Michael E Patterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael E Patterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael E |
| FAMILY NAME | Patterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATTERSON M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 469 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Place Mapping and the Role of Spatial Scale in Understanding Landowner Views of Fire and Fuels Management
Place mapping is emerging as a way to understand the spatial components of people's relationships with particular locations and how these relate to support for management proposals. But despite the spatial focus of place mapping, scale is rarely explicitly examined in such exercises. This is particularly problematic since scalar definitions and configurations have implications for research results. In this study, we examine the relationship betwe…
Rural Community Views on the Role of Local and Extralocal Interests in Public Lands Governance
Based on in-depth interviews with residents on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, this article examines how disagreements about the appropriate role of local interests influence local conflict over public lands. Residents who advocated that local interests should be privileged framed the conflict in terms of class, social standing, and fairness. While some residents were clearly venue shopping (advocating the level of decision making where they…
Snapshots of What, Exactly? A Comment on Methodological Experimentation and Conceptual Foundations in Place Research
Place ideas in natural resource management have grown in recent years. But with that growth have come greater complexity and diversity in thinking and mounting confusion about the ontological and epistemological assumptions underlying any specific investigation. Beckley et al. (Citation2007) contribute to place research by proposing a new methodological approach to analyzing attachments to place and exploring the relative importance of biophysica…
Conceptualization of a meaning-based research approach for tourism service experiences
Maintaining research traditions on place: Diversity of thought and scientific progress
The Wolf Viewing Experience in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park
Reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park created an opportunity to recreationally view wolves in a manner that was unanticipated both in terms of frequency and popularity. During the summer and winter of 1999/2000 the authors conducted interviews to gain insight into the wolf watching experience. Results indicate that the Lamar Valley offers visitors an engaging wolf viewing experience opportunity that may be characterized as …
Barriers to Effective Natural Resource Planning in a "Messy" World
In the increasingly wicked and messy world in which natural resource planners function, traditional rational-comprehensive planning processes seem to function poorly, exacerbating already contentious situations, leading to decision paralysis and public dissatisfaction. New paradigms for natural resource planning have been recommended by many academics, planning theorists, and practitioners. Understanding the barriers experienced in current planni…
Women, Wilderness, and Everyday Life: A Documentation of the Connection between Wilderness Recreation and Women's Everyday Lives
Past research provides evidence that outdoor recreation can aid in our deconstruction of gender and gender stereotyping (Henderson, Bialeschki, Shaw, & Freysinger, 1996). Outcomes from recreational experiences can transfer into other realms of daily life, resulting in a heightened sense of empowerment and social change for women (Henderson, 1996). Scarce, however, are conceptual frameworks for understanding how and why meaningful changes take pla…
Philosophy of Science and Leisure Research
Ten years before millennium, the, journal of Leisure Research published a special issue devoted a discussion of philosophy of science. While acknowledging those in leisure research who have seriously grappled with these issues, Sylvester (1990) noted that are largely uninformed about philosophy of science or, even worse, we choose ignore (pp. 281282). Weissinger (1990) voiced a similar perspective, suggesting that leisure researchers need engage …
Evaluating the Construct Validity of Sense of Belonging as a Measure of Landscape Perception
The construct validity of measures of sense of belonging to a recreational landscape is examined. The evaluation of construct validity emphasizes two concerns: (1) the empirical relationship between measures of two theoretically distinct concepts (belonging and visual preference); (2) the empirical relationship between measures of these concepts and theoretically relevant visitor characteristics. Visitor responses to photo-based measures of belon…
Paradigms and problems: The practice of social science in natural resource management
Increasingly, natural resource management is seeing calls for new paradigms. These calls pose challenges that have implications not only for planning and management, but also for the practice of science. As a consequence, the profession needs to deepen its understanding of the nature of science by exploring recent advances in the philosophy of science. We believe that one of the problems inhibiting a better understanding of science is a strongly …
An Hermeneutic Approach to Studying the Nature of Wilderness Experiences
The most prevalent approach to understanding recreation experiences in resource management has been a motivational research program that views satisfaction as an appropriate indicator of experience quality. This research explores a different approach to studying the quality of recreation experiences. Rather than viewing recreation experiences as a linear sequence of events beginning with expectations and ending with outcomes that are then cogniti…
