Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Publications: Examining Best Practices for Transdisciplinary Research

Representative Publications by Mitchell Center Researchers

(e.g. stakeholder collaboration, interdisciplinary teamwork, problem-solving)

Ackerman, John & Druschke, Caroline & Mcgreavy, Bridie & Sprain, Leah. (2016). The Skunkwork of Ecological Engagement. Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning.

Amar, F. G., Haggerty, M., Ladenheim, M., Silka, L., Welcomer, S., & Jemison, J. (2016) Leveraging the Research Capacity of the Doctoral University for Honors Education: The “Research Collaboration” Model, Honors in Higher Education, 1, 1-25.

Anderson, Mark, W., Mario F. Teisl, and Caroline L. Noblet, “Giving Voice to the Future in Sustainability: Retrospective Assessment to Learn Prospective Stakeholder Engagement,” Ecological Economics 84 (2012): 1-6.

Anderson, Mark W., Caroline L. Noblet, and Mario F. Teisl, “Our Environment: A Glimpse at What Mainers Value,” Maine Policy Review 21, no. 1 (2012): 104-111.

Bednarek AT, C. Wyborn, C Cvitanovic, R Meyer, RR Colvin, PFE Addison, SL Close, K Curran, M Farooque, E Goldman, DD Hart, H Mannix, B McGreavy, A Parris, S Posner, C Robinson, M Ryan, P Leith.  2018. Boundary-spanning at the science-policy interface: The practitioners’ perspectives.  Sustainability Science 13:1175–1183

Bieluch, K.H., Bell, K.P., Teisl, M.F., Lindenfeld, L.A., Leahy, J. and Silka, L., 2017. Transdisciplinary research partnerships in sustainability science: an examination of stakeholder participation preferences. Sustainability Science, pp.1-18.

Bieluch, K.H., McGreavy, B., Silka, L., Strong, A. and Hart, D. (2019). Empowering Sustainability Leaders: Variations on a Learning-by-doing Theme. In Developing Change Agents: Innovative Practices for Sustainability Leadership, Kremers, K, Liepins, A, & York, A.  (eds), University of Minnesota Libraries.  EBook:  https://open.lib.umn.edu/changeagents/

Bieluch, K. H., Silka, L., & Lindenfeld, L. A. (2021). Stakeholder Preferences for Process and Outcomes in Community-University Research Partnerships: Implications for Research Collaborations. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 13(2), 19.

Calhoun, A.J.K., J.S. Jansujwicz, M.L. Hunter, and K.P. Bell.  2014.  Improving management of small natural features on private lands by negotiating the science-policy boundary for Maine vernal pools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DOI: 10.1073.

Cosley, B.J., McCoy, S.K, and Gardner, S.K. 2014. Collaborative voice: Examining the role of voice in interdisciplinary collaboration. International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior 17 (2): 139-162.

Donnelly, E. K., Toof, R., & Silka, L. (2021). Community Based Participatory Research during the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Partnership Resiliency. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 25(3).

Druschke, C. G., & McGreavy, B. (2016). Why rhetoric matters for ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(1), 46-52.

Gardner, S. K. 2013. Paradigmatic differences, power, and status: a qualitative investigation of faculty in one interdisciplinary research collaboration on sustainability science. Sustainability Science.8 (2): 241-252.

Gardner, S. K. 2014. Bridging the divide: Tensions between the biophysical and social sciences in an interdisciplinary sustainability science project. Environment and Natural Resource Research 4 (2): 70.

Gardner, S.K., Jansujwicz, J.S. Hutchins, K. Cline, B. and Levesque, V. 2014. Socialization to interdisciplinarity: faculty and student perspectives. Higher Education, 67 (3): 255-271.

Hart, D.D. (2018). Teamwork Is the New Leadership. Maine Policy Review, 27(1), 30-33.

Hart, D. D., Bell, K. P., Lindenfeld, L. A., Jain, S., Johnson, T. R., Ranco, D., & McGill, B. (2015). Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment. Ecology and Society, 20(2).

Hart, D.D., Buizer, J.L., Foley, J.A., Gilbert, L.E., Graumlich, L.J., Kapuscinski, A.R., Kramer, J.G., Palmer, M.A., Peart, D.R. and Silka, L., 2016. Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 4(1), DOI 10.12952/journal.elementa.000090

Hart, D. D. and Silka, L. (2020). Rebuilding the ivory tower: a bottom-up experiment in aligning research with societal needs. Issues in Science and Technology, 36(Spring).

