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From Community Forest Management to Polycentric Governance: Assessing Evidence from the Bottom Up by Bixler, R. Patrick

“…Decentralization of governance is an emerging trend in many natural resource sectors in both developed and developing countries. Despite the normative agenda…”
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How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA by Bixler, R. Patrick, Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca, Brunson, Mark, Tarver, Ryan, Sikes, Benjamin, McClure, Meredith, Aslan, Clare

“…Many contemporary social and ecological challenges in forested ecosystems (climate change, invasive species, wildland-urban interface development, and…”
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How Do Nonprofits’ Organizational Characteristics Shape Environmental Philanthropy in Texas? A Network Science Approach by Ovalle, Joycelyn, Bixler, R. Patrick, Ma, Ji

“…In efforts to address the far-reaching effects of climate change and associated impacts in communities, research on environmental philanthropy suggests that…”
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The Promise and Performance of Forestry Education in the United States: Results of a Survey of Forestry Employers, Graduates, and Educators by Sample, V Alaric, Bixler, R Patrick, McDonough, Maureen H, Bullard, Steven H, Snieckus, Mary M

“…In 2013, a national survey of forestry employers was conducted to assess the extent to which forestry degree programs at US universities and colleges are…”
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A Process-Oriented Model of Decision-Making toward Landscape-Scale Prescribed Fire Implementation in the Southern Great Plains, USA by Kelly Hoffman, J., Kyle, Gerard T., Treadwell, Morgan L., Patrick Bixler, R., Kreuter, Urs P.

“…In this investigation, we developed a model of the psychological drivers of landowners’ decisions to implement prescribed fire on their properties. The…”
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The political ecology of participatory conservation: institutions and discourse by Bixler, R., Shmelev, Stanislav

“…Increasingly, natural resource conservation programs refer to participation and local community involvement as one of the necessary prerequisites for…”
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Complexifying urban expansion: an exploratory, gradient-based approach by Richter, Steven M., Bixler, R. Patrick

“…Opportunities for innovation in urban expansion research abound given the emergence of longitudinal and spatially explicit data. Scholars now use a broad array…”
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The political ecology of local environmental narratives: power, knowledge, and mountain caribou conservation by R. Patrick Bixler

“…Political ecology seeks to address notable weaknesses in the social sciences that consider how human society and the environment shape each other over time. …”
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Collaboration and nested environmental governance: Scale dependency, scale framing, and cross-scale interactions in collaborative conservation by Wyborn, Carina, Bixler, R. Patrick

“…The problem of fit between social institutions and ecological systems is an enduring challenge in natural resource management and conservation. Developments in…”
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Growing Community Resilience from the Grassroots: Risk Awareness, Confidence in Institutions, and Civic Participation in a Natural Hazards Context by Hwang, Hyunseok, Vedlitz, Arnold, Bixler, R. Patrick

“…AbstractThis article explores the factors that influence citizens’ confidence in public and nonprofit sectors in the context of natural hazards. Utilizing a…”
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Social Influence in Social-Ecological Systems: Collaborative Capacity and Inter-Organizational Networks in the U.S. Sagebrush by Bixler, R Patrick, Essen, Maureen, Thomsen, Jennifer, Johnson, Shawn, Atshan, Samer, Shariatmadari, Auva

“…Collaborative governance has become a prominent, if not dominant, framework for thinking about multi-scalar and cross-jurisdictional environmental management…”
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Fine-scale monitoring and mapping of biodiversity and ecosystem services reveals multiple synergies and few tradeoffs in urban green space management by Belaire, J. Amy, Higgins, Caitlin, Zoll, Deidre, Lieberknecht, Katherine, Bixler, R. Patrick, Neff, John L., Keitt, Timothy H., Jha, Shalene

“…Urban watersheds can play a critical role in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly changing world. However, managing for multiple…”
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A question of fit: Reflections on boundaries, organizations and social–ecological systems by Sternlieb, Faith, Bixler, R. Patrick, Huber-Stearns, Heidi, Huayhuaca, Ch'aska

“…Although there is acknowledgment that the complexity of social-ecological systems governance demands representation from diverse perspectives, there is little…”
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Fertile Soil for Organic Public Sociology: Community-Based Natural Resource Management by Bixler, R. Patrick

“…Where do public sociology and the study of natural resources meet? One promising intersection is at community-based natural resource management. At this…”
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Accountability in Networked Governance: Learning from a case of landscape-scale forest conservation by Jedd, Theresa, Bixler, R. Patrick

“…Despite incredible strides in transboundary collaborative conservation, many challenges remain. A networked governance approach recognizes a diverse pool of…”
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Intersecting near-real time fluvial and pluvial inundation estimates with sociodemographic vulnerability to quantify a household flood impact index by Preisser, Matthew, Passalacqua, Paola, Bixler, R. Patrick, Hofmann, Julian

“…Increased interest in combining compound flood hazards and social vulnerability has driven recent advances in flood impact mapping. However, current methods to…”
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Forging new models of natural resource governance by Bixler, R Patrick, McKinney, Matthew, Scarlett, Lynn

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How to activate nonprofit beneficiaries for community resilience? Examining the role of risk perception and evaluation of nonprofit services on prosocial behavior in the context of natural hazards by Hwang, Hyunseok, Bixler, R. Patrick, Brown, William A., Vedlitz, Arnold

“…Nonprofit organizations serve an essential role in response to natural hazards by delivering services to affected communities and those in need. However,…”
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Network governance for large-scale natural resource conservation and the challenge of capture by Bixler, R Patrick, Wald, Dara M, Ogden, Laura A, Leong, Kirsten M, Johnston, Erik W, Romolini, Michele

“…Large-scale natural resource conservation initiatives are increasingly adopting a network governance framework to respond to the ecological, social, and…”
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Putting the pieces together: Integration for forest landscape restoration implementation by Mansourian, Stephanie, Parrotta, John, Balaji, Poorna, Bellwood‐Howard, Imogen, Bhasme, Suhas, Bixler, R. Patrick, Boedhihartono, Agni Klintuni, Carmenta, Rachel, Jedd, Theresa, Jong, Wil, Lake, Frank K., Latawiec, Agnieszka, Lippe, Melvin, Rai, Nitin D., Sayer, Jeffrey, Van Dexter, Kristina, Vira, Bhaskar, Visseren‐Hamakers, Ingrid, Wyborn, Carina, Yang, Anastasia

“…The concept of forest landscape restoration (FLR) is being widely adopted around the globe by governmental, non‐governmental agencies, and the private sector,…”
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