T Bruce Lauber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Bruce Lauber |
| GIVEN NAMES | T Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauber |
| SIGNATURE | LAUBER T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3118-432X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Climate change has expanded the area where deforestation causes local warming by 0.5–1.2 million km2
Food sovereignty across borders: Fishing among Myanmar refugees in Upstate New York
Building human-dimensions/social science capacity to support wildlife agencies: Lessons from New York’s 50-year experience
Interest in human dimensions/social science (HD/SS) is running high among wildlife managers. Our 50-year experience with HD/SS integration in wildlife management indicates that HD/SS capacity development requires continuous pursuit of five objectives: (1) demonstrate value of HD/SS to wildlife managers and stakeholders; (2) expand types of social science contributions to management; (3) improve integration of HD/SS in management; (4) build strong…
Trends in human dimensions of wildlife at Cornell University: 50 Years and Counting
The human dimensions of wildlife (HDW) program at Cornell University has contributed to the development of the HDW field for approximately 50 years. In this essay, faculty and staff of the Cornell Center for Conservation Social Sciences (formerly known as Human Dimensions Research Unit) reflect on how their HDW work has evolved, primarily describing their experience in terms of two trends: broadening perspectives about who are stakeholders requir…
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do
To protect wild deer populations (and their beneficiaries) from the negative consequences of chronic wasting disease (CWD), it is crucial to engage deer hunters in disease prevention. Early qualitative findings suggest CWD-relevant behaviors evoke moral or ethical considerations in deer hunters which may help to explain behaviors. The present study applies norm-activation theory (NAT) to explore the relationship between personal norms and CWD-pre…
Social-psychological factors influencing risk perceptions of chronic wasting disease on social media
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion-based disease that poses an imminent threat to New York State (NYS), but many NYS hunters do not perceive it as a salient issue or follow recommended practices to prevent its spread to NYS. This study sought to identify the social-psychological factors underlying the efficacy of social media interventions to increase risk perceptions of CWD in NYS. We conducted an online survey experiment with 2760 NYS hun…
Understanding hunter support for early successional habitat management
Early successional habitat (ESH), which is important to many game species, is declining throughout the Northeast United States. In New York State, management agencies are increasing efforts to manage for ESH, but such efforts require support from key stakeholders. We sought to understand the factors influencing such support among hunting license holders, and a subsample specializing in woodcock hunting, who use Wildlife Management Areas. Using st…
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders
Protecting the world’s remaining forests is a global policy priority. Even though the value of the world’s remaining forests is global in nature, much of the protection has to come from national policies. Here, we combine global, high resolution remote sensing data on forest outcomes (tree-cover loss, forest degradation, net primary production) and two complementary econometric research designs for causal inference to first quantify how much it m…
Predictors of intentions to conserve bats among New York property owners
Understanding why private property owners take actions to conserve bats has become increasingly important in U.S. states where the fungus causing white-nose syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) has decimated bat populations. We surveyed property owners in three New York State counties (n = 2,500) and used multiple linear regression analyses to test predictors of intentions to conserve bats. Intentions to take actions that contribute to bat con…
Scared Yet Compassionate? Exploring the Order Effects of Threat Versus Suffering Messages on Attitude Toward Scary Victims
The order in which individuals receive information about wildlife may influence their attitude toward wildlife differently. We explored order effects of a threat message that induced more fear versus a suffering message that elicited more compassion on attitude toward wildlife. Specifically, we focused on bats, a risk-laden species also suffering massive mortalities due to a disease affecting bat populations across the United States. We randomly …
Public Trust Philosophy for Fish and Wildlife Management: Implications for Human Dimensions
In the wake of growing parallel interests in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (Organ et al., 2012) and the need for transformation of state fish and wildlife agencies to better ref
Collaborative Management and Public Trust Responsibilities: A Help or a Hindrance
We consider the implications of public trust administration principles for collaborative fish and wildlife management. Collaboration can increase the capacity of agencies to provide fish- and wildlife-related benefits but increases the ties of agencies to some stakeholders—potentially privileging those stakeholders’ needs. We conducted two case studies of collaborative management in which we identified ways that collaboration enhanced and detract…
