Brent S Steel
Biographic Data
| ID | 379271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent S Steel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent S |
| FAMILY NAME | Steel |
| SIGNATURE | STEEL B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0081-340X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Plans on the shelf or living frameworks? Community wildfire planning and adaptive capacity in the Pacific Northwest
Climate change is intensifying wildfire risk in the Pacific Northwest, placing local governments and First Nations at the forefront of navigating disturbance and adaptation. This study draws on resilience theory to examine how Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) in Oregon and Washington, and Community Wildfire Resiliency Plans (CWRPs) in British Columbia shape the adaptive capacity of communities—or, conversely, are constrained by institu…
Small and Rural Local Government Environmental Sustainability Plans, Programs and Policies in Cascadia: A Comparative Analysis
Public Water Policy Knowledge and Policy Preferences in the American West
The Western United States has made significant contributions to agricultural products both domestically and internationally. As the Western U.S. continues to grapple with water scarcity and extended periods of drought, evidence of misalignment between crop production and the volume of water necessary to maintain abundant food yields is becoming more pronounced. There are several policy nudges and mitigation strategies that can be employed to brin…
Environmental Efficacy, Climate Change Beliefs, Ideology, and Public Water Policy Preferences
Water is an unpredictable and often overallocated resource in the American West, one that strains policy makers to come up with viable, and politically acceptable policies to mitigate water management concerns. While large federal reclamation projects once dominated western water management and provided ample water for large scale agricultural development as well as the urbanization of the West, water engineering alone is no longer sufficient or,…
The Future of Food: Understanding Public Preferences for the Management of Agricultural Resources
The current U.S food system has managed to provide abundant food at a relatively low cost, even as the population increases. However, this unfettered growth is reaching maximum yields as demand for greater food production competes with other uses of agricultural lands. Extant ecological factors such as water scarcity are reducing food productivity, and competition for resources to produce food is becoming more apparent. This research examines pub…
The Impact of Efficacy, Values, and Knowledge on Public Preferences Concerning Food–Water–Energy Policy Tradeoffs
Food, water, and energy (FWE) policies often entail contentious tradeoffs. For example, increasing food production may involve irrigation from riparian sources that may adversely impact fisheries habitats, the siting of solar energy on agricultural lands can impact food production, and increasing food production capacity may require pesticides in certain locations, resulting in environmental pollution. Because public preferences are an important …
Opposition “overblown”? Community response to wind energy siting in the Western United States
When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations
This book reveals how embedded beliefs more so than a lack of scientific knowledge and understanding are creating a cognitive bias toward information that coincides with personal beliefs rather than scientific consensus-and that this anti-science bias exists among liberals as well as conservatives. In 2010, an outbreak of whooping cough in California infected more than 8,000 people, resulting in the hospitalization of more than 800 people and the…
Prospects for Alternative Energy Development in the U.S. West
Job satisfaction in Cascadia: A comparison of British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington civil servants
Canada and the USA share a common cultural source in the British Empire, yet within shared democratic traditions, very different political structures, policy processes, and values have been identified. Canada is seen as having a more deferential culture more supportive of government while Americans have been argued to be more individualistic and cynical about the role of government in society. Using a political culture framework, this study exami…
Determinants of residential Firewise behaviors in Central Oregon
As a result of climate change and past management practices, wildfires are becoming larger and occurring more frequently than ever before in the Western U.S. In order to mitigate the effects of this growing threat, fire management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service have encouraged residents in at-risk communities to protect their homes, property and communities by adopting Firewise recommendations. Using annual random sample household surve…
The Impact of Auditory and Visual Experience with Wind Turbines on Support for Wind Production and Proximity-Based Opposition
Community acceptance is a key factor contributing to the outcome of wind power deployment efforts. This study considers the views of an experientially informed subset of the public: individuals living in select Washington and California counties that have active wind farms. We divide respondents into two groups based on a qualitative measure of their proximity—those who can see or hear turbines from their homes and those who cannot—and empiricall…
Gender Differences in Support for Scientific Involvement in U.S. Environmental Policy
