Steven Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4019-954X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Promoting systems thinking through perspective taking when using an online modeling tool
Introduction Disagreements between people on different sides of popular issues in STEM are often rooted in differences in “mental models,” which include both rational and emotional cognitive associations about the issue; especially given these issues are systemic in nature. Methods In the research described here, we employ the fuzzy cognitive mapping software MentalModeler (developed by one of the authors) 1 as a tool for articulating implicit an…
Navigating community engagement in participatory modeling of food systems
This paper describes the participatory modeling experiences of five discrete teams across the U.S. working to develop models of food systems to identify leverage points and policies to induce food system transformation. Collaboration between academic and community partners within these individual modeling processes enables teams to address food systems complexity, integrate scientific evidence and local knowledge into models, while improving a mo…
Defining success in community-university partnerships: Lessons learned from Flint
The success of responsible research and innovation (RRI) work is as much about the process of partnership as it is about the products and outcomes. In this paper, we present lessons learned from the first three years of a participatory modeling (PM) research project based on RRI principles and focused on the transformation of the food system in Flint, Michigan through identification of leverage points. Participatory modeling is a type of communit…
Using mental models to quantify linear and non-linear relationships in complex fishery systems
Reducing uncertain outcomes of fishery management actions requires an understanding of how fishers will be affected by policy actions. This requires integrating the local expertise of commercial fishers and seafood processors into management planning to predict how regulatory changes could impact social-ecological systems. Participatory modeling between managers, scientists, and industry can be useful in integrating different perspectives and gai…
Characterizing farm-level social relations’ influence on sustainable food production
Perspectives of scholars on the nature of sustainability: A survey study
Purpose This paper aims to investigate different ways in which faculty members of sustainability-related departments in universities across the world perceive, understand and define sustainability and how these definitions are linked to their demographics and epistemological beliefs. Design/methodology/approach Scholars from different disciplines investigate the sustainability of social-ecological systems from different perspectives. Such differe…
Try, try again: Lessons learned from success and failure in participatory modeling
Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater recognition of the importance of engaging a diverse array of stakeholders in decision making. We provide lessons learned, based on over 200 years of the authors’ cumulative and diverse experience, about PM processes. These include successful and, perhaps more importantly, not-…
“Gifted with Strength that Is not Human”: Using Indigenous Labour for Coaling
Often coaling was undertaken by indigenous workers. In examining accounts of these coal heavers recorded by sailors, this chapter argues that, despite the unique nature of the activities and interaction at coaling stations, sailors’ ideas about imperial labour and race, in particular, reflected those held commonly by Britons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed, although not all records castigate local labourers, they are …
Exploring the Station
This chapter explains that an integral part of leave at a coaling station, particularly for “bluejackets,” was an immersion in that place’s indigenous populations, cultures, unique sights, landscapes, and fauna. Such experiences were widely recorded in diaries, published accounts, and presented through sketches and photographs, many of which were widely disseminated at home. The ways in which stations and their populations were depicted largely f…
A Maritime Community?
