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The use of participatory modeling to promote social learning and facilitate community disaster planning by Henly-Shepard, Sarah, Gray, Steven A., Cox, Linda J.

“…•Coastal and island communities face increasing risk to hazards and climate change.•Tools are needed to help communities mitigate hazards and reduce…”
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Using fuzzy cognitive mapping as a participatory approach to analyze change, preferred states, and perceived resilience of social-ecological systems by Gray, Steven A., Gray, Stefan, De kok, Jean Luc, Helfgott, Ariella E. R., O'Dwyer, Barry, Jordan, Rebecca, Nyaki, Angela

“…There is a growing interest in the use of fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) as a participatory method for understanding social-ecological systems (SESs). In recent…”
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The Influence of Ethnic Diversity on Social Network Structure in a Common-Pool Resource System: Implications for Collaborative Management by Barnes-Mauthe, Michele, Arita, Shawn, Allen, Stewart D., Gray, Steven A., Leung, PingSun

“…Social networks have recently been identified as key features in facilitating or constraining collaborative arrangements that can enhance resource governance…”
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Participatory Modeling in Support of Citizen Science Research by Rebecca C. Jordan, Amanda E. Sorensen, Steven A. Gray

“…Stakeholder engagement and participation is often an essential ingredient for successful environmental conservation and management. Including stakeholders in…”
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Implications of Conservation Agriculture for Men's and Women's Workloads Among Marginalized Farmers in the Central Middle Hills of Nepal by Halbrendt, Jacqueline, Kimura, Aya Hirata, Gray, Steven A, Radovich, Theodore, Reed, Brinton, Tamang, Bir Bahadur

“…Measures of gender-based labor distribution can contribute to understanding the feasibility of agricultural development in mountainous subsistence farming…”
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Combining fuzzy cognitive maps with agent-based modeling: Frameworks and pitfalls of a powerful hybrid modeling approach to understand human-environment interactions by Giabbanelli, Philippe J., Gray, Steven A., Aminpour, Payam

“…Agent-based modeling (ABM) is an established technique to capture human-environment interactions in socio-ecological systems. As a micro-model, it explicitly…”
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The diversity bonus in pooling local knowledge about complex problems by Aminpour, Payam, Gray, Steven A., Singer, Alison, Scyphers, Steven B., Jetter, Antonie J., Jordan, Rebecca, Murphy, Robert, Grabowski, Jonathan H.

“…Recently, theoreticians have hypothesized that diverse groups, as opposed to groups that are homogeneous, may have relative merits [S. E. Page, The Diversity…”
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Knowledge Gain and Behavioral Change in Citizen-Science Programs by JORDAN, REBECCA C., GRAY, STEVEN A., HOWE, DAVID V., BROOKS, WESLEY R., EHRENFELD, JOAN G.

“…Citizen-science programs are often touted as useful for advancing conservation literacy, scientific knowledge, and increasing scientific-reasoning skills among…”
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Perception and Conflict in Conservation: The Rashomon Effect by Levin, Phillip S, Gray, Steven A, Möllmann, Christian, Stier, Adrian C

“…Abstract Conflict is a common feature in conservation and resource management. Environmental conflicts are frequently attributed to differences in values;…”
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Differences in farmer and expert beliefs and the perceived impacts of conservation agriculture by Halbrendt, Jacqueline, Gray, Steven A., Crow, Susan, Radovich, Theodore, Kimura, Aya H., Tamang, Bir Bahadur

“…•Farmer and expert agricultural beliefs are identified through cognitive mapping.•A quantitative method was used to predict perceptions of conservation…”
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Wisdom of stakeholder crowds in complex social–ecological systems by Aminpour, Payam, Gray, Steven A., Jetter, Antonie J., Introne, Joshua E., Singer, Alison, Arlinghaus, Robert

“…Sustainable management of natural resources requires adequate scientific knowledge about complex relationships between human and natural systems. Such…”
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Local‐Scale Dynamics and Local Drivers of Bushmeat Trade by NYAKI, ANGELA, GRAY, STEVEN A, LEPCZYK, CHRISTOPHER A, SKIBINS, JEFFREY C, RENTSCH, DENNIS

“…Bushmeat management policies are often developed outside the communities in which they are to be implemented. These policies are also routinely designed to be…”
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Development of a collaborative model of low back pain: report from the 2017 NASS consensus meeting by Cholewicki, Jacek, Popovich, John M., Aminpour, Payam, Gray, Steven A., Lee, Angela S., Hodges, Paul W.

“…Low back pain (LBP) is a multifactorial problem with complex interactions among many biological, psychological and social factors. It is difficult to fully…”
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Combining watershed models and knowledge-based models to predict local-scale impacts of climate change on endangered wildlife by Htun, Hla, Gray, Steven A., Lepczyk, Christopher A., Titmus, Andrew, Adams, Keenan

“…Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on native, threatened and endangered wildlife. Understanding and modeling these impacts useful for…”
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Systems thinking tools to address SDG #4 by Jordan, Rebecca C., Gray, Steven A., Sorensen, Amanda E.

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Farmer Mental Models of Biological Pest Control: Associations With Adoption of Conservation Practices in Blueberry and Cherry Orchards by Bardenhagen, Chris J., Howard, Philip H., Gray, Steven A.

“…Conservation practices in agriculture—such as biological pest control, provision of pollinator habitat and cover cropping—may provide ecosystem services that…”
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Corrigendum to ‘Development of a collaborative model of low back pain: report from the 2017 NASS consensus meeting’ [The Spine Journal 19 (2019)1029–1040] by Cholewicki, Jacek, Popovich, John M., Aminpour, Payam, Gray, Steven A., Lee, Angela S., Hodges, Paul W.

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Defining success in community-university partnerships: lessons learned from Flint by Olabisi, Laura Schmitt, Wentworth, Chelsea, Key, Kent, Wallace, Renée V., McNall, Miles, Hodbod, Jennifer, Gray, Steven A.

“…The success of responsible research and innovation (RRI) work is as much about the process of partnership as it is about the products and outcomes. In this…”
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Urbanized knowledge syndrome—erosion of diversity and systems thinking in urbanites’ mental models by Aminpour, Payam, Gray, Steven A., Beck, Michael W., Furman, Kelsi L., Tsakiri, Ismini, Gittman, Rachel K., Grabowski, Jonathan H., Helgeson, Jennifer, Josephs, Lauren, Ruth, Matthias, Scyphers, Steven B.

“…Coastal ecosystems nearby human societies collectively shape complex social-ecological systems (SESs). These ecosystems support high levels of ecological…”
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Building a Collaborative Model of Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction and Pelvic Girdle Pain to Understand the Diverse Perspectives of Experts by Hodges, Paul W., Cholewicki, Jacek, Popovich, John M., Lee, Angela S., Aminpour, Payam, Gray, Steven A., Cibulka, Michael T., Cusi, Mel, Degenhardt, Brian F., Fryer, Gary, Gutke, Annelie, Kennedy, David J., Laslett, Mark, Lee, Diane, Mens, Jan, Patel, Vikas V., Prather, Heidi, Sturesson, Bengt, Stuge, Brit, Vleeming, Andry

“…Background Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) and sacroiliac joint (SIJ) dysfunction/pain are considered frequent contributors to low back pain (LBP). Like other…”
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