Max Nielsen-Pincus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1412714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Nielsen-Pincus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen-Pincus |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN-PINCUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0847-4820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Is Wildfire Planning Evolving to Support Communities? Taking Stock of 20 years of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the state of Colorado, United States
Over the past two decades, wildfire policies at the national level have sought to catalyze locally led wildfire mitigation and forest management, while promoting collaboration across sectors. In the United States, Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) have become one of the primary tools for local wildfire mitigation planning. CWPPs continue to be developed and funded, yet little is known about how CWPPs have evolved in response to changing…
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation
Environmental governance outcomes hinge on the design and implementation of management decisions. Yet, available research methodologies can be limited in their ability to capture the complexity of decision-making and implementation processes and in turn predict and explain environmental governance outcomes. We present participatory process mapping as a method for examining the pathways that emerge and evolve over time that result in natural resou…
Wildfire risk governance from the bottom up
The growing scale of natural hazards highlights the need for models of governance capable of addressing risk across administrative boundaries. However, risk governance systems are often fragmented, decentralized, and sustained by informal linkages among local-level risk mitigation planning processes. Improving resilience to the effects of environmental change requires a better understanding of factors that contribute to these linkages. Using data…
Forest carbon incentive programs for non-industrial private forests in Oregon (USA)
Privately-owned forests in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are important potential carbon sinks and play a large role in carbon sequestration and storage. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners constitute a substantial portion of overall forest landownership in productive regions of the PNW; however, little is known about their preferences for non-market incentive programs aimed at increased carbon storage and sequestration, specifically by limi…
From gray copycats to green wolves
Flooding has affected over two billion people since 1995. While gray infrastructure such as levees and dams has traditionally been used to mitigate this hazard, many communities are looking for approaches to augment or replace some of these structural solutions. Propelled by the regulatory support for green infrastructure approaches for stormwater management, some communities are also looking to green infrastructure for flood risk management (FRM…
Ecosystem Services as Boundary Objects for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Choosing the Right Policy Tools to Encourage Watershed Stewardship through the Study of Attitude
Recently, a number of “Payment for Watershed Services” programs have aimed to engage private landowners in watershed stewardship initiatives by offering financial incentives for adopting watershed best management practices. However, a growing field of research suggests that financial incentives alone may be of limited utility to encourage widespread and long-standing behavior change, and other policy tools may be required. This research examines …
The Influence of Place on the Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services
Sense of place, including an individual’s attitudes toward specific geographic settings, is generally predicted to influence willingness to engage in place-protective behaviors. Relatively little research, however, has empirically examined the influence of people’s attitudes toward a place on their willingness to pay for environmental protection. Using the example of a payment for ecosystem services (PES) initiative in the McKenzie River watershe…
Landowner Attitudes Toward Conservation Easements
Private land conservation provides an opportunity to address problems of habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss caused by an increase in the development and parcelization of private land. Conservation easements (CEs) are used to protect significant natural qualities of private land. In this study, we explore landowner attitudes toward CEs through the implementation of a mixed-mode survey to private landowners in the Whychus Creek Watershed (…
Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance
Abrams, J. B., M. Knapp, T. B. Paveglio, A. Ellison, C. Moseley, M. Nielsen-Pincus, and M. C. Carroll. 2015. Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 20(3):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07848-200334
The Community Economic Impacts of Large Wildfires
Wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency in the American West, but there is limited understanding of their economic effects at the community level. We conducted a case study of the impacts of large wildfires in 2008 in Trinity County, California, by examining labor market, suppression spending, and qualitative interview data. We found that the 2008 fires had interrelated effects on several economic sectors in the county. Labor market da…
Job growth and loss across sectors and time in the western US
Mapping a Values Typology in Three Counties of the Interior Northwest, USA
