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Sarah Mincey

Clinical Associate Professor; Managing Director, Environmental Resilience Institute

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Phone:
(812) 855-8745
Email:
skmincey@iu.edu
Research areas:
Ecology and Conservation
Local Governance
Sustainability and Sustainable Development
Areas of Interest:
Natural resource management and policy
Social-ecological systems
Urban and community forestry
Applied ecology
Collective action
Institutional analysis
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Education

  • Ph.D., O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 2012
  • M.P.A./M.S.E.S., O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 2007
  • B.A., Morehead State University, 2003

Courses

  • Capstone Courses (natural resource management based)
  • Environment and People
  • Introduction to Applied Ecology
  • Research Methods for Sustainability Scholars
  • Urban Forest Management

Biography

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Curriculum Vitae

Sarah Mincey is a social-ecological systems scientist who studies natural resource management with particular emphasis on urban forest management. At Indiana University, she serves as faculty in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and as the managing director for the Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI). She maintains much of her research activity through the Ostrom Workshop, ERI’s Urban Green Infrastructure Research Group, and the Bloomington Urban Forestry Research Group. Mincey is a co-founder and member of the executive committee of the Indiana Community Forestry Council advising the State's Community and Urban Forestry Program within the DNR. She is also co-founder and board vice president for CanopyBloomington, a nonprofit focused on equitably growing the urban forest in Bloomington, Indiana.



Highlights

  • Primary investigator for $5M grant awarded to IU's Environmental Resilience Institute from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

In the News

  • "IU institute awarded $5 million to help disadvantaged communities expand tree canopy" - News at IU, September 20, 2023
  • "Deep Dive: Tree Inventory" - WFHB, June 7, 2023
  • "Bloomington plans to begin adding to its urban forest this month" - WTIU, April 7, 2022
  • "Indiana communities are looking up to trees to reduce the impact felt from climate change" - IndyStar, March 15, 2022
  • "City spending about $195,000 to plant more than 300 trees this spring" - Indiana Public Media, February 28, 2022
  • "IU-led climate action programs to expand with $1.25M McKinney Family Foundation grant" - IU Newsroom, December 1, 2021
  • "Indiana Newsdesk" - WTIU, June 5, 2020 (go to the 20-minute mark)

Selected Works


  • “Inventory and analysis of urban green infrastructure for community resilience: A new framework,” (with Heather L Reynolds; Robert Montoya; et al.), Frontiers in Ecology & Environment (December 16, 2021) 
  • “Operationalizing the social-ecological system framework to assess residential forest structure: a case study in Bloomington, Indiana,” (with M.L. Schmitt-Harsh), Ecology and Society, 25 (2) 14, (2020)
  • “Does collaborative tree planting between nonprofits and neighborhood groups improve neighborhood community capacity?” (with S.L. Watkins, J. Vogt, B.C. Fischer, R.A. Bergmann, S.E. Widney, L.M. Westphal, S. Sweeney), Cities (8 January 2018)
  • "Is Planting Equitable? An Examination of the Spatial Distribution of Nonprofit Urban Tree-Planting Programs by Canopy Cover, Income, Race, and Ethnicity," (with S. L. Watkins, J. Vogt, and S. Sweeney), Environment and Behavior (March 17, 2016)
  • "Once on chopping block, Griffy preserve a 'crown jewel' of IU Integrated Program in the Environment" - IU Bloomington Newsroom, October 7, 2014
  • "IU expert: 'We've been set up well for a nice leaf season'" - Inside IU, October 8, 2014
  • “Zoning, land use, and urban tree canopy cover: The importance of scale,” (with M. Schmitt-Harsh and R. Thurau), Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 12(2):191–199 (2013)
  • “Evaluating the USFS state and private forestry redesign: A first look at policy,” (with M. Cox, B. Fischer, T. Ruseva, S. Villamayor-Tomas), Ecological Economics 86:35-42 (2013)
  • “Structuring institutional analysis for urban ecosystems: A key to sustainable urban forest management,” (with M. Hutten, B. C. Fischer, T. P. Evans, S. I. Stewart, and J. M. Vogt), Urban Ecosystems 16: 553-571 (2013)
  • Fleischman, F.D., K. Boenning, G.A. Garcia-Lopez, S.K. Mincey, M. Schmitt-Harsh, K. Daedlow, M. Lopez, X. Basurto, B. Fischer, and E. Ostrom. (2010)
  • “Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: Analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in southern Indiana,” (with X. Basurto, K. Boenning, et. al.), Ecology and Society, 15(4):9 (2010)

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