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If you have SSI-related resources that you would like to share with the team, please contact Ruth at hallsworth@maine.edu. Note that publications of a more general nature are available on the Publications page of the main Web site.

Many of these publications are accessible from on-campus computers.

General Sustainability Science Resources

PNAS Sustainability Science Web Page
Access to PNAS publications and links to other relevant websites

Clark, W.C. and Nancy M. Dickson.  2003.  Sustainability Science: the emerging research programPNAS 100(14): 8059-8061.

Chapin, F.S.et al. (eds.), Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship, DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-73033-2 1, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009
[see, especially, the first (A framework for understanding change) and second (Managing ecosystems sustainably: The key role of resilience) chapters in Part 1]

SSI Map (pdf)
Graphic representation of SSI process outlining problem scales, primary arenas, stakeholder typology, and social ecological systems problemscapes.

SES Modeling

NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program
Past and currently funded projects provide examples of ongoing work

Knowledge to Action

Cash, D.W., Clark, W.C, Alcock, F., Dickson, N.M., Eckley, N., GUston, D.H., Jager, J., and R.B. Mitchell.  2003.  Knowledge systems for sustainable developmentPNAS 100(14): 8086-8091.

van Kerkhoff, L. and L. Lebel.  2006.  Linking knowledge and action for sustainable developmentAnnu. Rev. Environ. Resourc 31: 445-477.

Outputs, Outcomes and Logic Models

University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Logic Model (pdf)

University of Wisconsin - Extension
Logic Models

Interdisciplinary Graduate Training & Related Issues

  1. Article on disciplinary cultures (Becher) - the role a discipline plays in how we think about the world.
  2. Article on interdisciplinary doctoral curriculum (Holley) – identifies some big problems that occurred in one interdisciplinary program
  3. Article on how learning occurs in interdisciplinary contexts (Ivanitskaya et al.)
  4. Article related to recruitment in interdisciplinary programs (Newswander and Borrego)
 

 

List of Resources

General

SES Modeling

K-A

Outputs/Outcomes

Graduate Training

 
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