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The Hiawatha National Forest: An Examination of Trust Between Natural Resource Agencies and Local Communities

Problem Addressed: Community relationships

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Capture a range of perspectives on the agency-community relationship between USFS personnel working at HNF and residents living nearby.

Key Findings: Many study participants explained how important it is that the community trusts the agency because of their dependence upon the HNF.

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Growing a Sustainable Bioenergy Industry for the Northeast

Problem Addressed: The Northeast Woody/Warm-Season Biomass Consotium

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Design, implement, analyze and evaluate robust, scalable, and sustainable value chains for lignocellulosic biomass suitable for advanced transportation fuels for our region.

Key Findings: Sustainable bioenergy value claims can provide broad societal benefits, but must be implemented with full consideration of the biophysical, social, cultural and economic resources and values of the region.

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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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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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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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