Adena R Rissman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1521838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adena R Rissman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adena R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rissman |
| SIGNATURE | RISSMAN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8566-3708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When the university meets the grassroots: Participatory action research and just transitions in agriculture
Confronting the deep-rooted social inequities and environmental harm in animal agriculture research demands approaches that link Just Transitions (JT) with Participatory Action Research (PAR). We present a case study from the Midwest, USA, drawing on an ongoing participatory action research project, started in 2020, where we conducted semi-structured interviews with 128 participants and three participatory workshops with farmers, non-profit leade…
Sustaining land and people over time: Relationships with successor landowners on conservation easements
Conservation is increasingly recognized and funded on private lands. Making conservation last despite turnover in people requires maintaining social relationships. For example, conservation easements (CEs), also called conservation covenants, are legal agreements for private land conservation typically expected to last in perpetuity, yet their public benefits depend on successor landowners. We focus on the social relations in stewarding lands hel…
How Aspects of Collective Action Relate to Implementation of Cooperative Management Among Private Landowners
Forested land is increasingly owned in small parcels by family forest owners who are becoming less likely to conduct the management which supports ecosystems, economies, and communities. One way to encourage private land management is through group cooperatives. Characteristics of collective action that support group cooperative participation are well understood but how they relate to management implementation is not. Examining Wisconsin's Deer M…
Ecological worldview, agricultural or natural resource-based activities, and geography affect perceived importance of ecosystem services
Adapting Conservation Policy and Administration to Nonstationary Conditions
False assumptions of stationarity, the idea that natural systems fluctuate within a set and predictable range, are common in conservation policies and public expectations developed since the late 1800s. With examples from United States national forest and water quality policy, we discuss the challenges of nonstationarity for planning and policy. We also raise questions about how resilience is becoming institutionalized. One central problem of man…
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Content analysis of resilience in forest fire science and management
Characteristics of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and engaged research among graduate students in environmental conservation
Private organizations, public data: Land trust choices about mapping conservation easements
Innovation in Outcomes-Based Water Quality Policy: A Case Study from the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin, USA
This case examines the risks and opportunities for stakeholders involved in an experimental water quality management program in Wisconsin, USA. This program pays for pounds of pollution reduced through soil conservation practices on farm fields and other high-runoff areas across the landscape—nonpoint sources of pollution—by redirecting funds from the sewerage plant and municipal point sources of pollution. Uncertain monitoring and modeling of po…
Public support for carrot, stick, and no-government water quality policies
Uncertain monitoring and modeling in a watershed nonpoint pollution program
Zoning effects on housing change vary with income, based on a four-decade panel model after propensity score matching
Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation
Rissman, A. R., J. Owley, A. W. L’Roe, A. Wilson Morris, and C. B. Wardropper. 2017. Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation. Ecology and Society 22(2):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09330-220224
Changes in Wisconsin’s Large Private Forests, 1999–2015: Land Ownership, Conservation, and Recreational Access
Forestland divestment by vertically integrated forest products companies (VIFPCs) has spurred significant forest ownership change. To illuminate these dynamics, we examined land sales after VIFPC divestment, subsequent acquisitions of conserved land, and trends in recreational access in Wisconsin. We documented changes from 1999 to 2015 with analysis of tax program records and profiles of the state’s largest investor owners, Plum Creek and The Fo…
Logger Perceptions of Seasonal Environmental Challenges Facing Timber Operations in the Upper Midwest, USA
Loggers and other natural-resource-dependent workers are impacted by variable environmental conditions. This research shares logger perceptions of the impacts of seasonal environmental factors on their operations, which are important for informing forest management and policy. We conducted in-depth interviews with 17 professional loggers and 15 other forestry stakeholders to assess the challenges faced in forest operations in Wisconsin and Michig…
Trends in private land conservation: Increasing complexity, shifting conservation purposes and allowable private land uses
