Christopher Serenari
Biographic Data
| ID | 140375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Serenari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Serenari |
| SIGNATURE | SERENARI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9554-7479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Communicating toward collaboration
In the United States, landowners own significant proportions of endangered species habitat; therefore, success of endangered species conservation (ESC) initiatives depends on collaboration between ESC agencies and private landowners. Voluntary Incentive Programs (VIPs) are ESC initiatives used to increase collaboration, but deficient and untailored communications between landowners and ESC agencies may reduce effectiveness. Strategies to bridge c…
Investigating how relational values influence landowner participation in an endangered species conservation program
Research investigating landowner engagement in endangered species conservation (ESC) frequently cites value conflicts between landowners and ESC institutions, such as Voluntary Incentive Programs (VIPs), as driving landowner disinterest in VIPs. Existing ESC policy design mechanisms are incapable of resolving deficient engagement as they incorporate landowner values into decision-making without consideration of the meanings landowners attach to r…
University wildlife students’ intention to support predator killing contests
A Family Systems Theory Approach to Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease-Related Perceptions and Behaviors
Evaluating the Cultural Fit of Hunting and Angling Among Minority Sportspersons in North Carolina
Culture defines leisure-specific behaviors, relationships, institutions, identities, and understandings of reality, but culture's role in U.S. hunting and fishing is poorly understood among diverse groups. We measure the cultural fit of hunting and angling and examine statistical differences among five culturally diverse groups of North Carolina hunters and anglers (n = 1,048). Cultural fit scores for hunters were highest among White and Native A…
Reconsidering the role of the built environment in human–wildlife interactions
In facing our greatest challenges, researchers have questioned where the ‘wild things’ will reside in the future, and large carnivores have been a primary focal area. The built environment plays a critical role in the propagation of countless species including carnivores; however, contemporary conceptualizations of human–nature relations do not satisfactorily attend to where the built environment should be placed within existing human–nature rela…
Determinants influencing recruitment in the Houston toad programmatic safe harbor agreement
The importance of private lands conservation (PLC) for endangered species continues to grow as habitat is increasingly lost or fragmented. In Texas, nearly 98% of all property is privately owned, rendering PLC critical for protecting endangered species. Despite case studies regarding factors leading to stewardship outcomes for endangered species, a knowledge gap exists regarding PLC for endangered species. To help address this gap, we situate fin…
Determinants of Private Landowner Participation in Endangered Species Conservation
A positive future for Endangered species hinges on proactive and positive relations between private landowners and agencies. However, the scattered literature investigating the determinants of private lands conservation suggests critical deficiencies, especially in the context of Endangered species conservation (ESC). Complete understandings of how private lands and ESC align and differ are required to pinpoint how to reverse negative trends. In …
Delegitimizing Large Carnivore Conservation through Discourse
The legitimacy of large carnivore institutions to exercise truth-making power is assumed by constituents and other audiences. This study examines the power of language in shaping resistance to hegemonic truths about red wolf recovery in North Carolina. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of seven corpora produced by a discourse coalition comprising local, state, and federal actors. We demonstrate that these actors held seven cognitive inte…
Predicting private landowner hunting access decisions and hunter density
Urbanization and shifting landowner demographics are changing how and where hunting occurs. We surveyed nonindustrial private landowners (N = 1,843) in North Carolina, USA to examine how demographics and land-use predict whether hunting occurred and hunter density. The optimal logistic regression model correctly predicted whether hunting occurred on 96% of properties. Larger properties, male property ownership, longer ownership tenure, income gen…
Using policy goals to evaluate red wolf reintroduction in eastern North Carolina
Despite being politicized in its early stages, the Red Wolf (Canis rufus) Recovery Program (RWRP) existed for 30 years in eastern North Carolina with little attention paid to finding common ground between policy contestants. We situated our data from 62 key informant interviews within Stone’s (2002) policy goals framework to evaluate red wolf recovery in eastern North Carolina, United States. Four goals underpin U.S. political culture and offer c…