This chapter explores how sailors experience the station, analyses interactions with other “Westerners,” and shows that stations possessed a Western maritime culture. It also examines the more predictable pastimes of drinking and violence, shows how these activities can help elucidate visions of patriotism, masculinity, and class amongst the navy, and shows how this behavior could disrupt the feelings of the community. The chapter provides social…
Managing the Navy’s Imperial Supply
This chapter considers how coal consciousness also affected the manner in which data about coaling were gathered worldwide, with stations being increasingly required from the 1880s onward to provide London with information about coal stocks, facilities, and station activities. These processes underpinned the success of Britain’s naval coaling infrastructure. Indeed, by concluding with examples of the stresses and failures in the coaling systems o…
Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job
Various tools and methods are used in participatory modelling, at different stages of the process and for different purposes. The diversity of tools and methods can create challenges for stakeholders and modelers when selecting the ones most appropriate for their projects. We offer a systematic overview, assessment, and categorization of methods to assist modelers and stakeholders with their choices and decisions. Most available literature provid…
Measuring systems thinking
Biocultural approaches to well-being and sustainability indicators across scales
Examining Private Landowners’ Knowledge Systems for an Invasive Species
Identifying the Causes, Consequences, and Solutions to the Flint Water Crisis Through Collaborative Modeling
The impacts of the Flint Water Crisis (FWC) present municipal and state officials, emergency responders, community organizations, and residents with considerable uncertainties about how to reorganize and respond in the wake of tragedy. In addition to the collapse of infrastructure and governance systems, the community is experiencing a collapse of its communication and knowledge-sharing networks, specifically between those directly impacted by th…
Fuelling mobility: Coal and Britain's naval power, c . 1870–1914
Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914
Mapping Ocean Currents Through Human Observations: Insights from Hilo Bay, Hawai'i
Welsh coal and the informal empire in South America, 1850–1913
Coal was crucial to the growth of several South American states between 1850 and 1913, being used for their expanding railway networks, to generate power for their emerging industries, and by the steamships in which much of their overseas trade was conducted. Lacking indigenous sources of sufficiently high quality, Argentina and Brazil in particular came to rely heavily on Welsh coal for their energy needs. While playing a crucial role in the eco…
A History of the Royal Navy: Empire and imperialism
Part of the wider series commissioned by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, this volume differs with the majority of the collection by not focusing on a particular period or war, but instead on
Don Leggett, Shaping the Royal Navy: Technology, Authority and Naval Architecture, c. 1830–1906
Channelling mobilities: Migration and globalisation in the Suez Canal region and beyond, 1869–1914
The Suez Canal is a subject which has captured the imaginations of both academic and popular historians, often being presented as part of a narrative of technological progress in the nineteenth cen
Determining the willingness to pay for ecosystem service restoration in a degraded coastal watershed: A ninth grade investigation
The use of participatory modeling to promote social learning and facilitate community disaster planning
The use of participatory modeling to promote social learning and facilitate community disaster planning
Channelling mobilities: Migration and globalisation in the Suez Canal region and beyond, 1869–1914
The Suez Canal is a subject which has captured the imaginations of both academic and popular historians, often being presented as part of a narrative of technological progress in the nineteenth cen
Characterizing farm-level social relations’ influence on sustainable food production
Fuelling mobility: Coal and Britain's naval power, c . 1870–1914
Oceania Under Steam: Sea transport and the cultures of colonialism c. 1870–1914
Oceania Under Steam: Sea transport and the cultures of colonialism c. 1870–1914 by Frances Steel Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2011, £60 (hb) 246 pages, with 18 black-and-white illustrat
Navigating community engagement in participatory modeling of food systems
This paper describes the participatory modeling experiences of five discrete teams across the U.S. working to develop models of food systems to identify leverage points and policies to induce food system transformation. Collaboration between academic and community partners within these individual modeling processes enables teams to address food systems complexity, integrate scientific evidence and local knowledge into models, while improving a mo…
Ecosystem-Based Angling: Incorporating Recreational Anglers Into Ecosystem-Based Management
Coastal management institutions and recreational fishermen share concerns about the current state of marine fisheries. This article provides coastal managers with an outreach framework for recreational fishers that contextualizes social and ecosystem information toward the goals of ecosystem-based management. Based on a survey of anglers conducted at saltwater fishing expositions in the Northeast United States and on the literature, we report dat…
Knowledge Gain and Behavioral Change in Citizen-Science Programs: Citizen-Scientist Knowledge Gain
Citizen-science programs are often touted as useful for advancing conservation literacy, scientific knowledge, and increasing scientific-reasoning skills among the public. Guidelines for collaboration among scientists and the public are lacking and the extent to which these citizen-science initiatives change behavior is relatively unstudied. Over two years, we studied 82 participants in a three-day program that included education about non-native…