Many studies have documented gender differences in attitudes toward and experiences with science. Compared to men, for example, women are less likely to study science and to pursue careers in science-related fields. Given these findings, should we expect gender differences in support for scientific involvement in U.S. environmental policy? This study empirically examines the relationship of gender to attitudes toward science and preferred roles o…
Ngos and the Development of Civil Society in Bulgaria and the Usa: A comparative analysis
This study examines the development of civil society and its ability to facilitate stronger democratic practices in Bulgaria using the USA as a comparison. Using data gathered from surveys of NGOs in 2006, we examine three sets of questions. First, what is the level of NGO organizational capacity? Second, to what degree are NGOs performing their mediating roles? Third, how do NGOs perceive their effectiveness in working with the state and its cit…
Ideology and scientific credibility: Environmental policy in the American Pacific Northwest
In the later years of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, there has been an increasing emphasis among many decision-makers, interest groups, and citizens about the importance of science-based environmental policy. The assumption is that scientists can facilitate the resolution of public environmental decisions by providing scientific information to policymakers and the public, and by becoming more directly involved in policy …
Public ocean literacy in the United States
The role of scientists in the environmental policy process: A case study from the American west
Ecosystem management, decentralization, and public opinion
Public perceptions and preferences concerning Pacific salmon recovery: An Oregon “voluntary and grassroots” perspective
This research examines mobilization conceptions of how international interdependence affects political conflict in developing societies. Two views are investigated. The factoral approach treats conflict as a product of the abundance or scarcity of specific factors of production, while the sectoral approach regards the competitiveness and export performance of a nation’s industries as the key to conflict. A sector’s size and strength are also view…
Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values
Journal Article Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values Get access Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values. Edited by Steel Brent S.. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xv + 208 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. $55.00.) Kevin Hatfield Kevin Hatfield Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue …
Child Rearing as a Mechanism for Social Change: The Relationship of Child Gender to Parents' Commitment to Gender Equity
In this article, the authors argue that having daughters has the potential of sensitizing parents to issues of gender equity. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, anticipated and actual struggles that their children face, and the public policies addressing those struggles, take on increased salience. We find that both fathers' and mothers' support for public policies designed to address gender equity increa…
Public Information Campaigns and "At-Risk" Voters
In the fall of 1994 a nonpartisan and nonprofit voter information organization Project Vote Smart-designed and implemented an education project for "atrisk" voters in northern California. The Project Vote Smart (PVS) effort was a systematic attempt to provide typically nonvoting groups both information and incentive to participate in the November general election. The results presented here suggest that the receipt of PVS materials did not direct…
Determinants of public support for tax and expenditure initiatives: An Oregon and Washington case study
This article examines the determinants of public support for state tax and expenditure initiatives in Washington and Oregon during the 1993 elections. Both states had initiatives on their November ballots dealing with taxes and expenditures—Measure 1 in Oregon, which would have introduced a state sales tax, and two initiatives in Washington (I-601 and I-602) concerning state government revenue and expenditure limitations. Using statewide mail and…
Thinking Globally and Acting Locally?: Environmental Attitudes, Behaviour and Activism
Resources and strategies of interest groups and industry representatives involved in federal forest policy
This study analyzes the resources and strategies of public interest groups and industry representatives involved in federal forest policy in the state of Oregon during the early 1990s. While many studies have examined the role of interest groups in the policy process, few have compared empirically the resources available and strategies pursued by industry representatives and public interest groups in a particular policy domain. Utilizing survey d…
Child Rearing as a Mechanism for Social Change: The Relationship of Child Gender to Parents' Commitment to Gender Equity
In this article, the authors argue that having daughters has the potential of sensitizing parents to issues of gender equity. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, anticipated and actual struggles that their children face, and the public policies addressing those struggles, take on increased salience. We find that both fathers' and mothers' support for public policies designed to address gender equity increa…
Opposition “overblown”? Community response to wind energy siting in the Western United States
Conflicting values about federal forests: A comparison of national and Oregon publics
Federal forest land in the Pacific Northwest has become the focus of a regional and national debate concerning the protection of natural environmental systems and the economic and cultural vitality of local communities. At the heart of this debate are different values about forests and human relationships to forests. This study examines the degree to which the public embraces differing values about federal forests nationally and regionally. Findi…
