Preliminary Investigation of Submerged Lands Management in Minnesota.

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources, and Department of Natural Resources, State of Minnesota

The Mille Lacs Band: Exploring the Foundations for Economic Development

This project is a report on the potentials for economic development for the Mille Lacs Band of the Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota. The band received a grant from the McKnight Foundation to undertake such a project, and the band retained the services of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) of the University of Minnesota to compile this report

Coproducing the Endangered Polar Bear: Science, Climate Change, and Legal Mobilization

Applying insights from science and technology studies about the “coproduction” of science and sociopolitical order to research on legal mobilization yields important theoretical insights. Using the polar bear petition campaign by the Center for Biological Diversity as an illustrative case, this article shows how this protracted legal campaign around protection of the polar bear and its habitat opened up new legal opportunities for those advocating for the regulation of carbon emissions, mandated state-sponsored generation of climate science, legally constructed the polar bear as “endangered,” and helped to shape the priorities of the nongovernmental organization itself