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Works from 2019

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A research agenda for environmental management, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Chelsea Schelly, Robert Handler, Erin C. Pischke, and Jessie L. Knowlton

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Benefits over risks: A case study of government support of energy development in the Russian North, Roman Sidortsov

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Bridging the social and environmental dimensions of global sustainability in STEM education with additive manufacturing, Chelsea Schelly and Joshua M. Pearce

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Can the dual identity of policy entrepreneur and policy implementer promote successful policy adoption? Vertical greening policymaking in Shanghai, China, Hongmei Lu, Audrey L. Mayer, Adam Wellstead, and Shan Zhou

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Causal mechanisms in policy process research: Are we taking them seriously? Should we?, Evert Lindquist and Adam Wellstead

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Chapter 10: Lessons from the transdisciplinary, international BIOPIRE project, Jennifer L. Dunn, Jessie Knowlton, Robert Handler, Erin Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Theresa Selfa, David J. Flaspohler, Julian Licata, Ena E. Mata-Zayas, Rodrigo Medeiros, and Cassandra Moseley

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Chapter 11: Applying transdisciplinary research to enhance low-to-moderate income households’ access to community solar, Brad Barnett, Emily Prehoda, Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle Winkler, and Chelsea L. Schelly

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Chapter 12: In search of common ground: energy justice perspectives in global fossil fuel extraction, Roman Sidortsov, Raphael J. Heffron, Tedd Moya Mose, Chelsea Schelly, and Bethel Tarekegne

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Chapter 13: Understanding household conservation, climate change and the food–energy–water nexus from a transdisciplinary perspective, David Watkins, Rachel Shwom, Chelsea Schelly, Datu S. Agusdinata, Kristin Floress, and Kathleen E. Halvorsen

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Chapter 2: Governing sustainability and environmental management: what, why and how?, Erin Pischke, Robert M. Handler, and Jessie Knowlton

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Chapter 2: Policy process research and the causal mechanism movement: reinvigorating the field?, Evert Lindquist and Adam Wellstead

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Chapter 3: Power within and beyond the state: understanding how power relations shape environmental management, Jesse Abrams, Diana Córdoba, Roman Sidortsov, Chelsea Schelly, and Hugh Gorman

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Chapter 6: Administrative roles in environmental governance research: scientists incorporating policy makers, Robert Lafave and Jennifer L. Dunn

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Chapter 7: Incorporating community: opportunities and challenges in community engaged research, Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle Winkler, and Kirby Calvert

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Chapter 9: Policy, science and transdisciplinary research: when will it be safe to eat as much fish as desired?, Hugh Gorman, Valoree Gagnon, Amanda Giang, Judith Perlinger, and Noel R. Urban

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Closing Nuclear Plants Will Increase Climate Risks, Nancy Langston

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Closing nuclear plants with increase climate risks, Nancy Langston

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Conservation policies threaten indigenous reindeer herders in Mongolia, Nancy Langston and Kate Christen

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Correction: Responses of deposition and bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes region to policy and other large-scale drivers of mercury emissions, Judith Perlinger, N. R. Urban, A. Giang, N. E. Selin, A. Hendricks, H. Zhang, Aditya Kumar, S. Wu, Valoree Gagnon, Hugh Gorman, and E. S. Norman

Correction: Responses of deposition and bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes region to policy and other large-scale drivers of mercury emissions (Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts (2018) 20 (195-209) DOI: 10.1039/c7em00547d), J A Perlinger, N. R. Urban, A. Giang, N. E. Selin, A. N. Hendricks, H. Zhang, A. Kumar, S. Wu, Valoree Gagnon, H. S. Gorman, and E. S. Norman

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Cyber threats, harsh environment and the European High North (EHN) in a human security and multi-level regulatory global dimension: Which framework applicable to critical infrastructures under “Exceptionally critical infrastructure conditions” (ECIC)?, Sandra Cassotta, Roman Sidortsov, Christer Pursiainen, and Michael Evan Goodsite

