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Promoting systems thinking through perspective taking when using an online modeling tool Open

Rebecca Jordan, Steven Gray, Alita Boyse-Peacor, Amanda E. Sorensen, Cynthia McPherson Frantz , et al. · 2023

Introduction Disagreements between people on different sides of popular issues in STEM are often rooted in differences in “mental models,” which include both rational and emotional cognitive associations about the issue; especially given t…

What undergraduate students know and what they want to learn about in climate change education Open

Rebecca Jordan, Amanda E. Sorensen, Steven A. Gray · 2023

Climate change education is of great interest to many in higher education. What is missing, however, is a sense of how students view climate change especially with respect to specific impacts such as changes to food systems. We designed a …

Systems thinking tools to address SDG #4 Open

Rebecca Jordan, Steven Gray, Amanda E. Sorensen · 2023

OPINION article Front. Sustain. Cities, 16 March 2023Sec. Social Inclusion in Cities Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1150683

Participatory Modeling in Support of Citizen Science Research Open

Rebecca Jordan, Amanda E. Sorensen, Steven A. Gray · 2022

Stakeholder engagement and participation is often an essential ingredient for successful environmental conservation and management. Including stakeholders in participatory environmental research has been an increasingly recognized necessit…

Confédération Paysanne Case C-528/16: The Mutagenesis Exemption Open

Rebecca Jordan · 2022

Recognizing Resilience: Exploring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Open

Dessie Clark, Rebecca Jordan · 2021

Citizen Science, Experts, and Expertise. Open

Rebecca Jordan, Amanda E. Sorensen, Steven Gray · 2021

Interest in citizen science is growing among both scientists and community groups who are interested in creating natural resource management projects. Such projects have the potential to result in social learning, which can further reinfor…

What's left before participatory modeling can fully support real-world environmental planning processes: A case study review Open

Beatrice Hedelin, Steven Gray, Stefan Woehlke, Todd K. BenDor, Alison Singer , et al. · 2021

The diversity bonus in pooling local knowledge about complex problems Open

Payam Aminpour, Steven A. Gray, Alison Singer, Steven B. Scyphers, Antonie Jetter , et al. · 2021

Significance Groups can collectively achieve an augmented cognitive capability that enables them to effectively tackle complex problems. Importantly, researchers have hypothesized that this group property—frequently known as collective int…

Multidimensional trajectories for understanding ecosystems Open

Catherine Eberbach, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, Rebecca Jordan, J. Ashley Taylor, Roberta Howard Hunter · 2021

This study examines how middle school students develop an increasingly coherent understanding of aquatic ecosystems. As part of a broader design research study that used Structure‐Behavior‐Function (SBF) theory as an organizing conceptual …

Social and Cultural Dynamics of Non-native Invasive Species Open

John Schelhas, Janice Alexander, Mark W. Brunson, Tommy Cabe, Alycia Crall , et al. · 2021

Invasive species and their management represent a complex issue spanning social and ecological systems. Invasive species present existing and potential threats to the nature of ecosystems and the products and services that people receive f…

Models and Trades: Strategies to Improve Community Engaged Research in the Environmental Sciences Open

Rebecca Jordan · 2020

The Impact of Forest Usage and Accessibility on the Perceptions of its Users and Surrounding Residents Open

Gloria C. Blaise, Jeffrey A. Brown, Rebecca Jordan, Amanda E. Sorensen · 2020

Forests provide valuable ecosystem services to individuals that live near them and visit them. However, many forests, especially in highly developed areas, are specifically managed for resource conservation purposes. A common practice for …

Why wont people change their behavior toward the environment? Open

Rebecca Jordan · 2020

The TELA: A New Tool for Assessing Educator Environmental Literacy Open

Roberta Howard Hunter, Rebecca Jordan · 2019

This paper describes the measurement and outcomes of a novel teacher environmental literacy assessment. The Teacher Environmental Literacy Assessment (TELA) uses a contextual view of environmental literacy, and includes measures of Knowled…

Assessing (Social-Ecological) Systems Thinking by Evaluating Cognitive Maps Open

Steven Gray, Eleanor J. Sterling, Payam Aminpour, Lissy Goralnik, Alison Singer , et al. · 2019

