Michael Nelson

Datos Biográficos

ID3627151
NOMBREMichael Nelson
NOMBRESMichael
APELLIDONelson
FIRMANELSON M
AFILIACIONESRhodes College
ORCID0000-0001-6917-4752
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS106
TOTAL DE CITAS159
TOTAL COMO AUTOR106
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1974
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • The North American model of wildlife conservation is an inappropriate basis for formulating conservation policy

    Jeremy T Bruskotter, John A Vucetich et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2026

    The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) allegedly describes principles critical to successful wildlife conservation in North America. The NAM is promoted by numerous hunting-related interest groups, some of whom use it as a source of legal authority to advocate for the supremacy of state governments over federal and tribal governments. We demonstrate why such prescriptions are inappropriate. Specifically, we show: (i) the NAM prov…

  • FDR’s Green Light Letter

    Open AccessMichael Nelson, Michael Landon NelsonARTICLEJournal of Policy History2026

    Six weeks after the United States entered World War II, Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking if he thought Organized Baseball should continue during the war. FDR responded the next day with his famous Green Light Letter, basically saying yes. Although this simple decision has been amply covered by scholars, its complex consequences have not. During the course of the war, more than a dozen e…

  • The role of gender and ethnicity in perceived public support and sense of belonging among resource management professionals in Oregon and Washington, USA

    Open AccessLaura Jost, Claire Rapp et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Federal and state land agencies lack diversity at the natural resource manager level, in turn limiting the agencies' capacity for creative problem solving needed for complex and wicked environmental problems. Diverse representation is imperative to increase public support and trust in natural resource management. We used an online survey method to examine the relationship and experiences between independent demographic variables (e.g. gender, eth…

  • Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA

    Open AccessClaire Rapp, Michael Nelson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Natural resource managers (managers) value and use scientific information to inform their decision-making process in a variety of ways. The scientific information managers use depends on a variety of factors, including the source of the information and ease of access. Barriers, such as paywalls, insufficient capacity, and information overload play an important role in determining what scientific information managers have access and attend to. Add…

  • Ockhamism and Agential Powers

    Michael Nelson, Philosophy Documentation CenterARTICLEMidwest Studies in Philosophy2024

    Ockhamism promises to reconcile our powers to do other than we actually do with various metaphysical assumptions, including the determinate, “pre-ordained” future and earlier states of knowledge, both human and divine, concerning what we will do. I defend a Ockhamist response to Nelson Pike and John Fischer’s skeptical arguments from divine foreknowledge, arguing that God’s earlier cognitions concerning what we will do in the future are part of t…

  • Wildland Fire Response in the United States

    Claire Rapp, Michael Nelson et al.ARTICLECase Studies in the Environment2024

    One of the dominant ethics of natural resource management (NRM), and arguably Western culture, is consequentialism, which evaluates the ethical merit of decisions based solely on consequences or outcomes of those decisions. When used in NRM, this ethic is largely applied as the default, without interrogation of whether it is appropriate or useful. In this case study, we examine the intersections of consequentialism, decision psychology, and fire …

  • Evaluating Excuses

    Open AccessAmanda Driscoll, Jay N Krehbiel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Public…2023

    The political actors who make policy often delegate their implementation to others. Yet for a variety of reasons, ranging from intransigence to incompetence, political agents tasked with implementation may not faithfully implement policies. If those charged with implementation can frame their noncompliance in a way that engenders sympathy, implementors may be able to disrupt the policymaking process with limited public backlash. We examine if the…

  • An examination of race/ethnicity, gender, and employer affiliations on university natural resource program advisory boards

    Open AccessLucia Hadella, Claire Rapp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2023Citada por: 1

  • Forest discovery

    Open AccessLissy Goralnik, Sarah Minette Kelly et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Environmental…2021

    Sense of place describes both affective and cognitive — emotional and intellectual — connections to place. Affective outcomes, tied to arts and humanities education, can facilitate these connections. But little research explores environmental science, arts and humanities (eSAH) curricula on place relationships. Additionally, most research on the sense of place focuses on repeated visits to a place over time, rather than short-term experiences lik…

  • J. Michael Scott, John A. Wiens, Beatrice Van Horne, and Dale D. Goble. Shepherding Nature

    Michael Nelson, Michael Paul NelsonARTICLEEnvironmental Ethics2021

  • Day of Fire

    Michael NelsonARTICLECongress & the Presidency2021Referencias: 3

    Presidential crises come in multiple forms. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC exemplify a type of crisis marked by a combination of four qualities: (1) a sudden event that is (2) unanticipated and (3) requires (4) an urgent response by the president. This article offers an account of the day's unfolding events as White House and other officials experienced them. It does so in the words of participants, most of…

  • Pathways from Environmental Ethics to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Insights from Psychology

    Open AccessChelsea Batavia, Jeremy T Bruskotter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Values2020