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Defending against gunpowder artillery - Castles confronting cannons, Steven A. Walton

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Determined disjunction: Lynn White’s medieval technology and social change then and now, Steven A. Walton

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Economic viability of captive off-grid solar photovoltaic and diesel hybrid energy systems for the Nigerian private sector, Adewale Aremu Adesanya and Joshua M. Pearce

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Environmental justice and green schools—Assessing students and communities’ access to green schools, Shuang Zhao, Shan Zhou, and Douglas S. Noonan

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Evaluation of copper-contaminated marginal land for the cultivation of vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) as a lignocellulosic feedstock and its impact on downstream bioethanol production, Emily Geiger, Dibyendu Sarkar, and Rupali Datta

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Exploring the connections between participation in and benefits from payments for hydrological services programs in Veracruz State, Mexico, Kelly W. Jones, Sophie Avila Foucat, Erin Pischke, Jacob Salcone, David Torrez, Theresa Selfa, and Kathleen Halvorsen

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Fats of the land: New histories of agricultural oils, Juan Infante-Amate, Brandon Luedtke, Joshua MacFadyn, Jonathan E. Robins, and Kate Stevens

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Fifty years of medieval technology and social change, Steven A. Walton

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From adaptive capacity to policy capacity adaptation assessments: insights from the policy sciences, Mehjabeen Rahman, Adam Wellstead, and Michael Howlett

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Gain without pain: an international case for a tradable green certificates system to foster renewable energy development in Ukraine, Tetiana Kurbatova, Roman Sidortsov, Iryna Sotnyk, Oleksandr Telizhenko, Tetiana Skibina, and Roubik Hynek

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Have policy process scholars embraced causal mechanisms? A review of five popular frameworks, Jeroen van der Heijden, Johanna Kuhlmann, Evert Lindquist, and Adam Wellstead

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Heritage making through community archaeology and the spatial humanities, Daniel Trepal, Sarah Fayen Scarlett, and Don Lafreniere

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Historic Resources Study of Pullman National Monument, Illinois, Laura Walikainen Rouleau, Sarah Fayen Scarlett, Steven A. Walton, and Timothy Scarlett

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Improving solar development policy and planning through stakeholder engagement: The Long Island Solar Roadmap Project, Chelsea Schelly, Jessica Price, Aimee Delach, Rupak Thapaliya, and Karen Leu

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Introduction (Chapter 1), Steven A. Walton

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John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, supplanting America's railroads: The early auto age, 1900–1940, Bruce E. Seely

Justice implications of clean energy policies and programs in the United States: A theoretical and empirical exploration, Shan Zhong and Douglas S. Noonan

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Justice implications of clean energy policies and programs in the United States: A theoretical and empirical exploration, Shan Zhou and Douglas S. Noonan

Justice implications of clean energy policies and programs in the United States: A theoretical and empirical exploration, Shan Zhou and Douglas S. Noonan

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Life cycle assessment of the production of gasoline and diesel from forest residues using integrated hydropyrolysis and hydroconversion, Robert J. Zupko II

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Out of the Classroom and Into History: Mobile Historical GIS and Community-Engaged Teaching, Sarah Fayen Scarlett, Don Lafreniere, Daniel Trepal, John Arnold, and Yichun Xie

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Out of the Classroom and Into History: Mobile Historical GIS and Community-Engaged Teaching, Sarah Scarlett, Don Lafreniere, Daniel Trepal, John D. M. Arnold, and Yichun Xie

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Peering into the black box of government policy work: The challenge of governance and policy capacity, Halina Sapeha, Adam Wellstead, and Bryan Evans

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Policies to overcome barriers for renewable energy distributed generation: A Case study of utility structure and regulatory regimes in Michigan, Emily Prehoda, Joshua M. Pearce, and Chelsea Schelly