Systems thinking (ST) skills are often the foundation of sustainability science curricula. Though ST skill sets are used as a basic approach to reasoning about complex environmental problems, there are gaps in our understanding regarding t…

Sets of Environmentally Responsible Behaviors Among Residents of New Jersey Open

D.G. Clark, Rebecca Jordan · 2019

There are many challenges facing humanity and the degradation of resources and natural spaces. One avenue for approaching these issues is through attempting to change human behaviors. Drawing on Stern’s Value-Behavior-Norm theory, we sough…

Impact of a study abroad course on cultural sensitivity Open

Jennifer Luetkemeyer, Rebecca Jordan · 2019

This study investigates the cultural sensitivity of master's students enrolled in a short-term faculty-led study abroad. For the purposes of this study, cultural sensitivity is defined as the ability to distinguish how those from other cul…

Citizen Science as a Tool for Environmental Scientists and Conservation Managers Open

Rebecca Jordan · 2019

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore Open

Amanda E. Sorensen, Rebecca Jordan, Shannon L. LaDeau, Dawn Biehler, Sacoby Wilson , et al. · 2019

Citizen science (CS) has been an increasingly utilized means by which scientists leverage members of the public to increase the amount of data collected and analyzed. However, the underrepresentation of individuals from certain socio-cultu…

Try, try again: Lessons learned from success and failure in participatory modeling Open

Eleanor J. Sterling, Moira Zellner, Karen E. Jenni, Kirsten M. Leong, Pierre D. Glynn , et al. · 2019

Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater recognition of the importance of engaging a diverse array of stake…

An Investigation of Links between Environmentally Responsible Behaviors and Built and Natural Features of Landscape in Central New Jersey Open

D.G. Clark, Rebecca Jordan · 2018

Responses from Central New Jersey residents (n = 290) to nine survey items about pro-environmental behaviors were analyzed for their connection to survey respondents’ local built and natural landscape characteristics. These nine survey ite…

Female Maylandia zebra prefer victorious males Open

David Thomas Mellor, Catherine Tarsiewicz, Rebecca Jordan · 2018

Females of a widespread species of the rock‐dwelling haplochromine cichlids of Lake Malawi, Maylandia zebra, show preference for males that successfully evict intruding males from their territory. This behaviour, experimentally induced by …

Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job Open

Alexey Voinov, Karen E. Jenni, Steven Gray, Nagesh Kolagani, Pierre D. Glynn , et al. · 2018

Public Use of Outdoor Spaces as A Function of Landscape and Demographic Factors Open

D.G. Clark, Rebecca Jordan · 2018

Spending time outside is beneficial to individuals in many ways. Since landscapes may be manipulated through policy mechanisms, planners and other land stewards may desire to know how they can manipulate landscapes to encourage greater par…

Increasing Park and Potential Greenspace user-ship Through Tailored Framing Efforts Open

Rebecca Jordan, Amanda E. Sorensen · 2018

In this short communication, we present data that suggests messages that incorporate identity frames can be an asset in engagement and support for greenspace development.

Twelve Questions for the Participatory Modeling Community Open

Rebecca Jordan, Steven Gray, Moira Zellner, Pierre D. Glynn, Alexey Voinov , et al. · 2018

Participatory modeling engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representations of reality and has evolved into a field of study as well as a practice. Participatory modeling researchers a…

Issue Information Open

David Schimel, Jill S. Baron, Timothy E. Essington, Andrew O. Finley, Erik J. Nelson , et al. · 2018

The cover features a predatory carabid beetle (Carabidae: Calasoma spp.)

Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products: four Ps to advance participatory socio‐environmental modeling Open

Steven A. Gray, Alexey Voinov, Michael Paolisso, Rebecca Jordan, Todd K. BenDor , et al. · 2017

Including stakeholders in environmental model building and analysis is an increasingly popular approach to understanding ecological change. This is because stakeholders often hold valuable knowledge about socio‐environmental dynamics and c…

Integrating the social sciences to enhance climate literacy Open

Rachael Shwom, Cindy Isenhour, Rebecca Jordan, Aaron M. McCright, Jennifer Meta Robinson · 2017

The climate literacy movement aspires to help members of the general public understand the global climate system, locate and assess scientifically credible climatic information, communicate about climate change in an educated and objective…

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