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Works from 2018

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The power of the talking points: Persuasive power and the challenges of sustainable natural resource development, Amanda Kreuze, Roman Sidortsov, and Chelsea Schelly

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The routledge companion to spatial history, Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, and Don Lafreniere

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The Syllabus Project, Nancy Langston

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Thinking theory thoroughly: Coherent approaches to an incoherent world, second edition, James N. Rosenau and Mary Durfee

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Uncovering discursive framings of the Bangladesh shipbreaking industry, S. M. Mizanur Rahman, Chelsea Schelly, Audrey L. Mayer, and Emma S. Norman

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Upper Great Lakes States’ recreational angler participation map book, Erin Burkett, Richelle Winkler, and Rozalynn Klaas

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When foundation matters: overcoming legal and regulatory barriers to oil and gas well decommissioning in Russia, Roman Sidortsov and Elena Gavrilina

Works from 2017

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11. Iron Mines, Toxicity, and Indigenous Communities in the Lake Superior Basin, Nancy Langston

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Archaeological Overview & Assessment Pullman National Historical Monument, Timothy Scarlett and Steven A. Walton

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At the crossroads of policy ambitions and political reality: Reflections on the prospects of LNG development in Russia, Roman Sidortsov

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Barriers and Solutions to Conducting Large International, Interdisciplinary Research Projects, Erin Pischke, Jessie L. Knowlton, Colin Phifer, Jose Gutierrez Lopez, Tamara S. Propato, Amarella Eastmond, Tatiana Martins de Souza, Mark Kuhlberg, Valentin Picasso Risso, Santiago R. Veron, Carlos Garcia, Marta Chiappe, and Kathleen Halvorsen

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Differences in Federal and Provincial Policy Analysis, Michael Howlett and Adam Wellstead

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DOCUMERICA and the power of environmental history, Nancy Langston

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Dwelling in resistance: living with alternative technologies in America, Chelsea Schelly

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Enrollment decision-making in U.S. forestry and related natural resource degree programs, Mark Rouleau, Terry Sharik, Samantha Whitens, and Adam Wellstead

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Examining interconnection and net metering policy for distributed generation in the United States, Chelsea Schelly, Edward P. Louie, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Explaining through causal mechanisms: resilience and governance of social–ecological systems, Robbert Biesbroek, Johann Dupuis, and Adam Wellstead

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Extractive industries, corporate discourse and indigenous heritage, Melissa Baird

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Handbook on the geographies of energy, Barry Solomon and Kirby E. Calvert

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Intragroup Lethal Aggression in West African Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus): Inferred Killing of a Former Alpha Male at Fongoli, Senegal, Jill D. Pruetz, Kelly Boyer Ontl, Elizabeth Cleaveland, Stacy Lindshield, Joshua Marshack, and Erin G. Wessling

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Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Lesley B. Cormack, John A. Schuster, Steven A. Walton, Alex G. Keller, Sven Dupre, W. R. Laird, and Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis

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Our dangerous discipline: Doing historical archaeology in Utah, Timothy Scarlett

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Participatory Modeling Workshops in a Water-Stressed Basin Result in Gains in Modeling Capacity but Reveal Disparity in Water Resources Management Priorities, Alex Mayer, Enrique R. Vivoni, David Kossak, Kathleen Halvorsen, and Agustin Robles Morua

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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose? A review of Paul Sabatier’s “An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein", Adam Wellstead

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Policy advice from outsiders: The challenges of policy co-construction, Adam Wellstead, Bryan Evans, and Halina Sapeha

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Policy Analysis and the Voluntary Sector, Bryan Evans, Juniper Glass, and Adam Wellstead

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Policy Capacity and Incapacity in Canada’s Federal Government, Adam Wellstead, Richard Stedman, and Evert Lindquist

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Policy mixes and their alignment over time: Patching and stretching in the oil sands reclamation regime in Alberta, Canada, Jeremy Rayner, Michael Howlett, and Adam Wellstead

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Policy work in Canada: Professional practices and analytical capacities in Canada’s policy advisory system, Michael Howlett, Adam Wellstead, and Jonathan Craft

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Preface, Barry Solomon and Kirby E. Calvert

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Racist housing practices as a precursor to uneven neighborhood change in a post-industrial city, Richard Casey Sadler and Donald Lafreniere

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Renewable, ethical? Assessing the energy justice potential of renewable electricity, Aparajita Banerjee, Emily Prehoda, Roman Sidortsov, and Chelsea Schelly

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Review of: Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868, Steven A. Walton

