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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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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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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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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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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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