Household Dynamics of Wildlife Value Orientations
Wildlife value orientations (WVOs) shape attitudes and behavior toward wildlife. Although demographic correlates of WVOs are well established, these relationships are largely unknown among children and within family units. The only previous study addressing these topics used fathers’ perceptions as proxies for family member WVOs. We surveyed North Carolina households (n = 136) to test hypotheses regarding whether individuals can assess household …
Relationships Between Value Orientations and Wildlife Conservation Policy Preferences in Chilean Patagonia
Conflicts over wildlife conservation in protected areas can occur because stakeholders hold divergent values and value orientations. In this exploratory study, differences in value orientations among visitors to Chile's Tamango National Reserve (TNR) were examined. Questionnaires were completed by visitors (n = 97) during the Chilean summer of 2012. Respondents were grouped into strong protection (63%) and mixed protection–use (37%) value orienta…
Theorizing Logger Religion within the Pacific Northwest Timber Conflict
This paper examines the links between the material and symbolic nature of timber extraction during the Pacific Northwest ( PNW ) timber wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Applying Durkheim’s work on religion and social solidarity, the authors consider a form of logger religion that emerged through many years of PNW timber production, shaping the identities of loggers and timber community dynamics. This paper proposes that forests are spaces that bridge…
Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia
Serenari, C., M. Nils Peterson, Y.-F. Leung, P. Stowhas, T. Wallace, and E. Sills. 2015. Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: comparing mental models and revealing cultural truths. Ecology and Society 20(3): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07696-200304
Cross-cultural efficacy of American low-impact programs
Cross-cultural efficacy of American low-impact programs
Delegitimizing Large Carnivore Conservation through Discourse
The legitimacy of large carnivore institutions to exercise truth-making power is assumed by constituents and other audiences. This study examines the power of language in shaping resistance to hegemonic truths about red wolf recovery in North Carolina. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of seven corpora produced by a discourse coalition comprising local, state, and federal actors. We demonstrate that these actors held seven cognitive inte…
Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia
Serenari, C., M. Nils Peterson, Y.-F. Leung, P. Stowhas, T. Wallace, and E. Sills. 2015. Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: comparing mental models and revealing cultural truths. Ecology and Society 20(3): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07696-200304
Cross-cultural efficacy of American low-impact programs
Relationships Between Value Orientations and Wildlife Conservation Policy Preferences in Chilean Patagonia
Conflicts over wildlife conservation in protected areas can occur because stakeholders hold divergent values and value orientations. In this exploratory study, differences in value orientations among visitors to Chile's Tamango National Reserve (TNR) were examined. Questionnaires were completed by visitors (n = 97) during the Chilean summer of 2012. Respondents were grouped into strong protection (63%) and mixed protection–use (37%) value orienta…
Theorizing Logger Religion within the Pacific Northwest Timber Conflict
This paper examines the links between the material and symbolic nature of timber extraction during the Pacific Northwest ( PNW ) timber wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Applying Durkheim’s work on religion and social solidarity, the authors consider a form of logger religion that emerged through many years of PNW timber production, shaping the identities of loggers and timber community dynamics. This paper proposes that forests are spaces that bridge…
Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia
Serenari, C., M. Nils Peterson, Y.-F. Leung, P. Stowhas, T. Wallace, and E. Sills. 2015. Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: comparing mental models and revealing cultural truths. Ecology and Society 20(3): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07696-200304
Household Dynamics of Wildlife Value Orientations
Wildlife value orientations (WVOs) shape attitudes and behavior toward wildlife. Although demographic correlates of WVOs are well established, these relationships are largely unknown among children and within family units. The only previous study addressing these topics used fathers’ perceptions as proxies for family member WVOs. We surveyed North Carolina households (n = 136) to test hypotheses regarding whether individuals can assess household …
