Donald R Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 229796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald R Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald R |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Community and Forestry
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
My Drift to Natural Resource Sociology
Social Science and Forestry
This article originally published in Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pages 187–191, 1990. DOI: 10.1080/08941929009380717
A Survey of Seasonal and Permanent Landowners in Wisconsin's Northwoods
This article demonstrates the importance of obtaining high response rates for surveys of the general population while illustrating that survey design and procedures that adopt and modify factors known to positively affect survey returns can lead to high response rates, even for a lengthy survey of the general population. Using an expanded version of Dillman's “tailored design method,” we achieved an 82.8% response rate for a general population su…
Social Landscapes of the Inter-Mountain West
Rural communities have experienced dramatic demographic, social, and economic transformations over the past 30 years. Historically characterized by close links between natural resources and social, cultural, and economic structures, few of today's rural communities remain heavily dependent upon traditional extractive industries like ranching, forestry, and mining. New forms of development linked to natural and cultural amenities, including touris…
Community Participation in Rapidly Growing Communities in Southern Utah
Amenity-rich locations attract individuals searching for places to recreate, live, or retire. As a result, such areas, many of which are in the Western United States, experience changes related to population in-migration. Past research shows how the extensive in-migration of people with different values and perspectives can contribute to social conflict in affected communities. This study focuses on the relationship of community level indicators …
A Comparison of Seasonal Homeowners and Permanent Residents on their Attitudes Toward Wildlife Management on Public Lands
With the widespread migration of urban residents to rural areas, the rural rebound of the past three decades has created dramatic demographic changes throughout rural America. This is particularly true in rural regions rich in natural amenities such as lakes, rivers, mountains, and forests. To date, the literature on the rural rebound and amenities has largely ignored one aspect of the rebound—the growth in seasonal and recreational homes in amen…
Introduction
This volume represents the third and final set of articles in Society & Natural Resources special issues on humans, fire, and forests. Previous articles appeared in issue 17(6) and issue 17(8). The
Humans, Fire, and Forests
Human residential settlements in the woods and on the borders of public lands are increasing in number and expanding in size. This is particularly true in amenity-rich rural regions hosting public lands like national parks and forests. Wildfire and its associated management have drawn considerable research attention in the past several years because one of the consequences of wildfires has been the loss of homes and communities on the borders of …
A Survey of Seasonal and Permanent Landowners in Wisconsin's Northwoods
This article demonstrates the importance of obtaining high response rates for surveys of the general population while illustrating that survey design and procedures that adopt and modify factors known to positively affect survey returns can lead to high response rates, even for a lengthy survey of the general population. Using an expanded version of Dillman's “tailored design method,” we achieved an 82.8% response rate for a general population su…
Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology continues to mature as its theoretical grounding is strengthened, its precepts and principles become increasingly accepted in other disciplines, and its broad multidisciplinary perspective becomes adopted as a framework for a growing body of empirical work. The same may be said about a social landscape analysis that draws upon its theoretical foundations in applied demography, human ecology, and rural community studies. In this …
Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology continues to mature as its theoretical grounding is strengthened, its precepts and principles become increasingly accepted in other disciplines, and its broad multidisciplinary perspective becomes adopted as a framework for a growing body of empirical work. The same may be said about a social landscape analysis that draws upon its theoretical foundations in applied demography, human ecology, and rural community studies. In this …
Environmental and Resource Sociology
(2002). Environmental and Resource Sociology: Introducing a Debate and Dialogue. Society & Natural Resources: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 201-203
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Social Groups and Parks
KEYWORDS: Social grouprecreation placevisitation patternstime and space
An invitation from the editors of society & natural resources
Social science and forestry
This article originally published in Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pages 187–191, 1990. DOI: 10.1080/08941929009380717
Rural Sociology and the Environment
Rural Sociology and the Environment
Applied and basic social research