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Sustainable Development for Whom and How? Exploring the Gaps between Popular Discourses and Ground Reality Using the Mexican Jatropha Biodiesel Case, Aparajita Banerjee, Kathleen Halvorsen, Amarella Eastmond-Spencer, and Sam R. Sweitz

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Sustaining Lake Superior, Nancy Langston

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Technologies of Pow(d)er: Military mathematical practitioners’ strategies and self-presentation, Steven A. Walton

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The changing landscape of biofuels: A global review, Barry Solomon and J. Brad Barnett

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The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Canada: An Introduction and Overview, Michael Howlett, Adam Wellstead, and Jonathan Craft

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The persistence of time: Vernacular preservation of the postindustrial landscape, John Arnold and Donald Lafreniere

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The Russian offshore oil and gas regime, When tight control means less order, Roman Sidortsov

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The Wisconsin Experiment, Nancy Langston

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Understanding public perceptions of wood-based electricity production in Wisconsin, United States: place-based dynamics and social representations, Aparajita Banerjee, Chelsea Schelly, and Kathleen E. Halvorsen

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U.S. strategic solar photovoltaic-powered microgrid deployment for enhanced national security, Emily Prehoda, Chelsea Schelly, and Joshua M. Pearce

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You are where you live: Methodological challenges to measuring children’s exposure to hazards, Richard C. Sadler and Donald Lafreniere

Submissions from 2016

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A geospatial approach to uncovering the hidden waste footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range, John Baeten, Nancy Langston, and Don Lafreniere

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Alberta's oil sands reclamation policy trajectory: the role of tense layering, policy stretching, and policy patching in long-term policy dynamics, Adam Wellstead, Jeremy Rayner, and Michael Howlett

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Assisted tree migration in North America: Policy legacies, enhanced forest policy integration, and climate change adaptation, Adam Wellstead and Michael Howlett

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Beyond the Oregon Protests: The Search for Common Ground, Nancy Langston

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Boom, bust and beyond: Arts and sustainability in Calumet, Michigan, Richelle Winkler, Lorri Oikarinen, Heather L. Simpson, Melissa Michaelson, and Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez

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Canada’s Regional Adaptation Collaboratives and adaptation platform: The importance of scaling up and scaling down climate change governance experiments, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, Sreeja Nair, and Jeremy Rayner

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Capitalism in motion, LouAnn Wurst and Stephen A. Mrozowski

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Changing ideas in forestry: A comparison of concepts in Swedish and American forestry journals during the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Erland Mårald, Nancy Langston, Anna Sténs, and Jon Moen

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Cotton and race across the Atlantic : Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920, Jonathan Robins

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Criteria and indicators for a bioenergy production industry identified via stakeholder participation, Ashma Vaidya and Audrey L. Mayer

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Critical review of the millennium project in Nepal, Ashma Vaidya and Audrey L. Mayer

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Everyday household practice in alternative residential dwellings: the non-environmental motivations for environmental behavior, Chelsea Schelly

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Failure to communicate: Inefficiencies in voluntary incentive programs for private forest owners in Michigan, Mark. D. Rouleau, Jennifer F. Lind-Riehl, Miranda N. Smith, and Audrey L. Mayer

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FOOD AND DRINK: PALM OIL VERSUS PALM WINE IN COLONIAL GHANA, Jonathan Robins

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ForestSim: An Agent-Based Simulation for Bioenergy Sustainability Assessment, Mark Rouleau

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Heavy Artillery Transformed, Steven A. Walton

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How policy frameworks shape environmental practice: three cases of alternative dwelling, Chelsea Schelly

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Hybridization, agency discretion, and implementation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, Jennifer F. Lind-Riehl, Audrey L. Mayer, Adam Wellstead, and Oliver Gailing

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­In Oregon, Myth Mixes With Anger, Nancy Langston

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Life cycle assessment of steel in the ship recycling industry in Bangladesh, S. M. Mahfuzur Rahman, Robert M. Handler, and Audrey L. Mayer

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Locating the border in Boundary Bay: Non-Point pollution, Contaminated Shellfish, and transboundary governance, Emma S. Norman

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Measurement and modeling of atmosphere-surface exchangeable pollutants (ASEPs) to better understand their environmental cycling and planetary boundaries, Judith Perlinger, Hugh Gorman, Emma S. Norman, Daniel Obrist, Noelle E. Selin, Noel R. Urban, and Shiliang Wu

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Moving Toward Integration? Effects of Migration on Ethnoracial Segregation Across the Rural-Urban Continuum, Richelle Winkler and Kenneth M. Johnson

