from the Peak District National Park in the United Kingdom, where we used s…
The future of the uplands
Linking Social Capital to Small-Worlds: A Look at Local and Network-Level Processes and Structure
In the past decade, two topics have generated much interest in the idea of social networks and network analysis. These are social capital, popularised by Robert Putnam, and small-worlds, popularised by Duncan Watts and Albert-László Barabási. Social capital highlights local processes and network structures, theorizing the ways in which relations and their patterns link individuals and groups to resources and beneficial outcomes. Small-worlds emph…
Social Network Analysis: Introduction to Special Edition
This special issue on social networks comes out of a National Research Methods Centre/ESRC funded seminar series, led by Nick Crossley, and co-led by John Scott and Christina Prell. The seminar series focused around various themes and issues pertaining to social networks. Part of this series' aim was to reinvigorate UK interest in a field that had, in the past, been significantly shaped by the contributions of UK scholars, but in more recent time…
Rethinking the Social Construction of Technology through 'Following the Actors: A Reappraisal of Technological Frames
In this paper, I summarize case study research on an information system called Connected Kids. This case study was guided by an approach to technology studies called the 'Social construction of technology' or SCOT Pinch and Bijker (1984). In discussing Connected Kids, I illustrate many of SCOT's main tenents, e.g. the various social interactions that surround and influence technology design. As the paper progresses, however, I focus on one concep…
Competing Structure, Competing Views: The Role of Formal and Informal Social Structures in Shaping Stakeholder Perceptions
Prell, C., M. Reed, L. Racin, and K. Hubacek. 2010. Competing structure, competing views: the role of formal and informal social structures in shaping stakeholder perceptions. Ecology and Society 15(4): 34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03652-150434
What is Social Learning
Reed, M. S., A. C. Evely, G. Cundill, I. Fazey, J. Glass, A. Laing, J. Newig, B. Parrish, C. Prell, C. Raymond, and L. C. Stringer. 2010. What is social learning? Ecology and Society 15(4): r1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03564-1504r01
Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil
Combining analytical frameworks to assess livelihood vulnerability to climate change and analyse adaptation options
Experts working on behalf of international development organisations need better tools to assist land managers in developing countries maintain their livelihoods, as climate change puts pressure on the ecosystem services that they depend upon. However, current understanding of livelihood vulnerability to climate change is based on a fractured and disparate set of theories and methods. This review therefore combines theoretical insights from susta…
Perceptions of desert landscape: A case study in southern N ew M exico
This research investigates perceptions of desert landscape held by different actor groups (resident versus expert group – including land developers, local politicians, city planners and NGOs ) in N ew M exico, USA . The results of this study found that although people share common appreciation of cultural and aesthetic landscape values, different perceptions and valuations are conflicting when special interests and needs of actors are apparent. N…
Anticipating and Managing Future Trade-offs and Complementarities between Ecosystem Services
Reed, M. S., K. Hubacek, A. Bonn, T. P. Burt, J. Holden, L. C. Stringer, N. Beharry-Borg, S. Buckmaster, D. Chapman, P. J. Chapman, G. D. Clay, S. J. Cornell, A. J. Dougill, A. C. Evely, E. D. G. Fraser, N. Jin, B. J. Irvine, M. J. Kirkby, W. E. Kunin, C. Prell, C. H. Quinn, B. Slee, S. Stagl, M. Termansen, S. Thorp, and F. Worrall. 2013. Anticipating and managing future trade-offs and complementarities between ecosystem services. Ecology and Soc…
The Economic Gains and Environmental Losses of US Consumption: A World-Systems and Input-Output Approach
Although research has shown that countries' world-systems positions can predict levels of pollution and wealth, there has been little research looking at how consumption in the core triggers both pollution and wealth elsewhere in the world economy. In this article, we track how consumption in the United States, a core country, triggers value added and pollution throughout global commodity chains. We track these distributions for all commodities a…
Unequal carbon exchanges: Understanding pollution embodied in global trade
We examine carbon emission transfers via trade among countries over a 20-year period. A net transfer of carbon emission means that the emission embodied in a country’s imports exceeds the emission embodied in exports. We consider a number of socio-economic drivers to explain variations in such net transfers across countries. Our findings show a U-shaped curvilinear relationship between countries’ GDP per capita and their net carbon transfer, sugg…
Wealth and pollution inequalities of global trade: A network and input-output approach
We examine distributions of pollution and wealth among countries over a 20 year period. We distinguish between pollution produced within a country and pollution triggered along global supply chains by a country's consumption. We explain pollution and wealth distributions via network characteristics. Our findings show a positive, (log-) linear relationship between a country's network position and both ways of accounting for pollution. In addition,…
Unequal Carbon Exchanges: The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Iconic U.S. Consumption Items
In this article, we track how consumption in the United States, a highly developed “core” country, triggers value added and carbon inequalities around the globe. We consider these two sources of inequality for all commodities and services consumed in the United States, and then for three specific sectors, these being electronics, motor vehicles, and wearing apparel. Our findings show how the production of commodities for U.S. consumption tends to…
The evolution of global trade and impacts on countries’ carbon trade imbalances
Past and present biophysical redundancy of countries as a buffer to changes in food supply
Spatially diverse trends in population growth, climate change, industrialization, urbanization and \neconomic development are expected to change future food supply and demand. These changes may \naffect the suitability of land for food production, implying elevated risks especially for resourceconstrained, \nfood-importing countries. We present the evolution of biophysical redundancy for \nagricultural production at country level, from 1992 to 20…
Network formation and knowledge gains
Incentive-based models for network formation link micro actions to changes in network structure. Sociologists have extended these models on a number of fronts, but there remains a tendency to treat actors as homogenous agents and to disregard social theory. Drawing upon literature on the strategic use of networks for knowledge gains, we specify models exploring the co-evolution of networks and knowledge gains. Our findings suggest that pursuing t…
Participatory Modeling
Participatory modeling (PM) links science and modeling to stakeholder knowledge and experiences, thus supporting and enabling participatory decision‐making when dealing with complex social‐ecological problems. Whereas traditional model building emphasizes expert‐driven collection of information, PM emphasizes collective deliberation, where learning outcomes emerge from ongoing discussions. Stakeholder involvement can range from simply providing i…
Why rely on friends instead of family? The role of exchanges and civic engagement in a rural sub-Saharan African context
Social science research has shown there is a nearly universal norm of seeking assistance from family members in times of need. However, when do individuals prefer to rely on friends, rather than family members, when they need support? This question has not been carefully addressed. To fill this gap in the literature we examine why rural Malawians - who typically have strong bonds with kin - might prefer to rely on friends instead of family if a c…
Computer Science (20 works) · Economics (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Business (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Natural resource economics (10 works) · Social Capital and Networks (10 works) · Ecology (8 works)