Kirsten M Leong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1571191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten M Leong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten M |
| FAMILY NAME | Leong |
| SIGNATURE | LEONG K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5798-5977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aligning fisheries terminology with diverse social benefits
Globally, marine fisheries provide many societal benefits that are not reflected in the way that fisheries are categorized for management and reporting. This paper provides a systematic review of U.S. policy documents and peer-reviewed literature to identify potentially underrepresented fishing practices and communities associated with non-commercial fishing, i.e., fishing that is not clearly commercial or recreational. A wide range of terms were…
A multi-decadal assessment of social thresholds and outcomes in marine social-ecological systems in Hawaiʻi
Dimensions of cultural ecosystem service contributions to human well-being in marine environments
Human well-being is critically linked to the condition of marine ecosystems. Intangible services, benefits, and values derived from ecosystems play a vital role in human well-being and promote conservation efforts that ultimately support ecosystem sustainability. Similar to many regions, communities along the west coast of Hawai‘i Island are intertwined with their diverse and productive ecosystem. Though multiple resource management programs focu…
Relational research to elevate cultural dimensions of marine organisms in Hawaiʻi
With the increasing focus on elevating local and Indigenous Knowledge and culture in marine management, there has been a growing desire for methods that identify cultural attributes of marine species. We piloted one method to initiate discussion about how cultural connections to marine organisms in Hawaiʻi might be operationalized in conventional marine management systems. We first compared the taxonomic groups mentioned in NOAA management docume…
Identifying social thresholds and measuring social achievement in social-ecological systems
In marine social-ecological systems (SESs), environmental and human-induced stressors can push ecosystems from a high-functioning state into a new, often undesirable state (i.e., regime shift) with limited delivery of ecological goods and services (e.g., high to low fisheries production). While ecological regime shifts are well studied, social regime shifts within SESs are underexplored. Socioeconomic indicators were used to identify thresholds a…
Scale Matters
Interdisciplinary science and environmental management involve bringing together data and expertise at multiple spatial scales. The most challenging part of merging scales is aligning the scale of inquiry with the research application. Through the Louisiana case study relating wetland loss and commercial fishing, we examine how the nature and strength of the relationship changes depending on the scale of investigation. Resulting management implic…
Automated content analysis of the Hawaiʻi small boat fishery survey reveals nuanced, evolving conflicts
Suan, A., K. M. Leong, and K. L. L. Oleson. 2021. Automated content analysis of the Hawaiʻi small boat fishery survey reveals nuanced, evolving conflicts. Ecology and Society 26(4):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12708-260409
Examining the seascape of compliance in U.S. Pacific island fisheries
Noncompliance is a major threat to marine social-ecological systems. Recent noncompliance research has focused on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fisheries and capacity shortfalls in marine protected areas (MPAs), but less work has assessed other aspects of noncompliance. Although there is wide recognition of the role of noncompliance in governance failures, the academic literature on compliance rarely acknowledges the connections betw…
Encouraging Safe Wildlife Viewing in National Parks
Seeing wildlife in natural habitat is an exciting and powerful experience for national park visitors but is risky for visitors and wildlife alike. National parks have long used educational approaches to inspire visitors toengage in conservation behavior and protect themselves from harm. With record visitation in recent years, national parks must hone their communication strategies that support wildlife conservation and reduce wildlife-caused inju…
Try, try again
Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater recognition of the importance of engaging a diverse array of stakeholders in decision making. We provide lessons learned, based on over 200 years of the authors’ cumulative and diverse experience, about PM processes. These include successful and, perhaps more importantly, not-…
Perspectives on wildlife health in national parks
A Delphi exercise involving 17 senior national parks’ biologists in the United States of America and Canada examined how evolving concepts of wildlife health resonated with Parks’ needs. Participants examined wildlife health as a multi-factorial cumulative effect that provides capacity to cope with a changing world. They agreed that this concept of health was consistent with Parks’ goals and provided insight on various aspects of wildlife health …
The New Governance Era
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) manages one-fifth of the land in the United States, including public lands administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management. Federal agencies have included public input in decision-making since the Administrative Procedure Act in 1946, with varying degrees of effectiveness. Recently, policy and reporting directives have broadened to include possibili…