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Public participatory historical GIS, Don Lafreniere, Luke Weidner, Daniel Trepal, Sarah Fayen Scarlett, John D. M. Arnold, Robert Pastel, and Ryan Williams

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Putting research to action: Integrating collaborative governance and community-engaged research for community solar, Emily Prehoda, Richelle Winkler, and Chelsea Schelly

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Reviewed Work: Palma Africana by Michael Taussig, Jonathan E. Robins

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Review: Money in a human economy, Chelsea Schelly

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Should archaeology have a future?, LouAnn Wurst

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Should we stay or should we go now? Factors affecting evacuation decisions at Pacaya volcano, Guatemala, Hans Lechner and Mark Rouleau

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Social justice, corporate influence, and development: Defending the public interest at a state university, Angie Carter, Betty L. Wells, and Ahna Kruzic

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Socio-economic importance of forest resources and their conservation measures in Ethiopia: the case of area closure in South Gonder of Ethiopia, Fikirte Demissie, Kumelachew Yeshitela, Mark Rouleau, David J. Flaspohler, and Mengistie Kindu

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Solar PV-diesel hybrid systems for the Nigerian private sector: An impact assessment, Adewale Aremu Adesanya and Chelsea Schelly

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Sorting out a problem: A co-production approach to household waste management in Shanghai, China., Hongmei Lu and Roman Sidortsov

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Sustainable cybersecurity? Rethinking approaches to protecting energy infrastructure in the European High North, Sandra Cassotta and Roman Sidortsov

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Sustainable mining and the north, Nancy Langston

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Technological determinism(s) and the study of war, Steven A. Walton

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The duty of artists to speak: Trump and illegal immigrants, Josh Loar

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The Ghost in the Machine: A Response to Roller, LouAnn Wurst

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The majestic nature of the north, Steven A. Walton and Michael J. Armstrong

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The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigrants and Inequality, Kathleen Halvorsen

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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection, Kathleen Halvorsen

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The third shift? Gender and empowerment in a women’s ecotourism cooperative, Mayra Sanchez Morgan and Richelle Winkler

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Transdisciplinary research teams: Broadening the scope of who participates in research, Erin C. Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Tuyeni Heita Mwampambaz, Lily House-Peters, Amarella Eastmond, Lucía Pérez Volkow, Mayra del Carmen Fragoso Medina, and Marcella Ohira

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Understanding cumulative hazards in a rustbelt city: Integrating GIS, archaeology, and spatial history, Daniel Trepal and Don Lafreniere

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Understanding farmers’ perceptions and the effects of shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) tree distribution in agroforestry parklands of Upper West Region, Ghana, Fahimeh Baziari, Kari B. Henquinet, and Molly A. Cavaleri

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Understanding renewable energy policy adoption and evolution in Europe: The impact of coercion, normative emulation, competition, and learning, Shan Zhou, Daniel C. Matisoff, Gordon Kinglsey, and Marilyn A. Brown

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“We Don’t Equal Even Just One Man”: Gender and social control in conservation adoption, Angie Carter

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Where is the policy? A bibliometric review of the state of policy research on medical tourism, Altaf Virani, Adam Wellstead, and Michael Howlett

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Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?, Nancy Langston

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Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?, Nancy Langston

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Women are helping offset Wisconsin's gradual decline in fishing, Erin Burkett and Richelle Winkler

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Women Leading Landscape Change, Angie Carter

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Working with the public in historical data creation, Humphrey Southall and Don Lafreniere

Works from 2018

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‘A city of the white race occupies its place’: Kanaka Row, chinatown, and the indian quarter in Victorian Victoria, John Sutton Lutz, Don Lafreniere, Megan Harvey, Patrick Dunae, and Jason Gilliland

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A historical analysis of US climate change policy in the Pan-American context, Erin Pischke, Barry Solomon, and Adam Wellstead

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Are woodland caribou doomed by climate change?, Nancy Langston

