Asim Zia
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3708339 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Asim Zia |
| PRENOMES | Asim |
| SOBRENOME | Zia |
| ASSINATURA | ZIA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8372-6090 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What shapes flood risk perceptions? Comparing public perceptions with Fema flood hazard maps in the U.S
Flooding remains one of the most damaging natural hazards, underscoring the need for a better understanding of public perceptions of flood risk to support preparedness and mitigation. This study compares risk perceptions from a national online survey of 918 respondents with FEMA flood maps. We define the risk perception gap as the difference between respondents' perceived flood risk and FEMA’s flood zone classifications, and we examine its driver…
A socio-technical framework for analyzing crop advisors' preferences for AI-based decision support systems
Exploring relational farming futures for responsible innovation in precision agriculture through Q-method and speculative design
This article draws on concepts of speculative design and responsible innovation to examine the possible impacts of data-driven precision agriculture on farmers and farm work. We use an innovative mixed-method approach to research design. Using artistic depiction of futures of precision agriculture in design workshop and in-depth semistructured interviews conducted with the farmers in Vermont and South Dakota, we explain how farmers perceive diffe…
Rethinking ‘responsibility’ in precision agriculture innovation
We examine the interactions, decisions, and evaluations of an interdisciplinary team of researchers tasked with developing an artificial intelligence-based agricultural decision support system that can provide farmers site-specific information about managing nutrients on their land. We answer the following research questions: (1) How does a relational perspective help an interdisciplinary team conceptualize ‘responsibility' in a project that deve…
Pro-environmental attitudes, altruism, and Covid-19 risk management behavior
Limiting the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic is a collective action problem that calls on individuals to act, not just for their benefit but also for the benefit of others in their community. Many environmental problems, especially climate change, share this characteristic, which invites inquiry on whether those predisposed to act to solve environmental problems may also be predisposed to act to solve health-focused collective action probl…
Climate mitigation policies and actions
Evaluating water quality regulation as a driver of farmer behavior
Hammond Wagner, C. R., S. Greenhalgh, M. T. Niles, A. Zia, and W. B. Bowden. 2020. Evaluating water quality regulation as a driver of farmer behavior: a social-ecological systems approach. Ecology and Society 25(4):35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12034-250435
Network Meta-Metrics
We developed an agent-based susceptible / infective model which simulates disease incursions in the hog production chain networks of three U.S. states. Agent parameters, contact network data, and epidemiological spread patterns are output a er each model run. Key network metrics are then calculated, some of which pertain to overall network structure, and others to each node's positionality within the network. We run statistical tests to evaluate …
Relational values resonate broadly and differently than intrinsic or instrumental values, or the New Ecological Paradigm
Value orientations used to explain or justify conservation have been rooted in arguments about how much and in what context to emphasize the intrinsic versus instrumental value of nature. Equally prominent are characterizations of beliefs known as the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP), often used to help explain pro-environmental behaviour. A recent alternative to these positions has been identified as 'relational value'-broadly, values linking peopl…
Crowdsourced Delphis
There is a well-established need for increased stakeholder participation in the generation of adaptive management approaches and specific solutions to complex environmental problems. However, integrating participant feedback into current science, research, and decision-making processes is challenging. This paper presents a novel approach that marries a rigorous Delphi method, borrowed from policy and organizational sciences, with contemporary "cr…
Coupled impacts of climate and land use change across a river–lake continuum
Global climate change (GCC) is projected to bring higher-intensity precipitation and higher-variability temperature regimes to the Northeastern United States. The interactive effects of GCC with anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCCs) are unknown for watershed level hydrological dynamics and nutrient fluxes to freshwater lakes. Increased nutrient fluxes can promote harmful algal blooms, also exacerbated by warmer water temperatures…
The emergence of attractors under multi-level institutional designs
An interactive land use transition agent-based model (Ilutabm)
Risk Zones
Risk insurance mechanisms have been proposed as proactive policy options to enhance the resilience of communities for coping with extreme events. Many risk insurance mechanisms require designation of “risk zones” to legalize governmental interventions. After a three-day workshop and ensuing interviews, “wicked” challenges were identified in the designation of risk zones: risk thresholds; land value; damage-reduction; land-use planning; forecast u…
Acknowledging Conservation Trade‐Offs and Embracing Complexity
There is a growing recognition that conservation often entails trade‐offs. A focus on trade‐offs can open the way to more complete consideration of the variety of positive and negative effects associated with conservation initiatives. In analyzing and working through conservation trade‐offs, however, it is important to embrace the complexities inherent in the social context of conservation. In particular, it is important to recognize that the con…
