Petr Matous
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 636060 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Petr Matous |
| PRENOMES | Petr |
| SOBRENOME | Matous |
| ASSINATURA | MATOUS P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6140-6843 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Enablers of community‐led action in Australian climate disasters
This study explores how disaster‐impacted communities in New South Wales, Australia, mobilised during and after the bushfire crisis of 2019–20 and multiple catastrophic floods between 2020 and 2022. Interviews were conducted across three regions: Northern Rivers; Blue Mountains; and Hawkesbury. Our findings illuminate how community‐led actions are driven by a broad range of ‘local knowledges’, based in and organised through long‐standing networks…
Recognition and relationship-building
The role played by communities in all phases of disasters is critical, yet genuine collaboration between community-led groups and disaster management agencies remains scarce. This paper examines the dynamics of these interactions in the aftermath of a catastrophic flood and landslip event in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, in 2022. Using qualitative data from 41 interviews undertaken one to two years after the disaster, …
Using trauma-informed approaches
Climate disasters like floods and bushfires have increased in frequency and intensity in Australia. For many, these disasters are associated with trauma. In order to further our understanding of the impacts of these disasters on individuals and communities, we need to conduct research, but the research design and implementation need to be sensitive to that trauma and support the safety of both participants and researchers. This paper provides a d…
Understanding digital capabilities and their impacts on Australian agri-food supply chain resilience
Many agri-food supply chains (SCs) are vulnerable to sudden disruptions (i.e., shocks), which can have devastating impacts. SC member firms’ digital capabilities (as routinized and integrated resource bundles) have the potential to address these challenges, yet their nature and differentiated impacts on engineering versus socio-ecological resilience are not well understood in the present literature. The purpose of this study is to address these g…
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change
community-led, bottom-up adaptation approaches are gaining momentum. • decision-making in communities can be underpinned by disparities in agency and effective power. • social networks can shape who has agency over community-level adaptation decisions. • we find a dynamic ripple effect in agency through social networks. • network exposure to others with higher/lower agency predicts increases/decreases in agency over time. Environmental change is …
Hub‐and‐spoke social networks among Indonesian cocoa farmers homogenise farming practices
Smallholder farms support the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people and their decisions on how to manage their land has profound consequences for the environment and the food security of billions of people. However, farmers' values, norms and resulting management practices are usually not formed in isolation. Triangulating multiple analytical, modelling and simulation methods, we investigated if and how social influence exerted through peer‐to‐peer i…
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia
Smallholder farming is a source of livelihoods and food for many but also a major contributor to global environmental challenges. Prominent studies have found connections between the productivity and sustainability of individual smallholders’ practices and their positions in local social networks. However, the role of entire community network structures for the adoption of diverse types of practices is relatively less understood. This matters bec…
Multilevel network interventions
Male and stale? Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs
Social networks can influence people’s behaviour and therefore it is assumed that central individuals in social networks, also called “opinion leaders”, play a key role in driving change in agricultural and food systems. I analyse the outcomes of an intervention (that encouraged Sulawesi smallholder farmers to take a specific action toward improving the health of their cocoa trees) to assess the impact of engaging opinion leaders in agricultural …
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks
Sustainable agricultural knowledge networks consist of heterogeneous actors who collaborate and share knowledge to advance the goals of sustainable agriculture. We analyze how the structure of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks is related to the social-ecological context across 57 counties in California. We apply a population ecology approach that identifies variables related to the space, energy, and stability of the social-ecological co…
Identifying and decomposing peer effects on decision-making using a randomized controlled trial
Utilizing a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in traditional clusters of apparel and textile firms in Vietnam, this paper investigates peer effects on firm managers’ decisions to participate in seminars on export promotion. We invited 131 randomly selected firm representatives to three one-day seminars on export promotion. We use the number of randomly invited peers to identify peer effects. We further decompose the invited peers into peers invit…
Quantifying unintended effects of an agroecological research project on farmers' practices and social network in Papua New Guinea