Environmental Meaning and Ecosystem Management: Perspectives from Environmental Psychology and Human Geography
The contribution of human dimensions research to the ecological paradigm emerging in natural resource management involves the development of contextually rich, and spatially and historically specific, understandings of places. As an eclectic and integrative field of inquiry, environmental psychology offers a growing body of research that promotes a view of the person as a social agent who seeks out and creates meaning in the environment. As devel…
Beyond the commodity metaphor: Examining emotional and symbolic attachment to place
In contrast to the dominant multiattribute commodity view of outdoor recreation settings, wilderness users are described as having emotional and symbolic ties to the setting that are manifested as attachment to the site and the wilderness concept. Data from four wilderness areas show stronger place and wilderness attachment to be associated with previous visits, rural residence, a setting (as opposed to activity or group) focus, visiting alone an…
Coping Behavior to Avoid Visitor Encounters: Its Relationship to Wildland Privacy
Too many visitor encounters can detract from the privacy sought in wildland environments. Coping behavior to avoid or adjust to visitor encounters is one procedure for reducing encounters and maintaining wildland privacy. This paper examines the degree to which backpackers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park used six physical and six social coping behaviors to avoid encounters/interactions with other backpackers. The influences of solitude imp…
Backcountry Encounter Norms, Actual Reported Encounters, and Their Relationship to Wilderness Solitude
Backcountry backpackers' norms concerning the maximum acceptable tolerance limits for visual-social contacts at three encounter sites (trailhead, trail, and campsite) were examined in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Actual encounter levels were examined by asking backpackers to report the number of parties encountered at each of these three locations. Although 83% of the respondents reported encountering more parties than their acceptabl…
Beyond the commodity metaphor: Examining emotional and symbolic attachment to place
In contrast to the dominant multiattribute commodity view of outdoor recreation settings, wilderness users are described as having emotional and symbolic ties to the setting that are manifested as attachment to the site and the wilderness concept. Data from four wilderness areas show stronger place and wilderness attachment to be associated with previous visits, rural residence, a setting (as opposed to activity or group) focus, visiting alone an…
An Hermeneutic Approach to Studying the Nature of Wilderness Experiences
The most prevalent approach to understanding recreation experiences in resource management has been a motivational research program that views satisfaction as an appropriate indicator of experience quality. This research explores a different approach to studying the quality of recreation experiences. Rather than viewing recreation experiences as a linear sequence of events beginning with expectations and ending with outcomes that are then cogniti…
Backcountry Encounter Norms, Actual Reported Encounters, and Their Relationship to Wilderness Solitude
Backcountry backpackers' norms concerning the maximum acceptable tolerance limits for visual-social contacts at three encounter sites (trailhead, trail, and campsite) were examined in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Actual encounter levels were examined by asking backpackers to report the number of parties encountered at each of these three locations. Although 83% of the respondents reported encountering more parties than their acceptabl…
Barriers to Effective Natural Resource Planning in a "Messy" World
In the increasingly wicked and messy world in which natural resource planners function, traditional rational-comprehensive planning processes seem to function poorly, exacerbating already contentious situations, leading to decision paralysis and public dissatisfaction. New paradigms for natural resource planning have been recommended by many academics, planning theorists, and practitioners. Understanding the barriers experienced in current planni…
Women, Wilderness, and Everyday Life: A Documentation of the Connection between Wilderness Recreation and Women's Everyday Lives
Past research provides evidence that outdoor recreation can aid in our deconstruction of gender and gender stereotyping (Henderson, Bialeschki, Shaw, & Freysinger, 1996). Outcomes from recreational experiences can transfer into other realms of daily life, resulting in a heightened sense of empowerment and social change for women (Henderson, 1996). Scarce, however, are conceptual frameworks for understanding how and why meaningful changes take pla…
Coping Behavior to Avoid Visitor Encounters: Its Relationship to Wildland Privacy
Too many visitor encounters can detract from the privacy sought in wildland environments. Coping behavior to avoid or adjust to visitor encounters is one procedure for reducing encounters and maintaining wildland privacy. This paper examines the degree to which backpackers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park used six physical and six social coping behaviors to avoid encounters/interactions with other backpackers. The influences of solitude imp…
Environmental Meaning and Ecosystem Management: Perspectives from Environmental Psychology and Human Geography
