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Submissions from 2025

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A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects, James Juip, Don Lafreniere, Sarah Scarlett, and Mark Rhodes

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Arctic Energy Governance: Complexity, Transitions and the Oversized Role of Nation States, Roman Sidortsov

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Assessing Climate Vulnerabilities in Rural and Low-Income Regions: A Case Study of the Western Upper Peninsula, Mercedes Asamani and Chelsea Schelly

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Assessing Perceptions of Genetically Improved Tree Species Among Family Forest Owners (FFO) in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, Zoē Ketola, Chelsea Schelly, Mark Rouleau, and Carsten Kulheim

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Connecting Landscapes of Extraction: Sustainable Educational Tourism and Experiential Learning in the Yucatán, Kathryn L. Hannum and Mark A. Rhodes

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Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado, Kayla M. Gabehart

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Does energy policy scholarship consider energy resilience? A bibliometric analysis and agenda for reform, Shardul Tiwari, Aritra Chakrabarty, Chelsea Schelly, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Jianli Chen, and Gaby Ou

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Economic impact of potential aquaculture production in Michigan, USA, Ingrid M. Sokup, Jenny L. Apriesnig, and Lauren N. Jescovitch-Stigers

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Francophone Labour and Migrations in and out of the Industrial Keweenaw Peninsula, Sarah Scarlett, Don Lafreniere, and Garand A. Spikberg

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Global Forests, Nancy Langston and Michael J. Dockry

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How electricity utility practitioners in the United States approach power system resilience, Shardul Tiwari, Aritra Chakrabarty, Chelsea Schelly, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Gaby Ou, and Jianli Chen

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Improving geospatial coastal vulnerability indices for the Great Lakes, Esther Acheampong, Don Lafreniere, Ryan A. Williams, and Guy A. Meadows

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Inspiring the next generation of engineers and scientists to be champions of equitable change, Nyasha Milanzi

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Leveraging GIS for policy design: Spatial analytics as a strategic tool, Kathryn L. Hannum, Adam M. Wellstead, Michael Howlett, and Anat Gofen

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Managing the Imagined Spatialities of Protected Sites: (Un)Bounding Industrial World Heritage via Mental Maps, Mark A. Rhodes, Kathryn L. Hannum, and Zoē Ketola

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Meaningful engagement in transitions research: Care and value in research partnerships, Nyasha Milanzi and Chelsea Schelly

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New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states, Dong Min Kim, Shan Zhou, and Adam Wellstead

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Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design, Adam Wellstead, Sarah Giest, Ishani Mukherjee, Anat Gofen, and Bryan Evans

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The Inflation Reduction Act: Implications for energy development, energy sovereignty, and self-determination for federally recognized Tribal Nations in the US, Don Lee and Chelsea Schelly

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Understanding coalitions' emotion-belief expressions and rural identity: An ACF study of Colorado's “MeatOut”, Kayla M. Gabehart

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Vaccine diplomacy: The politics of COVID-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe, Haruka Nagao, Rigao Liu, William Hatungimana, Leeann H. Youn, and John James Kennedy

Submissions from 2024

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A critical cartography: mapping chapters, networks, and relationships through regional organization, Trinidad Rico and Melissa Baird

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A declaration of commitments toward agroecology pluralities, Katia Aviles, Kenzo Esquivel, Aidee Guzman, Hannah Duff, Ana Fochesatto, Karen Crespo Triveño, Angie Carter, and et al.

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A review of traditional ecological knowledge in resilient livelihoods and forest ecosystems: lessons for restoration sciences and practices, Tran Thi Mai Anh, Valoree Gagnon, and Chelsea Schelly

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Beyond Summer Reading: Enabling Covert Student Learning Through a Cross-Campus Connecting Theme, Laura Fiss, Brett Hamlin, Heather Love, Linda Ott, Charles Wallace, and Steven A. Walton

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Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID-19 Pandemic☆, Julia K. Petersen, Richelle Winkler, and Miranda H. Mockrin

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Climate change and municipal bonds across scales: credit ratings and the challenges of emergent risk in small localities, Daniel Shtob

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Climate impacts on migration in the Arctic North America: existing evidence and research recommendations, Guangqing Chi, Shuai Zhou, Megan Mucioki, Jessica Miller, Ekrem Korkut, Lance Howe, Junjun Yin, Davin Holen, Heather Randell, Ayse Akyildiz, Kathleen Halvorsen, Lara Fowler, James Ford, and Ann Tickamyer

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Decentering humans in sustainability: a framework for Earth-centered kinship and practice, Tran Thi Mai Anh, Cassandra M. Reed-VanDam, Kendall Belopavlovich, Elizabeth Brown, Katherine E. Higdon, Shelby Nicole Lane-Clark, Katherine M. McGowen, Emily Shaw, and Valoree Gagnon

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Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education, Mark Rhodes and Kathryn L. Hannum

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Emotional Expressions and Advocacy Coalitions, Allegra H. Fullerton, Kayla M. Gabehart, and Christopher M. Weible