Agroecological researchers and advocates often make assumptions about the social impact and dissemination of their work: researchers may assume that their work has impact through postresearch dissemination, while advocates may assume that new agroecological practices can be effectively spread through existing social networks. Here, we test these assumptions by quantifying the effects of an agroecological research project on farming practices and …
Transmigration programs and migrant positions in rural community knowledge networks
Controversial transmigration programs have moved millions of people from the cores of domestic economies to national geographical peripheries to ostensibly facilitate a more equitable resource distribution. However, it is not well understood how transmigrants become accepted and how they position themselves within the local networks of migrant-receiving rural communities. We examine how ethnicity and transmigratory experience affect informal know…
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Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research
Who benefits from network intervention programs? TERGM analysis across ten Philippine low-income communities
Collecting experimental network data from interventions on critical links in workplace networks
Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions
Isaac, M. E., H. Nyantakyi-Frimpong, P. Matouš, E. Dawoe, and L. C. N. Anglaaere. 2021. Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions: the unintended outcomes of intended change. Ecology and Society 26(4):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12734-260412
External exposure, boundary-spanning, and opinion leadership in remote communities
Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies
Smallholder farmers' social networks and resource-conserving agriculture in Ghana
Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., P. Matouš, and M. E. Isaac, 2019. Smallholder farmers’ social networks and resource-conserving agriculture in Ghana: a multicase comparison using exponential random graph models. Ecology and Society 24(1):5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10623-240105
Energy and resilience
The dynamic drivers of interfirm interactions across space have rarely been explored in the context of disaster recovery; therefore, the mechanism through which shocks propagate is unclear. This paper uses stochastic actor-oriented modeling to examine how trade networks among the 500 largest Japanese companies evolved during 2010 and 2011, i.e. before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake to identify sources of vulnerability in the system. In…
The role of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information in Tanggamus Regency, Indonesia
Limited access to agricultural information constrains the well-being of farmers in developing countries and leads to environmental deterioration. Although new information-communication technologies (ICTs) are expected to alleviate this problem, the importance of physical mobility is rarely considered. This study explores the roles of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information within and between Indonesian f…
Social networks and environmental management at multiple levels
Many agrarian communities in developing countries suffer from insufficient productivity and use farming practices that deteriorate the environment both locally and globally. Research suggests that social networks play a role in environmental management, different studies emphasize different aspects of network structures, and the implications of the scales at which networks operate are not explicitly discussed. Here, I ask what types of social str…
Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies
Measuring Social Capital in a Philippine Slum
Social capital is crucial for slum dwellers' survival.The central question of this article concerns how social capital can be measured. Through testing in the field, the authors optimized the position generator method for application in a Philippine slum; furthermore, they developed a special name generator to examine who gains social capital in particular community-based activities. And they were able to administer the whole measurement instrume…
Boots are made for walking
Energy and resilience
The dynamic drivers of interfirm interactions across space have rarely been explored in the context of disaster recovery; therefore, the mechanism through which shocks propagate is unclear. This paper uses stochastic actor-oriented modeling to examine how trade networks among the 500 largest Japanese companies evolved during 2010 and 2011, i.e. before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake to identify sources of vulnerability in the system. In…
Emergence of multiplex mobile phone communication networks across rural areas
Mobile phones are spreading to remote areas of the globe, leading to the following question: “What is the potential of the new communication technologies for increasing individuals' access to information and the diffusion of attitudes and practices across rural areas of developing countries?” We have donated phones to 234 farmers selected by stratified random sampling in an agrarian region of Ethiopia and have tracked their main communication par…
Exploring dynamic mechanisms of learning networks for resource conservation
The importance of networks for social-ecological processes has been recognized in the literature; however, existing studies have not sufficiently addressed the dynamic nature of networks. Using data on the social learning networks of 265 farmers in Ethiopia for 2011 and 2012 and stochastic actor-oriented modeling, we explain the mechanisms of network evolution and soil conservation. The farmers' preferences for information exchange within the sam…
