Juan-Camilo Cárdenas

About

Juan-Camilo Cárdenas is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has been faculty since June 2021. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, he specializes in the micro-foundations of social exchange, analysis and design of institutions that promote sustainable, efficient, and fair use of common resources and local public goods, as well as the effects of inequality and regulations in managing the common good. His research includes applications of experimental economics in the field, with a focus on rural institutions, poverty, cooperation, and biodiversity management. Cárdenas holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a dissertation awarded the Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Award, and has held academic positions at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, where he is on leave, and at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. His professional experience encompasses roles as a professor, associate professor, and international fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, with extensive involvement in research, editorial work, and academic service related to ecological economics, social sustainability, and collective action.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Ecology
• Business
• Economics
• Biology
• Evolutionary biology
• Environmental resource management
• Microeconomics
• Public relations

Selected publications

• Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts

  AMBIO · 2022 · 73 citations

  Transformation toward a sustainable future requires an earth stewardship approach to shift society from its current goal of increasing material wealth to a vision of sustaining built, natural, human, and social capital-equitably distributed across society, within and among nations. Widespread concern about earth's current trajectory and support for actions that would foster more sustainable pathways suggests potential social tipping points in public demand for an earth stewardship vision. Here,…

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• Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

  Nature Sustainability · 2023 · 69 citations

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• What is the economic value of coastal and marine ecosystem services? A systematic literature review

  Marine Policy · 2024-02-06 · 31 citations

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• Social-ecological vulnerability to environmental extremes and adaptation pathways in small-scale fisheries of the southern California Current

  Frontiers in Marine Science · 2024-02-08 · 25 citations

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  Coastal ecosystems and human communities are threatened worldwide by climate change, and shocks from social, market and political change. There is an urgent global need to promote resilient food production and livelihoods in the face of these shocks. Small-scale fisheries (SSF) in rural settings can be particularly vulnerable as they frequently lack the resources, rights and infrastructure to respond to shocks originating outside the focal systems. We examined ecological and social outcomes of e…

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• Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries

  Nature Communications · 2024-02-16 · 21 citations

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  The emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which societies generally have strong norms), specific social norms (e.g. stealing, hand washing), and norms about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 countries recorded before and in the early stages following the emergence of COVID-19. Using variation in…

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Frequent coauthors

• David P. Tracer

  University of Colorado Denver

  36 shared

• Natalie Henrich

  University of British Columbia

  34 shared

• Abigail Barr

  34 shared

• Frank W. Marlowe

  University of Cambridge

  31 shared

• Michael Gurven

  31 shared

• Alexander Bolyanatz

  31 shared

• Carolyn Lesorogol

  31 shared

• Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako

  31 shared

Awards & honors

• Mención de Honor “Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar” Science…
• Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studi…
• Premio Bienal al Investigador Javeriano en Ciencias Sociales…
• Santa Fe Institute International Fellowships Competition. Ju…
• First Place. Research Medal Awards (Category “Environmental…

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