A beginning point in the establishment of successful applied social research efforts is the conceptualization of a perspective identifying key differences between basic and applied social research activity. The distinctive character of applied research lies in its social context and several elements associated with this context. These elements are: (1) difference in work style; (2) multidisciplinary nature; (3) selection of variables; (4) communi…
The human ecology of parks
This paper explores a human ecological approach to the study of people and parks. A human ecological perspective is outlined, along with the key units of analysis in human ecology. A theoretical framework for treating parks as human ecosystems is developed. Several ecological processes relevant to understanding human activity within parks are discussed, including adaptation, competition, and succession. The paper concludes by outlining several im…
Closing the gates
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Introduction to this special issue
(1981). Introduction to this special issue. Leisure Sciences: Vol. 4, Social Relations in Park Settings, pp. 1-3
Structural effects in national parkgoing
Studies of outdoor recreation commonly mobilize "individual‐level" variables, such as personal characteristics (e.g., age, sex, socioeconomic status), personality, psychological needs, life experiences, and attitudes in testing for explanations of different participation styles. Seldom is attention directed to the explanatory importance for these studies of "system‐level" or contextual variables, such as structural and cultural patterns. Structur…
Social Landscapes of the Inter-Mountain West
Rural communities have experienced dramatic demographic, social, and economic transformations over the past 30 years. Historically characterized by close links between natural resources and social, cultural, and economic structures, few of today's rural communities remain heavily dependent upon traditional extractive industries like ranching, forestry, and mining. New forms of development linked to natural and cultural amenities, including touris…
Social Groups as a Basis for Assessing Participation in Selected Water Activities
Recreation research has relied on social aggregate variables like occupation, income, education, age, and marital status, almost entirely as a basis to predict demand for given activities. This is especially true for many studies completed on specific recreational sites where only participants are considered.However, once nonparticipants have been eliminated from consideration in the analysis, the major source of statistical difference measured b…
Community Participation in Rapidly Growing Communities in Southern Utah
Amenity-rich locations attract individuals searching for places to recreate, live, or retire. As a result, such areas, many of which are in the Western United States, experience changes related to population in-migration. Past research shows how the extensive in-migration of people with different values and perspectives can contribute to social conflict in affected communities. This study focuses on the relationship of community level indicators …
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Closing the gates
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Methodological Perspectives for the Study of Outdoor Recreation
Methodological perspectives for the study of outdoor recreation are classified according to (1) the social aggregate level, (2) the social-psychological level, (3) the types of social organization, (4) activity attributes, (5) the community level and (6) the social ecological approach. General research topics useful to social scientists are suggested for each of these perspectives. Because outdoor recreation is a practical rather than a theoretic…
Visitors to national parks
It frequently has been assumed that the poor and some minority groups largely lack the financial wherewithal to travel to America's national parks. Data showing an underrepresentation of the poor among visitors at some parks has spurred charges of “elitism” in national park use, and has been an often‐used argument to justify more development (especially the provision of low‐cost facilities) in the national parks. This study tested for relationshi…
Moshava, Kibbutz, and Moshav
A Survey of Seasonal and Permanent Landowners in Wisconsin's Northwoods
This article demonstrates the importance of obtaining high response rates for surveys of the general population while illustrating that survey design and procedures that adopt and modify factors known to positively affect survey returns can lead to high response rates, even for a lengthy survey of the general population. Using an expanded version of Dillman's “tailored design method,” we achieved an 82.8% response rate for a general population su…
The Telephone Interview in Leisure Research
The desire to acquire baseline data about people in leisure situations continues. While personal interviews are most preferred by social scientists, accelerating costs associated with personal inte
A Survey of Seasonal and Permanent Landowners in Wisconsin's Northwoods
This article demonstrates the importance of obtaining high response rates for surveys of the general population while illustrating that survey design and procedures that adopt and modify factors known to positively affect survey returns can lead to high response rates, even for a lengthy survey of the general population. Using an expanded version of Dillman's “tailored design method,” we achieved an 82.8% response rate for a general population su…