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change
community-led, bottom-up adaptation approaches are gaining momentum. • decision-making in communities can be underpinned by disparities in agency and effective power. • social networks can shape who has agency over community-level adaptation decisions. • we find a dynamic ripple effect in agency through social networks. • network exposure to others with higher/lower agency predicts increases/decreases in agency over time. Environmental change is …
Transmigration programs and migrant positions in rural community knowledge networks
Controversial transmigration programs have moved millions of people from the cores of domestic economies to national geographical peripheries to ostensibly facilitate a more equitable resource distribution. However, it is not well understood how transmigrants become accepted and how they position themselves within the local networks of migrant-receiving rural communities. We examine how ethnicity and transmigratory experience affect informal know…
The making and unmaking of community-based water supplies in Manila
This article tracks the rise and fall of a community-based water supply programme in Manila, providing important insights into the issues of community participatory approaches to service provision, as well as the privatisation of basic services and public goods. The Manila Water Corporation, a private, for-profit company, developed an innovative programme to provide water to informal settlements through bulk connections, deploying the discourse o…
Male and stale? Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs
Social networks can influence people’s behaviour and therefore it is assumed that central individuals in social networks, also called “opinion leaders”, play a key role in driving change in agricultural and food systems. I analyse the outcomes of an intervention (that encouraged Sulawesi smallholder farmers to take a specific action toward improving the health of their cocoa trees) to assess the impact of engaging opinion leaders in agricultural …
Social networks and environmental management at multiple levels
Many agrarian communities in developing countries suffer from insufficient productivity and use farming practices that deteriorate the environment both locally and globally. Research suggests that social networks play a role in environmental management, different studies emphasize different aspects of network structures, and the implications of the scales at which networks operate are not explicitly discussed. Here, I ask what types of social str…
Farmers’ access to resources via networks in remote rural areas with mobile phone reception
Inhabitants of the most remote areas tend to have low access to information and resources potentially contributing to well-being. Ongoing expansion of ICTs deeper into rural areas is expected to improve this situation by enabling them to contact geographically distant others. We interviewed 79 women and men in an indigenous tribe in the mountains of Tamil Nadu, India, where explosively expanding mobile phone signal entered prior to other types of…
Relations between Community-Based Infrastructure Development and Squatters’ Social Capital
Measuring Social Capital in a Philippine Slum
Social capital is crucial for slum dwellers' survival.The central question of this article concerns how social capital can be measured. Through testing in the field, the authors optimized the position generator method for application in a Philippine slum; furthermore, they developed a special name generator to examine who gains social capital in particular community-based activities. And they were able to administer the whole measurement instrume…
Farmers’ access to resources via networks in remote rural areas with mobile phone reception
Inhabitants of the most remote areas tend to have low access to information and resources potentially contributing to well-being. Ongoing expansion of ICTs deeper into rural areas is expected to improve this situation by enabling them to contact geographically distant others. We interviewed 79 women and men in an indigenous tribe in the mountains of Tamil Nadu, India, where explosively expanding mobile phone signal entered prior to other types of…
Boots are made for walking
The making and unmaking of community-based water supplies in Manila
This article tracks the rise and fall of a community-based water supply programme in Manila, providing important insights into the issues of community participatory approaches to service provision, as well as the privatisation of basic services and public goods. The Manila Water Corporation, a private, for-profit company, developed an innovative programme to provide water to informal settlements through bulk connections, deploying the discourse o…
Emergence of multiplex mobile phone communication networks across rural areas
Mobile phones are spreading to remote areas of the globe, leading to the following question: “What is the potential of the new communication technologies for increasing individuals' access to information and the diffusion of attitudes and practices across rural areas of developing countries?” We have donated phones to 234 farmers selected by stratified random sampling in an agrarian region of Ethiopia and have tracked their main communication par…
The role of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information in Tanggamus Regency, Indonesia
