Publications
Submitted/Working Papers
40. Flores A, Burgess MG, Caballero MD, Carrico AR, Miller JE, Suarez C, Vandenbergh MP. Americans are polarized about electric vehicles, but not Teslas.
39. Feitosa LM, Burgess MG, Free CM, Gaines SD. Price dynamics and technical interactions should enable open-access fisheries to easily cause extinction.
38. Burgess MG. Five simple mathematical insights about fairness.
37. Burgess MG, Langendorf RE, Ippolito T, Pielke Jr. R. Optimistically biased economic growth forecasts and negatively skewed annual variation. SocArXiv: vndqr.
2024.
36. Van Boven L, Burgess MG. 2024. Introduction to topical collection: Social science and sustainability technology. Climatic Change. 177, 69.
35. Marshall R, Anderson SE, Van Boven L, Al-Shawaf L, Burgess MG. 2024. Neutral and negative effects of policy bundling on support for decarbonization. Climatic Change 177, 61.
34. Burgess MG. 2024. Five considerations for twenty-first-century climate policy. FIU Law Review 18, 283-312
33. Burgess MG*, Van Boven L*, Wagner G*, Wong-Parodi G*, Baker K, Boykoff M, Converse BA, Dilling L, Gilligan JM, Inbar Y, Markowitz E, Moyer JD, Newton P, Raimi KT, Shrum T, Vandenbergh M. 2024. Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies. Nature Climate Change 14, 134-142. (*Equal contribution) Free read-only version.
32. Kroeger GD, Burgess MG. 2024. Electric utility plans are consistent with Renewable Portfolio Standards and Clean Energy Standards in most US states. Climatic Change 177, 1. Free read-only version.
2023
31. Hegwood M, Burgess MG, Costigliolo EM, Smith P, Bajželj B, Saunders H, Davis SJ. 2023. Rebound effects could offset more than half of avoided food loss and waste. Nature Food 4: 585-595. Free read-only version.
30. Burgess MG, Langendorf RE, Moyer JD, Dancer A, Hughes BB, Tilman D. 2023. Multidecadal dynamics project slow 21st-century economic growth and income convergence. Communications Earth & Environment 4: 220.
29. Burgess MG, Becker SL, Langendorf RE, Fredston A, Brooks CM. 2023. Climate change scenarios in fisheries and aquatic conservation research. ICES Journal of Marine Science 80: 1163-1178. Editor's Choice.
2022
28. Burgess MG, Becker SL. 2022. Good and bad news for ocean predators. Science 378: 596-597. (Companion to Juan-Jordá et al. 2022)
27. Marshall R, Burgess MG. 2022. Advancing bipartisan decarbonization policies: Lessons from state-level successes and failures. Climatic Change 171, 17. Correction to Table 2.
26. Hegwood M, Langendorf RE, Burgess MG. 2022. Why win-wins are rare in complex environmental management. Nature Sustainability 5: 674-680.
25. Pielke Jr. R, Burgess MG, Ritchie J. 2022. Plausible 2005-2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 and 3 degrees C of warming by 2100. Environmental Research Letters 17: 024027.
2021
24. Burgess MG, Carrico AR, Gaines SD, Peri A, Vanderheiden S. 2021. Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns. Nature Human Behaviour 5: 1608-1621.
23. Millage KD, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Bradley D, Burgess MG, Lenihan HS, Costello C. 2021. Self-financed marine protected areas. Environmental Research Letters 16: 125001.
22. Langendorf RE, Burgess MG. 2021. Empirically classifying network mechanisms. Scientific Reports 11: 200501. Related R package: netcom.
21. Burgess MG*, Ritchie J*, Shapland J, Pielke Jr. R. 2021. IPCC baseline scenarios have over-projected CO2 emissions and economic growth. Environmental Research Letters 16: 014016. (*Equal contribution)
2020
20. Rao A, Burgess MG, Kaffine D. 2020. Orbital-use fees could more than quadruple the value of the space industry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117: 12756-12762.
19. Burgess MG, Carrella E, Drexler M, Axtell RL, Bailey RM, Watson JR, Cabral RB, Clemence M, Costello C, Dorsett C, Gaines SD, Klein ES, Koralus P, Leonard G, Levin SA, Little LR, Lynham J, Madsen JK, Merkl A, Owashi B, Saul SE, van Putten IE, Wilcox S. 2020. Opportunities for agent-based modeling in human dimensions of fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 21: 570-587.
18. Burgess MG, Plank MJ. 2020. What unmanaged fishing patterns reveal about optimal management: applied to the balanced harvesting debate. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77: 901-910.
17. Carrella E, Saul S, Marshall K, Burgess MG, Drexler M, Cabral RB, Bailey R, Madsen JK, Dorsett C. 2020. Simple adaptive rules describe fishing behaviour better than perfect rationality in the U.S. west coast groundfish fishery. Ecological Economics 169: 106449.
2019
16. Burgess MG, Fredston-Hermann A, Tilman D, Loreau M, Gaines SD. 2019. Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning. Theoretical Ecology 12: 207-223.
