Spring 2015 Sustainability Talks

Where available, links to video recordings are included beneath each talk.

April 27
Back to the Future: Can we change our sustainability futures by looking at our past?
Mark Anderson, School of Economics, UMaine
Link to video

April 20
Building Capacity for Socio-Environmental Problem Solving: A Design for Learning and Adaptation at SESYNC
Jonathan Kramer, SESYNC
Video not available

April 13
Making Sense of Place in Maine
Carol Toner, Maine Studies Director
Link to video

April 6
Synthesizing Theories of Environmental Governance
Michael Cox, Dartmouth College
Link to video

April 3
Sustaining Coupled Social-ecological Marine Systems
Heather Leslie, Brown University
Video not available

March 23
How Maine Blueberry Growers Use Wild Bees: Learning from a Sustainability Transition in Progress
Sam Hanes, Dept. of Anthropology and Brianne Du Clos, Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Video not available

March 16, 2015
Decision Support Systems and Stakeholder Engagement
Brian McGill, School of Biology & Ecology and Senator George J. Mitchell Center
Video not available

February 23, 2015
The Science of When Science Doesn’t Matter (and What to Do About It)
John M. Hagan, Manomet Ctr. for Conservation Sciences
Video not available

February 16
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Beach and Shellfish Bed Water Quality Data
Kate Beard and Frank Xu
Link to video

February 9
Materials Management through Sustainable Consumption: Research, Policy and Practice
Cindy Isenhour, Dept. of Anthropology, UMaine
Link to video