Humans, Fire, and Forests
Human residential settlements in the woods and on the borders of public lands are increasing in number and expanding in size. This is particularly true in amenity-rich rural regions hosting public lands like national parks and forests. Wildfire and its associated management have drawn considerable research attention in the past several years because one of the consequences of wildfires has been the loss of homes and communities on the borders of …
Environmental and Resource Sociology
(2002). Environmental and Resource Sociology: Introducing a Debate and Dialogue. Society & Natural Resources: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 201-203
Social Groups and Parks
KEYWORDS: Social grouprecreation placevisitation patternstime and space
The human ecology of parks
This paper explores a human ecological approach to the study of people and parks. A human ecological perspective is outlined, along with the key units of analysis in human ecology. A theoretical framework for treating parks as human ecosystems is developed. Several ecological processes relevant to understanding human activity within parks are discussed, including adaptation, competition, and succession. The paper concludes by outlining several im…
Structural effects in national parkgoing
Studies of outdoor recreation commonly mobilize "individual‐level" variables, such as personal characteristics (e.g., age, sex, socioeconomic status), personality, psychological needs, life experiences, and attitudes in testing for explanations of different participation styles. Seldom is attention directed to the explanatory importance for these studies of "system‐level" or contextual variables, such as structural and cultural patterns. Structur…
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Social science and forestry
This article originally published in Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pages 187–191, 1990. DOI: 10.1080/08941929009380717
Aquatic resources and recreation behavior
While substantial effort has been undertaken to understand the consequences of industrial and agricultural uses for the environment, concern has also been expressed about its other uses, including recreation. Little is known about the relationship between recreational behavior and an environmental resource base. The present paper focuses upon participation in a specific outdoor recreation activity or activity‐cluster and dominant resource base wh…
Some population characteristics of villages differentiated by size, location, and growth
Selected social characteristics of individuals were examined for groups of villages simultaneously dichotomized by size, location relative to larger cities, and population change. The percent of people having a selected characteristic in each village group of the resulting eight-fold classification was taken as the dependent variable, and difference scores indicating main effects and first order interactions were obtained for each characteristic.…
Moshava, Kibbutz, and Moshav
Some population characteristics of villages differentiated by size, location, and growth
Selected social characteristics of individuals were examined for groups of villages simultaneously dichotomized by size, location relative to larger cities, and population change. The percent of people having a selected characteristic in each village group of the resulting eight-fold classification was taken as the dependent variable, and difference scores indicating main effects and first order interactions were obtained for each characteristic.…
Methodological Perspectives for the Study of Outdoor Recreation
Methodological perspectives for the study of outdoor recreation are classified according to (1) the social aggregate level, (2) the social-psychological level, (3) the types of social organization, (4) activity attributes, (5) the community level and (6) the social ecological approach. General research topics useful to social scientists are suggested for each of these perspectives. Because outdoor recreation is a practical rather than a theoretic…
Social Groups as a Basis for Assessing Participation in Selected Water Activities
Recreation research has relied on social aggregate variables like occupation, income, education, age, and marital status, almost entirely as a basis to predict demand for given activities. This is especially true for many studies completed on specific recreational sites where only participants are considered.However, once nonparticipants have been eliminated from consideration in the analysis, the major source of statistical difference measured b…
The Telephone Interview in Leisure Research
The desire to acquire baseline data about people in leisure situations continues. While personal interviews are most preferred by social scientists, accelerating costs associated with personal inte
Aquatic resources and recreation behavior
While substantial effort has been undertaken to understand the consequences of industrial and agricultural uses for the environment, concern has also been expressed about its other uses, including recreation. Little is known about the relationship between recreational behavior and an environmental resource base. The present paper focuses upon participation in a specific outdoor recreation activity or activity‐cluster and dominant resource base wh…
Visitors to national parks
