Weston M Eaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4217331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Weston M Eaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Weston M |
| FAMILY NAME | Eaton |
| SIGNATURE | EATON W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7815-6855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Stakeholder engagement in water resource management
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity
Climate change impacts vary depending on social and biophysical vulnerabilities, and the ability of society to respond, resist, or adapt to change/stress (i.e. adaptive capacity). In the field of climate science, funding for applied and engaged research is growing rapidly. Variously termed ‘knowledge co-production,’ ‘collaborative,’ ‘convergent,’ or ‘transdisciplinary’ research is hoped to improve outcomes in complex and dynamic social-ecological…
Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes
Boundary spanning in the context of stakeholder engagement in collaborative water management
A new approach for studying social, behavioral, and environmental change through stakeholder engagement in water resource management
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…
Red, White, and Blue
This paper explores environmental distress (e.g., feeling blue) in a politically conservative (“red”) and predominantly white farming community in the southwestern United States. In such communities across the United States, expressed concern over environmental change—including climate change—tends to be lower. This is understood to have a palliative effect that reduces feelings of ecoanxiety. Using an emotional geographies framework, our study i…
Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes
Participatory approaches to science and decision making, including stakeholder engagement, are increasingly common for managing complex socio-ecological challenges in working landscapes. However, critical questions about stakeholder engagement in this space remain. These include normative, political, and ethical questions concerning who participates, who benefits and loses, what good can be accomplished, and for what, whom, and by who. First, opp…
An Inventory and Assessment of Sample Sources for Survey Research with Agricultural Producers in the U.S
Researchers need probability samples to collect representative survey data about the behaviors and attitudes of agricultural producers they study in relation to the natural resources that they manage, yet obtaining accurate and complete sampling frames is challenging. We extract data from a publication database to identify the most commonly used sampling frame sources in survey research of agricultural producers in the U.S., finding that governme…
Farmer perspectives on collaboration
We examine how contextual factors affect farmer perspectives on collaborative environmental management in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania, U.S., through a qualitative and comparative study. In doing so, we explore how contextual factors identified in foundational collaborative environmental governance research play out specifically in three agricultural cases. Findings from this study reveal four key cross-case themes from farmer perspectives…
Longitudinal assessment of an integrated approach to large-scale common-pool water resource management
The state of Nebraska, USA employs a localized, integrated approach to managing water resources to address escalating quantity challenges. Here, we assess differences between agricultural water users’ perceptions of water management in a water-stressed area of Nebraska after a first round of water management planning and perceptions of three other stakeholder groups in Nebraska immediately after a second round of water management planning. We als…
Expert habits of mind
A Conceptual Framework for Social, Behavioral, and Environmental Change through Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resource Management
Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, fro…
Identifying Stakeholder Groups in Natural Resource Management
This study compares the efficiency of two analytic approaches—qualitative and quantitative—to social network analysis for identifying stakeholder groups. Social network data were collected from 23 water and agriculture stakeholders in Arizona, USA, and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Analysis of the sample in the original order of data collection found qualitative analysis was more efficient, in that it yielded a stable result—the iden…
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Third-Party Effects in Stakeholder Interviews
This paper examines the effect of having a third-party scientific expert present in stakeholder interviews. The study was conducted as part of a larger project on stakeholder engagement for natural resource management in the Verde Valley region of Arizona. We employed an experimental design, conducting stakeholder interviews both with and without an identified scientific expert present. Our sample consisted of 12 pairs of interviewees (24 total p…
Symbolic meanings, landowner support, and dedicated bioenergy crops in the rural northeastern United States
Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes
The sense of place (SOP) conceptual framework offers theoretical and empirical evidence that links peoples’ multifaceted connections to place(s) to their engagement in pro-environmental and conservation behaviors. The bulk of this research has focused on peoples’ connection to high-amenity places and landscapes. Recent research applies SOP in working landscapes—however, these studies encounter “troubles” that include measurement challenges and mi…
The politics of imaginaries and bioenergy sub-niches in the emerging Northeast U.S. bioenergy economy
Bioenergy experts and their imagined “obligatory publics” in the United States
What's the problem? How ‘industrial culture’ shapes community responses to proposed bioenergy development in northern Michigan, USA
Bioenergy Futures
Sociotechnical imaginaries are collectively imagined forms of social life reflected in the design and fulfillment of technological projects. While it is implied that there may be contention around sociotechnical imaginaries, the literature on how that contention is manifested is scant. We use a frame‐analytic approach to demonstrate the potency of collective action frames for making sense of the national imaginaries underpinning siting proposals.…
Bioenergy Futures
Sociotechnical imaginaries are collectively imagined forms of social life reflected in the design and fulfillment of technological projects. While it is implied that there may be contention around sociotechnical imaginaries, the literature on how that contention is manifested is scant. We use a frame‐analytic approach to demonstrate the potency of collective action frames for making sense of the national imaginaries underpinning siting proposals.…
The politics of imaginaries and bioenergy sub-niches in the emerging Northeast U.S. bioenergy economy
Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes
The sense of place (SOP) conceptual framework offers theoretical and empirical evidence that links peoples’ multifaceted connections to place(s) to their engagement in pro-environmental and conservation behaviors. The bulk of this research has focused on peoples’ connection to high-amenity places and landscapes. Recent research applies SOP in working landscapes—however, these studies encounter “troubles” that include measurement challenges and mi…
What's the problem? How ‘industrial culture’ shapes community responses to proposed bioenergy development in northern Michigan, USA
A Conceptual Framework for Social, Behavioral, and Environmental Change through Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resource Management
Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, fro…
Bioenergy experts and their imagined “obligatory publics” in the United States