The terrain of private-land conservation dealmaking is shifting. As the number of acres of private land protected for conservation increases, our understanding of what it means for a property to be "conserved" is shifting. We examined 269 conservation easements and conducted 73 interviews with land conservation organizations to investigate changes in private-land conservation in the United States. We hypothesized that since 2000, conservation eas…
Local perspectives and global archetypes in scenario development
Wardropper, C. B., S. Gillon, A. S. Mase, E. A. McKinney, S. R. Carpenter, and A. R. Rissman. 2016. Local perspectives and global archetypes in scenario development. Ecology and Society 21(2):12.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08384-210212
Progress on Nonpoint Pollution: Barriers & Opportunities
Nonpoint source pollution is the runoff of pollutants (including soil and nutrients) from agricultural, urban, and other lands (as opposed to point source pollution, which comes directly from one outlet). Many efforts have been made to combat both types of pollution, so why are we making so little progress in improving water quality by reducing runoff of soil and nutrients into lakes and rivers? This essay examines the challenges inherent in: 1) …
Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA
Carpenter, S. R., E. G. Booth, S. Gillon, C. J. Kucharik, S. Loheide, A. S. Mase, M. Motew, J. Qiu, A. R. Rissman, J. Seifert, E. Soylu, M. Turner, and C. B. Wardropper. 2015. Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA. Ecology and Society 20(2): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07433-200210
Forest cover, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat: Policy review and modeling of tradeoffs among land-use change scenarios
Land-Conservation Strategies: The Dynamic Relationship between Acquisition and Land-Use Planning
Nonprofit organizations often pursue land acquisition as a nonpolitical, private property rights approach to conservation of ecological and cultural resources. Yet acquisition and regulatory land-use planning are intertwined, both in terms of political strategies and conservation outcomes. Our objectives are (1) to understand the relationship between the acquisition strategies of land trusts and their involvement in land-use planning and zoning, …
Conservation Outcomes and Social Relations: A Comparative Study of Private Ranchland Conservation Easements
Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlands, Arizona and New Mexico. We conducted interviews w…
The Conservation Contributions of Conservation Easements: Analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area Protected Lands Spatial Database
Rissman, A. R., and A. M. Merenlender. 2008. The conservation contributions of conservation easements: analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area protected lands spatial database. Ecology and Society 13(1): 40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02329-130140
Conservation Outcomes and Social Relations: A Comparative Study of Private Ranchland Conservation Easements
Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlands, Arizona and New Mexico. We conducted interviews w…
Zoning effects on housing change vary with income, based on a four-decade panel model after propensity score matching
Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation
Rissman, A. R., J. Owley, A. W. L’Roe, A. Wilson Morris, and C. B. Wardropper. 2017. Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation. Ecology and Society 22(2):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09330-220224
Trends in private land conservation: Increasing complexity, shifting conservation purposes and allowable private land uses
The terrain of private-land conservation dealmaking is shifting. As the number of acres of private land protected for conservation increases, our understanding of what it means for a property to be "conserved" is shifting. We examined 269 conservation easements and conducted 73 interviews with land conservation organizations to investigate changes in private-land conservation in the United States. We hypothesized that since 2000, conservation eas…
Progress on Nonpoint Pollution: Barriers & Opportunities
Nonpoint source pollution is the runoff of pollutants (including soil and nutrients) from agricultural, urban, and other lands (as opposed to point source pollution, which comes directly from one outlet). Many efforts have been made to combat both types of pollution, so why are we making so little progress in improving water quality by reducing runoff of soil and nutrients into lakes and rivers? This essay examines the challenges inherent in: 1) …
Forest cover, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat: Policy review and modeling of tradeoffs among land-use change scenarios
Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA
Carpenter, S. R., E. G. Booth, S. Gillon, C. J. Kucharik, S. Loheide, A. S. Mase, M. Motew, J. Qiu, A. R. Rissman, J. Seifert, E. Soylu, M. Turner, and C. B. Wardropper. 2015. Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA. Ecology and Society 20(2): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07433-200210
The Conservation Contributions of Conservation Easements: Analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area Protected Lands Spatial Database
