{"id":5583,"date":"2014-10-27T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2014-10-27T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:21:06","slug":"communities-invested-in-river-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2014\/10\/27\/communities-invested-in-river-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities Invested in River Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/10\/Eileen_Johnson_EES-220x250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5581\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/10\/Eileen_Johnson_EES-220x250.jpg\" alt=\"Eileen_Johnson_EES-220x250\" width=\"220\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/10\/Eileen_Johnson_EES-220x250.jpg 220w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/10\/Eileen_Johnson_EES-220x250-105x119.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,220px\" \/><\/a>Successful river restoration requires a lot more than a focus on improving the biophysical. Renewal of these important freshwater resources requires buy-in from local communities and organizations as well as close consideration of \u00a0social dimensions. <a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/ees-graduate\/meet-our-students\/eileen-johnson\/\">Eileen Johnson<\/a>, a recent doctoral graduate based at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, studied these essential collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and a research team based at Bowdoin College, Bates College and the University of Southern Maine made an interesting discovery. Though communities each defined restoration differently, the team found that towns and cities along the Kennebec and Androscoggin were invested in river and riverfront improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that many communities do not wait until significant restoration has been achieved, but respond to shifting public perception towards these systems, expanding opportunities to recreate on or alongside rivers. And we found that communities use these projects as a mode of engendering public support for restoration actions,\u201d said Johnson who received her PhD at 91±¬ΑΟ in Ecology &amp; Environmental Sciences.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/home\/news\/news-2\/communities-invested-in-river-restoration\/\">See more on this story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful river restoration requires a lot more than a focus on improving the biophysical. Renewal of these important freshwater resources requires buy-in from local communities and organizations as well as close consideration of \u00a0social dimensions. Eileen Johnson, a recent doctoral graduate based at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, studied these essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}