The role of scientists in the environmental policy process: A case study from the American west
Political culture, postmaterial values, and the new environmental paradigm: A comparative analysis of Canada and the United States
Equality and efficiency tradeoffs in affirmative action—Real or imagined? The case of women in policing
This article investigates rival predictions about the consequences of affirmative action on behalf of women in one previously male-dominated public sector occupation—police service. While some predict that the enhanced use of women police officers will diminish the quality of public services, others argue precisely the opposite point of view. It is suggested here that such predictions have much more to do with the political and ideological perspe…
The Inglehart-Flanagan Debate over Postmaterialist Values: Some Evidence from a Canadian-American Case Study
This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the disagreement between Ronald Inglehart and Scott Flanagan over the proper conceptualization and measurement of postindustrial values. The empirical findings are derived from a study of two comparable but distinct postindustrial populations. Data utilized to investigate this controversy were gathered by means of mail surveys conducted simultaneously in metropolitan Toronto and Detroit in 1988. Bo…
The impact of knowledge and values on perceptions of environmental risk to the great lakes
Citizen attitudes concerning the potential hazards of environmental pollution are believed to be influenced by various factors. Some observers focus on the level of education and policy‐relevant knowledge obtaining among the public as predictors of environmental risk perceptions. Others have argued that level of education and knowledge are largely unrelated to risk perceptions. These scholars focus on the symbolic nature of environmental issues a…
Ecosystem management, decentralization, and public opinion
Determinants of residential Firewise behaviors in Central Oregon
As a result of climate change and past management practices, wildfires are becoming larger and occurring more frequently than ever before in the Western U.S. In order to mitigate the effects of this growing threat, fire management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service have encouraged residents in at-risk communities to protect their homes, property and communities by adopting Firewise recommendations. Using annual random sample household surve…
Resources and strategies of interest groups and industry representatives involved in federal forest policy
This study analyzes the resources and strategies of public interest groups and industry representatives involved in federal forest policy in the state of Oregon during the early 1990s. While many studies have examined the role of interest groups in the policy process, few have compared empirically the resources available and strategies pursued by industry representatives and public interest groups in a particular policy domain. Utilizing survey d…
Postmaterialist Values and Support for Feminism Among Canadian and American Women and Men
Brent S. Steel, Rebecca L. Warner, Blair Stieber, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Postmaterialist Values and Support for Feminism among Canadian and American Women and Men, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 339-353
From Consensus to Dissensus: A Note on Postindustrial Political Parties
Much of postwar period in advanced industrial democracies was characterized by a consistent decline of ideological asperity and substantive policy conflict between major parties of right and of left. The decline was so palpable in eyes of some analysts that they once confidently spoke of the end of ideology. Politics in these democracies lost traditional hot political climate of combat and struggle and instead became, in words of one European jou…
Acid rain policy in Canada and the United States: Attitudes of citizens, environmental activists, and legislators
Acid rain is an international problem for Canada and the United States. Acid from factories and electric generating plants in Michigan falls on Ontario, killing fish in its lakes. This article evaluates the attitudes of ordinary citizens, environmental activists and state or provincial legislators in Michigan and Ontario. Based on a survey of 1076 citizens, 1238 activists, and over a hundred legislators, it finds that all groups favored forceful …
The Impact of Auditory and Visual Experience with Wind Turbines on Support for Wind Production and Proximity-Based Opposition
Community acceptance is a key factor contributing to the outcome of wind power deployment efforts. This study considers the views of an experientially informed subset of the public: individuals living in select Washington and California counties that have active wind farms. We divide respondents into two groups based on a qualitative measure of their proximity—those who can see or hear turbines from their homes and those who cannot—and empiricall…
Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U. S. Comparisons regarding Acid Rain
Mary Ann E. Steger, John C. Pierce, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Brent S. Steel, Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U. S. Comparisons regarding Acid Rain, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 747-764
Public perceptions and preferences concerning Pacific salmon recovery: An Oregon “voluntary and grassroots” perspective
This research examines mobilization conceptions of how international interdependence affects political conflict in developing societies. Two views are investigated. The factoral approach treats conflict as a product of the abundance or scarcity of specific factors of production, while the sectoral approach regards the competitiveness and export performance of a nation’s industries as the key to conflict. A sector’s size and strength are also view…
