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Fishing For Leadership: The Role Diversification Plays In Facilitating Change Agents, Joshua Stoll
Fishing For Leadership: The Role Diversification Plays In Facilitating Change Agents, Joshua Stoll
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Leadership is often viewed as being critical to successful natural resource management. This research focuses on a set of leaders identified through a social network analysis of fishers in a rural coastal region. Leaders' connections to different fisheries are evaluated, and these actors are found to be significantly more diversified than other fishers in the area. Drawing on theory related to institutional entrepreneurship and a series of in-depth interviews with these actors, this paper puts forward several hypotheses to explain how diverse social-ecological connections facilitate leadership. Three mechanisms are identified. Being diversified facilitates: (1) production of alternative visions; (2) framing …
Efficiency And Detection Accuracy Using Print And Digital Stereo Aerial Photography For Remotely Mapping Vernal Pools In New England Landscapes, Fred J. Dibello, Aram J K Calhoun, Dawn E. Morgan, Amanda F. Shearin
Efficiency And Detection Accuracy Using Print And Digital Stereo Aerial Photography For Remotely Mapping Vernal Pools In New England Landscapes, Fred J. Dibello, Aram J K Calhoun, Dawn E. Morgan, Amanda F. Shearin
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Aerial imagery has been used to identify potential vernal pools (PVPs) using stereo photographic prints. Stereoplotter photogrammetry now allows digital aerial images to be viewed in stereo (3-Dimensional) to enhance remote sensing capabilities. We used both print and digital imagery to map PVPs in 10 towns in Maine, USA. We used field verification of 771 PVPs to explore efficiency and accuracy of the two methodologies and to determine effects of pool size and land cover on accuracy. We compared known pool locations with National Wetland Inventory (NWI) data. The stereoplotter was more efficient and easier to use than prints. In …
Oral History, Working Class Culture, And Local, Pauleena M. Macdougall
Oral History, Working Class Culture, And Local, Pauleena M. Macdougall
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Stories of factory closings from many industries throughout the latter part of the twentieth century are common and numerous studies have documented the economic impact of these unfortunate events. In this case study of Brewer, Maine, oral histories with former workers at the primary source of local employment, Eastern Corporation, illuminate the nature of management-worker interactions at the mill. Eastern’s former employee narratives reveal a surprisingly unified perspective regarding the closing of the mill that does not reflect the public narrative put forward by management and business leaders.