Spatial attribution mapping is one method of eliciting the relationship between people and place. I use a landscape values typology and environmental values theory to investigate how people attribute values to the landscape in three counties of Idaho and Oregon. Using geographically referenced values data collected in a mail survey (n = 767), I examine the use of intensity weights when implementing a mapping exercise and the spatial scale and geo…
Employing Philosophical Dialogue in Collaborative Science
Integrated research across disciplines is required to address many of the pressing environmental problems facing human societies. Often the integration involves disparate disciplines, including those in the biological sciences, and demands collaboration from problem formulation through hypothesis development, data analysis, interpretation, and application. Such projects raise conceptual and methodological challenges that are new to many researche…
Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research
Morse, W. C., M. Nielsen-Pincus, J. Force, and J. Wulfhorst. 2007. Bridges and barriers to developing and conducting interdisciplinary graduate-student team research. Ecology and Society 12(2): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02082-120208
Ecosystem Services as Boundary Objects for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
The Influence of Place on the Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services
Sense of place, including an individual’s attitudes toward specific geographic settings, is generally predicted to influence willingness to engage in place-protective behaviors. Relatively little research, however, has empirically examined the influence of people’s attitudes toward a place on their willingness to pay for environmental protection. Using the example of a payment for ecosystem services (PES) initiative in the McKenzie River watershe…
Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research
Morse, W. C., M. Nielsen-Pincus, J. Force, and J. Wulfhorst. 2007. Bridges and barriers to developing and conducting interdisciplinary graduate-student team research. Ecology and Society 12(2): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02082-120208
Mapping a Values Typology in Three Counties of the Interior Northwest, USA
Spatial attribution mapping is one method of eliciting the relationship between people and place. I use a landscape values typology and environmental values theory to investigate how people attribute values to the landscape in three counties of Idaho and Oregon. Using geographically referenced values data collected in a mail survey (n = 767), I examine the use of intensity weights when implementing a mapping exercise and the spatial scale and geo…
Forest carbon incentive programs for non-industrial private forests in Oregon (USA)
Privately-owned forests in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are important potential carbon sinks and play a large role in carbon sequestration and storage. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners constitute a substantial portion of overall forest landownership in productive regions of the PNW; however, little is known about their preferences for non-market incentive programs aimed at increased carbon storage and sequestration, specifically by limi…
The Community Economic Impacts of Large Wildfires
Wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency in the American West, but there is limited understanding of their economic effects at the community level. We conducted a case study of the impacts of large wildfires in 2008 in Trinity County, California, by examining labor market, suppression spending, and qualitative interview data. We found that the 2008 fires had interrelated effects on several economic sectors in the county. Labor market da…
Landowner Attitudes Toward Conservation Easements
Private land conservation provides an opportunity to address problems of habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss caused by an increase in the development and parcelization of private land. Conservation easements (CEs) are used to protect significant natural qualities of private land. In this study, we explore landowner attitudes toward CEs through the implementation of a mixed-mode survey to private landowners in the Whychus Creek Watershed (…
Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance
Abrams, J. B., M. Knapp, T. B. Paveglio, A. Ellison, C. Moseley, M. Nielsen-Pincus, and M. C. Carroll. 2015. Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 20(3):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07848-200334
Choosing the Right Policy Tools to Encourage Watershed Stewardship through the Study of Attitude
Recently, a number of “Payment for Watershed Services” programs have aimed to engage private landowners in watershed stewardship initiatives by offering financial incentives for adopting watershed best management practices. However, a growing field of research suggests that financial incentives alone may be of limited utility to encourage widespread and long-standing behavior change, and other policy tools may be required. This research examines …
Job growth and loss across sectors and time in the western US
Employing Philosophical Dialogue in Collaborative Science
Integrated research across disciplines is required to address many of the pressing environmental problems facing human societies. Often the integration involves disparate disciplines, including those in the biological sciences, and demands collaboration from problem formulation through hypothesis development, data analysis, interpretation, and application. Such projects raise conceptual and methodological challenges that are new to many researche…
Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research
Morse, W. C., M. Nielsen-Pincus, J. Force, and J. Wulfhorst. 2007. Bridges and barriers to developing and conducting interdisciplinary graduate-student team research. Ecology and Society 12(2): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02082-120208
