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Approaching the complexities inherent in human behavior, and compounded by the increasingly multifaceted environment we live in, requires multiple angles of attack. Hence, combining theoretical investigations and applied techniques appears to be a promising approach to inform the scientific and policy debates about environmental management. Sustainably managing jointly determined ecological-economic systems requires not only an understanding of the environmental factors that affect them, but also knowledge of the interactions and feedback cycles that operate between resource dynamics and activities attributable to human intervention. The socio-economic dynamics, in turn, call for an investigation of the behavioral drivers behind human action. We argue that a multidisciplinary approach is needed in order to tackle the increasingly pressing and intertwined environmental challenges faced by modern societies. Specifically, fruitful new insights into the mechanisms that can promote cooperation among the end-users of the local and global commons can be achieved by establishing bridges between the economic, the ecological and the behavioral traditions.

The paper submission for the 20th CTN Workshop, to be held in Venice next 19-20 March 2015, closed yesterday. We received a record number of submissions of 110 papers. Thanks to all authors. Notifications are due by the end of January.

In the field of climate change mitigation, a growing interest in social and economic networks has been fostered by recent developments in the analysis of strategic network formation benefiting from an increasing methodological cross fertilization with earlier work on the formation of large networks, developed in mechanical physics. In this short interview granted to Re3 - Review of Environment, Energy and Economics Journal, Alessandro Tavoni from The Grantham Research Institute of the London School Economics, gives practical examples on how, for instance, experimental games can be integrated into more traditional lines of research on coalition formation and stability.

This year's Nobel prize in economic sciences goes to Prof. Jean Tirole of Toulouse University in France for his microeconomic research investigating how large firms should be regulated in order to prevent consumers being damaged by their monopolistic behaviour.