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Are Woodland Caribou Doomed by Climate Change?, Nancy Langston

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A spatial evaluation of historic iron mining impacts on current impaired waters in Lake Superior’s Mesabi Range, John Baeten, Nancy Langston, and Don Lafreniere

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Comment on “Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management”, Adam Wellstead, Robbert Biesbroek, Paul Cairney, Debra Davidson, Johann Dupuis, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner, and Richard Stedman

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Community perceptions of socioecological stressors and risk-reducing strategies in Tabasco, Mexico, Erin Pischke, M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Amarella Eastmond, Jesse Abrams, and Kathleen Halvorsen

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Community response to a sustainable restoration plan for a superfund site, Virinder Sidhu, Dibyendu Sarkar, Rupali Datta, and Barry D. Solomon

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Conclusion: Environmental policy and the pursuit of just sustainability, Chelsea Schelly and Aparajita Banerjee

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Constructing a sustainable bioecnomy: Multi-scalar perceptions of sustainability, Aparajita Banerjee, Chelsea L. Schelly, and Kathleen E. Halvorsen

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Creating a longitudinal, data-driven 3D model of change over time in a postindustrial landscape using GIS and CityEngine, John Arnold

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Cross-border hostilities and regional planning in the United States and Canada: What role for expertise, insulated from the “Hurry and Strife of Politics”?, Jameson W. Doig and Mary Durfee

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Decarbonizing the boardroom? Aligning electric utility executive compensation with climate change incentives, Cleyton Cavallaro, Joshua M. Pearce, and Roman Sidortsov

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Engaging community and spatial humanities for postindustrial heritage: The keweenaw time traveler, Sarah Scarlett, Donald Lafreniere, Daniel Trepal, John Arnold, and Robert Pastel

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Environmental policy and the pursuit of sustainability, Amanda Krueze, Roman Sidortsov, and Chelsea Schelly

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Environmental policy and the pursuit of sustainability, Chelsea Schelly and Aparajita Banerjee

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Following workers of the industrial city across a decade: Residential, occupational, and workplace mobilities, 1881-1891, Don Lafreniere and Jason Gilliland

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“Food Comes First”: The Development of Colonial Nutritional Policy in Ghana, 1900–1950, Jonathan Robins

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From Kyoto to Paris: Measuring renewable energy policy regimes in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States, Erin Pischke, Barry Solomon, Adam Wellstead, Alberto Acevedo, Amarella Eastmond, Fernando De Oliveira, and et. al.

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“Imbibing the lesson of defiance”: oil palms and alcohol in Colonial Ghana, 1900–40, Jonathan E. Robins

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Implementing Landscape Scale Conservation across Organizational Boundaries: Lessons from the Central Appalachian Region, United States, Kristin Floress, Stephanie Connolly, Kathleen Halvorsen, Amanda Egan, Thomas Schuler, Amy Hill, Philip DeSenze, Scott Fenimore, and Kent Karriker

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Independent Risk Analysis for the Straits Pipelines - Final Report, Kevin Strychar, Frank Lupi, Steven Miller, John Baeten, David J. Flaspohler, Sarah Green, Amanda Grimm, Latika Gupta, Kelly Kamm, Will Lytle, Guy Meadows, Daisuke Minakata, Amlan Mukherjee, Jill A. Olin, Gordon Paterson, Mark Rouleau, Mir Sadri-Sabet, Timothy Scarlett, Chelsea Schelly, David Shonnard, Roman Sidortsov, Bethel Tarekegne, Stephen Techtmann, Adam Wellstead, Pengfei Xue, and et. al.

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Indigenous protest and the roots of sustainable forestry in Bolivia, Michael J. Dockry and Nancy Langston

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Introduction: Spatial history, history, and GIS, Don DeBats, Ian Gregory, and Don Lafreniere

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Introduction to part I, Don Lafreniere, Ian Gregory, and Don DeBats