It frequently has been assumed that the poor and some minority groups largely lack the financial wherewithal to travel to America's national parks. Data showing an underrepresentation of the poor among visitors at some parks has spurred charges of “elitism” in national park use, and has been an often‐used argument to justify more development (especially the provision of low‐cost facilities) in the national parks. This study tested for relationshi…
Structural effects in national parkgoing
Studies of outdoor recreation commonly mobilize "individual‐level" variables, such as personal characteristics (e.g., age, sex, socioeconomic status), personality, psychological needs, life experiences, and attitudes in testing for explanations of different participation styles. Seldom is attention directed to the explanatory importance for these studies of "system‐level" or contextual variables, such as structural and cultural patterns. Structur…
Applied and basic social research
A beginning point in the establishment of successful applied social research efforts is the conceptualization of a perspective identifying key differences between basic and applied social research activity. The distinctive character of applied research lies in its social context and several elements associated with this context. These elements are: (1) difference in work style; (2) multidisciplinary nature; (3) selection of variables; (4) communi…
The human ecology of parks
This paper explores a human ecological approach to the study of people and parks. A human ecological perspective is outlined, along with the key units of analysis in human ecology. A theoretical framework for treating parks as human ecosystems is developed. Several ecological processes relevant to understanding human activity within parks are discussed, including adaptation, competition, and succession. The paper concludes by outlining several im…
Closing the gates
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Introduction to this special issue
(1981). Introduction to this special issue. Leisure Sciences: Vol. 4, Social Relations in Park Settings, pp. 1-3
Rural Sociology and the Environment
Social science and forestry
This article originally published in Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pages 187–191, 1990. DOI: 10.1080/08941929009380717
Rural Sociology and the Environment
An invitation from the editors of society & natural resources
Social Groups and Parks
KEYWORDS: Social grouprecreation placevisitation patternstime and space
Environmental and Resource Sociology
(2002). Environmental and Resource Sociology: Introducing a Debate and Dialogue. Society & Natural Resources: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 201-203
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology continues to mature as its theoretical grounding is strengthened, its precepts and principles become increasingly accepted in other disciplines, and its broad multidisciplinary perspective becomes adopted as a framework for a growing body of empirical work. The same may be said about a social landscape analysis that draws upon its theoretical foundations in applied demography, human ecology, and rural community studies. In this …
Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology continues to mature as its theoretical grounding is strengthened, its precepts and principles become increasingly accepted in other disciplines, and its broad multidisciplinary perspective becomes adopted as a framework for a growing body of empirical work. The same may be said about a social landscape analysis that draws upon its theoretical foundations in applied demography, human ecology, and rural community studies. In this …
A Survey of Seasonal and Permanent Landowners in Wisconsin's Northwoods
This article demonstrates the importance of obtaining high response rates for surveys of the general population while illustrating that survey design and procedures that adopt and modify factors known to positively affect survey returns can lead to high response rates, even for a lengthy survey of the general population. Using an expanded version of Dillman's “tailored design method,” we achieved an 82.8% response rate for a general population su…
A Comparison of Seasonal Homeowners and Permanent Residents on their Attitudes Toward Wildlife Management on Public Lands
With the widespread migration of urban residents to rural areas, the rural rebound of the past three decades has created dramatic demographic changes throughout rural America. This is particularly true in rural regions rich in natural amenities such as lakes, rivers, mountains, and forests. To date, the literature on the rural rebound and amenities has largely ignored one aspect of the rebound—the growth in seasonal and recreational homes in amen…
Introduction
This volume represents the third and final set of articles in Society & Natural Resources special issues on humans, fire, and forests. Previous articles appeared in issue 17(6) and issue 17(8). The
Humans, Fire, and Forests
Human residential settlements in the woods and on the borders of public lands are increasing in number and expanding in size. This is particularly true in amenity-rich rural regions hosting public lands like national parks and forests. Wildfire and its associated management have drawn considerable research attention in the past several years because one of the consequences of wildfires has been the loss of homes and communities on the borders of …
Sociology (25 works) · Geography (21 works) · Political science (14 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Social science (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (9 works) · Economics (8 works)