Accountable Climate Governance
How can accountability be institutionalized across complex governance networks that are dealing with the transboundary pollution problem of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions at multiple spatial, temporal and social scales? To address this question, we propose an accountability framework that enables comparison of the democratic, market and administrative anchorage of actor accountability within and across governance networks. A comparative anal…
Accountability in Governance Networks
What is the most effective framework for analyzing complex accountability challenges within governing networks? Recognizing the multiscale and intersector (public, private, and nonprofit) characteristics of these networks, an accountability model is advanced organized around democratic (elected representatives, citizens, and the legal system), market (owners and consumers), as well as administrative (bureaucratic, professional and collaborative) …
Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Social-Ecological Systems
Zia, A., P. Hirsch, A. Songorwa, D. R. Mutekanga, S. O'Connor, T. McShane, P. Brosius, and B. Norton. 2011. Cross-scale value trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems: the politics of scale in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania. Ecology and Society 16(4): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04375-160407
Evaluating the effects of ideology on public understanding of climate change science
While ideology can have a strong effect on citizen understanding of science, it is unclear how ideology interacts with other complicating factors, such as college education, which influence citizens’ comprehension of information. We focus on public understanding of climate change science and test the hypotheses: [H 1 ] as citizens’ ideology shifts from liberal to conservative, concern for global warming decreases; [H 2 ] citizens with college edu…
Dispelling the Myth of the Invisible Hand
Homecoming
Asim Zia is a young Pakistani living with his widowed mother in Ilford. He is at present studying in a further education college in East London, and hopes eventually to gain sufficient qualifications to become an airline pilot. He wrote the following sensitive and perceptive account of an immigrant's homecoming at his evening English class at Lansbury Adult Education Institute, Tower Hamlets
Accountability in Governance Networks
What is the most effective framework for analyzing complex accountability challenges within governing networks? Recognizing the multiscale and intersector (public, private, and nonprofit) characteristics of these networks, an accountability model is advanced organized around democratic (elected representatives, citizens, and the legal system), market (owners and consumers), as well as administrative (bureaucratic, professional and collaborative) …
An interactive land use transition agent-based model (Ilutabm)
Crowdsourced Delphis
There is a well-established need for increased stakeholder participation in the generation of adaptive management approaches and specific solutions to complex environmental problems. However, integrating participant feedback into current science, research, and decision-making processes is challenging. This paper presents a novel approach that marries a rigorous Delphi method, borrowed from policy and organizational sciences, with contemporary "cr…
Accountable Climate Governance
How can accountability be institutionalized across complex governance networks that are dealing with the transboundary pollution problem of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions at multiple spatial, temporal and social scales? To address this question, we propose an accountability framework that enables comparison of the democratic, market and administrative anchorage of actor accountability within and across governance networks. A comparative anal…
Climate mitigation policies and actions
Homecoming
Asim Zia is a young Pakistani living with his widowed mother in Ilford. He is at present studying in a further education college in East London, and hopes eventually to gain sufficient qualifications to become an airline pilot. He wrote the following sensitive and perceptive account of an immigrant's homecoming at his evening English class at Lansbury Adult Education Institute, Tower Hamlets
Dispelling the Myth of the Invisible Hand
Evaluating the effects of ideology on public understanding of climate change science
While ideology can have a strong effect on citizen understanding of science, it is unclear how ideology interacts with other complicating factors, such as college education, which influence citizens’ comprehension of information. We focus on public understanding of climate change science and test the hypotheses: [H 1 ] as citizens’ ideology shifts from liberal to conservative, concern for global warming decreases; [H 2 ] citizens with college edu…
Acknowledging Conservation Trade‐Offs and Embracing Complexity
There is a growing recognition that conservation often entails trade‐offs. A focus on trade‐offs can open the way to more complete consideration of the variety of positive and negative effects associated with conservation initiatives. In analyzing and working through conservation trade‐offs, however, it is important to embrace the complexities inherent in the social context of conservation. In particular, it is important to recognize that the con…
Accountable Climate Governance
How can accountability be institutionalized across complex governance networks that are dealing with the transboundary pollution problem of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions at multiple spatial, temporal and social scales? To address this question, we propose an accountability framework that enables comparison of the democratic, market and administrative anchorage of actor accountability within and across governance networks. A comparative anal…
Accountability in Governance Networks
