Darren Ranco
Biographic Data
| ID | 1573902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darren Ranco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darren |
| FAMILY NAME | Ranco |
| SIGNATURE | RANCO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8214-8233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring Cross-Cultural Barriers and Opportunities to Climate Adaptation Among Tribal-State Forest Stewards in Maine US
Climate change and the effects of non-native plants, insects, and diseases will challenge forest stewards capacity to adapt. Studies show that adaptation does not occur evenly across regions, resulting in adaptation gaps, which have disproportionately greater impacts on populations vulnerable to climate risks. To minimize adaptation gaps, forest stewards must transform adaptative capacity toward action. To explore this phenomenon, we interviewed …
Improving cross-cultural knowledge exchange for collaborative forest stewardship
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods
How Does Strategic Communication Shape Transdisciplinary Collaboration? A Focus on Definitions, Audience, Expertise, and Ethical Praxis
Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex problems related to climate change and social inequities. Communication shapes transdisciplinary collaboration in myriad ways, and interdisciplinary and rhetorical approaches to communication can help identify these influences as well as strategies to transform inequitable communication patterns. In this paper, we share results from an engaged and ethnograp…
Storying Indigenous (Life)Worlds: An Introduction
Without stories, we have no way of connecting what it means to be human with the pathway of our existence [...]
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
Significance The current biodiversity crisis is often depicted as a struggle to preserve untouched habitats. Here, we combine global maps of human populations and land use over the past 12,000 y with current biodiversity data to show that nearly three quarters of terrestrial nature has long been shaped by diverse histories of human habitation and use by Indigenous and traditional peoples. With rare exceptions, current biodiversity losses are caus…
Science in Indigenous homelands: Addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River
Traditional Lifeways and Storytelling: Tools for Adaptation and Resilience to Ecosystem Change
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse Nicholas J. Reo (bio), Kyle Whyte (bio), Darren Ranco (bio), Jodi Brandt (bio), Emily Blackmer (bio), and Braden Elliott (bio) North American Indigenous nations are confronting various forms of rapid environmental change, ranging from climate-induced sea-level rise on the Gulf Coast, to melting permafrost and shifting sea ice patterns in the Arctic, to invasive species-induced tro…
Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: The Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment
Hart, D. D., K. P. Bell, L. A. Lindenfeld, S. Jain, T. R. Johnson, D. Ranco, and B. McGill. 2015. Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment. Ecology and Society 20(2):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07283-200204
Environmental Justice, American Indians and the Cultural Dilemma: Developing Environmental Management for Tribal Health and Well-being
Environmental justice in the tribal context cannot be contemplated apart from a recognition of American Indian tribes' unique historical, political, and legal circumstances. American Indian tribes are sovereign governments, with inherent powers of self-government over their citizens and their territories. Their status as sovereign entities predates contact with European settlers. This separate status, nonetheless, was affirmed by the United State…
The Trust Responsibility and Limited Sovereignty: What can Environmental Justice Groups Learn from Indian Nations
During the 1990s, American Indian Nations assumed regulatory primacy over certain portions of federal environmental laws in the United States. For tribes that have not developed their own standards, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued policy statements aimed at incorporating tribal health and natural resources. While many communities of color have to fight to get heard in state and federal permitting processes, the U.S. EPA has …
Mexican Americans and the Environment
Tribal Sovereignty and the Problem of Difference in Environmental Regulation: Observations on “Measured Separatism” in Indian Country
The legal and juridical sovereignty of American Indian nations is supposed to help Native peoples maintain their own distinct political and cultural communities. In the context of environmental issues, this means that tribal governments have both the inherent and statutory right to set their own environmental standards, which have the potential to protect tribal peoples and their natural resources in culturally relevant ways. In the past, the US …
Toward a Native Anthropology: Hermeneutics, Hunting Stories, and Theorizing from Within
Ats Native person doing anthropological research within and for American Indian nations, I am not able to sidestep the many theoretical and ethical concerns that non-Native researchers face in doing similar research. I have had to defend the potential biases of my research, whether it is applied or action oriented, whereas my nonNative colleagues do not. Indeed, if anthropology is, as Thomas Biolsi and Larry Zimmerman state, a quintessentially We…
Indigenous Peoples, State-Sanctioned Knowledge, and the Politics of Recognition
Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Nonrecognition. Bruce G. Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 248 pp. Mark Edwin Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 355 pp. Gambling and Survival in Native North America. Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. 202 pp
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse Nicholas J. Reo (bio), Kyle Whyte (bio), Darren Ranco (bio), Jodi Brandt (bio), Emily Blackmer (bio), and Braden Elliott (bio) North American Indigenous nations are confronting various forms of rapid environmental change, ranging from climate-induced sea-level rise on the Gulf Coast, to melting permafrost and shifting sea ice patterns in the Arctic, to invasive species-induced tro…
Toward a Native Anthropology: Hermeneutics, Hunting Stories, and Theorizing from Within
Ats Native person doing anthropological research within and for American Indian nations, I am not able to sidestep the many theoretical and ethical concerns that non-Native researchers face in doing similar research. I have had to defend the potential biases of my research, whether it is applied or action oriented, whereas my nonNative colleagues do not. Indeed, if anthropology is, as Thomas Biolsi and Larry Zimmerman state, a quintessentially We…
The Trust Responsibility and Limited Sovereignty: What can Environmental Justice Groups Learn from Indian Nations
During the 1990s, American Indian Nations assumed regulatory primacy over certain portions of federal environmental laws in the United States. For tribes that have not developed their own standards, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued policy statements aimed at incorporating tribal health and natural resources. While many communities of color have to fight to get heard in state and federal permitting processes, the U.S. EPA has …
Tribal Sovereignty and the Problem of Difference in Environmental Regulation: Observations on “Measured Separatism” in Indian Country
The legal and juridical sovereignty of American Indian nations is supposed to help Native peoples maintain their own distinct political and cultural communities. In the context of environmental issues, this means that tribal governments have both the inherent and statutory right to set their own environmental standards, which have the potential to protect tribal peoples and their natural resources in culturally relevant ways. In the past, the US …
Science in Indigenous homelands: Addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River
Improving cross-cultural knowledge exchange for collaborative forest stewardship
Storying Indigenous (Life)Worlds: An Introduction
Without stories, we have no way of connecting what it means to be human with the pathway of our existence [...]
Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: The Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment
Hart, D. D., K. P. Bell, L. A. Lindenfeld, S. Jain, T. R. Johnson, D. Ranco, and B. McGill. 2015. Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment. Ecology and Society 20(2):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07283-200204
Indigenous Peoples, State-Sanctioned Knowledge, and the Politics of Recognition
Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Nonrecognition. Bruce G. Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 248 pp. Mark Edwin Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 355 pp. Gambling and Survival in Native North America. Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. 202 pp
Toward a Native Anthropology: Hermeneutics, Hunting Stories, and Theorizing from Within
Ats Native person doing anthropological research within and for American Indian nations, I am not able to sidestep the many theoretical and ethical concerns that non-Native researchers face in doing similar research. I have had to defend the potential biases of my research, whether it is applied or action oriented, whereas my nonNative colleagues do not. Indeed, if anthropology is, as Thomas Biolsi and Larry Zimmerman state, a quintessentially We…
Mexican Americans and the Environment
Tribal Sovereignty and the Problem of Difference in Environmental Regulation: Observations on “Measured Separatism” in Indian Country
The legal and juridical sovereignty of American Indian nations is supposed to help Native peoples maintain their own distinct political and cultural communities. In the context of environmental issues, this means that tribal governments have both the inherent and statutory right to set their own environmental standards, which have the potential to protect tribal peoples and their natural resources in culturally relevant ways. In the past, the US …
The Trust Responsibility and Limited Sovereignty: What can Environmental Justice Groups Learn from Indian Nations
During the 1990s, American Indian Nations assumed regulatory primacy over certain portions of federal environmental laws in the United States. For tribes that have not developed their own standards, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued policy statements aimed at incorporating tribal health and natural resources. While many communities of color have to fight to get heard in state and federal permitting processes, the U.S. EPA has …
Environmental Justice, American Indians and the Cultural Dilemma: Developing Environmental Management for Tribal Health and Well-being
Environmental justice in the tribal context cannot be contemplated apart from a recognition of American Indian tribes' unique historical, political, and legal circumstances. American Indian tribes are sovereign governments, with inherent powers of self-government over their citizens and their territories. Their status as sovereign entities predates contact with European settlers. This separate status, nonetheless, was affirmed by the United State…
Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: The Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment
Hart, D. D., K. P. Bell, L. A. Lindenfeld, S. Jain, T. R. Johnson, D. Ranco, and B. McGill. 2015. Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment. Ecology and Society 20(2):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07283-200204
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse Nicholas J. Reo (bio), Kyle Whyte (bio), Darren Ranco (bio), Jodi Brandt (bio), Emily Blackmer (bio), and Braden Elliott (bio) North American Indigenous nations are confronting various forms of rapid environmental change, ranging from climate-induced sea-level rise on the Gulf Coast, to melting permafrost and shifting sea ice patterns in the Arctic, to invasive species-induced tro…
Traditional Lifeways and Storytelling: Tools for Adaptation and Resilience to Ecosystem Change
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
Significance The current biodiversity crisis is often depicted as a struggle to preserve untouched habitats. Here, we combine global maps of human populations and land use over the past 12,000 y with current biodiversity data to show that nearly three quarters of terrestrial nature has long been shaped by diverse histories of human habitation and use by Indigenous and traditional peoples. With rare exceptions, current biodiversity losses are caus…
Science in Indigenous homelands: Addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River
How Does Strategic Communication Shape Transdisciplinary Collaboration? A Focus on Definitions, Audience, Expertise, and Ethical Praxis
Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex problems related to climate change and social inequities. Communication shapes transdisciplinary collaboration in myriad ways, and interdisciplinary and rhetorical approaches to communication can help identify these influences as well as strategies to transform inequitable communication patterns. In this paper, we share results from an engaged and ethnograp…
Storying Indigenous (Life)Worlds: An Introduction
Without stories, we have no way of connecting what it means to be human with the pathway of our existence [...]
Improving cross-cultural knowledge exchange for collaborative forest stewardship
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods
Exploring Cross-Cultural Barriers and Opportunities to Climate Adaptation Among Tribal-State Forest Stewards in Maine US
Climate change and the effects of non-native plants, insects, and diseases will challenge forest stewards capacity to adapt. Studies show that adaptation does not occur evenly across regions, resulting in adaptation gaps, which have disproportionately greater impacts on populations vulnerable to climate risks. To minimize adaptation gaps, forest stewards must transform adaptative capacity toward action. To explore this phenomenon, we interviewed …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works)