Modeling the integration of stakeholder knowledge in social–ecological decision-making: Benefits and limitations to knowledge diversity
Recent Literature in Discovery History
Primary sources: new or reprint editions/anthologies Barkley, Henry C. A Ride through Asia Minor and Armenia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Note: Cambridge University Press has recently published a number of works relating to exploration in its Travel and Exploration Series.) Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez. The South American Expeditions, 1540–1545. Trans. Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. Ibn FadlĀn…
Recent and Upcoming Literature in Discovery History
The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies
What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new nature of narrative in the age of mobile media, studying digital stories that are site-specific, context-aware, and involve the reader in fascinating ways.…
Oceania Under Steam: Sea transport and the cultures of colonialism c. 1870–1914
Oceania Under Steam: Sea transport and the cultures of colonialism c. 1870–1914 by Frances Steel Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2011, £60 (hb) 246 pages, with 18 black-and-white illustrat
Determining the willingness to pay for ecosystem service restoration in a degraded coastal watershed: A ninth grade investigation
The use of participatory modeling to promote social learning and facilitate community disaster planning
Channelling mobilities: Migration and globalisation in the Suez Canal region and beyond, 1869–1914
The Suez Canal is a subject which has captured the imaginations of both academic and popular historians, often being presented as part of a narrative of technological progress in the nineteenth cen
Mapping Ocean Currents Through Human Observations: Insights from Hilo Bay, Hawai'i
Welsh coal and the informal empire in South America, 1850–1913
Coal was crucial to the growth of several South American states between 1850 and 1913, being used for their expanding railway networks, to generate power for their emerging industries, and by the steamships in which much of their overseas trade was conducted. Lacking indigenous sources of sufficiently high quality, Argentina and Brazil in particular came to rely heavily on Welsh coal for their energy needs. While playing a crucial role in the eco…
A History of the Royal Navy: Empire and imperialism
Part of the wider series commissioned by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, this volume differs with the majority of the collection by not focusing on a particular period or war, but instead on
Don Leggett, Shaping the Royal Navy: Technology, Authority and Naval Architecture, c. 1830–1906
Biocultural approaches to well-being and sustainability indicators across scales
Examining Private Landowners’ Knowledge Systems for an Invasive Species
Identifying the Causes, Consequences, and Solutions to the Flint Water Crisis Through Collaborative Modeling
The impacts of the Flint Water Crisis (FWC) present municipal and state officials, emergency responders, community organizations, and residents with considerable uncertainties about how to reorganize and respond in the wake of tragedy. In addition to the collapse of infrastructure and governance systems, the community is experiencing a collapse of its communication and knowledge-sharing networks, specifically between those directly impacted by th…
Fuelling mobility: Coal and Britain's naval power, c . 1870–1914
Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914
“Gifted with Strength that Is not Human”: Using Indigenous Labour for Coaling
Often coaling was undertaken by indigenous workers. In examining accounts of these coal heavers recorded by sailors, this chapter argues that, despite the unique nature of the activities and interaction at coaling stations, sailors’ ideas about imperial labour and race, in particular, reflected those held commonly by Britons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed, although not all records castigate local labourers, they are …
Exploring the Station
This chapter explains that an integral part of leave at a coaling station, particularly for “bluejackets,” was an immersion in that place’s indigenous populations, cultures, unique sights, landscapes, and fauna. Such experiences were widely recorded in diaries, published accounts, and presented through sketches and photographs, many of which were widely disseminated at home. The ways in which stations and their populations were depicted largely f…
A Maritime Community?
This chapter explores how sailors experience the station, analyses interactions with other “Westerners,” and shows that stations possessed a Western maritime culture. It also examines the more predictable pastimes of drinking and violence, shows how these activities can help elucidate visions of patriotism, masculinity, and class amongst the navy, and shows how this behavior could disrupt the feelings of the community. The chapter provides social…
Managing the Navy’s Imperial Supply
This chapter considers how coal consciousness also affected the manner in which data about coaling were gathered worldwide, with stations being increasingly required from the 1880s onward to provide London with information about coal stocks, facilities, and station activities. These processes underpinned the success of Britain’s naval coaling infrastructure. Indeed, by concluding with examples of the stresses and failures in the coaling systems o…
Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job
Various tools and methods are used in participatory modelling, at different stages of the process and for different purposes. The diversity of tools and methods can create challenges for stakeholders and modelers when selecting the ones most appropriate for their projects. We offer a systematic overview, assessment, and categorization of methods to assist modelers and stakeholders with their choices and decisions. Most available literature provid…
Measuring systems thinking
Computer Science (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · History (12 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works)