A5040723722- Forest Management and Policy
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Rural development and sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Plant and animal studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Disaster Response and Management
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Water resources management and optimization
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Utah State University
2016-2025
University Medical Center Utrecht
2023
Ecological Society of America
2020
University of Idaho
2019
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
2006-2014
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2006-2014
University of South Carolina
2009
Pennsylvania State University
2004-2005
University of Colorado Boulder
1995
Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural has been developed social behavioral sciences before outside approach. selective review work in landscape aesthetics, heritage, outdoor recreation, spiritual significance demonstrates opportunities for operationally defining terms socioecological consistent with larger set ES. Such models...
ABSTRACT Natural resource-based communities are often theoretically assumed to be vulnerable the negative effects of environmental and social change. Such also seen as being especially risks disasters. Disaster research perspectives echo this in their emphasis on vulnerability. Also, theories risk largely fail illuminate community level experiences. To address gap, a community-based approach is advanced that incorporates vulnerability, perception, capacity for local action framework...
Existing frameworks for analysing interactions between social and natural systems (e.g. Social-Ecological Systems framework, Ecosystem Services concept) do not sufficiently consider operationalize the dynamic people's values, attitudes understandings of human-nature relationship at both individual collective levels. We highlight relevance as influencing factors environmental behaviour, which may be reflected in resource management conflicts, review diversity existing social-cultural...
While many theories exist to explain the complexity of environmental behaviour, role individuals’ relationship with nature has not yet been fully clarified. This paper attempts operationalise human-nature relationships. It expands upon a scale assessed by an iterative process mixed methods in US and Europe. is then used assess nature, whether such relationships correlate behaviour. The value Schwartz's Theory Basic Values validate results. results verify that people hold multiple...
Wild berries are integral dietary components for Alaska Native people and a rich source of polyphenolic metabolites that can ameliorate metabolic disorders such as obesity diabetes. In this study, five species wild Alaskan (Vaccinium ovalifolium, Vaccinium uliginosum, Rubus chamaemorus, spectabilis, Empetrum nigrum) were screened bioactivity through community-participatory research method involving three geographically distinct tribal communities. Compositional analysis by HPLC LC-MS2...
The developmental trajectories of communities are routinely explained by reference to economic history, human capital deficits, or the structure local labour markets. role culture in understanding community development interpreting empirical research has received less attention. We believe plays an important independent shaping debate and action. Framing as interactional field emphasises opportunities created when people who share interests come together address problems. Interaction...
Community-based forestry and community-based natural resource management have become increasingly common terms in both the scientific popular press. However, as with so many other concepts currently vogue, rarely do studies invoking them incorporate either a grounded theoretical understanding or practical inclusion of central term: community. Community emerges through communication interaction among people who care about each place they live. In its purest form, community is marked by...
The Perth conferences, held every 5 years in Perth, Scotland, bring together people who identify as mountain researchers and are interested issues related to global change social-ecological systems. These conferences provide an opportunity evaluate the evolution of research directions within community, well priorities. Future Earth Strategic Research Agenda provides a useful framework for evaluating community's progress toward addressing sustainability challenges. Using process originally...
Abstract Community theorists have long grappled with the question of whether or not communities collectively respond to threats. Community, risk, disaster, and natural resource management theories all inform an understanding community action. Here, a conceptual model activeness is empirically tested using survey data from six Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, communities. Data analysis revealed that socioeconomic biophysical vulnerability, proximity hazard, experience, risk perception, local...
US Midwestern farmers are direct actors in managing nitrogen fertilizers and key to remediating water quality problems agricultural landscapes. As farmers' relationships with nature offer insights into their decisions conservation practices, surveys interviews two Illinois watersheds explored human–nature relationship perspectives linkages practices. While domineering "Master" theorized as a cause of human-induced environmental were found, spoke obligations the land closeness nature,...
While soil degradation is continuing to threaten the global agricultural production system, a common understanding of how encourage sustainable management missing. With this study, we aim provide new insights on targeted policies that address heterogeneity farmers. We scrutinized plurality views among arable farmers in Austrian (and European) policy context. To do so, applied Q methodology, method identifies different perspectives topic present population and analyzes subjectivity...
Organic agricultural systems increase the complexity of weed management, leading organic farmers to cite weeds as one greatest barriers production. Integrated Weed Management (IWM) have been developed address ecological implications and management in cropping systems, but adoption is minimal. agriculture offers a favorable context for application IWM, both approaches are motivated by concern environmental quality sustainability. However, IWM on farms poorly understood due limited data...
Reducing nitrate loads from corn and soybean, tile-drained, agricultural production systems in the Upper Mississippi River basin is a major challenge that has not been met. We evaluated range of possible management practices biophysical social science perspectives could reduce losses tile-drained fields Salt Fork Embarras watersheds east-central Illinois. Long-term water quality monitoring on these showed averaged 30.6 23.0 kg N ha yr (Embarras watersheds, respectively), with maximum...
Abstract Urbanization, climate, and ecosystem change represent major challenges for managing water resources. Although systems are complex, a need exists generalized representation of these to identify important components linkages guide scientific inquiry aid management. We developed an integrated Structure‐Actor‐Water framework ( iSAW ) facilitate the understanding transitions sustainable systems. Our goal was produce interdisciplinary resources research that could address management...
Abstract Amenity migration in the Intermountain West is a rapidly evolving process that has greatly impacted wellbeing many rural communities over past several decades. While impacts of amenity have been discussed through both individual community case studies and cross‐community comparative analysis, there an ongoing need for research continues to build upon our understanding migration's effects on wellbeing. Remote hybrid work opportunities, expanded during COVID‐19 pandemic, allowed...
In contemporary, natural resources dependent and specialized communities, community well-being is connected to the environment. Understanding local connections between environment can provide a more complete understanding of how manage social-ecological systems promote resilience. Herein, we combine semi-structured interviews with hydrologic modeling using variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model suggest climate adaptation pathways for diverse set interests. We found that across Yakima...