Matthew A Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew A Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew A |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boise State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2550-5828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Restoring coexistence with cultural keystone species: Lessons from Blackfoot-led buffalo restoration
Re-establishing society’s ability to coexist with wildlife species that were historically extirpated presents a critical challenge for reintroduction. Tribal-led efforts across North America aim to restore American Buffalo (Bison bison) as an ecological and cultural keystone species. Yet low social tolerance remains a limiting factor, especially in cattle ranching communities. This article explores the Blackfoot Nations’ efforts to restore coexis…
Proximity, politics, and preferences: Spatial and contextual patterns in management opinions for an imperiled multifunctional landscape
Landscape governance is challenged by a range of factors, including the uneven spatial distribution of people, their identities, and ecosystems, in addition to mismatches in ecological boundaries, jurisdictional boundaries, and the spatial extent of readily available public opinion data. Using Idaho’s sagebrush steppe as an illustrative example of the patchwork of actors and ownership that exists in imperiled multifunctional landscapes, we aim to…
Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions
Many of the world's iconic, endangered and endemic species rely on large, contiguous landscapes for their survival. In the US West, working ranches are integral to large landscape conservation goals and there are numerous influences on ranchers' conservation actions, including their relational values, perceived self‐efficacy and property rights concerns. Using survey data from 681 ranchers in eastern Idaho and western Montana, we sought to answer…
Operationalizing the social capital of collaborative environmental governance with network metrics
Social capital is frequently invoked as a reason for engaging in collaborative environmental governance. Yet we have a limited understanding of how collaborative environmental governance mobilizes different types of social capital and how the advantages and costs of social capital accrue for different groups of people. Explicit measures of social capital, such as through social network methods, will help build an understanding of how social capit…
Human population growth and accessibility from cities shape rangeland condition in the American West
Implementation resistance and the human dimensions of connectivity planning
Conserving species' ability to traverse the landscape is vital for maintaining biodiversity in the face of global change. Connectivity conservation requires identifying important pathways for species' movements and aligning societal support for conservation of those pathways. Contemporary connectivity analyses emphasize the impacts of topography, vegetation and human footprint on species' movements; but largely ignore the role that attitudes, eco…
Effects of changing climate extremes and vegetation phenology on wildlife associated with grasslands in the southwestern United States
Assessments of the potential responses of animal species to climate change often rely on correlations between long-term average temperature or precipitation and species’ occurrence or abundance. Such assessments do not account for the potential predictive capacity of either climate extremes and variability or the indirect effects of climate as mediated by plant phenology. By contrast, we projected responses of wildlife in desert grasslands of the…
Spatial (mis)alignment between climate-related risks and risk perceptions across the US
Environmental impact assessments not the main barrier to timely forest management in the United States
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) processes are commonly used by government agencies to evaluate the merits and environmental risks of natural resource management decisions. Citing EIA as red tape, decision makers from across the political spectrum are increasingly circumventing EIA to expedite implementation of necessary actions for climate resilience and clean energy. Few studies have quantified the extent that EIA is the main barrier to ef…
Testing the Affect of Modified Sense of Place, Conservation Ethic, and Good Farmer Identity Measures on Predicting the Adoption of Cover Crops in Working Landscapes in Iowa
While sense of place (SOP) has been used in amenity landscapes to understand pro-environmental behavior, in working landscapes, SOP has not been a valid or reliable predictor for explaining conservation behavior. In this paper, we advance theory on SOP in working landscapes by assessing the relationship between several new and modified sense of place measures and farmer adoption of cover crops in Iowa. We used data from a 2018 survey of Iowa farm…
Anthropogenic resistance: Accounting for human behavior in wildlife connectivity planning
What Is the Best Thing About Being an Indigenous Father in Australia
In Australia, the ongoing structure of settler colonialism has meant understandings of Indigeneity continue to uphold deficit narratives about the lives of Indigenous peoples. The narrative that predominates for Indigenous fathers is often the labels of dysfunctionality, deviance, and disengagement from their children. Using the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children data, this article seeks to challenge these deficit narratives to shed light …
The Role of Sex on Officer Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: An Empirical Analysis of Mechanisms of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is serious social concern and is often perpetrated by police officers. Research suggests that 20–40% of police families experience IPV. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of an officer’s sex plays in IPV perpetration using measures that can be utilized for Social Learning Theory, General Strain Theory, or Social Bond Theory. The Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Mary…
The American West as a social-ecological region: Drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems
