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New publication by NRT trainee Alyssa Soucy assesses forest industry vulnerability to climate change

euhrig — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:03:11 +0000

A new study by NRT trainee Alyssa Soucy and 91�� faculty Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Aaron Weiskittel, and Bridie McGreavy has been published in the Journal of Forestry. Using a variety of data resources, the researchers created maps to better understand the vulnerability of Maine’s forest industry to climate change. Their findings can help determine strategies for addressing specific vulnerabilities, and the framework they developed can be adapted for other regions.

Alyssa Soucy, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Aaron Weiskittel, Matthew J. Duveneck, Bridie McGreavy. 2021. A comprehensive and spatially explicit regional vulnerability assessment of the forest industry to climate change. Journal of Forestry. DOI:

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New publications by NRT alum Lydia Horne examine climate change risk perceptions

euhrig — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:07:35 +0000

NRT alum Lydia Horne is lead author on two recent studies of how people perceive climate change risks. Examining such perceptions is important for understanding how climate change may impact nature-based tourism, which is an important industry for Maine. One study, coauthored by 91�� faculty Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, and Laura Rickard and published in the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, assessed factors influencing climate change risk perceptions among visitors to Acadia National Park. The other study, published in Northeastern Naturalist and coauthored by De Urioste-Stone and another 91�� faculty member, John Daigle, investigated how nature-based tourism stakeholders perceive climate change risks and how they are responding.

Lydia Horne, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Erin Seekamp, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, Laura Rickard. 2021. Determinants of visitor climate change risk perceptions in Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 35:100401. DOI:

Lydia Horne, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, John Daigle. 2021. Climate change adaptation and mitigation in the face of local uncertainty: A phenomenological study. Northeastern Naturalist 28(sp11):108–128. DOI:

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New publication by NRT trainee Alyssa Soucy examines climate change risk perceptions

euhrig — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:44:31 +0000

In a new article published in Society & Natural Resources, 91�� PhD student/NRT Trainee Alyssa Soucy and NRT faculty Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bojgiran, and Aaron Weiskittel use a survey of forest stakeholders to examine the social–psychological drivers of climate change risk perceptions. Understanding determinants of climate change risk perceptions among forest resource stakeholders is critical to eliciting broad support for adaptation.

Alyssa Soucy, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, and Aaron Weiskittel. 2021. Drivers of Climate Change Risk Perceptions among Diverse Forest Stakeholders in Maine, USA. Society & Natural Resources, DOI:

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