Identifying Stakeholder Groups in Natural Resource Management
This study compares the efficiency of two analytic approaches—qualitative and quantitative—to social network analysis for identifying stakeholder groups. Social network data were collected from 23 water and agriculture stakeholders in Arizona, USA, and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Analysis of the sample in the original order of data collection found qualitative analysis was more efficient, in that it yielded a stable result—the iden…
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Farmer perspectives on collaboration
We examine how contextual factors affect farmer perspectives on collaborative environmental management in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania, U.S., through a qualitative and comparative study. In doing so, we explore how contextual factors identified in foundational collaborative environmental governance research play out specifically in three agricultural cases. Findings from this study reveal four key cross-case themes from farmer perspectives…
Expert habits of mind
Third-Party Effects in Stakeholder Interviews
This paper examines the effect of having a third-party scientific expert present in stakeholder interviews. The study was conducted as part of a larger project on stakeholder engagement for natural resource management in the Verde Valley region of Arizona. We employed an experimental design, conducting stakeholder interviews both with and without an identified scientific expert present. Our sample consisted of 12 pairs of interviewees (24 total p…
Symbolic meanings, landowner support, and dedicated bioenergy crops in the rural northeastern United States
Bioenergy Futures
Sociotechnical imaginaries are collectively imagined forms of social life reflected in the design and fulfillment of technological projects. While it is implied that there may be contention around sociotechnical imaginaries, the literature on how that contention is manifested is scant. We use a frame‐analytic approach to demonstrate the potency of collective action frames for making sense of the national imaginaries underpinning siting proposals.…
Bioenergy experts and their imagined “obligatory publics” in the United States
What's the problem? How ‘industrial culture’ shapes community responses to proposed bioenergy development in northern Michigan, USA
The politics of imaginaries and bioenergy sub-niches in the emerging Northeast U.S. bioenergy economy
Symbolic meanings, landowner support, and dedicated bioenergy crops in the rural northeastern United States
Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes
The sense of place (SOP) conceptual framework offers theoretical and empirical evidence that links peoples’ multifaceted connections to place(s) to their engagement in pro-environmental and conservation behaviors. The bulk of this research has focused on peoples’ connection to high-amenity places and landscapes. Recent research applies SOP in working landscapes—however, these studies encounter “troubles” that include measurement challenges and mi…
Identifying Stakeholder Groups in Natural Resource Management
This study compares the efficiency of two analytic approaches—qualitative and quantitative—to social network analysis for identifying stakeholder groups. Social network data were collected from 23 water and agriculture stakeholders in Arizona, USA, and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Analysis of the sample in the original order of data collection found qualitative analysis was more efficient, in that it yielded a stable result—the iden…
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Third-Party Effects in Stakeholder Interviews
This paper examines the effect of having a third-party scientific expert present in stakeholder interviews. The study was conducted as part of a larger project on stakeholder engagement for natural resource management in the Verde Valley region of Arizona. We employed an experimental design, conducting stakeholder interviews both with and without an identified scientific expert present. Our sample consisted of 12 pairs of interviewees (24 total p…
Expert habits of mind
A Conceptual Framework for Social, Behavioral, and Environmental Change through Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resource Management
Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, fro…
Red, White, and Blue
This paper explores environmental distress (e.g., feeling blue) in a politically conservative (“red”) and predominantly white farming community in the southwestern United States. In such communities across the United States, expressed concern over environmental change—including climate change—tends to be lower. This is understood to have a palliative effect that reduces feelings of ecoanxiety. Using an emotional geographies framework, our study i…
Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes
Participatory approaches to science and decision making, including stakeholder engagement, are increasingly common for managing complex socio-ecological challenges in working landscapes. However, critical questions about stakeholder engagement in this space remain. These include normative, political, and ethical questions concerning who participates, who benefits and loses, what good can be accomplished, and for what, whom, and by who. First, opp…
An Inventory and Assessment of Sample Sources for Survey Research with Agricultural Producers in the U.S
Researchers need probability samples to collect representative survey data about the behaviors and attitudes of agricultural producers they study in relation to the natural resources that they manage, yet obtaining accurate and complete sampling frames is challenging. We extract data from a publication database to identify the most commonly used sampling frame sources in survey research of agricultural producers in the U.S., finding that governme…
Farmer perspectives on collaboration
We examine how contextual factors affect farmer perspectives on collaborative environmental management in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania, U.S., through a qualitative and comparative study. In doing so, we explore how contextual factors identified in foundational collaborative environmental governance research play out specifically in three agricultural cases. Findings from this study reveal four key cross-case themes from farmer perspectives…
Longitudinal assessment of an integrated approach to large-scale common-pool water resource management
The state of Nebraska, USA employs a localized, integrated approach to managing water resources to address escalating quantity challenges. Here, we assess differences between agricultural water users’ perceptions of water management in a water-stressed area of Nebraska after a first round of water management planning and perceptions of three other stakeholder groups in Nebraska immediately after a second round of water management planning. We als…
Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes
Boundary spanning in the context of stakeholder engagement in collaborative water management
A new approach for studying social, behavioral, and environmental change through stakeholder engagement in water resource management
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…
Stakeholder engagement in water resource management
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity
Climate change impacts vary depending on social and biophysical vulnerabilities, and the ability of society to respond, resist, or adapt to change/stress (i.e. adaptive capacity). In the field of climate science, funding for applied and engaged research is growing rapidly. Variously termed ‘knowledge co-production,’ ‘collaborative,’ ‘convergent,’ or ‘transdisciplinary’ research is hoped to improve outcomes in complex and dynamic social-ecological…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Stakeholder (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Geography (8 works)