Limited access to agricultural information constrains the well-being of farmers in developing countries and leads to environmental deterioration. Although new information-communication technologies (ICTs) are expected to alleviate this problem, the importance of physical mobility is rarely considered. This study explores the roles of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information within and between Indonesian f…
Social networks and environmental management at multiple levels
Many agrarian communities in developing countries suffer from insufficient productivity and use farming practices that deteriorate the environment both locally and globally. Research suggests that social networks play a role in environmental management, different studies emphasize different aspects of network structures, and the implications of the scales at which networks operate are not explicitly discussed. Here, I ask what types of social str…
Exploring dynamic mechanisms of learning networks for resource conservation
The importance of networks for social-ecological processes has been recognized in the literature; however, existing studies have not sufficiently addressed the dynamic nature of networks. Using data on the social learning networks of 265 farmers in Ethiopia for 2011 and 2012 and stochastic actor-oriented modeling, we explain the mechanisms of network evolution and soil conservation. The farmers' preferences for information exchange within the sam…
Energy and resilience
The dynamic drivers of interfirm interactions across space have rarely been explored in the context of disaster recovery; therefore, the mechanism through which shocks propagate is unclear. This paper uses stochastic actor-oriented modeling to examine how trade networks among the 500 largest Japanese companies evolved during 2010 and 2011, i.e. before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake to identify sources of vulnerability in the system. In…
External exposure, boundary-spanning, and opinion leadership in remote communities
Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies
Smallholder farmers' social networks and resource-conserving agriculture in Ghana
Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., P. Matouš, and M. E. Isaac, 2019. Smallholder farmers’ social networks and resource-conserving agriculture in Ghana: a multicase comparison using exponential random graph models. Ecology and Society 24(1):5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10623-240105
Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research
Who benefits from network intervention programs? TERGM analysis across ten Philippine low-income communities
Collecting experimental network data from interventions on critical links in workplace networks
Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions
Isaac, M. E., H. Nyantakyi-Frimpong, P. Matouš, E. Dawoe, and L. C. N. Anglaaere. 2021. Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions: the unintended outcomes of intended change. Ecology and Society 26(4):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12734-260412
Identifying and decomposing peer effects on decision-making using a randomized controlled trial
Utilizing a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in traditional clusters of apparel and textile firms in Vietnam, this paper investigates peer effects on firm managers’ decisions to participate in seminars on export promotion. We invited 131 randomly selected firm representatives to three one-day seminars on export promotion. We use the number of randomly invited peers to identify peer effects. We further decompose the invited peers into peers invit…
Quantifying unintended effects of an agroecological research project on farmers' practices and social network in Papua New Guinea
Agroecological researchers and advocates often make assumptions about the social impact and dissemination of their work: researchers may assume that their work has impact through postresearch dissemination, while advocates may assume that new agroecological practices can be effectively spread through existing social networks. Here, we test these assumptions by quantifying the effects of an agroecological research project on farming practices and …
Transmigration programs and migrant positions in rural community knowledge networks
Controversial transmigration programs have moved millions of people from the cores of domestic economies to national geographical peripheries to ostensibly facilitate a more equitable resource distribution. However, it is not well understood how transmigrants become accepted and how they position themselves within the local networks of migrant-receiving rural communities. We examine how ethnicity and transmigratory experience affect informal know…
Reprint of
Reprint of
Multilevel network interventions
Male and stale? Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs
Social networks can influence people’s behaviour and therefore it is assumed that central individuals in social networks, also called “opinion leaders”, play a key role in driving change in agricultural and food systems. I analyse the outcomes of an intervention (that encouraged Sulawesi smallholder farmers to take a specific action toward improving the health of their cocoa trees) to assess the impact of engaging opinion leaders in agricultural …
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks
Sustainable agricultural knowledge networks consist of heterogeneous actors who collaborate and share knowledge to advance the goals of sustainable agriculture. We analyze how the structure of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks is related to the social-ecological context across 57 counties in California. We apply a population ecology approach that identifies variables related to the space, energy, and stability of the social-ecological co…
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