The American West exists in the popular imagination as a distinct region, and policies and politics often suggest that both the challenges and the opportunities for land management and human well-being across the region are relatively homogeneous. In this paper, we argue that there are key characteristics that define the West as a social-ecological region, and also that there are myriad social-ecological systems (SESs) within the region that requ…
Integrated spatial analysis for human–wildlife coexistence in the American West
A Comparison of Health between Upland and Coastal Late Prehistoric Agriculturists from the Southeast USA: Upland and Coastal Comparison of Health Native Americans in Georgia
During the late prehistoric period (ad 1250–1550) in the southeast USA, when native populations transitioned to living in permanent, nucleated settlements practicing maize agriculture, most experienced a decline in health. However, some research shows that not all groups experienced the decline in the same way as there were regional differences in dental caries and iron deficiency anaemia frequencies and patterns of physical activity. Therefore, …
Interpersonal violence between 18th century Native Americans and Europeans in Ohio
During the winter of 1778–1779, a garrison of 176 individuals lived within the walls of a Revolutionary era stronghold named Ft. Laurens on the banks of the Tuscarawas River, near the present‐day town of Bolivar, Ohio. At least 21 individuals were buried in the fort's cemetery during its occupation, 13 of whom were supposedly killed and scalped by Native Americans while gathering firewood and foraging horses. The purpose of this study is to build…
Conquistadors, Excavators, or Rodents: What Damaged the King Site Skeletons
It has been claimed that many Native American skeletons from the King site in Georgia show evidence of wounds from sharp-edged metal weapons that were wielded by members of the sixteenth-century de Soto expedition (Blakely and Mathews 1990). The supposed massacre of these villagers has caught the attention of the public and scholars alike. But we failed to find any evidence of damage caused by sixteenth-century Spanish weapons in our examination …
What Is the Best Thing About Being an Indigenous Father in Australia
In Australia, the ongoing structure of settler colonialism has meant understandings of Indigeneity continue to uphold deficit narratives about the lives of Indigenous peoples. The narrative that predominates for Indigenous fathers is often the labels of dysfunctionality, deviance, and disengagement from their children. Using the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children data, this article seeks to challenge these deficit narratives to shed light …
The Role of Sex on Officer Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: An Empirical Analysis of Mechanisms of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is serious social concern and is often perpetrated by police officers. Research suggests that 20–40% of police families experience IPV. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of an officer’s sex plays in IPV perpetration using measures that can be utilized for Social Learning Theory, General Strain Theory, or Social Bond Theory. The Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Mary…
Interpersonal violence between 18th century Native Americans and Europeans in Ohio
During the winter of 1778–1779, a garrison of 176 individuals lived within the walls of a Revolutionary era stronghold named Ft. Laurens on the banks of the Tuscarawas River, near the present‐day town of Bolivar, Ohio. At least 21 individuals were buried in the fort's cemetery during its occupation, 13 of whom were supposedly killed and scalped by Native Americans while gathering firewood and foraging horses. The purpose of this study is to build…
Conquistadors, Excavators, or Rodents: What Damaged the King Site Skeletons
It has been claimed that many Native American skeletons from the King site in Georgia show evidence of wounds from sharp-edged metal weapons that were wielded by members of the sixteenth-century de Soto expedition (Blakely and Mathews 1990). The supposed massacre of these villagers has caught the attention of the public and scholars alike. But we failed to find any evidence of damage caused by sixteenth-century Spanish weapons in our examination …
Environmental impact assessments not the main barrier to timely forest management in the United States
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) processes are commonly used by government agencies to evaluate the merits and environmental risks of natural resource management decisions. Citing EIA as red tape, decision makers from across the political spectrum are increasingly circumventing EIA to expedite implementation of necessary actions for climate resilience and clean energy. Few studies have quantified the extent that EIA is the main barrier to ef…
Conquistadors, Excavators, or Rodents: What Damaged the King Site Skeletons
It has been claimed that many Native American skeletons from the King site in Georgia show evidence of wounds from sharp-edged metal weapons that were wielded by members of the sixteenth-century de Soto expedition (Blakely and Mathews 1990). The supposed massacre of these villagers has caught the attention of the public and scholars alike. But we failed to find any evidence of damage caused by sixteenth-century Spanish weapons in our examination …
Interpersonal violence between 18th century Native Americans and Europeans in Ohio
During the winter of 1778–1779, a garrison of 176 individuals lived within the walls of a Revolutionary era stronghold named Ft. Laurens on the banks of the Tuscarawas River, near the present‐day town of Bolivar, Ohio. At least 21 individuals were buried in the fort's cemetery during its occupation, 13 of whom were supposedly killed and scalped by Native Americans while gathering firewood and foraging horses. The purpose of this study is to build…
A Comparison of Health between Upland and Coastal Late Prehistoric Agriculturists from the Southeast USA: Upland and Coastal Comparison of Health Native Americans in Georgia
During the late prehistoric period (ad 1250–1550) in the southeast USA, when native populations transitioned to living in permanent, nucleated settlements practicing maize agriculture, most experienced a decline in health. However, some research shows that not all groups experienced the decline in the same way as there were regional differences in dental caries and iron deficiency anaemia frequencies and patterns of physical activity. Therefore, …
The American West as a social-ecological region: Drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems