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Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Shardul Tiwari, Zoē Ketola, Chelsea Schelly, and Eric Boyer-Cole

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Engagement for Life's Sake: Reflections on Partnering and Partnership with Rural Tribal Nations, Chelsea Schelly, Valoree Gagnon, Kathleen Brosemer, and Kristin Arola

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Heritage work in extractive zones, Melissa Baird

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Is Salmon Surprise on the Table? Indigenous Rights and Multi-Stakeholder Diplomacy in the Renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty, Kinga Szálkai and Mary Durfee

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Lacey Sparks. Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa, Jonathan Robins

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Maintaining Ukraine’s Grid Reliability under Rapid Growth of Renewable Electricity Share: Challenges in the Pre-War, War-Time, and Post-War Periods, Kurbatova Tetiana, Roman Sidortsov, Trypolska Galyna, Hulak Daniil, and Sotnyk Iryna

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More than Semantics? Navigating the "policy ∗ Design" Concepts' Landscape, Diana Pamela Villa-Alvarez and Adam Wellstead

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National Museum Wales and the scalar bureaucracies of institutional memory work, Mark Rhodes

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New Avenues for Public Value Management and the Role of Nonprofit Policy Innovation Labs: Co-Experience and Social Media, Adam Wellstead, Rowen Schmidt, Angie Carter, and Anat Gofen

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Non-traditional abiotic drivers explain variability of chlorophyll-a in a shallow estuarine embayment, Peter J. Sahwell, Danielle Bejar, Dong Min Kim, and Helena M. Solo-Gabriele

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Nuclear Power: Will It Be Part of the 21st-Century Sustainable Energy Transition?, Barry Solomon

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Prospects of Nuclear Power in a Sustainable Energy Transition, Muhammad Asif, Barry Solomon, and Charles Adulugba

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Public value and procedural policy instrument specifications in “design for service”, Adam Wellstead and Michael Howlett

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ReCOGnition: Revisiting Medieval Gearing from Vitruvius to Print, Steven A. Walton

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Regional economic impact of university research expenditures, Jenny L. Apriesnig, Laura Connolly, Emanual Xavier-Oliveira, and Kathleen E. Halvorsen

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Rurality, Resilience, & Identity: A Soft Systems Methodology Approach to Understanding Self-Reported Issues in Rural America, Kayla M. Gabehart, Allegra H. Fullerton, and Kristin Olofsson

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Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster*, Brandon Folse, Nicholas Theis, and Daniel Shtob

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Signing Globally, Implementing Locally: Protecting Endangered Wildlife and the Predicament of Germany’s Federalism, Kayla M. Gabehart and Christoph H. Stefes

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Social determinants of rural food security: Findings from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Hongmei Lu and Angie Carter

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The role of storage in the emerging Power-to-X Economy: The case of Hawaiʻi, Gabriel Lopez, Arman Aghahosseini, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Rasul Satymov, Ayobami Solomon Oyewo, Barry Solomon, and Christian Breyer

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The spillover effect of mandatory renewable portfolio standards, Shan Zhou, Barry Solomon, and Marilyn A. Brown

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UNESCO, Mining Heritage and the Scalar Sustainability of Tourism Geographies at Industrial World Heritage Sites, Mark A. Rhodes and Kathryn L. Hannum

Works from 2023

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Adaptive capacity, Adam Wellstead

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Agent-based modeling (ABM), Mark Rouleau

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America and arbitration as an institution of international society in the nineteenth century: American and British treaties from 1783 to 1871, Mary Durfee

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“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit, Mark Rhodes and William R. Price

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‘Being able to work has kept our life fairly constant:’ reconciling social practice models to assess the impact of (infra)structural inequities on household wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sonya Ahamed, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, William Lytle, Holly Caggiano, Cara L. Cuite, Charles Wallace, Ryan Cook, Rebekah Jarvis, Rachael Shwom, and David Watkins

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Book Review: A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine by David K Seitz, Mark Rhodes

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Built and social indices for hazards in Children's environments, Timothy Stone, Daniel Trepal, Don Lafreniere, and Richard C. Sadler

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Built and social indices for hazards in Children's environments, Timothy Stone, Daniel Trepal, Don Lafreniere, and Richard C. Sadler

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Climate change adaptation, Adam Wellstead

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Community-based natural hazard vulnerability assessment in rural Jamaica, Heather R. Thole, Kari Henquinet, and Gregory P. Waite

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Data-driven analysis of influential factors on residential energy end-use in the US, Biao Kuang, Chelsea Schelly, Ge Ou, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Shardul Tiwari, and Jianli Chen

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Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers, Anat Gofen, Adam Wellstead, and Noa Tal

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Dumping military waste into Lake Superior: the historic legacies of secrecy, censorship, and uncertainty, Elodie Charrière and Nancy Langston

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Energy efficiency, Shan Zhou

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Environmental justice, Shan Zhou

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Episode 7: Sharing Personal Narratives, Re-Shaping Societal Narratives, Angela Carter

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Feminizing Decentralized Renewable Energy Programs: A Study of a Community Renewable Energy Project from India, Aritra Chakrabarty

