John P Casellas Connors
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Casellas Connors |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P Casellas |
| FAMILY NAME | Connors |
| SIGNATURE | CONNORS J P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4212-3397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Food Access After Disasters
Problem, research strategy, and findings Access after disasters to resources such as food poses planning problems that affect millions of people each year. Understanding how disasters disrupt and alter food access during the initial steps of the recovery process provides new evidence to inform both food system and disaster planning. Our research took a supply-side focus and explored the results from a survey of food retailers after Hurricane Harv…
Measuring access to food banks and food pantries
Activating uncertainty
Policy Mobilities, Infrastructures, and Nonhuman Political Agency
Policy mobilities research has explored how policies—particularly urban development policies—spread among sites around the world, mutate along the way, and take hold in distinct contexts. Within the policy mobilities literature, there is particular attention to circulatory infrastructures, which facilitate encounters, learning, and exchange of knowledge that support the (re)production and movement of policies and “best practices.” Policy mobiliti…
Socio-Political and Ecological Dimensions of Municipal Wildlife Management
In urban and suburban areas, the complex socio-environmental landscapes and diverging interests of stakeholders make wildlife management difficult. We analyze how municipalities in Massachusetts make decisions about the management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Combining statistical analyses of a survey of municipal officials, qualitative analysis of management documents, and semistructured interviews, we investigate (i) the socio…
Animating the urban
Cities play an increasingly crucial role in addressing the accelerating planetary biodiversity crisis.In this special issue, the authors offer generative tools grounded in an other-than-human standpoint inviting us to "think cities" differently.They re-examine the right to the city and a more-than-human commons; evaluate why and when species become "killable"; and rethink territoriality, attending to the ways other-than humans make and remake cit…
The eco-munitionary subject
The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 was a transformative piece of legislation for wildlife management and conservation in the United States, incentivizing the creation of state wildlife agencies and establishing funding mechanisms for these agencies. The legislation directs an excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment to a fund to support wildlife restoration projects by state wildlife agencies. In 2021 alone, this generated more th…
Violent Entanglements
Environmental politics in the United States have become inseparable from the politics of guns. The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 transformed conservation policy and funding in the United States, establishing the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Account, which generates public revenue for conservation through a tax on firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment. As the manufacture and purchase of firearms and ammunition have increased rapidly i…
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events
Perceptions, concerns, and management of white-tailed deer among municipal officials
Municipal governments are emerging as important stakeholders in managing the populations and geographic distributions of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in urban and suburban areas of the Northeastern United States. To understand the variation in municipal-level concerns about deer and municipal policies related to deer management, we distributed a questionnaire to all 351 municipalities across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2017…
Becoming killable
This paper examines the implementation of a white-tailed deer management program in the Blue Hills Reservation outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing on the concepts of biopolitics, we explore how white-tailed deer became an object of concern and ultimately targets of lethal management in this suburban park. Through interviews, document analysis, and observation of public meetings, we examine the changes in and controversy over the presence, p…
Identifying attributes of food system sustainability
A meta-analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in mediating climate change
The valuation of off-site ecosystem service flows
Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects
The value of agricultural water rights in agricultural properties in the path of development
Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography
The interface between neogeography and citizen science has great potential for environmental monitoring, but this nexus has been explored less often than each subject individually. In this article we review the emerging role of volunteered geographic information in citizen science and present a case study of an integrated tool set that engages multiple types of users (from targeted citizen-based observation networks, expert-driven focused monitor…
Sex, Body-Esteem and Self-Esteem
This study investigated the relationship between body-esteem and self-esteem among 215 young men and women (ages 18 to 25 years). It was expected that concern with weight and shape would be strongly associated with women's self-esteem, while men's self-esteem would be more closely linked to concerns about their fitness. Multiple regression analyses indicated that perceived attractiveness and the salience of weight and shape were significant predi…
Article
Heterosexual Attitudes to Homosexuality
This study compared attitudes towards homosexuality of 164 students from two faculties at a rural Australian university. Eighty-two percent of participants were aged from 18–24 years, 65% percent of the sample were female with 58% of participants enrolled in a humanities course and 42% in a business course. A cross-sectional design using the Heterosexual Attitudes to Homosexuals (H.A.T.H.) and Fear of HIV/AIDS questionnaires found that for the to…
A Cross-Cultural Study into Loneliness Amongst University Students
The main aim of this research was to determine whether two groups of students from different cultural backgrounds differed as far as their experience of loneliness was concerned. The researchers also wanted to determine whether the groups differed in their experience of loneliness for gender, age, domestic circumstances and socio-economic status. The two groups were formed as follows: Information was gathered from senior students of the Charles S…
Health locus of control beliefs and attitudes toward people with Aids
We report the relationships between health locus of control beliefs and attitudes toward people with AIDS. Respondents were 359 adult Australians (18 years to 75 years of age). Generally, negative attitudes were associated with the view that the respondents' own health status was affected by powerful others (e.g., doctors) and chance factors. Belief in the influence of powerful others, however, only appeared to be a significant factor in the atti…
Authoritarianism and Just World Beliefs
(1987). Authoritarianism and Just World Beliefs. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 127, No. 3, pp. 345-346.