Agency Traits That Build Capacity to Manage Disease
Fish and wildlife disease outbreaks are increasing globally, negatively affecting wildlife, domestic animals, and humans. Responding to such outbreaks presents a challenge for fish and wildlife agencies. We identified factors that contribute to agency capacity to detect and respond to disease outbreaks. We recruited 26 experts on fish and wildlife health to participate in a Delphi panel to identify traits of agencies with a high capacity for dise…
Integrating Human Dimensions into Fish and Wildlife Management: An Essential Component of Adaptive Capacity
In recent years, many conservation organizations have been forced to operate with declining resources—having to do more with less. Working under worsening resource constraints, an increasing amount
Social Network Dynamics in Collaborative Conservation
Our research explored patterns in the development of social networks serving as the foundation for collaborative conservation. We conducted four case studies of conservation efforts associated with State Wildlife Action Plans in the United States. Data were collected on conservation objectives, key players, and their roles and interactions. Networks evolved through identifiable phases, which we labeled: organizational loyalty, reconsideration, pa…
Developing Adaptability: The Promise and Pitfalls of Collaborative Conservation
Conservation requires the ability to respond to change. Ongoing shifts in human activities, landscapes, and species abundance and distributions are occurring at rates and scales that challenge the
Challenges of Professional Development: Balancing the Demands of Employers and Professions in Federal Natural Resource Agencies
Effectiveness of government natural resource agencies depends on the capabilities of their employees. These capabilities may be maintained or enhanced through professional development activities, including involvement in scientific societies. The authors studied factors that influence whether U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey biologists participate in a variety of professional development activities. Previous research has …
The Role of Ethical Judgments Related to Wildlife Fertility Control
Certain species of wildlife cause considerable damage and therefore receive management attention. Traditional management methods rely on lethal control, but fertility control is increasingly being advocated as a more humane alternative. Because wildlife management decisions are influenced by citizen input, it is important to understand what makes people support or oppose lethal control and fertility control. We studied six U.S. communities trying…
Learning by Doing: Policy Learning in Community-Based Deer Management
Increasing numbers of urban and suburban communities are facing the problem of learning to manage large populations of white-tailed deer in close proximity to large numbers of people. Some communities have been trying to address such problems for decades, and what they have learned from their experience could help other communities just beginning to face these problems. This study used the policy learning literature to explore what key stakeholde…
Managing Community Controversy in Suburban Wildlife Management: Adopting Practices that Address Value Differences
Wildlife managers in the United States are devoting greater attention to wildlife in suburban areas, where wildlife in close proximity to people pose problems. Local community leaders and residents often demand to be involved with management decision-making. Wildlife managers attempt to facilitate development of community-derived management objectives and implement management actions tailored to local needs and circumstances. Promoting collaborat…
Public Participation in Wildlife Management: What Do Stakeholders Want
As public participation in environmental decisions has increased, natural resource management agencies have been challenged to involve stakeholders constructively in the resolution of a variety of contentious issues. This research examines how evaluative criteria, initially derived from theory and literature and then refined based on input from agency staff and stakeholders, can provide natural resource agencies with guidance for designing contex…
Gender and Citizen Participation in Wildlife Management Decision Making
We compared the motivations and preferences of men and women toward citizen participation in wildlife-related decisions. Data were collected via a mail survey of past participants in New York State Department of Environmental Conservation citizen participation processes completed between 1992 and 1999. We explored gender differences in motivations for participation, preferred process characteristics, and criteria used to evaluate process success.…
Educating Citizens About Controversial Issues: The Case of Suburban Goose Management
The authors explored how citizens reasoned to decide which management options were most appropriate for addressing concerns about an overpopulation of Canada geese in Rockland County, New York. Data were collected through a set of in-depth, semistructured interviews. The reasons respondents offered in support of management alternatives, and the assumptions they made in their reasoning, were identified during the analysis. Seven types of reasons u…
Gender and Ethical Judgments About Suburban Deer Management
We compared how men and women made decisions about what options were most appropriate for managing an overabundant deer herd in Irondequoit, NY. Data were collected through a set of in-depth, semistructured interviews and a mail survey. Women and men evaluated deer management alternatives differently; women considered more criteria than men and were more concerned about the ancillary impacts of deer management techniques?the impacts those techniq…
