Lydia Horne

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Rowan University

As future decision-makers, students must develop interdisciplinary, systems thinking skills to make effective management decisions; however, systems thinking remains challenging for many students. Here, we use the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus as a framework to examine how drawings can help students cultivate systems thinking skills. Drawings can b...

Weather, climate, and climate change all effect outdoor recreation and tourism, and will continue to cause a multitude of effects as the climate warms. We conduct a systematic literature review to better understand how weather, climate, and climate change affect outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism across the United States. We specifically e...

Graduate students can face difficulties collaborating across disciplines and outside of academia. Stakeholder-engaged research (i.e., research involving partners outside of academia) presents challenges for developing a project, finding collaborators, and co-creating knowledge. Past reflections on how to navigate stakeholder-engaged research assume...

The impact of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on education has led to a reexamination of traditional pedagogical methods and assessments. However, ChatGPT’s performance capabilities on a wide range of assessments remain to be determined. This study aims to classify ChatGPT-generated and student constructed responses to a college-level environmental science questi...

The impact of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on education has led to a reexamination of traditional pedagogical methods and assessments. However, ChatGPT’s performance capabilities on a wide range of assessments remain to be de-termined. This study aims to classify ChatGPT-generated and student con-structed responses to a college-level environmental science ques...

Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional discipl...

The impact of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on education has led to a reexamination of traditional pedagogical methods and assessments. However, ChatGPT’s performance capabilities on a wide range of assessments remain to be determined. This study aims to classify ChatGPT-generated and student constructed responses to a college-level environmental science questi...

Participatory planning is one strategy to increase tourism suppliers’ capacity to jointly anticipate climate change impacts and implement locally feasible and acceptable solutions; however, participatory planning is uncommon. In this study, we co-created a series of planning workshops with tourism partners to examine and address climate change impa...

Supplier characteristics influence destination resilience to climate change, but there is limited research applying social resilience theories to this group. Using socio-ecological and psychology resilience theories, we examined how a group of rural, nature-based tourism suppliers enhanced their resilience to climate change. We conducted 17 intervi...

Nature-based tourism is one of the most economically important industries in the state of Maine, USA. Climate change impacts are projected to affect important tourism assets in Maine, which could result in behavioral shifts related to destination selection, seasonal visitation, and activity participation. Risk perceptions can be important predictor...

Tourism is an increasingly important global industry. Coastal and nature-based tourism destinations are especially vulnerable to climate change. Trends in visitation are expected to shift under changing climate conditions, influencing tourist travel behaviors related to destination selection, timing of visits, and activity participation. Tourism su...

This book on winter tourism consists of three parts. Part I is addressed to current challenges in winter tourism including regional planning, socio-cultural conditions, climate change and economic challenges. Part II gives an overview of behavioural research in winter tourism. The authors present case studies and methodological concepts for both un...

The forest products industry is economically, socially, culturally, and environmentally important to Maine. Thus, Maine’s future economy depends in important ways on the leadership in this key industry. Effective leadership grows out of understanding the changes that are taking place in the industry and finding innovative ways to address the unexpe...

More research is needed to understand how the detection and attribution of climate change impacts and shapes stakeholder mitigation and adaptation behaviors in the tourism industry. Pile sorting has been a widely used method in anthropology and psychology, but few studies have used pile sorting to understand how people think about climate change ri...

Nature-based tourism is one of Maine’s most economically important industries. Projected climate change impacts are likely to affect nature-based tourism in Maine. Especially vulnerable are areas reliant on winter nature-based tourism. Risk perceptions influence perceived vulnerability and can determine behavior, such as management decisions. Previ...