15. Bailey R, Carrella E, Axtell RL, Burgess MG, Cabral RB, Drexler M, Dorsett C, Madsen JK, Merkl A, Saul S. 2019. A computational approach to managing coupled human-environmental systems: The POSEIDON model of ocean fisheries. Sustainability Science 14: 259-275.
2018
14. Tallis HM, Hawthorne PL, Polasky S, Reid J, Beck MW, Brauman K, Bielicki JM, Binder S, Burgess MG, Cassidy E, Clark A, Fargione J, Game ET, Gerber J, Isbell F, Kiesecker J, McDonald R, Metian M, Molnar JL, Mueller ND, O'Connell CO, Ovando D, Troell M, Boucher T, McPeek B. 2018. An attainable global vision for conservation and human well-being. Frontiers in the Ecology and the Environment 16: 563-570.
13. Burgess MG, Gaines SD. 2018. The scale of life and its lessons for humanity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115: 6328-6330. (Companion to Bar-On et al. 2018)
12. Burgess MG*, McDermott GR*, Owashi B, Peavey Reeves LE, Clavelle T, Ovando D, Wallace BP, Lewison RL, Gaines SD, Costello C. 2018. Protecting marine mammals, turtles, and birds by rebuilding global fisheries. Science 359: 1255-1258. (*Equal contribution. Code here.)
11. Burgess MG, Clemence M, McDermott GR, Costello C, Gaines SD. 2018. Five rules for pragmatic blue growth. Marine Policy 87: 331-339.
2017
10. Burgess MG, Costello C, Fredston-Hermann A, Pinsky ML, Gaines SD, Tilman D, Polasky S. 2017. Range contraction enables harvesting to extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: 3945-3950. (Cover article. Open-access arXiv version here.)
9. Burgess MG, Giacomini HC, Szuwalski CS, Costello C, Gaines SD. 2017. Describing ecosystem contexts with single-species models: A theoretical synthesis for fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 18: 264-284.
8. Jacobsen NS, Burgess MG, Andersen KH. 2017. Efficiency of fisheries is increasing at the ecosystem level. Fish and Fisheries 18: 199-211. (Model code and web interface here.)
7. Szuwalski CS, Burgess MG, Costello C, Gaines SD. 2017. High fishery catches through trophic cascades in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: 717-721. (See also Commentary in same issue.)
2016 and earlier
6. Williams R*, Burgess MG*, Ashe E, Gaines SD, Reeves RR. 2016. U.S. seafood import restriction presents opportunity and risk. Science 354: 1372-1374. (*Equal contribution)
5. Burgess MG, Diekert FK, Jacobsen NS, Andersen KH, Gaines SD. 2016. Remaining questions in the case for balanced harvesting. Fish and Fisheries 17: 1216-1226.
4. Burgess MG, McDermott GR. 2015. Resolving disputes over ocean calamities. BioScience 65: 1115-1116.
3. Burgess MG. 2015. Consequences of fleet diversification in managed and unmanaged fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72: 54-70. (Open-access arXiv version here.)
2. Burgess MG, Polasky S, Tilman D. 2013. Predicting overfishing and extinction threats in multispecies fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 15943-15948. (See also Commentary in same issue.)
1. Burgess MG. 2009. Sub-optimal pit construction in predatory ant lion larvae. Journal of Theoretical Biology 260: 379-385.
Letters:
2. Burgess MG, Pielke Jr. R, Ritchie J. 2022. Catastrophic climate risks should be neither understated nor overstated. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2214347119.
1. Burgess MG, Fredston-Hermann A, Pinsky ML, Gaines SD, Tilman D. 2017. Reply to Le Pape et al: Management is key to preventing marine extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: E6275-E6276.
Technical reports:
6. Burgess MG, Suarez C, Dancer A, Watkins LJ, Marshall RE. 2024. Climate change opinion and recent presidential elections. A Center for Social and Environmental Futures Report. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10494414
5. Vitale KS, Hedges S, eds. Clark Artis R, Burgess MG, et al., contributing authors. 2022. Reclaiming the Culture of Higher Education: A best practices guide for advancing open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement. Heterodox Academy.
4. Burgess MG, Millage K, Ovando D, Thomas L, Rubino LL, Costello C. Transferable effort vs. transferable catch in age-structured fisheries. Report to The Nature Conservancy, September 12, 2018.
3. Millage K, Burgess MG, Strauss K, Lenihan HS, Costello C. Ocean Halos: A conceptual model of marine zoning in French Polynesia. Report to The Nature Conservancy, October 10, 2017.
2. Millage K, Tsukayama L, Owashi B, Clemence M, Burgess MG, Gaines SD. Transfer effects following decline in the United States pelagic longline fleet. Report to the Environmental Defense Fund, December 24, 2016.
1. Burgess MG, Gaines SD. Relative impacts of fishing on bycatch and target species drive long-term threats and tradeoffs. Report to the Environmental Defense Fund, October 7, 2016.