Suburban residents’ criteria for evaluating contraception and other deer management techniques
Contraception has been advocated increasingly by residents of urban and suburban areas as an appropriate technique for managing local deer herds. Although knowledge about the technical aspects of contraception is increasing among professionals, little study of citizens’ attitudes toward and beliefs about contraception has occurred to date. We explored residents’ attitudes toward contraception in Irondequoit, New York. We identified the criteria r…
Measuring Fairness in Citizen Participation: A Case Study of Moose Management
We conducted a case study of the citizen participation processes used by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) when deciding whether to reintroduce moose to New York. We studied how citizens perceived the fairness and quality of the process and identified the criteria on which they based their perceptions. Our work was grounded in research on the social psychology of procedural fairness. Research was conducted in three…
Public Participation in Wildlife Management: What Do Stakeholders Want
As public participation in environmental decisions has increased, natural resource management agencies have been challenged to involve stakeholders constructively in the resolution of a variety of contentious issues. This research examines how evaluative criteria, initially derived from theory and literature and then refined based on input from agency staff and stakeholders, can provide natural resource agencies with guidance for designing contex…
Refining our vision of citizen participation: Lessons from a moose reintroduction proposal
We evaluated the conceptual basis of a citizen participation program that was part of a process used to decide whether or not to reintroduce moose to northern New York. We used criticisms of liberal political theory to illustrate the potential weaknesses of basing policy decisions mainly on citizens' preferences. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) determined that it would make its decision about whether to reintrodu…
The Role of Ethical Judgments Related to Wildlife Fertility Control
Certain species of wildlife cause considerable damage and therefore receive management attention. Traditional management methods rely on lethal control, but fertility control is increasingly being advocated as a more humane alternative. Because wildlife management decisions are influenced by citizen input, it is important to understand what makes people support or oppose lethal control and fertility control. We studied six U.S. communities trying…
Educating Citizens About Controversial Issues: The Case of Suburban Goose Management
The authors explored how citizens reasoned to decide which management options were most appropriate for addressing concerns about an overpopulation of Canada geese in Rockland County, New York. Data were collected through a set of in-depth, semistructured interviews. The reasons respondents offered in support of management alternatives, and the assumptions they made in their reasoning, were identified during the analysis. Seven types of reasons u…
Learning by Doing: Policy Learning in Community-Based Deer Management
Increasing numbers of urban and suburban communities are facing the problem of learning to manage large populations of white-tailed deer in close proximity to large numbers of people. Some communities have been trying to address such problems for decades, and what they have learned from their experience could help other communities just beginning to face these problems. This study used the policy learning literature to explore what key stakeholde…
Food sovereignty across borders: Fishing among Myanmar refugees in Upstate New York
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders
Protecting the world’s remaining forests is a global policy priority. Even though the value of the world’s remaining forests is global in nature, much of the protection has to come from national policies. Here, we combine global, high resolution remote sensing data on forest outcomes (tree-cover loss, forest degradation, net primary production) and two complementary econometric research designs for causal inference to first quantify how much it m…
Gender and Citizen Participation in Wildlife Management Decision Making
We compared the motivations and preferences of men and women toward citizen participation in wildlife-related decisions. Data were collected via a mail survey of past participants in New York State Department of Environmental Conservation citizen participation processes completed between 1992 and 1999. We explored gender differences in motivations for participation, preferred process characteristics, and criteria used to evaluate process success.…
Gender and Ethical Judgments About Suburban Deer Management
We compared how men and women made decisions about what options were most appropriate for managing an overabundant deer herd in Irondequoit, NY. Data were collected through a set of in-depth, semistructured interviews and a mail survey. Women and men evaluated deer management alternatives differently; women considered more criteria than men and were more concerned about the ancillary impacts of deer management techniques?the impacts those techniq…
Refining our vision of citizen participation: Lessons from a moose reintroduction proposal
