A5075385653- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Environmental law and policy
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Coastal and Marine Management
University of Louisville
2013-2024
University of Louisville Hospital
2015-2022
Miami University
2007-2010
DeCaro, D. A., B. C. Chaffin, E. Schlager, A. S. Garmestani, and J. Ruhl. 2017. Legal institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance. Ecology Society 22(1):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09036-220132
Cosens, B. A., R. K. Craig, S. Hirsch, C. A. (T.) Arnold, M. H. Benson, D. DeCaro, Garmestani, Gosnell, J. Ruhl, and E. Schlager. 2017. The role of law in adaptive governance. Ecology Society 22(1):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08731-220130
Public participation plays a role in the development and long-term maintenance of environmental institutions that are well-matched to local social-ecological conditions.However, means by which public impacts such institutional fit remains unclear.We argue one major reason for this lack clarity is analysts have not clearly outlined how humankind's sense agency, or self-determination, influences outcomes.Moreover, concept ambiguous as what constitutes good could be diagnosed improved.This...
Craig, R. K., A. S. Garmestani, C. Allen, Arnold, H. Birgé, D. DeCaro, K. Fremier, Gosnell, and E. Schlager. 2017. Balancing stability flexibility in adaptive governance: an analysis of tools available U.S. environmental law. Ecology Society 22(2):3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08983-220203
Allen, C. R., H. E. Birge, D. G. Angeler, A. (T.) Arnold, B. Chaffin, DeCaro, S. Garmestani, and L. Gunderson. 2018. Quantifying uncertainty trade-offs in resilience assessments. Ecology Society 23(1):3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09920-230103
DeCaro, D. A., C. A. (T.) Arnold, E. F. Boamah, and S. Garmestani. 2017. Understanding applying principles of social cognition decision making in adaptive environmental governance. Ecology Society 22(1):33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09154-220133
Abstract We used psychological methods to investigate how two prominent interventions, participatory decision making and enforcement, influence voluntary cooperation in a common-pool resource dilemma. Groups (N=40) harvested resources from shared pool. Individuals the Voted-Enforce condition voted on conservation rules could use economic sanctions enforce them. In other conditions, individuals not vote (Imposed-Enforce condition), lacked enforcement (Voted or both (Imposed condition)....
This article develops a new framework -- the institutional-social-ecological dynamics (ISED) to assess relationships among institutional change, societal and ecological change in evaluating current likely future resilience of small, Eastern, urban-suburban watershed: Anacostia River watershed DC Maryland. A historical case study explores transformations across key thresholds, including how legal, governance, social institutions changed since European colonization these changes have affected...
Conventional wisdom (rational choice theory) assumes that individuals are destined to collectively destroy vital ecological systems due their narrow self-interest. In contrast, Humanistic Rational Choice Theory (HRCT) can cooperatively self-govern, devising effective conservation agreements and governance constrain self-interest for mutual benefit. To test this assumption, we examined the motivational, perceptual, cooperative outcomes of communication in a resource dilemma experiment. HRCT...
Rule enforcement is critical in democratic, self-governing societies. Many political disputes occur when citizens do not understand the fundamental rationales for (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic). We examined how naïve groups learn and develop wise systems. Based on theories from behavioral economics, science, psychology, education, we predicted that need to experience failure of an system, but be guided restorative justice principles collectively this failure. Undergraduate students ( N = 288) a...
Society's most pressing problems involve social dilemmas, yet few individuals recognize and understand their core components. We examined how a serious dilemma game used in an educational setting impacted understanding of classic dilemma, the tragedy commons. Participants (