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Offense and defense in the gunpowder revolution, Steven A. Walton

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Policy capacity for climate change in canada's transportation sector, Joshus Newman, Anthony Perl, Adam Wellstead, and Kathleen McNutt

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Policy compliance recommendations for international shipbreaking treaties for Bangladesh, S. M. Mizanur Rahman and Audrey L. Mayer

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Potential Applications of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction and Impregnation for the Stabilization and Conservation of Industrial Heritage Artifacts, Timothy Scarlett

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“Push” dynamics in policy experimentation: Downscaling climate change adaptation programs in Canada, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, Sreeja Nair, and Jeremy Rayner

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Rebuilding the Landscape of the Rural Post Office: A Geo-Spatial Analysis of 19th-century Postal Spaces and Networks, Nicholas Van Allen and Don Lafreniere

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Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Management in Lake Superior, Nancy Langston

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Reviewed Work: Dundee and the Empire: “Juteopolis” 1850–1939 by TomlinsonJim, Jonathan Robins

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Review of Follett, Richard; Beckert, Sven; Coclanis, Peter; Hahn, Barbara, Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities, Jonathan Robins

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Soft energy paths revisited: Politics and practice in energy technology transitions, Chelsea Schelly and Aparajita Banerjee

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Structural-functionalism redux: adaptation to climate change and the challenge of a science-driven policy agenda, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, and Jeremy Rayner

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The surprising history of the Malheur wildlife refuge, Nancy Langston

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The Windsor-Detroit Borderland: The Making of a Key North American Environment of Mobility, Tor H. Oiamo, Don Lafreniere, and Joy Parr

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To bridge the divide between evidence and policy: reduce ambiguity as much as uncertainty, Paul Cairney, Kathryn Oliver, and Adam Wellstead

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To frack or not to frack: perceptions of the risks and opportunities of high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the United States, Amanda Kreuze

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Use of a participatory approach to develop a regional assessment tool for bioenergy production, Ashma Vaidya and Audrey L. Mayer

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Use of multiple criteria analysis to develop a participatory regional assessment tool for bioenergy production, Ashma Vaidya and Audrey L. Mayer

Works from 2015

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Abundance, dependence, and trauma at Philadelphia’s point breeze petroleum refinery: A mirror on the history of Pennsylvania’s oil industry, Fredric L. Quivik

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"All the world's a stage": A GIS framework for recreating personal time-space from qualitative and quantitative sources, Donald Lafreniere and Jason Gilliland

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At the Arsenal Gate: Premodern military activity and the technologies of scale, Steven A. Walton

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Crafting collectivity: American rainbow gatherings and alternative forms of community, Chelsea Schelly

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Entangled histories: Iron ore mining in Canada and the United States, John Thistle and Nancy Langston

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Examining Policy Capacity Initiatives Within Climate Change Frameworks In Three US and Canadian Sectors Using Nvivo Content Analysis, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, and Mehjabeen Rahman

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Family legacies and community networks shape private forest management in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan (USA), Jennifer Lind-Riehl, Shelly Jeltema, Margaret Morrison, Garbriela Shirkey, Audrey L. Mayer, Mark Rouleau, and Richelle Winkler

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Frameworks for understanding and promoting solar energy technology development, Chelsea Schelly

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Government with a cast of dozens: Policy capacity risks and policy work in the northern territory, Dean Carson and Adam Wellstead

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Historical framework to explain long-term coupled human and natural system feedbacks: application to a multiple-ownership forest landscape in the northern Great Lakes region, USA, Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Nancy Langston, Mark D.O. Adams, and David J. Mladenoff

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How social ties influence metal resource flows in the Bangladesh ship recycling industry, S.M. Mizanur Rahman and Audrey L. Mayer

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How useful is complexity theory to policy studies? Lessons from the climate change adaptation literature, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, and Jeremy Rayner

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Interrogating Social Sustainability in the Biofuels Sector in Latin America: Tensions Between Global Standards and Local Experiences in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, Theresa Selfa, Carmen Bain, Renata Moreno, Amarella Eastmond, Sam R. Sweitz, Conner Bailey, Gustavo Simas Pereira, Tatiana Souza, and Rodrigo Medeiros

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Introduction: The Pilbara crisis, Melissa Baird and Jane Lydon

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Mainstreaming and beyond: Policy capacity and climate change decision-making, Adam Wellstead and Richard Stedman

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Matteo Valleriani. Metallurgy, ballistics, and epistemic instruments: The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia: A new edition. Translated by, Matteo Valleriani, Lindy Divarci, and Anna Siebold, Steven A. Walton