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Works from 2016

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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

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Migration signatures across the decades: Net migration by age in U.S. Counties, 1950-2010, Kenneth M. Johnson and Richelle Winkler

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Nineteenth-century iron ore washing, or, the oft-forgotten middle step between mine and furnace, Steven A. Walton

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Opening up the black box of adaptation decision-making, Robbert Biesbroek, Johann Dupuis, Andrew Jordan, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, Paul Cairney, Jeremy Rayner, and Debra Davidson

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Open-Source 3-D Printing Technologies for Education: Bringing Additive Manufacturing to the Classroom, Chelsea Schelly, Gerald C. Anzalone, Bas Wijnen, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Policies for the Sustainable Development of Biofuels in the Pan American Region: A Review and Synthesis of Five Countries, Barry Solomon, Aparajita Banerjee, Alberto Acevedo, Kathleen Halvorsen, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, and Amarella Eastmond

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Policy advice: Irked by naivety about policymaking, Kathryn Oliver, Adam Wellstead, and Paul Cairney

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Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: The distribution of analytical tools, Michael Howlett, Seck L. Tan, Andrea Migone, Adam Wellstead, and Bryan Evans

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Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: the distribution of analytical tools, Michael Howlett, Seck L. Tan, Andrea Migone, Adam Wellstead, and Bryan Evans

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Reproducibility in rehydroxylation of ceramic artifacts, Timothy Scarlett, Shan Zhao, Patrick K. Bowen, and Jaroslaw W. Drelich

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Review: An Environmental History of Canada, Nancy Langston

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Spatial patterns of forest values for bioenergy production in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Audrey L. Mayer and Ashma Vaidya

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Special Issue on Pan American Biofuel and Bioenergy Sustainability, David Shonnard and Barry Solomon

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Sven Beckert. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Jonathan Robins

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The Role of Social Science in Successfully Implementing Watershed Management Strategies, Kristin Floress, Kofi Akamani, Kathleen Halvorsen, Andrew T. Kozich, and Mae Davenport

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Understanding energy practices: a case for qualitative research, Chelsea Schelly

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What’s political about solar electric technology? The user’s perspective, Chelsea Schelly

Submissions from 2014

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Addressing the challenges of adaptation to climate change policy: Integrating public administration and public policy studies, Adam Wellstead and Richard Stedman

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“All the World's a Stage”: A GIS Framework for Recreating Personal Time-Space from Qualitative and Quantitative Sources, Don Lafreniere and Jason Gilliland

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Are residential dwellers marking and claiming? Applying the concepts to humans who dwell differently, Chelsea Schelly

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Artisan/Practitioners and the rise of the new sciences, 1400-1600, Steven A. Walton

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Classification of watersheds into integrated social and biophysical indicators with clustering analysis, Alex Mayer, Richelle Winkler, and Lauren Fry

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Comparing sub-national policy workers in Canada and the Czech Republic: Who are they, what they do, and why it matters?, Arnošt Veselý, Adam Wellstead, and Bryan Evans

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Conclusions, Barry Solomon and Robert Bailis

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Endocrine disruptors in the environment, Nancy Langston

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Environmental and energy ballot measures in the 2012 elections, Barry D. Solomon and Adam Wellstead

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Evaluating the geographic viability of the solar water disinfection (SODIS) method by decreasing turbidity with NaCl: A case study of South Sudan, Brittney Dawney, Cheng Cheng, Richelle Winkler, and Joshua Pearce

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Hales — Islamic and oriental arms and armour (Walton), Steven A. Walton

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Implementing renewable energy portfolio standards: The good, the bad, and the ugly in a two state comparison, Chelsea Schelly

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Introduction, Barry Solomon and Robert Bailis

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Michigan's RPS ballot defeat: A policy failure or success?, Fei Li, Barry D. Solomon, and Adam Wellstead

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New chemical bodies: synthetic chemicals, regulation, and human health, Nancy Langston

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Perceptions of nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff about water privatization in developing countries, Ellis A. Adams and Kathleen E. Halvorsen

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Precaution and the history of endocrine disruptors, Nancy Langston

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Residential solar electricity adoption: What motivates, and what matters? A case study of early adopters, Chelsea Schelly

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Responding to a forest catastrophe: The emergence of new governance arrangements in Southern California, Brian Peterson and Adam Wellstead

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Sovereign Sugar: Industry and the environment in Hawai`i, Carol MacLennan

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Sustainable development of biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean, Barry Solomon and Robert Bailis

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Sustainable natural resource policies developed through the participatory approach, Audrey L. Mayer and Ashma Vaidya

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Tales of policy estrangement: Non-governmental policy work and capacity in three Canadian provinces, Bryan Evans and Adam Wellstead