Rissman, A. R., and A. M. Merenlender. 2008. The conservation contributions of conservation easements: analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area protected lands spatial database. Ecology and Society 13(1): 40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02329-130140
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Land-Conservation Strategies: The Dynamic Relationship between Acquisition and Land-Use Planning
Nonprofit organizations often pursue land acquisition as a nonpolitical, private property rights approach to conservation of ecological and cultural resources. Yet acquisition and regulatory land-use planning are intertwined, both in terms of political strategies and conservation outcomes. Our objectives are (1) to understand the relationship between the acquisition strategies of land trusts and their involvement in land-use planning and zoning, …
Characteristics of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and engaged research among graduate students in environmental conservation
Private organizations, public data: Land trust choices about mapping conservation easements
Local perspectives and global archetypes in scenario development
Wardropper, C. B., S. Gillon, A. S. Mase, E. A. McKinney, S. R. Carpenter, and A. R. Rissman. 2016. Local perspectives and global archetypes in scenario development. Ecology and Society 21(2):12.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08384-210212
Content analysis of resilience in forest fire science and management
Public support for carrot, stick, and no-government water quality policies
Changes in Wisconsin’s Large Private Forests, 1999–2015: Land Ownership, Conservation, and Recreational Access
Forestland divestment by vertically integrated forest products companies (VIFPCs) has spurred significant forest ownership change. To illuminate these dynamics, we examined land sales after VIFPC divestment, subsequent acquisitions of conserved land, and trends in recreational access in Wisconsin. We documented changes from 1999 to 2015 with analysis of tax program records and profiles of the state’s largest investor owners, Plum Creek and The Fo…
Logger Perceptions of Seasonal Environmental Challenges Facing Timber Operations in the Upper Midwest, USA
Loggers and other natural-resource-dependent workers are impacted by variable environmental conditions. This research shares logger perceptions of the impacts of seasonal environmental factors on their operations, which are important for informing forest management and policy. We conducted in-depth interviews with 17 professional loggers and 15 other forestry stakeholders to assess the challenges faced in forest operations in Wisconsin and Michig…
The Conservation Contributions of Conservation Easements: Analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area Protected Lands Spatial Database
Rissman, A. R., and A. M. Merenlender. 2008. The conservation contributions of conservation easements: analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area protected lands spatial database. Ecology and Society 13(1): 40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02329-130140
Conservation Outcomes and Social Relations: A Comparative Study of Private Ranchland Conservation Easements
Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlands, Arizona and New Mexico. We conducted interviews w…
Forest cover, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat: Policy review and modeling of tradeoffs among land-use change scenarios
Land-Conservation Strategies: The Dynamic Relationship between Acquisition and Land-Use Planning
Nonprofit organizations often pursue land acquisition as a nonpolitical, private property rights approach to conservation of ecological and cultural resources. Yet acquisition and regulatory land-use planning are intertwined, both in terms of political strategies and conservation outcomes. Our objectives are (1) to understand the relationship between the acquisition strategies of land trusts and their involvement in land-use planning and zoning, …
Progress on Nonpoint Pollution: Barriers & Opportunities
Nonpoint source pollution is the runoff of pollutants (including soil and nutrients) from agricultural, urban, and other lands (as opposed to point source pollution, which comes directly from one outlet). Many efforts have been made to combat both types of pollution, so why are we making so little progress in improving water quality by reducing runoff of soil and nutrients into lakes and rivers? This essay examines the challenges inherent in: 1) …
Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA
Carpenter, S. R., E. G. Booth, S. Gillon, C. J. Kucharik, S. Loheide, A. S. Mase, M. Motew, J. Qiu, A. R. Rissman, J. Seifert, E. Soylu, M. Turner, and C. B. Wardropper. 2015. Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA. Ecology and Society 20(2): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07433-200210
Changes in Wisconsin’s Large Private Forests, 1999–2015: Land Ownership, Conservation, and Recreational Access
Forestland divestment by vertically integrated forest products companies (VIFPCs) has spurred significant forest ownership change. To illuminate these dynamics, we examined land sales after VIFPC divestment, subsequent acquisitions of conserved land, and trends in recreational access in Wisconsin. We documented changes from 1999 to 2015 with analysis of tax program records and profiles of the state’s largest investor owners, Plum Creek and The Fo…