Mapping a Values Typology in Three Counties of the Interior Northwest, USA
Spatial attribution mapping is one method of eliciting the relationship between people and place. I use a landscape values typology and environmental values theory to investigate how people attribute values to the landscape in three counties of Idaho and Oregon. Using geographically referenced values data collected in a mail survey (n = 767), I examine the use of intensity weights when implementing a mapping exercise and the spatial scale and geo…
Job growth and loss across sectors and time in the western US
The Community Economic Impacts of Large Wildfires
Wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency in the American West, but there is limited understanding of their economic effects at the community level. We conducted a case study of the impacts of large wildfires in 2008 in Trinity County, California, by examining labor market, suppression spending, and qualitative interview data. We found that the 2008 fires had interrelated effects on several economic sectors in the county. Labor market da…
Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance
Abrams, J. B., M. Knapp, T. B. Paveglio, A. Ellison, C. Moseley, M. Nielsen-Pincus, and M. C. Carroll. 2015. Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 20(3):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07848-200334
Ecosystem Services as Boundary Objects for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Choosing the Right Policy Tools to Encourage Watershed Stewardship through the Study of Attitude
Recently, a number of “Payment for Watershed Services” programs have aimed to engage private landowners in watershed stewardship initiatives by offering financial incentives for adopting watershed best management practices. However, a growing field of research suggests that financial incentives alone may be of limited utility to encourage widespread and long-standing behavior change, and other policy tools may be required. This research examines …
The Influence of Place on the Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services
Sense of place, including an individual’s attitudes toward specific geographic settings, is generally predicted to influence willingness to engage in place-protective behaviors. Relatively little research, however, has empirically examined the influence of people’s attitudes toward a place on their willingness to pay for environmental protection. Using the example of a payment for ecosystem services (PES) initiative in the McKenzie River watershe…
Landowner Attitudes Toward Conservation Easements
Private land conservation provides an opportunity to address problems of habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss caused by an increase in the development and parcelization of private land. Conservation easements (CEs) are used to protect significant natural qualities of private land. In this study, we explore landowner attitudes toward CEs through the implementation of a mixed-mode survey to private landowners in the Whychus Creek Watershed (…
From gray copycats to green wolves
Flooding has affected over two billion people since 1995. While gray infrastructure such as levees and dams has traditionally been used to mitigate this hazard, many communities are looking for approaches to augment or replace some of these structural solutions. Propelled by the regulatory support for green infrastructure approaches for stormwater management, some communities are also looking to green infrastructure for flood risk management (FRM…
Forest carbon incentive programs for non-industrial private forests in Oregon (USA)
Privately-owned forests in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are important potential carbon sinks and play a large role in carbon sequestration and storage. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners constitute a substantial portion of overall forest landownership in productive regions of the PNW; however, little is known about their preferences for non-market incentive programs aimed at increased carbon storage and sequestration, specifically by limi…
Wildfire risk governance from the bottom up
The growing scale of natural hazards highlights the need for models of governance capable of addressing risk across administrative boundaries. However, risk governance systems are often fragmented, decentralized, and sustained by informal linkages among local-level risk mitigation planning processes. Improving resilience to the effects of environmental change requires a better understanding of factors that contribute to these linkages. Using data…
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation
Environmental governance outcomes hinge on the design and implementation of management decisions. Yet, available research methodologies can be limited in their ability to capture the complexity of decision-making and implementation processes and in turn predict and explain environmental governance outcomes. We present participatory process mapping as a method for examining the pathways that emerge and evolve over time that result in natural resou…
Is Wildfire Planning Evolving to Support Communities? Taking Stock of 20 years of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the state of Colorado, United States
Over the past two decades, wildfire policies at the national level have sought to catalyze locally led wildfire mitigation and forest management, while promoting collaboration across sectors. In the United States, Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) have become one of the primary tools for local wildfire mitigation planning. CWPPs continue to be developed and funded, yet little is known about how CWPPs have evolved in response to changing…
Ecology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 works) · Fire effects on ecosystems (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works)