Public Information Campaigns and "At-Risk" Voters
In the fall of 1994 a nonpartisan and nonprofit voter information organization Project Vote Smart-designed and implemented an education project for "atrisk" voters in northern California. The Project Vote Smart (PVS) effort was a systematic attempt to provide typically nonvoting groups both information and incentive to participate in the November general election. The results presented here suggest that the receipt of PVS materials did not direct…
Determinants of public support for tax and expenditure initiatives: An Oregon and Washington case study
This article examines the determinants of public support for state tax and expenditure initiatives in Washington and Oregon during the 1993 elections. Both states had initiatives on their November ballots dealing with taxes and expenditures—Measure 1 in Oregon, which would have introduced a state sales tax, and two initiatives in Washington (I-601 and I-602) concerning state government revenue and expenditure limitations. Using statewide mail and…
Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U.S. Comparisons Regarding Acid Rain
Fiscal Stress, Competing Values and Municipal Governance: What Fate Befell Affirmative Action in Municipal Police Departments
The late 1970s and early 1980s represent a difficult period for affirmative action programs in American cities. Given a new, conservative political environment symbolized by the re-election of Ronald Reagan and the advent of serious fiscal constraints facing many cities, is it reasonable to expect continuing progress toward representative workforces in municipal governments? This article investigates this question using data gathered from repeate…
Fiscal Stress, Competing Values and Municipal Governance: What Fate Befell Affirmative Action in Municipal Police Departments
The late 1970s and early 1980s represent a difficult period for affirmative action programs in American cities. Given a new, conservative political environment symbolized by the re-election of Ronald Reagan and the advent of serious fiscal constraints facing many cities, is it reasonable to expect continuing progress toward representative workforces in municipal governments? This article investigates this question using data gathered from repeate…
From Consensus to Dissensus: A Note on Postindustrial Political Parties
Much of postwar period in advanced industrial democracies was characterized by a consistent decline of ideological asperity and substantive policy conflict between major parties of right and of left. The decline was so palpable in eyes of some analysts that they once confidently spoke of the end of ideology. Politics in these democracies lost traditional hot political climate of combat and struggle and instead became, in words of one European jou…
Equality and efficiency tradeoffs in affirmative action—Real or imagined? The case of women in policing
This article investigates rival predictions about the consequences of affirmative action on behalf of women in one previously male-dominated public sector occupation—police service. While some predict that the enhanced use of women police officers will diminish the quality of public services, others argue precisely the opposite point of view. It is suggested here that such predictions have much more to do with the political and ideological perspe…
Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U. S. Comparisons regarding Acid Rain
Mary Ann E. Steger, John C. Pierce, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Brent S. Steel, Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U. S. Comparisons regarding Acid Rain, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 747-764
Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U.S. Comparisons Regarding Acid Rain
Acid rain policy in Canada and the United States: Attitudes of citizens, environmental activists, and legislators
Acid rain is an international problem for Canada and the United States. Acid from factories and electric generating plants in Michigan falls on Ontario, killing fish in its lakes. This article evaluates the attitudes of ordinary citizens, environmental activists and state or provincial legislators in Michigan and Ontario. Based on a survey of 1076 citizens, 1238 activists, and over a hundred legislators, it finds that all groups favored forceful …
Political culture, postmaterial values, and the new environmental paradigm: A comparative analysis of Canada and the United States
The impact of knowledge and values on perceptions of environmental risk to the great lakes
Citizen attitudes concerning the potential hazards of environmental pollution are believed to be influenced by various factors. Some observers focus on the level of education and policy‐relevant knowledge obtaining among the public as predictors of environmental risk perceptions. Others have argued that level of education and knowledge are largely unrelated to risk perceptions. These scholars focus on the symbolic nature of environmental issues a…
Support for Protest Methods and Political Strategies among Peace Movement Activists: Comparing the United States, Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany
Glen Sussman, Brent S. Steel, Support for Protest Methods and Political Strategies among Peace Movement Activists: Comparing the United States, Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 519-540
Support for Protest Methods and Political Strategies Among Peace Movement Activists: Comparing the United States, Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany
Recent studies of public involvement in postindustrial democracies have suggested that a new style of politics has emerged over the last two decades (Dalton 1988). This new style of politics is characterized in major part by an expansion of the parameters of appropriate political action beyond reliance upon conventional political channels. Some commentators argue that support for new modes of participation arise out of sociopolitical changes occu…
The Inglehart-Flanagan Debate over Postmaterialist Values: Some Evidence from a Canadian-American Case Study
This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the disagreement between Ronald Inglehart and Scott Flanagan over the proper conceptualization and measurement of postindustrial values. The empirical findings are derived from a study of two comparable but distinct postindustrial populations. Data utilized to investigate this controversy were gathered by means of mail surveys conducted simultaneously in metropolitan Toronto and Detroit in 1988. Bo…
Postmaterialist Values and Support for Feminism Among Canadian and American Women and Men
Brent S. Steel, Rebecca L. Warner, Blair Stieber, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Postmaterialist Values and Support for Feminism among Canadian and American Women and Men, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 339-353
Conflicting values about federal forests: A comparison of national and Oregon publics
Federal forest land in the Pacific Northwest has become the focus of a regional and national debate concerning the protection of natural environmental systems and the economic and cultural vitality of local communities. At the heart of this debate are different values about forests and human relationships to forests. This study examines the degree to which the public embraces differing values about federal forests nationally and regionally. Findi…
The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy Making
Thinking Globally and Acting Locally?: Environmental Attitudes, Behaviour and Activism
Resources and strategies of interest groups and industry representatives involved in federal forest policy
This study analyzes the resources and strategies of public interest groups and industry representatives involved in federal forest policy in the state of Oregon during the early 1990s. While many studies have examined the role of interest groups in the policy process, few have compared empirically the resources available and strategies pursued by industry representatives and public interest groups in a particular policy domain. Utilizing survey d…
Public Information Campaigns and "At-Risk" Voters
In the fall of 1994 a nonpartisan and nonprofit voter information organization Project Vote Smart-designed and implemented an education project for "atrisk" voters in northern California. The Project Vote Smart (PVS) effort was a systematic attempt to provide typically nonvoting groups both information and incentive to participate in the November general election. The results presented here suggest that the receipt of PVS materials did not direct…
Determinants of public support for tax and expenditure initiatives: An Oregon and Washington case study
This article examines the determinants of public support for state tax and expenditure initiatives in Washington and Oregon during the 1993 elections. Both states had initiatives on their November ballots dealing with taxes and expenditures—Measure 1 in Oregon, which would have introduced a state sales tax, and two initiatives in Washington (I-601 and I-602) concerning state government revenue and expenditure limitations. Using statewide mail and…
Public perceptions and preferences concerning Pacific salmon recovery: An Oregon “voluntary and grassroots” perspective
This research examines mobilization conceptions of how international interdependence affects political conflict in developing societies. Two views are investigated. The factoral approach treats conflict as a product of the abundance or scarcity of specific factors of production, while the sectoral approach regards the competitiveness and export performance of a nation’s industries as the key to conflict. A sector’s size and strength are also view…
Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values
Journal Article Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values Get access Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values. Edited by Steel Brent S.. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xv + 208 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. $55.00.) Kevin Hatfield Kevin Hatfield Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue …
Child Rearing as a Mechanism for Social Change: The Relationship of Child Gender to Parents' Commitment to Gender Equity
In this article, the authors argue that having daughters has the potential of sensitizing parents to issues of gender equity. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, anticipated and actual struggles that their children face, and the public policies addressing those struggles, take on increased salience. We find that both fathers' and mothers' support for public policies designed to address gender equity increa…
Ecosystem management, decentralization, and public opinion
The role of scientists in the environmental policy process: A case study from the American west
Public ocean literacy in the United States
Ideology and scientific credibility: Environmental policy in the American Pacific Northwest
In the later years of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, there has been an increasing emphasis among many decision-makers, interest groups, and citizens about the importance of science-based environmental policy. The assumption is that scientists can facilitate the resolution of public environmental decisions by providing scientific information to policymakers and the public, and by becoming more directly involved in policy …
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