We evaluated the conceptual basis of a citizen participation program that was part of a process used to decide whether or not to reintroduce moose to northern New York. We used criticisms of liberal political theory to illustrate the potential weaknesses of basing policy decisions mainly on citizens' preferences. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) determined that it would make its decision about whether to reintrodu…
Measuring Fairness in Citizen Participation: A Case Study of Moose Management
We conducted a case study of the citizen participation processes used by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) when deciding whether to reintroduce moose to New York. We studied how citizens perceived the fairness and quality of the process and identified the criteria on which they based their perceptions. Our work was grounded in research on the social psychology of procedural fairness. Research was conducted in three…
Suburban residents’ criteria for evaluating contraception and other deer management techniques
Contraception has been advocated increasingly by residents of urban and suburban areas as an appropriate technique for managing local deer herds. Although knowledge about the technical aspects of contraception is increasing among professionals, little study of citizens’ attitudes toward and beliefs about contraception has occurred to date. We explored residents’ attitudes toward contraception in Irondequoit, New York. We identified the criteria r…
Gender and Ethical Judgments About Suburban Deer Management
We compared how men and women made decisions about what options were most appropriate for managing an overabundant deer herd in Irondequoit, NY. Data were collected through a set of in-depth, semistructured interviews and a mail survey. Women and men evaluated deer management alternatives differently; women considered more criteria than men and were more concerned about the ancillary impacts of deer management techniques?the impacts those techniq…
Educating Citizens About Controversial Issues: The Case of Suburban Goose Management
The authors explored how citizens reasoned to decide which management options were most appropriate for addressing concerns about an overpopulation of Canada geese in Rockland County, New York. Data were collected through a set of in-depth, semistructured interviews. The reasons respondents offered in support of management alternatives, and the assumptions they made in their reasoning, were identified during the analysis. Seven types of reasons u…
Public Participation in Wildlife Management: What Do Stakeholders Want
As public participation in environmental decisions has increased, natural resource management agencies have been challenged to involve stakeholders constructively in the resolution of a variety of contentious issues. This research examines how evaluative criteria, initially derived from theory and literature and then refined based on input from agency staff and stakeholders, can provide natural resource agencies with guidance for designing contex…
Gender and Citizen Participation in Wildlife Management Decision Making
We compared the motivations and preferences of men and women toward citizen participation in wildlife-related decisions. Data were collected via a mail survey of past participants in New York State Department of Environmental Conservation citizen participation processes completed between 1992 and 1999. We explored gender differences in motivations for participation, preferred process characteristics, and criteria used to evaluate process success.…
Managing Community Controversy in Suburban Wildlife Management: Adopting Practices that Address Value Differences
Wildlife managers in the United States are devoting greater attention to wildlife in suburban areas, where wildlife in close proximity to people pose problems. Local community leaders and residents often demand to be involved with management decision-making. Wildlife managers attempt to facilitate development of community-derived management objectives and implement management actions tailored to local needs and circumstances. Promoting collaborat…
Learning by Doing: Policy Learning in Community-Based Deer Management
Increasing numbers of urban and suburban communities are facing the problem of learning to manage large populations of white-tailed deer in close proximity to large numbers of people. Some communities have been trying to address such problems for decades, and what they have learned from their experience could help other communities just beginning to face these problems. This study used the policy learning literature to explore what key stakeholde…
The Role of Ethical Judgments Related to Wildlife Fertility Control
Certain species of wildlife cause considerable damage and therefore receive management attention. Traditional management methods rely on lethal control, but fertility control is increasingly being advocated as a more humane alternative. Because wildlife management decisions are influenced by citizen input, it is important to understand what makes people support or oppose lethal control and fertility control. We studied six U.S. communities trying…
Challenges of Professional Development: Balancing the Demands of Employers and Professions in Federal Natural Resource Agencies
Effectiveness of government natural resource agencies depends on the capabilities of their employees. These capabilities may be maintained or enhanced through professional development activities, including involvement in scientific societies. The authors studied factors that influence whether U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey biologists participate in a variety of professional development activities. Previous research has …
