C. T. Bauch

Acclimating to degraded environments: The social rationale for swift action on restoration

This paper shows how societal acclimation to environmental degradation reduces stakeholder incentives for mitigation, delaying restoration and locking systems into degraded states.

When conflicts get heated, so does the planet: social-climate dynamics under inequality

This paper develops a social-climate model to show how inequality and population structure influence climate change and mitigation effectiveness.

Interconnections accelerate collapse in a socio-ecological metapopulation

This study shows that resource sharing between patches in a socio-ecological metapopulation model accelerates collapse and broadens the conditions under which collapse occurs.

Global Land Use Implications of Dietary Trends: A Tragedy of the Commons

The paper quantifies the global agricultural land footprint changes under USDA dietary guidelines, finding up to 1 gigahectare of additional land needed, highlighting a potential Tragedy of the Commons.

Modeling Science Trustworthiness Under Publish Or Perish Pressure

This paper models how publish-or-perish pressures affect scientific trustworthiness, finding that funding and false positive rates significantly impact reproducibility.