Hillyer, G. V., Liu, W., McGreavy, B., Melvin, G., & Brady, D. C. (2021). Using a Stakeholder-Engaged Approach to Understand and Address Bacterial Transport on Soft-Shell Clam Flats. Estuaries and Coasts, 1-16.

Hutchins, K., Lindenfeld, L.A., Bell, K.P, Leahy, J. and Silka, L. 2013.  Strengthening Knowledge Co-Production Capacity: Examining Interest in Community-University Partnerships. Sustainability, 5(9): 3744-3770.

Jansujwicz, J.S. and T.R. Johnson. 2013. Understanding and informing permitting decisions for tidal energy development using an adaptive management framework. Estuaries and Coasts DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9678-0.

Jansujwicz, J.S., A.J. K. Calhoun, J.E. Leahy, and R.J. Lilieholm. 2013. Using mixed methods to develop a frame-based private landowner typology. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal 26(8): 945-961 DOI:10.1080/08941920.2012.729294.

Jansujwicz, J.S., A.J.K. Calhoun, and R.J. Lilieholm. 2013. The Maine Vernal Pool Mapping and Assessment Program: Engaging municipal officials and private landowners in community-based citizen science. Environmental Management 52(6): 1369-1385 DOI 10.1007/s00267-013-0168-8.

Jansujwicz, J.S. and A.J.K. Calhoun.  2010.  Protecting natural resources on private lands: The role of collaboration in land-use planning.  In Trombulak, S., and R. Baldwin, eds. Landscape-scale Conservation Planning. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, pp. 205-233.

Jansujwicz, J.S. and T.R. Johnson. 2014. The Maine Tidal Power Initiative: Transdisciplinary sustainability science research for the responsible development of tidal power. Sustainability Science DOI 10.1007/s11625-014-0263-7.

Jansujwicz, J. S., Calhoun, A. J., Bieluch, K. H., McGreavy, B., Silka, L., & Sponarski, C. (2021). Localism “Reimagined”: Building a Robust Localist Paradigm for Overcoming Emerging Conservation Challenges. Environmental Management, 67(1), 91-108.

Johnson, E. S., Bell, K. P., & Leahy, J. E. (2018). Managing the science-policy boundary: implications for river restoration. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1-9.

Johnson, T.R., J.S. Jansujwicz, and G. Zydlewski. 2013. Tidal power development in Maine:  Stakeholder identification and perceptions of engagement. Estuaries and Coasts DOI 10.1007/s12237-013-9703-3.

Levesque, V. R., Bell, K. P., & Calhoun, A. J. (2016). Planning for Sustainability in Small Municipalities: The Influence of Interest Groups, Growth Patterns, and Institutional Characteristics. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X16655601.

Levesque, V. R., Calhoun, A. J., Bell, K. P., & Johnson, T. R. (2017). Turning contention into collaboration: engaging power, trust, and learning in collaborative networks. Society & Natural Resources, 30(2), 245-260.

Lindenfeld, L. A., Hall, D. M., McGreavy, B., Silka, L., & Hart, D. (2012). Creating a place for environmental communication research in sustainability science. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(1), 23-43.

Lyons, P., Leahy, J., Lindenfeld, L., and Silka, L. 2014. Knowledge to Action: Investigating implicit Knowledge Production Models held among Forest Science Researchers. Society and Natural Resources 27 (5): 459-474.

McCoy, S. K., and Gardner, S. K. 2012. Interdisciplinary collaboration on campus: Five questions. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 44 (6): 44-49.

McGreavy, B., Webler, T., & Calhoun, A.J.K. (2012). Science communication and vernal pool conservation: a study of local decision maker attitudes in a knowledge-action system. Journal of Environmental Management, 95, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.09.020

McGreavy, B., Druschke, C. G., Sprain, L., Thompson, J. L., & Lindenfeld, L. A. (2016). Environmental communication pedagogy for sustainability: Developing core capacities to engage with complex problems. Applied  Environmental Education & Communication, 15(3), 261-274.

McGreavy, B., Hutchins, K., Smith, H., Lindenfeld, L.A., and Silka, L. 2013. Addressing the complexities of boundary work in sustainability science through communication. Sustainability 5 (10): 4195-4221.

