Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions

• Published in: Global Environmental Change
• Main Authors: Crabtree, Stefani A., Kahn, Jennifer G., Jackson, Rowan, Wood, Spencer A., McKechnie, Iain, Verhagen, Philip, Earnshaw, Jacob, Kirch, Patrick V., Dunne, Jennifer A., Dugmore, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Global Environmental Change 2022
• Subjects: Sustainable resource management; Human impacts; Archaeology; Traditional ecological knowledge; Ecology; Tula; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14411; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102597

Analyzing the spatial and temporal properties of information flow with a multi-century perspective could illuminate the sustainability of human resource-use strategies. This paper uses historical and archaeological datasets to assess how spatial, temporal, cognitive, and cultural limitations impact...