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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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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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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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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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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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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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