    Though largely a theoretical endeavour, environmental ethics also has a practical agenda to help humans achieve environmental sustainability. Environmental ethicists have extensively debated the grounds, contents and implications of our moral obligations to nonhuman nature, offering up different notions of an ‘environmental ethic’ with the presumption that, if humans adopt such an environmental ethic, they will then engage in less environmentally…

  • Hippocratic Diplomacy

    Open AccessMichael NelsonARTICLEDiplomatic History2019

    “Hippocratic Diplomacy”—first, do no harm—is not the title of Jeffrey A. Engel’s masterful account of President George H. W. Bush’s conduct of foreign policy, but it could have been. Drawing on his vast knowledge of national security policy, as well as a treasure trove of recently released documents that he and other scholars have plumbed in the United States, Russia, Germany, Hungary, and several other countries, Engel has written the best book …

  • Black and Blue

    James L Gibson, Michael NelsonBOOKBlack and Blue2018

    It is not hyperbole to proclaim that a crisis of legal legitimacy exists in the relationships between African Americans and the law and legal authorities and institutions that govern them. However, this legitimacy deficit has largely (but not exclusively) been documented through anecdotal evidence and a steady drumbeat of journalistic reports, but not rigorous scientific research. We posit that both experiences and in-group identities are command…

  • Group Identities and Experiences with Legal Authorities

    James L Gibson, Michael J Nelson et al.BOOKBlack and Blue2018

    Black and white Americans hold vastly different explicit attitudes about law, justice, and the legal system. But to what extent are the views of blacks toward the legal system homogeneous? We argue that identities and experiences color the extent to which blacks exhibit high levels of support for the legal system. First, we discuss how both personal and vicarious experiences with the legal system vary among blacks, and explain how individuals who…

  • Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation

    Open AccessArian D Wallach, Marc Bekoff et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2018

    Conservation practice is informed by science, but it also reflects ethical beliefs about how humanity ought to value and interact with Earth's biota. As human activities continue to drive extinctions and diminish critical life‐sustaining ecosystem processes, achieving conservation goals becomes increasingly urgent. However, the determination to react decisively can drive conservationists to handle complex challenges without due deliberation, part…

  • The Historical Presidency

    Open AccessMichael NelsonARTICLEPresidential Studies Quarterly2018Referencias: 8

    The 1968 election was a crucial turning point for the Democratic Party. Long‐standing confidence by Democrats in the ability and responsibility of the United States to spread liberal values across the globe gave way to diffidence and hesitancy in the international arena in the face of growing disillusionment within the party about the Vietnam War. John F. Kennedy, with resolve, and Lyndon B. Johnson, with reservations, unsuccessfully pursued vict…

  • Wolf Hunting and the Ethics of Predator Control

    John A Vucetich, John Vucetich et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Animal…2017

    A basic tool of scholarly ethics is argument analysis—the process of evaluating the soundness of the premises and the validity of arguments that underlie a particular ethical claim. We apply that technique to the controversial concern about the appropriateness of hunting wolves. Advocates of wolf hunting offer a variety of reasons that it is appropriate. We inspect the quality of these reasons using the principles of argument analysis. Our applic…

  • For goodness sake! What is intrinsic value and why should we care?

    Open AccessChelsea Batavia, Michael Nelson et al.ARTICLEBiological Conservation2017

  • Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation

    Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Rainer Roth et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2017

    Despite broad recognition of the value of social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with the human element of conservation, the conservation social sciences remain misunderstood and underutilized in practice. The conservation social sciences can provide unique and important contributions to society's understanding of the relationships between humans and nature and to improving conservation practice and outcomes. There are…

  • Conservation social science

    Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Rainer Roth et al.ARTICLEBiological Conservation2017

    It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimension…

  • The unexplored history of operationalising digital divides

    Bianca C Reisdorf, William H Dutton et al.ARTICLEInternet Histories2017Referencias: 5

    Since the early years of the personal computer, when computing began to diffuse to the general public, social researchers have focused on the (non)use of information and communication technologies in the household and the impact of the resulting digital divides on social and economic inequalities. The Internet's diffusion led this work to become an increasingly central focus of research, but not following a sustained trajectory of attention. This…

  • Margaret O'Mara, Pivotal Tuesdays

    Open AccessMichael NelsonARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2017

  • Michigan Mute Swan Management

    Corey Jager, Michael Nelson et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2016

    U.S. state fish and wildlife agencies have responded to perceived ecological and social threats posed by mute swans by implementing population control strategies. In Michigan, some stakeholder groups have vocally opposed particular control activities. To better understand and characterize key aspects of the underlying media dialogue about mute swan management in Michigan, one factor in the development of public perceptions about wildlife issues, …

  • Why the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is Problematic for Modern Wildlife Management

    M Nils Peterson, Michael NelsonARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2016

    The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) is a slippery construct, used both to explain how North American wildlife conservation developed and as a prescriptive framework. We argue both applications of the NAM are problematic. The roots of wildlife conservation in North America are more complex than those associated with the NAM, and minimizing contributions from diverse sources makes building a diverse wildlife conservation communi…