Heterosexual Attitudes to Homosexuality
This study compared attitudes towards homosexuality of 164 students from two faculties at a rural Australian university. Eighty-two percent of participants were aged from 18–24 years, 65% percent of the sample were female with 58% of participants enrolled in a humanities course and 42% in a business course. A cross-sectional design using the Heterosexual Attitudes to Homosexuals (H.A.T.H.) and Fear of HIV/AIDS questionnaires found that for the to…
Identifying attributes of food system sustainability
Becoming killable
This paper examines the implementation of a white-tailed deer management program in the Blue Hills Reservation outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing on the concepts of biopolitics, we explore how white-tailed deer became an object of concern and ultimately targets of lethal management in this suburban park. Through interviews, document analysis, and observation of public meetings, we examine the changes in and controversy over the presence, p…
A meta-analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in mediating climate change
Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography
The interface between neogeography and citizen science has great potential for environmental monitoring, but this nexus has been explored less often than each subject individually. In this article we review the emerging role of volunteered geographic information in citizen science and present a case study of an integrated tool set that engages multiple types of users (from targeted citizen-based observation networks, expert-driven focused monitor…
Animating the urban
Cities play an increasingly crucial role in addressing the accelerating planetary biodiversity crisis.In this special issue, the authors offer generative tools grounded in an other-than-human standpoint inviting us to "think cities" differently.They re-examine the right to the city and a more-than-human commons; evaluate why and when species become "killable"; and rethink territoriality, attending to the ways other-than humans make and remake cit…
Socio-Political and Ecological Dimensions of Municipal Wildlife Management
In urban and suburban areas, the complex socio-environmental landscapes and diverging interests of stakeholders make wildlife management difficult. We analyze how municipalities in Massachusetts make decisions about the management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Combining statistical analyses of a survey of municipal officials, qualitative analysis of management documents, and semistructured interviews, we investigate (i) the socio…
Activating uncertainty
Policy Mobilities, Infrastructures, and Nonhuman Political Agency
Policy mobilities research has explored how policies—particularly urban development policies—spread among sites around the world, mutate along the way, and take hold in distinct contexts. Within the policy mobilities literature, there is particular attention to circulatory infrastructures, which facilitate encounters, learning, and exchange of knowledge that support the (re)production and movement of policies and “best practices.” Policy mobiliti…
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events
Authoritarianism and Just World Beliefs
(1987). Authoritarianism and Just World Beliefs. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 127, No. 3, pp. 345-346.