The American West exists in the popular imagination as a distinct region, and policies and politics often suggest that both the challenges and the opportunities for land management and human well-being across the region are relatively homogeneous. In this paper, we argue that there are key characteristics that define the West as a social-ecological region, and also that there are myriad social-ecological systems (SESs) within the region that requ…
Integrated spatial analysis for human–wildlife coexistence in the American West
Anthropogenic resistance: Accounting for human behavior in wildlife connectivity planning
What Is the Best Thing About Being an Indigenous Father in Australia
In Australia, the ongoing structure of settler colonialism has meant understandings of Indigeneity continue to uphold deficit narratives about the lives of Indigenous peoples. The narrative that predominates for Indigenous fathers is often the labels of dysfunctionality, deviance, and disengagement from their children. Using the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children data, this article seeks to challenge these deficit narratives to shed light …
The Role of Sex on Officer Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: An Empirical Analysis of Mechanisms of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is serious social concern and is often perpetrated by police officers. Research suggests that 20–40% of police families experience IPV. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of an officer’s sex plays in IPV perpetration using measures that can be utilized for Social Learning Theory, General Strain Theory, or Social Bond Theory. The Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Mary…
Human population growth and accessibility from cities shape rangeland condition in the American West
Implementation resistance and the human dimensions of connectivity planning
Conserving species' ability to traverse the landscape is vital for maintaining biodiversity in the face of global change. Connectivity conservation requires identifying important pathways for species' movements and aligning societal support for conservation of those pathways. Contemporary connectivity analyses emphasize the impacts of topography, vegetation and human footprint on species' movements; but largely ignore the role that attitudes, eco…
Effects of changing climate extremes and vegetation phenology on wildlife associated with grasslands in the southwestern United States
Assessments of the potential responses of animal species to climate change often rely on correlations between long-term average temperature or precipitation and species’ occurrence or abundance. Such assessments do not account for the potential predictive capacity of either climate extremes and variability or the indirect effects of climate as mediated by plant phenology. By contrast, we projected responses of wildlife in desert grasslands of the…
Spatial (mis)alignment between climate-related risks and risk perceptions across the US
Environmental impact assessments not the main barrier to timely forest management in the United States
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) processes are commonly used by government agencies to evaluate the merits and environmental risks of natural resource management decisions. Citing EIA as red tape, decision makers from across the political spectrum are increasingly circumventing EIA to expedite implementation of necessary actions for climate resilience and clean energy. Few studies have quantified the extent that EIA is the main barrier to ef…
Testing the Affect of Modified Sense of Place, Conservation Ethic, and Good Farmer Identity Measures on Predicting the Adoption of Cover Crops in Working Landscapes in Iowa
While sense of place (SOP) has been used in amenity landscapes to understand pro-environmental behavior, in working landscapes, SOP has not been a valid or reliable predictor for explaining conservation behavior. In this paper, we advance theory on SOP in working landscapes by assessing the relationship between several new and modified sense of place measures and farmer adoption of cover crops in Iowa. We used data from a 2018 survey of Iowa farm…
Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions
Many of the world's iconic, endangered and endemic species rely on large, contiguous landscapes for their survival. In the US West, working ranches are integral to large landscape conservation goals and there are numerous influences on ranchers' conservation actions, including their relational values, perceived self‐efficacy and property rights concerns. Using survey data from 681 ranchers in eastern Idaho and western Montana, we sought to answer…
Operationalizing the social capital of collaborative environmental governance with network metrics
Social capital is frequently invoked as a reason for engaging in collaborative environmental governance. Yet we have a limited understanding of how collaborative environmental governance mobilizes different types of social capital and how the advantages and costs of social capital accrue for different groups of people. Explicit measures of social capital, such as through social network methods, will help build an understanding of how social capit…
Proximity, politics, and preferences: Spatial and contextual patterns in management opinions for an imperiled multifunctional landscape
Landscape governance is challenged by a range of factors, including the uneven spatial distribution of people, their identities, and ecosystems, in addition to mismatches in ecological boundaries, jurisdictional boundaries, and the spatial extent of readily available public opinion data. Using Idaho’s sagebrush steppe as an illustrative example of the patchwork of actors and ownership that exists in imperiled multifunctional landscapes, we aim to…
Restoring coexistence with cultural keystone species: Lessons from Blackfoot-led buffalo restoration
Re-establishing society’s ability to coexist with wildlife species that were historically extirpated presents a critical challenge for reintroduction. Tribal-led efforts across North America aim to restore American Buffalo (Bison bison) as an ecological and cultural keystone species. Yet low social tolerance remains a limiting factor, especially in cattle ranching communities. This article explores the Blackfoot Nations’ efforts to restore coexis…
Geography (12 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (5 works)