The contribution of human dimensions research to the ecological paradigm emerging in natural resource management involves the development of contextually rich, and spatially and historically specific, understandings of places. As an eclectic and integrative field of inquiry, environmental psychology offers a growing body of research that promotes a view of the person as a social agent who seeks out and creates meaning in the environment. As devel…
Paradigms and problems: The practice of social science in natural resource management
Increasingly, natural resource management is seeing calls for new paradigms. These calls pose challenges that have implications not only for planning and management, but also for the practice of science. As a consequence, the profession needs to deepen its understanding of the nature of science by exploring recent advances in the philosophy of science. We believe that one of the problems inhibiting a better understanding of science is a strongly …
Snapshots of What, Exactly? A Comment on Methodological Experimentation and Conceptual Foundations in Place Research
Place ideas in natural resource management have grown in recent years. But with that growth have come greater complexity and diversity in thinking and mounting confusion about the ontological and epistemological assumptions underlying any specific investigation. Beckley et al. (Citation2007) contribute to place research by proposing a new methodological approach to analyzing attachments to place and exploring the relative importance of biophysica…
Conceptualization of a meaning-based research approach for tourism service experiences
Rural Community Views on the Role of Local and Extralocal Interests in Public Lands Governance
Based on in-depth interviews with residents on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, this article examines how disagreements about the appropriate role of local interests influence local conflict over public lands. Residents who advocated that local interests should be privileged framed the conflict in terms of class, social standing, and fairness. While some residents were clearly venue shopping (advocating the level of decision making where they…
Philosophy of Science and Leisure Research
Ten years before millennium, the, journal of Leisure Research published a special issue devoted a discussion of philosophy of science. While acknowledging those in leisure research who have seriously grappled with these issues, Sylvester (1990) noted that are largely uninformed about philosophy of science or, even worse, we choose ignore (pp. 281282). Weissinger (1990) voiced a similar perspective, suggesting that leisure researchers need engage …
Evaluating the Construct Validity of Sense of Belonging as a Measure of Landscape Perception
The construct validity of measures of sense of belonging to a recreational landscape is examined. The evaluation of construct validity emphasizes two concerns: (1) the empirical relationship between measures of two theoretically distinct concepts (belonging and visual preference); (2) the empirical relationship between measures of these concepts and theoretically relevant visitor characteristics. Visitor responses to photo-based measures of belon…
Place Mapping and the Role of Spatial Scale in Understanding Landowner Views of Fire and Fuels Management
Place mapping is emerging as a way to understand the spatial components of people's relationships with particular locations and how these relate to support for management proposals. But despite the spatial focus of place mapping, scale is rarely explicitly examined in such exercises. This is particularly problematic since scalar definitions and configurations have implications for research results. In this study, we examine the relationship betwe…
Backcountry Encounter Norms, Actual Reported Encounters, and Their Relationship to Wilderness Solitude
Backcountry backpackers' norms concerning the maximum acceptable tolerance limits for visual-social contacts at three encounter sites (trailhead, trail, and campsite) were examined in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Actual encounter levels were examined by asking backpackers to report the number of parties encountered at each of these three locations. Although 83% of the respondents reported encountering more parties than their acceptabl…
Coping Behavior to Avoid Visitor Encounters: Its Relationship to Wildland Privacy
Too many visitor encounters can detract from the privacy sought in wildland environments. Coping behavior to avoid or adjust to visitor encounters is one procedure for reducing encounters and maintaining wildland privacy. This paper examines the degree to which backpackers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park used six physical and six social coping behaviors to avoid encounters/interactions with other backpackers. The influences of solitude imp…
Beyond the commodity metaphor: Examining emotional and symbolic attachment to place
In contrast to the dominant multiattribute commodity view of outdoor recreation settings, wilderness users are described as having emotional and symbolic ties to the setting that are manifested as attachment to the site and the wilderness concept. Data from four wilderness areas show stronger place and wilderness attachment to be associated with previous visits, rural residence, a setting (as opposed to activity or group) focus, visiting alone an…
Environmental Meaning and Ecosystem Management: Perspectives from Environmental Psychology and Human Geography
The contribution of human dimensions research to the ecological paradigm emerging in natural resource management involves the development of contextually rich, and spatially and historically specific, understandings of places. As an eclectic and integrative field of inquiry, environmental psychology offers a growing body of research that promotes a view of the person as a social agent who seeks out and creates meaning in the environment. As devel…