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Teaching interdisciplinary sustainability science teamwork skills to graduate students using in-person and web-based interactions, Jessie Knowlton, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Robert Handler, and Michael O'Rourke

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The distribution of analytical techniques in policy advisory systems: Policy formulation and the tools of policy appraisal, Michael Howlett, Seck L. Tan, Andrea Migone, Adam Wellstead, and Bryan Evans

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Thinking like a microbe: borders and environmental history, Nancy Langston

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Transitioning to renewable sources of electricity: motivations, policy, and potential, Chelsea Schelly

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What is straight cannot fall: Gothic architecture, scholasticism, and dynamics, Steven A. Walton

Submissions from 2013

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Beyond the black box: Forest sector vulnerability assessments and adaptation to climate change in North America, Adam Wellstead, Jeremy Rayner, and Michael Howlett

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Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire, Jonathan Robins

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Crossing the Milwaukee River, Sarah Scarlett

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"Destined to produce [a] ... revolution": Michigan's iron ore industry in the civil war, Terry Reynolds

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Dispersed capacity and weak coordination: The challenge of climate change adaptation in Canada's forest policy sector, Jeremy Rayner, Kathleen McNutt, and Adam Wellstead

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Effect of humidity instability on rehydroxylation in fired clay ceramics, Timothy Scarlett, Jaroslaw W. Drelich, and Patrick Bowen

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Environmental history in a changing world: evolution, environmental health, and climate change, Nancy Langston

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Geometry, method, and the rise of trace italienne: fortification in the sixteenth century, Steven A. Walton

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John L. Cotter award in historical archaeology, Timothy Scarlett, Donald L. Hardesty, and Teresita Majewski

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Mining the Boreal North, Nancy Langston

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Modeling rehydration/rehydroxylation mass-gain curves from davenport ceramics, Timothy Scarlett, Jaroslaw W. Drelich, and Patrick Bowen

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Policy dialogue and engagement between non-governmental organizations and government: A survey of processes and instruments of canadian policy workers, Bryan Evans and Adam Wellstead

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Policy work in multi-level states: Institutional autonomy and task allocation among canadian policy analysts, Michael Howlett and Adam Wellstead

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Proto-scientific revolution or cookbook science? Early gunnery manuals in the craft treatise tradition, Steven A. Walton

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Putting knowledge to war: research, development and the image of science in the First World War, Steven A. Walton

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Research Note: Segregated by Age: Are We Becoming More Divided?, Richelle Winkler

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Reviewed Work: Financing the Raj: The City of London and Colonial India, 1858–1940 by David Sunderland, Jonathan Robins

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Review of Cox, Anthony, Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940, Jonathan Robins

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Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of biofuels: evidence from developing nations, Kathleen Halvorsen

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The future of hunting: An age-period-cohort analysis of deer hunter decline, Richelle Winkler and Keith Warnke

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The goldilocks problem in medieval ordnance: The early European guns (EEG) database, Steven A. Walton

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The 'Lumpiness' Thesis Revisited: The Venues of Policy Work and the Distribution of Analytical Techniques in Canada, Michael P. Howlett, Seck Tan, Adam Wellstead, Andrea Migone, and Bryan Evans

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The neglect of governance in forest sector vulnerability assessments: Structural-functionalism and “black box” problems in climate change adaptation planning, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, and Jeremy Rayner

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Use of the participatory approach to develop sustainability assessments for natural resource management, Ashma Vaidya and Audrey L. Mayer

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Utilizing GIS to examine the relationship between state renewable portfolio standards and the adoption of renewable energy technologies, Chelsea Schelly and Jessica Price

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Water Security Assessment: Integrating Governance and Freshwater Indicators, Emma S. Norman, Gemma Dunn, Karen Bakker, Diana M. Allen, and Rafael Cavalcanti de Albuquerque

Submissions from 2012

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Bricks and an Evolving Industrial Landscape: The West Point Foundry and New York's Hudson River Valley, Timothy James Scarlett, Jeremy Rahn, and Daniel Scott

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Consumer Strategy and Household Consumption in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, USA, Sam R. Sweitz

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Dirty ores and ingenious mechanics: The origins of American ore washing machinery, Steven A. Walton

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Engineering nature: Water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise. By Jessica B. Teisch, Carol MacLennan

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New governance arrangements at the intersection of climate change and forest policy: Institutional, political and regulatory dimensions, Meinhard Doelle, Chris Henschel, Jennifer Smith, Chris Tollefson, and Adam Wellstead

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Peer influence of non-industrial private forest owners in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jillian R. Schubert and Audrey L. Mayer

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Professional policy work in federal states: Institutional autonomy and Canadian policy analysis, Michael Howlett and Adam Wellstead

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Technology and culture in Greek and Roman antiquity, Steven A. Walton

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The Captain and the Professor: Inventing the Parrott gun before the civil war, Steven A. Walton