McGreavy, B., Lindenfeld, L.A., Bieluch, K.H., Silka, L., Leahy, J., amd Zoellick, W. 2015. Communication and sustainability science teams as complex systems. Ecology and Society 20(1):2.

McGreavy, B., Randall, S., Quiring, T., Hathaway, C., & Hillyer, G. (2018). Enhancing adaptive capacities in coastal communities through engaged communication research: Insights from a statewide study of shellfish co-management. Ocean & Coastal management, 163, 240-253.

McGreavy, B., Silka, L. and Lindenfeld, L. 2014. Interdisciplinarity and actionable science: exploring the generative potential in difference. Journal of Community Practice 22 (1-2): 189-209.

McGreavy, B., Webler, T., and Calhoun, A.J.K. 2012. Science communication and vernal pool conservation: A study of local decision maker attitudes in a Knowledge Action System. Journal of Environmental Management 95 (1): 1-8.

McGreavy, B., Ranco, D., Daigle, J., Greenlaw, S., Altvater, N., Quiring, T., Michelle, N., Paul, J., Binette, M., Benson, B., Sutton, A.,  and Hart, D. (2021). Science in indigenous homelands: addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River. Sustainability Science, 16(3), 937-947.

Meyer, S.R., Levesque, V., McGreavy, B., Johnson, M.L., Hutchins, K., Dreyer, S., and Smith, H. 2015. Sustainability Science Graduate Students as Boundary Spanners. J. Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1-10.

McGreavy, B., Calhoun, A., Jansujwicz, J., & Levesque, V. (2016). Citizen science and natural resource governance: program design for vernal pool policy innovation, Ecology and Society. 21(2):48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08437-210248????

Noblet, Caroline P.,  Mark W. Anderson, and Laura Lindenfeld, “Environmental Worldviews: A Point of Common Contact, or Barrier?” Sustainability 5 (2013): 4825-4842.

Roy, S. G., Uchida, E., de Souza, S. P., Blachly, B., Fox, E., Gardner, K., … & Hart, D. (2018). A multiscale approach to balance trade-offs among dam infrastructure, river restoration, and cost. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(47), 12069-12074.

Roy, S. G., de Souza, S. P., McGreavy, B., Druschke, C. G., Hart, D. D., & Gardner, K. (2020). Evaluating core competencies and learning outcomes for training the next generation of sustainability researchers. Sustainability Science, 15(2), 619-631.

Saber, D. A., & Silka, L. (2020). Food waste as a classic problem that calls for interdisciplinary solutions: A case study illustration. Journal of Social Issues, 76(1), 114-122.

Silka, L. 2013. Silos in the Democratization of Science. International Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science, 2(1): 1-14.

Silka, L., McGreavy, B., & Hart, D. (2019). Health, the Environment, and Sustainability: Emergent Communication Lessons across Highly Diverse Public Participation Activities. in Hunt, K. P., Walker, G. B., & Depoe, S. P. (Eds.). Breaking Boundaries: Innovative Practices in Environmental Communication and Public Participation. SUNY Press.

Silka, L., Glover, R., Hutchins, K., Lindenfeld, L., Blackstone, A., Elliott, C., Ladenheim, M., and Sullivan, C. 2013. Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education. Tamara – Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry, Special Issue on Community Engaged Scholarship, 11 (4).

Silka, L., Teisl, M., & Settele, J. (2015). Place-Based Approaches to Engagement. In Community Engagement in Higher Education (pp. 89-102). SensePublishers.

Smith, H., Suldovsky, B., & Lindenfeld, L. (2016). Mass Communication Research  in Sustainability Science: Moving Toward an Engaged Approach to Address Society’s Sustainability Dilemma. Mass Communication and Society, 19(5), 548-565.

Smith, H., Suldovsky, B., & Lindenfeld, L. (2016). Science and policy: scientific expertise and individual participation in boundary management. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44(1), 78-95.

Suldovsky, B. (2016). In science communication, why does the idea of the public deficit always return? Exploring key influences. Public Understanding of Science, 25(4), 415-426.

Suldovsky, B., McGreavy, B., & Lindenfeld, L. (2017). Science Communication and Stakeholder Expertise: Insights from Sustainability Science. Environmental Communication, 1-6.

Waring, T.M., Goff, S.H., McGuire, J., Moore, D. and Sullivan, A.  2014. Cooperation across Organizational Boundaries: Experimental Evidence from a Major Sustainability Science Project.  Sustainability 6: 1171-1190.