Logger Perceptions of Seasonal Environmental Challenges Facing Timber Operations in the Upper Midwest, USA
Loggers and other natural-resource-dependent workers are impacted by variable environmental conditions. This research shares logger perceptions of the impacts of seasonal environmental factors on their operations, which are important for informing forest management and policy. We conducted in-depth interviews with 17 professional loggers and 15 other forestry stakeholders to assess the challenges faced in forest operations in Wisconsin and Michig…
Trends in private land conservation: Increasing complexity, shifting conservation purposes and allowable private land uses
The terrain of private-land conservation dealmaking is shifting. As the number of acres of private land protected for conservation increases, our understanding of what it means for a property to be "conserved" is shifting. We examined 269 conservation easements and conducted 73 interviews with land conservation organizations to investigate changes in private-land conservation in the United States. We hypothesized that since 2000, conservation eas…
Local perspectives and global archetypes in scenario development
Wardropper, C. B., S. Gillon, A. S. Mase, E. A. McKinney, S. R. Carpenter, and A. R. Rissman. 2016. Local perspectives and global archetypes in scenario development. Ecology and Society 21(2):12.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08384-210212
Public support for carrot, stick, and no-government water quality policies
Uncertain monitoring and modeling in a watershed nonpoint pollution program
Zoning effects on housing change vary with income, based on a four-decade panel model after propensity score matching
Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation
Rissman, A. R., J. Owley, A. W. L’Roe, A. Wilson Morris, and C. B. Wardropper. 2017. Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation. Ecology and Society 22(2):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09330-220224
Innovation in Outcomes-Based Water Quality Policy: A Case Study from the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin, USA
This case examines the risks and opportunities for stakeholders involved in an experimental water quality management program in Wisconsin, USA. This program pays for pounds of pollution reduced through soil conservation practices on farm fields and other high-runoff areas across the landscape—nonpoint sources of pollution—by redirecting funds from the sewerage plant and municipal point sources of pollution. Uncertain monitoring and modeling of po…
Characteristics of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and engaged research among graduate students in environmental conservation
Private organizations, public data: Land trust choices about mapping conservation easements
Ecological worldview, agricultural or natural resource-based activities, and geography affect perceived importance of ecosystem services
Adapting Conservation Policy and Administration to Nonstationary Conditions
False assumptions of stationarity, the idea that natural systems fluctuate within a set and predictable range, are common in conservation policies and public expectations developed since the late 1800s. With examples from United States national forest and water quality policy, we discuss the challenges of nonstationarity for planning and policy. We also raise questions about how resilience is becoming institutionalized. One central problem of man…
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Content analysis of resilience in forest fire science and management
Sustaining land and people over time: Relationships with successor landowners on conservation easements
Conservation is increasingly recognized and funded on private lands. Making conservation last despite turnover in people requires maintaining social relationships. For example, conservation easements (CEs), also called conservation covenants, are legal agreements for private land conservation typically expected to last in perpetuity, yet their public benefits depend on successor landowners. We focus on the social relations in stewarding lands hel…
How Aspects of Collective Action Relate to Implementation of Cooperative Management Among Private Landowners
Forested land is increasingly owned in small parcels by family forest owners who are becoming less likely to conduct the management which supports ecosystems, economies, and communities. One way to encourage private land management is through group cooperatives. Characteristics of collective action that support group cooperative participation are well understood but how they relate to management implementation is not. Examining Wisconsin's Deer M…
When the university meets the grassroots: Participatory action research and just transitions in agriculture
Confronting the deep-rooted social inequities and environmental harm in animal agriculture research demands approaches that link Just Transitions (JT) with Participatory Action Research (PAR). We present a case study from the Midwest, USA, drawing on an ongoing participatory action research project, started in 2020, where we conducted semi-structured interviews with 128 participants and three participatory workshops with farmers, non-profit leade…
Ecology (17 works) · Geography (17 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Forest Management and Policy (11 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 works)