- Phone:
- (812) 855-8745
- Email:
- skmincey@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 237
- Areas of Interest:
- Natural resource management and policy ,
- Social-ecological systems ,
- Urban and community forestry ,
- Applied ecology ,
- Collective action ,
- Institutional analysis
Sarah Mincey
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Integrated Program in the Environment
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
Sarah Mincey is a social-ecological systems scientist who studies community-based natural resource management and environmental governance, with particular emphasis on urban forest management. In her current role as faculty at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University (IU), she serves as the director for the Integrated Program in the Environment and administrative director for the IU Research and Teaching Preserve. She maintains much of her research activity through her affiliation as research associate with the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and the Environmental Resilience Institute.
In the News
- "Indiana Newsdesk" - WTIU, June 5, 2020 (go to the 20-minute mark)
- "Researchers Seek Data for Statewide Urban Forest Map" - Indiana Environmental Reporter, December 23, 2019
- "Urban Forests" - All In Podcast, WFYI, August 15, 2019
- "New IU Degree Integrates Humanities with Science" - Herald Times, November 1, 2014
- "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
Selected Works
- “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
- “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)