Rearticulating the myth of human–wildlife conflict
Human–wildlife conflict has emerged as the central vocabulary for cases requiring balance between resource demands of humans and wildlife. This phrase is problematic because, given traditional definitions of conflict, it positions wildlife as conscious human antagonists. We used content analysis of wildlife conservation publications and professional meeting presentations to explore the use of the phrase, human–wildlife conflict, and compared comp…
Zoonotic Disease Risk Perception and Use of Personal Protective Measures among Wildlife Biologists
In November 2007, a National Park Service (NPS) wildlife biologist died from pneumonic plague after unprotected contact with an infected mountain lion. To begin to assess perceptions of zoonotic disease risk and attitudes toward personal protective measures among NPS biologists, two focus-group discussions were held in September 2008 with 12 biologists from 10 parks. Each facilitator-led discussion lasted approximately 75 minutes. Common themes w…
The Tragedy of Becoming Common
Some wildlife species are adapting to urbanizing settings made more attractive due to changes in land-use practices, human attitudes and behaviors, and conservation efforts. People who live in communities near suburban parks are encountering wildlife more frequently than in the past, with varying reactions. In-depth interviews conducted with residents living near three national parks yielded insight on “suburban deer” as an emerging social constr…
Formative Coorientation Research
A growing body of research recommends interaction between managers and stakeholders to improve natural resource management decisions. While formative stakeholder research and summative evaluations of communication efforts have been well-studied, less research has included formative evaluations comparing managers and stakeholders to inform communication efforts. This study applies the communication concept of coorientation to the case of deer mana…
Wildlife Disease Management
Wildlife disease management (WDM) is one of the great challenges of contemporary wildlife management. Experience with chronic wasting disease (CWD) indicates the importance of human dimensions in WDM. Wildlife management and disease specialists created a concept map (manager's model) of the WDM system that depicts the human dimensions considerations involved in WDM and how they may affect management objectives and actions. The WDM model includes …
The Tragedy of Becoming Common
Some wildlife species are adapting to urbanizing settings made more attractive due to changes in land-use practices, human attitudes and behaviors, and conservation efforts. People who live in communities near suburban parks are encountering wildlife more frequently than in the past, with varying reactions. In-depth interviews conducted with residents living near three national parks yielded insight on “suburban deer” as an emerging social constr…
Wildlife Disease Management
Wildlife disease management (WDM) is one of the great challenges of contemporary wildlife management. Experience with chronic wasting disease (CWD) indicates the importance of human dimensions in WDM. Wildlife management and disease specialists created a concept map (manager's model) of the WDM system that depicts the human dimensions considerations involved in WDM and how they may affect management objectives and actions. The WDM model includes …
Formative Coorientation Research
A growing body of research recommends interaction between managers and stakeholders to improve natural resource management decisions. While formative stakeholder research and summative evaluations of communication efforts have been well-studied, less research has included formative evaluations comparing managers and stakeholders to inform communication efforts. This study applies the communication concept of coorientation to the case of deer mana…
The Tragedy of Becoming Common
Some wildlife species are adapting to urbanizing settings made more attractive due to changes in land-use practices, human attitudes and behaviors, and conservation efforts. People who live in communities near suburban parks are encountering wildlife more frequently than in the past, with varying reactions. In-depth interviews conducted with residents living near three national parks yielded insight on “suburban deer” as an emerging social constr…
Rearticulating the myth of human–wildlife conflict
Human–wildlife conflict has emerged as the central vocabulary for cases requiring balance between resource demands of humans and wildlife. This phrase is problematic because, given traditional definitions of conflict, it positions wildlife as conscious human antagonists. We used content analysis of wildlife conservation publications and professional meeting presentations to explore the use of the phrase, human–wildlife conflict, and compared comp…
Zoonotic Disease Risk Perception and Use of Personal Protective Measures among Wildlife Biologists
In November 2007, a National Park Service (NPS) wildlife biologist died from pneumonic plague after unprotected contact with an infected mountain lion. To begin to assess perceptions of zoonotic disease risk and attitudes toward personal protective measures among NPS biologists, two focus-group discussions were held in September 2008 with 12 biologists from 10 parks. Each facilitator-led discussion lasted approximately 75 minutes. Common themes w…
The New Governance Era