Predicting private landowner hunting access decisions and hunter density
Urbanization and shifting landowner demographics are changing how and where hunting occurs. We surveyed nonindustrial private landowners (N = 1,843) in North Carolina, USA to examine how demographics and land-use predict whether hunting occurred and hunter density. The optimal logistic regression model correctly predicted whether hunting occurred on 96% of properties. Larger properties, male property ownership, longer ownership tenure, income gen…
Using policy goals to evaluate red wolf reintroduction in eastern North Carolina
Despite being politicized in its early stages, the Red Wolf (Canis rufus) Recovery Program (RWRP) existed for 30 years in eastern North Carolina with little attention paid to finding common ground between policy contestants. We situated our data from 62 key informant interviews within Stone’s (2002) policy goals framework to evaluate red wolf recovery in eastern North Carolina, United States. Four goals underpin U.S. political culture and offer c…
Delegitimizing Large Carnivore Conservation through Discourse
The legitimacy of large carnivore institutions to exercise truth-making power is assumed by constituents and other audiences. This study examines the power of language in shaping resistance to hegemonic truths about red wolf recovery in North Carolina. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of seven corpora produced by a discourse coalition comprising local, state, and federal actors. We demonstrate that these actors held seven cognitive inte…
Reconsidering the role of the built environment in human–wildlife interactions
In facing our greatest challenges, researchers have questioned where the ‘wild things’ will reside in the future, and large carnivores have been a primary focal area. The built environment plays a critical role in the propagation of countless species including carnivores; however, contemporary conceptualizations of human–nature relations do not satisfactorily attend to where the built environment should be placed within existing human–nature rela…
Determinants influencing recruitment in the Houston toad programmatic safe harbor agreement
The importance of private lands conservation (PLC) for endangered species continues to grow as habitat is increasingly lost or fragmented. In Texas, nearly 98% of all property is privately owned, rendering PLC critical for protecting endangered species. Despite case studies regarding factors leading to stewardship outcomes for endangered species, a knowledge gap exists regarding PLC for endangered species. To help address this gap, we situate fin…
Determinants of Private Landowner Participation in Endangered Species Conservation
A positive future for Endangered species hinges on proactive and positive relations between private landowners and agencies. However, the scattered literature investigating the determinants of private lands conservation suggests critical deficiencies, especially in the context of Endangered species conservation (ESC). Complete understandings of how private lands and ESC align and differ are required to pinpoint how to reverse negative trends. In …
Evaluating the Cultural Fit of Hunting and Angling Among Minority Sportspersons in North Carolina
Culture defines leisure-specific behaviors, relationships, institutions, identities, and understandings of reality, but culture's role in U.S. hunting and fishing is poorly understood among diverse groups. We measure the cultural fit of hunting and angling and examine statistical differences among five culturally diverse groups of North Carolina hunters and anglers (n = 1,048). Cultural fit scores for hunters were highest among White and Native A…
A Family Systems Theory Approach to Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease-Related Perceptions and Behaviors
Investigating how relational values influence landowner participation in an endangered species conservation program
Research investigating landowner engagement in endangered species conservation (ESC) frequently cites value conflicts between landowners and ESC institutions, such as Voluntary Incentive Programs (VIPs), as driving landowner disinterest in VIPs. Existing ESC policy design mechanisms are incapable of resolving deficient engagement as they incorporate landowner values into decision-making without consideration of the meanings landowners attach to r…
University wildlife students’ intention to support predator killing contests
Communicating toward collaboration
In the United States, landowners own significant proportions of endangered species habitat; therefore, success of endangered species conservation (ESC) initiatives depends on collaboration between ESC agencies and private landowners. Voluntary Incentive Programs (VIPs) are ESC initiatives used to increase collaboration, but deficient and untailored communications between landowners and ESC agencies may reduce effectiveness. Strategies to bridge c…
Geography (13 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Wildlife (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Forest Management and Policy (6 works)