A5017076546- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Risk Perception and Management
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
Boston University
2015-2024
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
2015
The Nature Conservancy
2015
University of California, Berkeley
2015
Abstract Climate change is one of the most important ethical issues our time. Urban scholars and policymakers now recognise need to address justice concerns associated with cities’ responses climate change. However, little empirical research has examined whether how cities have integrated into mitigation planning. Here, we show that large in US are increasingly attending their action plans recognition structural historical injustices becoming more common. We demonstrate articulated...
The liberalization of marijuana policies, including the legalization medical and recreational marijuana, is sweeping United States other countries. Marijuana cultivation can have significant negative collateral effects on environment that are often unknown or overlooked. Focusing state California, where by some estimates 60%–70% consumed in grown, we argue (a) environmental harm caused merits a direct policy response, (b) current approaches to governing inadequate, (c) neglecting discussion...
This paper examines the implementation of a white-tailed deer management program in Blue Hills Reservation outside Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing on concepts biopolitics, we explore how became an object concern and ultimately targets lethal this suburban park. Through interviews, document analysis, observation public meetings, examine changes controversy over presence, perception, We argue that is only partially explained by growing numbers deer, must also be understood context concerns...
Understanding landowner perspectives on flood mitigation is an essential step towards minimising conflict and ensuring public support compliance. To illuminate the drivers of those perspectives, we surveyed landowners in Deerfield River Watershed, Massachusetts ( USA ). Confirmatory factor analysis shows differentiate between physical policy pathways through which strategies provide protection. Multiple regression analyses indicate or opposition for each related both to risks a faces their...
While there is increasing recognition that social processes in cities like gentrification have ecological consequences, we lack nuanced understanding of the ways affects urban biodiversity. We analyzed a large camera trap dataset mammals (>500 g) to evaluate how impacts species richness and community composition across 23 US cities. After controlling for negative effect impervious cover, gentrified parts had highest mammal richness. Change was associated with few cities, which were mostly...
As cities worldwide increasingly adopt commitments towards climate justice, questions remain about the ways that city governments will be able to fund more just efforts. While use of novel debt financing schemes has been examined in literature for its justice implications, scholars have rarely interrogated how mundane tools and practices municipal finance can applied enable urban transitions. Here, we USA as a case study analyse impacts change action on budgets examine are adapting their...
In urban and suburban areas, the complex socio-environmental landscapes diverging interests of stakeholders make wildlife management difficult. We analyze how municipalities in Massachusetts decisions about white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Combining statistical analyses a survey municipal officials, qualitative analysis documents, semi-structured interviews, we investigate (i) conditions linked to concerns deer, (ii) that prompt explore actions, (iii) why some take action while...
Abstract Timber harvest is an important ecological disturbance that influences species composition, understory conditions, stand structure and growth, carbon dynamics. Regional variation in regimes the associated consequences are linked to social biophysical attributes of landscape. We analyzed three decades change commercial timber harvesting on all private public forest throughout 328 towns Massachusetts ( USA ). quantified changes activity over time estimated probability occurrence...
Cities play an increasingly crucial role in addressing the accelerating planetary biodiversity crisis. In this special issue, authors offer generative tools grounded other-than-human standpoint inviting us to "think cities" differently. They re-examine right city and a more-than-human commons; evaluate why when species become "killable"; rethink territoriality, attending ways other-than humans make remake cities. reconceptualize urban as ecological formation, entangling cultivated, feral...
Municipal governments are emerging as important stakeholders in managing the populations and geographic distributions of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) urban suburban areas Northeastern United States. To understand variation municipal-level concerns about municipal policies related to management, we distributed a questionnaire all 351 municipalities across Commonwealth Massachusetts 2017 (response rate = 74%) collected data on local bylaws that influence hunting access. We found...