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) manages one-fifth of the land in the United States, including public lands administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management. Federal agencies have included public input in decision-making since the Administrative Procedure Act in 1946, with varying degrees of effectiveness. Recently, policy and reporting directives have broadened to include possibili…
Try, try again
Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater recognition of the importance of engaging a diverse array of stakeholders in decision making. We provide lessons learned, based on over 200 years of the authors’ cumulative and diverse experience, about PM processes. These include successful and, perhaps more importantly, not-…
Perspectives on wildlife health in national parks
A Delphi exercise involving 17 senior national parks’ biologists in the United States of America and Canada examined how evolving concepts of wildlife health resonated with Parks’ needs. Participants examined wildlife health as a multi-factorial cumulative effect that provides capacity to cope with a changing world. They agreed that this concept of health was consistent with Parks’ goals and provided insight on various aspects of wildlife health …
Examining the seascape of compliance in U.S. Pacific island fisheries
Noncompliance is a major threat to marine social-ecological systems. Recent noncompliance research has focused on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fisheries and capacity shortfalls in marine protected areas (MPAs), but less work has assessed other aspects of noncompliance. Although there is wide recognition of the role of noncompliance in governance failures, the academic literature on compliance rarely acknowledges the connections betw…
Encouraging Safe Wildlife Viewing in National Parks
Seeing wildlife in natural habitat is an exciting and powerful experience for national park visitors but is risky for visitors and wildlife alike. National parks have long used educational approaches to inspire visitors toengage in conservation behavior and protect themselves from harm. With record visitation in recent years, national parks must hone their communication strategies that support wildlife conservation and reduce wildlife-caused inju…
Automated content analysis of the Hawaiʻi small boat fishery survey reveals nuanced, evolving conflicts
Suan, A., K. M. Leong, and K. L. L. Oleson. 2021. Automated content analysis of the Hawaiʻi small boat fishery survey reveals nuanced, evolving conflicts. Ecology and Society 26(4):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12708-260409
Scale Matters
Interdisciplinary science and environmental management involve bringing together data and expertise at multiple spatial scales. The most challenging part of merging scales is aligning the scale of inquiry with the research application. Through the Louisiana case study relating wetland loss and commercial fishing, we examine how the nature and strength of the relationship changes depending on the scale of investigation. Resulting management implic…
Identifying social thresholds and measuring social achievement in social-ecological systems
In marine social-ecological systems (SESs), environmental and human-induced stressors can push ecosystems from a high-functioning state into a new, often undesirable state (i.e., regime shift) with limited delivery of ecological goods and services (e.g., high to low fisheries production). While ecological regime shifts are well studied, social regime shifts within SESs are underexplored. Socioeconomic indicators were used to identify thresholds a…
Aligning fisheries terminology with diverse social benefits
Globally, marine fisheries provide many societal benefits that are not reflected in the way that fisheries are categorized for management and reporting. This paper provides a systematic review of U.S. policy documents and peer-reviewed literature to identify potentially underrepresented fishing practices and communities associated with non-commercial fishing, i.e., fishing that is not clearly commercial or recreational. A wide range of terms were…
A multi-decadal assessment of social thresholds and outcomes in marine social-ecological systems in Hawaiʻi
Dimensions of cultural ecosystem service contributions to human well-being in marine environments
Human well-being is critically linked to the condition of marine ecosystems. Intangible services, benefits, and values derived from ecosystems play a vital role in human well-being and promote conservation efforts that ultimately support ecosystem sustainability. Similar to many regions, communities along the west coast of Hawai‘i Island are intertwined with their diverse and productive ecosystem. Though multiple resource management programs focu…
Relational research to elevate cultural dimensions of marine organisms in Hawaiʻi
With the increasing focus on elevating local and Indigenous Knowledge and culture in marine management, there has been a growing desire for methods that identify cultural attributes of marine species. We piloted one method to initiate discussion about how cultural connections to marine organisms in Hawaiʻi might be operationalized in conventional marine management systems. We first compared the taxonomic groups mentioned in NOAA management docume…
Ecology (12 works) · Environmental resource management (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Biology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Wildlife (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works)