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Community/Agency Trust: A Measurement Instrument

Problem Addressed: Natural resource management agencies building relationships with their constituents

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Present the development and validation of a psychometric instrument intended to measure the trust held by local community members living adjacent to managed natural resource areas.

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Agent-Based Modeling of Harvest Decisions by Small Scale Forest Landowners in Maine, USA

Problem Addressed: Small-scale forests and decision-making processes, reactions to policy, and combined impacts on ecosystems.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Develop an agent-based model experiment to model timber harvesting in Maine, USA.

Key Findings: Presents baseline simulation results and compare the effect of a social change and a biophysical change on the system.

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Creating Opportunities for Improving Lake-Focused Stakeholder Engagement: Knowledge-Action Systems, Pro-Environment Behaviour and Sustainable Lake Management

Problem Addressed: Stakeholder participation to bolster lake management efforts

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Examine lake-focused stakeholder participation activities targeting individuals and households.

Key Findings: The tools exist to research natural and human components of lake and basin systems. Creating opportunities to apply these tools to assess engagement with stakeholders concurrently generates meaningful opportunities to advance sustainable lake and basin management.

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Communication and Sustainability Science Teams as Complex Systems

Problem Addressed: Resilience of social-ecological systems

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Determining how specific communication interactions on sustainability science teams affect outcomes

Key Findings: Decision making and communication competencies influenced mutual understanding, inclusion of diverse ideas, and progress toward sustainability-related goals.

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Innovation Impacts on Biomass Supply in Maine’s Logging Industry

Problem Addressed: Lack of knowledge surrounding the innovation system in the logging industry.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Present results from a series of case studies of highly innovative logging contractors in Maine.

Key Findings: The project has highlighted several areas of improvement in Maine's logging innovation system.

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Strengthening Knowledge Co-Production Capacity: Examining Interest in Community-University Partnerships

Problem Addressed: Building successful, enduring research partnerships.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Focus on community-university research partnerships and factors that influence participation in the co-production process.

Key Findings: Findings underscore the benefits of proactively assessing partnership potential prior to forming partnerships and the important roles for communication research within sustainability science, especially with regard to strengthening partnership formation and knowledge co-production processes.

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Community Benefits From Managed Resource Areas

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Develop a theoretically informed measurement instrument for assessing local community members' perceptions of benefits that managed resource areas provide to their communities.

Key Findings: The proposed five-dimensional community benefits measurement instrument exhibited sufficient amounts of reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity when applied to five samples from four distinct managed natural resource areas.

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Maine Woodland Owner Perceptions of Long Rotation Woody Biomass Harvesting and Bioenergy

Problem Addressed: Predicting and understanding timber supply and its relation with the wood-based bioenergy industry.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Understand the cognitive factors influencing the decision to harvest timber for bioenergy markets.

Key Findings: For those that would harvest timber more generally, allowing a biomass harvest is another separate, but related decision.

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Application of a Modified Health Belief Model to the Pro-Environmental Behavior of Private Well Water Testing

Problem Addressed: Private well water

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Apply a social cognition model of health behavior, the health belief model, to the pro-environmental behavior of private well water testing.

Key Findings: Results reinforce the need for continued private well water research and parallels to additional environmental behaviors.

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Perceived Community Benefits from Recreation Resources: From Scale Development to Validation

Problem Addressed: Individuals' perceptions of community benefits generated from managed recreation resources.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Fill the gap in the recreation and natural resource management literature.

Key Findings: The perceived community benefits scale can be employed in future research to develop more valid theoretical propositions relating individuals' values and the possible outcomes they would lie to see recreation resources managed for.

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