Health locus of control beliefs and attitudes toward people with Aids
We report the relationships between health locus of control beliefs and attitudes toward people with AIDS. Respondents were 359 adult Australians (18 years to 75 years of age). Generally, negative attitudes were associated with the view that the respondents' own health status was affected by powerful others (e.g., doctors) and chance factors. Belief in the influence of powerful others, however, only appeared to be a significant factor in the atti…
A Cross-Cultural Study into Loneliness Amongst University Students
The main aim of this research was to determine whether two groups of students from different cultural backgrounds differed as far as their experience of loneliness was concerned. The researchers also wanted to determine whether the groups differed in their experience of loneliness for gender, age, domestic circumstances and socio-economic status. The two groups were formed as follows: Information was gathered from senior students of the Charles S…
Heterosexual Attitudes to Homosexuality
This study compared attitudes towards homosexuality of 164 students from two faculties at a rural Australian university. Eighty-two percent of participants were aged from 18–24 years, 65% percent of the sample were female with 58% of participants enrolled in a humanities course and 42% in a business course. A cross-sectional design using the Heterosexual Attitudes to Homosexuals (H.A.T.H.) and Fear of HIV/AIDS questionnaires found that for the to…
Sex, Body-Esteem and Self-Esteem
This study investigated the relationship between body-esteem and self-esteem among 215 young men and women (ages 18 to 25 years). It was expected that concern with weight and shape would be strongly associated with women's self-esteem, while men's self-esteem would be more closely linked to concerns about their fitness. Multiple regression analyses indicated that perceived attractiveness and the salience of weight and shape were significant predi…
Article
Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography
The interface between neogeography and citizen science has great potential for environmental monitoring, but this nexus has been explored less often than each subject individually. In this article we review the emerging role of volunteered geographic information in citizen science and present a case study of an integrated tool set that engages multiple types of users (from targeted citizen-based observation networks, expert-driven focused monitor…
Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects
The value of agricultural water rights in agricultural properties in the path of development
The valuation of off-site ecosystem service flows
A meta-analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in mediating climate change
Identifying attributes of food system sustainability
Perceptions, concerns, and management of white-tailed deer among municipal officials
Municipal governments are emerging as important stakeholders in managing the populations and geographic distributions of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in urban and suburban areas of the Northeastern United States. To understand the variation in municipal-level concerns about deer and municipal policies related to deer management, we distributed a questionnaire to all 351 municipalities across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2017…
Becoming killable
This paper examines the implementation of a white-tailed deer management program in the Blue Hills Reservation outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing on the concepts of biopolitics, we explore how white-tailed deer became an object of concern and ultimately targets of lethal management in this suburban park. Through interviews, document analysis, and observation of public meetings, we examine the changes in and controversy over the presence, p…
Violent Entanglements
Environmental politics in the United States have become inseparable from the politics of guns. The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 transformed conservation policy and funding in the United States, establishing the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Account, which generates public revenue for conservation through a tax on firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment. As the manufacture and purchase of firearms and ammunition have increased rapidly i…
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events
Socio-Political and Ecological Dimensions of Municipal Wildlife Management
In urban and suburban areas, the complex socio-environmental landscapes and diverging interests of stakeholders make wildlife management difficult. We analyze how municipalities in Massachusetts make decisions about the management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Combining statistical analyses of a survey of municipal officials, qualitative analysis of management documents, and semistructured interviews, we investigate (i) the socio…
Animating the urban
Cities play an increasingly crucial role in addressing the accelerating planetary biodiversity crisis.In this special issue, the authors offer generative tools grounded in an other-than-human standpoint inviting us to "think cities" differently.They re-examine the right to the city and a more-than-human commons; evaluate why and when species become "killable"; and rethink territoriality, attending to the ways other-than humans make and remake cit…
The eco-munitionary subject
The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 was a transformative piece of legislation for wildlife management and conservation in the United States, incentivizing the creation of state wildlife agencies and establishing funding mechanisms for these agencies. The legislation directs an excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment to a fund to support wildlife restoration projects by state wildlife agencies. In 2021 alone, this generated more th…
Food Access After Disasters
Problem, research strategy, and findings Access after disasters to resources such as food poses planning problems that affect millions of people each year. Understanding how disasters disrupt and alter food access during the initial steps of the recovery process provides new evidence to inform both food system and disaster planning. Our research took a supply-side focus and explored the results from a survey of food retailers after Hurricane Harv…
Measuring access to food banks and food pantries
Activating uncertainty
Policy Mobilities, Infrastructures, and Nonhuman Political Agency
Policy mobilities research has explored how policies—particularly urban development policies—spread among sites around the world, mutate along the way, and take hold in distinct contexts. Within the policy mobilities literature, there is particular attention to circulatory infrastructures, which facilitate encounters, learning, and exchange of knowledge that support the (re)production and movement of policies and “best practices.” Policy mobiliti…
Geography (12 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)