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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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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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