What is the most effective framework for analyzing complex accountability challenges within governing networks? Recognizing the multiscale and intersector (public, private, and nonprofit) characteristics of these networks, an accountability model is advanced organized around democratic (elected representatives, citizens, and the legal system), market (owners and consumers), as well as administrative (bureaucratic, professional and collaborative) …
Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Social-Ecological Systems
Zia, A., P. Hirsch, A. Songorwa, D. R. Mutekanga, S. O'Connor, T. McShane, P. Brosius, and B. Norton. 2011. Cross-scale value trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems: the politics of scale in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania. Ecology and Society 16(4): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04375-160407
Risk Zones
Risk insurance mechanisms have been proposed as proactive policy options to enhance the resilience of communities for coping with extreme events. Many risk insurance mechanisms require designation of “risk zones” to legalize governmental interventions. After a three-day workshop and ensuing interviews, “wicked” challenges were identified in the designation of risk zones: risk thresholds; land value; damage-reduction; land-use planning; forecast u…
The emergence of attractors under multi-level institutional designs
An interactive land use transition agent-based model (Ilutabm)
Coupled impacts of climate and land use change across a river–lake continuum
Global climate change (GCC) is projected to bring higher-intensity precipitation and higher-variability temperature regimes to the Northeastern United States. The interactive effects of GCC with anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCCs) are unknown for watershed level hydrological dynamics and nutrient fluxes to freshwater lakes. Increased nutrient fluxes can promote harmful algal blooms, also exacerbated by warmer water temperatures…
Relational values resonate broadly and differently than intrinsic or instrumental values, or the New Ecological Paradigm
Value orientations used to explain or justify conservation have been rooted in arguments about how much and in what context to emphasize the intrinsic versus instrumental value of nature. Equally prominent are characterizations of beliefs known as the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP), often used to help explain pro-environmental behaviour. A recent alternative to these positions has been identified as 'relational value'-broadly, values linking peopl…
Crowdsourced Delphis
There is a well-established need for increased stakeholder participation in the generation of adaptive management approaches and specific solutions to complex environmental problems. However, integrating participant feedback into current science, research, and decision-making processes is challenging. This paper presents a novel approach that marries a rigorous Delphi method, borrowed from policy and organizational sciences, with contemporary "cr…
Network Meta-Metrics
We developed an agent-based susceptible / infective model which simulates disease incursions in the hog production chain networks of three U.S. states. Agent parameters, contact network data, and epidemiological spread patterns are output a er each model run. Key network metrics are then calculated, some of which pertain to overall network structure, and others to each node's positionality within the network. We run statistical tests to evaluate …
Climate mitigation policies and actions
Evaluating water quality regulation as a driver of farmer behavior
Hammond Wagner, C. R., S. Greenhalgh, M. T. Niles, A. Zia, and W. B. Bowden. 2020. Evaluating water quality regulation as a driver of farmer behavior: a social-ecological systems approach. Ecology and Society 25(4):35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12034-250435
Pro-environmental attitudes, altruism, and Covid-19 risk management behavior
Limiting the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic is a collective action problem that calls on individuals to act, not just for their benefit but also for the benefit of others in their community. Many environmental problems, especially climate change, share this characteristic, which invites inquiry on whether those predisposed to act to solve environmental problems may also be predisposed to act to solve health-focused collective action probl…
Rethinking ‘responsibility’ in precision agriculture innovation
We examine the interactions, decisions, and evaluations of an interdisciplinary team of researchers tasked with developing an artificial intelligence-based agricultural decision support system that can provide farmers site-specific information about managing nutrients on their land. We answer the following research questions: (1) How does a relational perspective help an interdisciplinary team conceptualize ‘responsibility' in a project that deve…
What shapes flood risk perceptions? Comparing public perceptions with Fema flood hazard maps in the U.S
Flooding remains one of the most damaging natural hazards, underscoring the need for a better understanding of public perceptions of flood risk to support preparedness and mitigation. This study compares risk perceptions from a national online survey of 918 respondents with FEMA flood maps. We define the risk perception gap as the difference between respondents' perceived flood risk and FEMA’s flood zone classifications, and we examine its driver…
A socio-technical framework for analyzing crop advisors' preferences for AI-based decision support systems
Exploring relational farming futures for responsible innovation in precision agriculture through Q-method and speculative design
This article draws on concepts of speculative design and responsible innovation to examine the possible impacts of data-driven precision agriculture on farmers and farm work. We use an innovative mixed-method approach to research design. Using artistic depiction of futures of precision agriculture in design workshop and in-depth semistructured interviews conducted with the farmers in Vermont and South Dakota, we explain how farmers perceive diffe…
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