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Field Testing of Simulated Lunar Ice Characterization Using Ground Penetrating Radar Technology, Caleb J. Kaminski, Paul J. van Susante, and Timothy Scarlett

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Forest conservation, Adam Wellstead

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Green roles at home: exploring the impact of household social dynamic processes on consumption at the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus, Holly Caggiano, Sonya Ahamed, William Lytle, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, Cara L. Cuite, and Rachael Shwom

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Indirect Methods for Estimating Internal Migration, Richelle Winkler and Katherine J. Curtis

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It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt, Carly Nichols and Angie Carter

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Nationalism, David H. Kaplan and Kathryn L. Hannum

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Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies, David K. Seitz, Daniel Cockayne, Ryan Z. Good, Kathryn L. Hannum, Adrianne C. Kroepsch, Mark Rhodes, Jack Swab, and Nancy Worth

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Policymaker, Adam Wellstead

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Policy Mechanisms, Adam Wellstead, Paul Cairney, and Kathryn Oliver

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Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective, Don Lee, Chelsea Schelly, Valoree Gagnon, Sarah Smith, and Shardul Tiwari

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Preventing Discriminatory Decision-making in Evolving Data Streams, Zichong Wang, Nripsuta Saxena, Tongjia Yu, Sneha Karki, Tyler Zetty, Israat Haque, Shan Zhou, Dukka KC, Ian Stockwell, Xuyu Wang, Albert Bifet, and Wenbin Zhang

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Public-private partnerships, Shan Zhou

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Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation, Angie Carter and Rebecca Christoffel

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Theorizing Capitalism’s Cracks, Attila Dézsi and LouAnn Wurst

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The Science–Policy Interface and Evidence-Based Policymaking in Environmental Policy, Adam Wellstead, Kei Schmidt, and Anat Gofen

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The Science–Policy Interface and Evidence-Based Policymaking in Environmental Policy, Adam Wellstead, Kei Schmidt, and Anat Gofen

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Transoptic Landscape Analysis: Multidimensional Landscapes of a Multinational Wales, Mark Rhodes

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What's going on in there? Canadian government policy labs and public value management, Adam Wellstead, Nora Ottenhof, Bryan Evans, and Anat Gofen

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‘Working as Though For Their Self’: Coalwood, Class Struggle and Capitalism’s Cracks, LouAnn Wurst

Works from 2022

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Advancing agrivoltaics within the U.S. legal framework: A multidimensional assessment of barriers & opportunities, Alexis Pascaris, Chelsea Schelly, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes: a co-produced research agenda, Weston M. Eaton, Morey Burnham, Tahnee Robertson, J. G. Arbuckle, Kathryn J. Brasier, Mark E. Burbach, Sarah P. Church, Georgia Hart-Fredeluces, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Grace Wildermuth, Katherine N. Canfield, S. Carolina Córdova, Casey D. Chatelain, Lara B. Fowler, Mennatullah Mohamed Zein el Abdeen Hendawy, Christine J. Kirchhoff, Marisa K. Manheim, Rubén O. Martinez, Anne Mook, Cristina A. Mullin, A. Laurie Murrah-Hanson, Christiana O. Onabola, Lauren E. Parker, Elizabeth A. Redd, Chelsea Schelly, Michael L. Schoon, W. Adam Sigler, Emily Smit, Tiff van Huysen, Michelle R. Worosz, and Carrie Eberly

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A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Understanding the Ambiguities of Environmental Federalism: The Case of Canada and Open Federalism, Adam Wellstead

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An empirical study on the types of consumers and their preferences for E-waste recycling with a points system, Hua Zhong, Shan Zhou, Zhiyao Zhao, Hao Zhang, Jing Nie, and Palizhati Simayi

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Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes, Pranay Kumar, Holly Caggiano, Cara Cuite, Clinton J. Andrews, Frank A. Felder, Rachael Shwom, Kristin Floress, Sonya Ahamed, and Chelsea Schelly

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Canadian professors’ views on establishing open source endowed professorships, Joshua M. Pearce, Shardul Tiwari, Alexis Pascaris, and Chelsea Schelly

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Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach, Shardul Tiwari, Chelsea L. Schelly, Ge Ou, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Jianli Chen, and Fatemeh Jafarishiadeh

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Deep mapping the daily spaces of children and youth in the industrial city, Timothy Stone, Don Lafreniere, and Rose Hildebrandt

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Do agrivoltaics improve public support for solar? A survey on perceptions, preferences, and priorities, Alexis Pascaris, Chelsea Schelly, Mark Rouleau, and Joshua Pearce

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Emergent regional collaborative governance in rural local food systems development, Hongmei Lu and Angie Carter

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Enacting boundaries or building bridges? Language and engagement in food-energy-water systems science, Valoree Gagnon, Chelsea Schelly, William Lytle, Andrew Kliskey, Virginia H. Dale, Anna Maria Marshall, Luis F. Rodriguez, Paula Williams, Michael Waasegiizhig Price, Elizabeth A. Redd, and Margaret A. Noodin