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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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Evaluating Logger Certification Attitudes and Preferences: A Minnesota Case Study

Problem Addressed: Performance-based logger certification

Key Findings: Suggests design considerations for logger certification programs in Minnesota and other states.

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An Agent-Based Model of Private Woodland Owner Management Behavior Using Social Interactions, Information Flow, and Peer-To-Peer Networks

Problem Addressed: Difficulty estimating impacts of management and timber supply from privately owned woodlots.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Understand how social interactions, information flow, and peer-to-peer networks influence timber harvesting behavior using an agent-based model.

Key Findings: As trust in foresters and peer leaders increases, the percentage of the forest that is harvested sustainably increases.

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Local Institutions and Lake Management

Problem Addressed: Emergence and behavior of local institutions and the potential for these institutions to supplement conventional resource management approaches.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Advance understanding of the capacity of local institutions to contribute to lake management, specifically those in Maine, USA.

Key Findings: Results offer guidance on how to better integrate the informal approaches of local institutions with more formal, regional government-based management approaches and reveal the need for further research of what issues these stakeholder-engaged institutions are best suited to address.

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Linking Knowledge with Action: Applied Social Science Considerations to Improve Woody Bioenergy Research and Development Effectiveness

Problem Addressed: Woody bioenergy research and development

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Summarize the findings of a social considerations study conducted with stakeholders who were invited to participate in the development of a multi-state sustainable bioenergy research proposal.

Key Findings: Results provide important and useful data for understanding key stakeholders' views on the woody bioproducts industry, interest in collaborating, and diverse perspectives and needs.

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Local Institutions and Natural Resource Management

Problem Addressed: Coupled natural-human systems

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Develop an integrated empirical modeling framework of lake association presence (formation) and lake management success

Key Findings: Little support for the integrated model incorporating selection.

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Social Capital in an Outdoor Recreation Context

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Examine social capital development in three all-terrain vehicles (ATV) clubs in Maine using an adapted version of Lin's (2001) social capital theory

Key Findings: Theoretical and applied implications for these and other types of recreation-based volunteer associations (e.g., clubs, friends groups, advocacy groups) are presented.

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Parks Promoting Physical Activity: Synthesis of Findings From Interventions in Seven National Parks

Problem Addressed: Physical activity and participation in recreation at national parks

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Increase awareness of the health benefits from participation in recreation at national parks and to increase physical activity by park visitors.

Key Findings: Enhancements and replication of these programs represents a promising opportunity for improving partnerships between public health and recreation to increase physical activity.

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Changes in Social Capital and Networks: A Study of Community-Based Environmental Management Through a School-Centered Research Program

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Document the changes in social capital and networks that result from community based K-12 educational collaborations.

Key Findings: There were statistically significant increases in social capital and resilience in social networks after participation in the school-centered CBEMR program leading to an increased community involvement in environmental health management.

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