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Sarah Mincey

Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Integrated Program in the Environment; Managing Director, Environmental Resilience Institute

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(812) 855-8745
Email:
skmincey@indiana.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

Curriculum Vitae

SPEA 237

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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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. Along with her current role as a faculty member at the O’Neill School, she serves as the managing director for the Environmental Resilience Institute and the director for the Integrated Program in the Environment and 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, the Environmental Resilience Institute’s Urban Green Infrastructure Research Group, and the Bloomington Urban Forestry Research Group.



In the News

  • "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)
  • "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

Selected Works

  • “Indiana forest resilience is a matter of scale and perspective,” (with K. Novick, R. Lave, J. Baeten, J. Maxwell, R. Phillips), Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond (Eds., McCabe, Filippelli, Novick, Shanahan), Indiana University Press. (In press)
  • “Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait-based frameork,” (with H.L. Reynolds, R.D. Montoya, S. Hamlin, A. Sullivan, B. Thapa, J. Wilson, H. Rosing, J. Jarzen, M. Grove), Frontiers in Ecology & Environment (December 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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