Paradigms and problems: The practice of social science in natural resource management
Increasingly, natural resource management is seeing calls for new paradigms. These calls pose challenges that have implications not only for planning and management, but also for the practice of science. As a consequence, the profession needs to deepen its understanding of the nature of science by exploring recent advances in the philosophy of science. We believe that one of the problems inhibiting a better understanding of science is a strongly …
An Hermeneutic Approach to Studying the Nature of Wilderness Experiences
The most prevalent approach to understanding recreation experiences in resource management has been a motivational research program that views satisfaction as an appropriate indicator of experience quality. This research explores a different approach to studying the quality of recreation experiences. Rather than viewing recreation experiences as a linear sequence of events beginning with expectations and ending with outcomes that are then cogniti…
Women, Wilderness, and Everyday Life: A Documentation of the Connection between Wilderness Recreation and Women's Everyday Lives
Past research provides evidence that outdoor recreation can aid in our deconstruction of gender and gender stereotyping (Henderson, Bialeschki, Shaw, & Freysinger, 1996). Outcomes from recreational experiences can transfer into other realms of daily life, resulting in a heightened sense of empowerment and social change for women (Henderson, 1996). Scarce, however, are conceptual frameworks for understanding how and why meaningful changes take pla…
Philosophy of Science and Leisure Research
Ten years before millennium, the, journal of Leisure Research published a special issue devoted a discussion of philosophy of science. While acknowledging those in leisure research who have seriously grappled with these issues, Sylvester (1990) noted that are largely uninformed about philosophy of science or, even worse, we choose ignore (pp. 281282). Weissinger (1990) voiced a similar perspective, suggesting that leisure researchers need engage …
Evaluating the Construct Validity of Sense of Belonging as a Measure of Landscape Perception
The construct validity of measures of sense of belonging to a recreational landscape is examined. The evaluation of construct validity emphasizes two concerns: (1) the empirical relationship between measures of two theoretically distinct concepts (belonging and visual preference); (2) the empirical relationship between measures of these concepts and theoretically relevant visitor characteristics. Visitor responses to photo-based measures of belon…
Barriers to Effective Natural Resource Planning in a "Messy" World
In the increasingly wicked and messy world in which natural resource planners function, traditional rational-comprehensive planning processes seem to function poorly, exacerbating already contentious situations, leading to decision paralysis and public dissatisfaction. New paradigms for natural resource planning have been recommended by many academics, planning theorists, and practitioners. Understanding the barriers experienced in current planni…
Maintaining research traditions on place: Diversity of thought and scientific progress
The Wolf Viewing Experience in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park
Reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park created an opportunity to recreationally view wolves in a manner that was unanticipated both in terms of frequency and popularity. During the summer and winter of 1999/2000 the authors conducted interviews to gain insight into the wolf watching experience. Results indicate that the Lamar Valley offers visitors an engaging wolf viewing experience opportunity that may be characterized as …
Conceptualization of a meaning-based research approach for tourism service experiences
Snapshots of What, Exactly? A Comment on Methodological Experimentation and Conceptual Foundations in Place Research
Place ideas in natural resource management have grown in recent years. But with that growth have come greater complexity and diversity in thinking and mounting confusion about the ontological and epistemological assumptions underlying any specific investigation. Beckley et al. (Citation2007) contribute to place research by proposing a new methodological approach to analyzing attachments to place and exploring the relative importance of biophysica…
Rural Community Views on the Role of Local and Extralocal Interests in Public Lands Governance
Based on in-depth interviews with residents on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, this article examines how disagreements about the appropriate role of local interests influence local conflict over public lands. Residents who advocated that local interests should be privileged framed the conflict in terms of class, social standing, and fairness. While some residents were clearly venue shopping (advocating the level of decision making where they…
Place Mapping and the Role of Spatial Scale in Understanding Landowner Views of Fire and Fuels Management
Place mapping is emerging as a way to understand the spatial components of people's relationships with particular locations and how these relate to support for management proposals. But despite the spatial focus of place mapping, scale is rarely explicitly examined in such exercises. This is particularly problematic since scalar definitions and configurations have implications for research results. In this study, we examine the relationship betwe…
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Place Attachment and Urban Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works)