Social Network Dynamics in Collaborative Conservation
Our research explored patterns in the development of social networks serving as the foundation for collaborative conservation. We conducted four case studies of conservation efforts associated with State Wildlife Action Plans in the United States. Data were collected on conservation objectives, key players, and their roles and interactions. Networks evolved through identifiable phases, which we labeled: organizational loyalty, reconsideration, pa…
Developing Adaptability: The Promise and Pitfalls of Collaborative Conservation
Conservation requires the ability to respond to change. Ongoing shifts in human activities, landscapes, and species abundance and distributions are occurring at rates and scales that challenge the
Agency Traits That Build Capacity to Manage Disease
Fish and wildlife disease outbreaks are increasing globally, negatively affecting wildlife, domestic animals, and humans. Responding to such outbreaks presents a challenge for fish and wildlife agencies. We identified factors that contribute to agency capacity to detect and respond to disease outbreaks. We recruited 26 experts on fish and wildlife health to participate in a Delphi panel to identify traits of agencies with a high capacity for dise…
Integrating Human Dimensions into Fish and Wildlife Management: An Essential Component of Adaptive Capacity
In recent years, many conservation organizations have been forced to operate with declining resources—having to do more with less. Working under worsening resource constraints, an increasing amount
Public Trust Philosophy for Fish and Wildlife Management: Implications for Human Dimensions
In the wake of growing parallel interests in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (Organ et al., 2012) and the need for transformation of state fish and wildlife agencies to better ref
Collaborative Management and Public Trust Responsibilities: A Help or a Hindrance
We consider the implications of public trust administration principles for collaborative fish and wildlife management. Collaboration can increase the capacity of agencies to provide fish- and wildlife-related benefits but increases the ties of agencies to some stakeholders—potentially privileging those stakeholders’ needs. We conducted two case studies of collaborative management in which we identified ways that collaboration enhanced and detract…
Scared Yet Compassionate? Exploring the Order Effects of Threat Versus Suffering Messages on Attitude Toward Scary Victims
The order in which individuals receive information about wildlife may influence their attitude toward wildlife differently. We explored order effects of a threat message that induced more fear versus a suffering message that elicited more compassion on attitude toward wildlife. Specifically, we focused on bats, a risk-laden species also suffering massive mortalities due to a disease affecting bat populations across the United States. We randomly …
Predictors of intentions to conserve bats among New York property owners
Understanding why private property owners take actions to conserve bats has become increasingly important in U.S. states where the fungus causing white-nose syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) has decimated bat populations. We surveyed property owners in three New York State counties (n = 2,500) and used multiple linear regression analyses to test predictors of intentions to conserve bats. Intentions to take actions that contribute to bat con…
Social-psychological factors influencing risk perceptions of chronic wasting disease on social media
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion-based disease that poses an imminent threat to New York State (NYS), but many NYS hunters do not perceive it as a salient issue or follow recommended practices to prevent its spread to NYS. This study sought to identify the social-psychological factors underlying the efficacy of social media interventions to increase risk perceptions of CWD in NYS. We conducted an online survey experiment with 2760 NYS hun…
Understanding hunter support for early successional habitat management
Early successional habitat (ESH), which is important to many game species, is declining throughout the Northeast United States. In New York State, management agencies are increasing efforts to manage for ESH, but such efforts require support from key stakeholders. We sought to understand the factors influencing such support among hunting license holders, and a subsample specializing in woodcock hunting, who use Wildlife Management Areas. Using st…
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders
Protecting the world’s remaining forests is a global policy priority. Even though the value of the world’s remaining forests is global in nature, much of the protection has to come from national policies. Here, we combine global, high resolution remote sensing data on forest outcomes (tree-cover loss, forest degradation, net primary production) and two complementary econometric research designs for causal inference to first quantify how much it m…
Building human-dimensions/social science capacity to support wildlife agencies: Lessons from New York’s 50-year experience
Interest in human dimensions/social science (HD/SS) is running high among wildlife managers. Our 50-year experience with HD/SS integration in wildlife management indicates that HD/SS capacity development requires continuous pursuit of five objectives: (1) demonstrate value of HD/SS to wildlife managers and stakeholders; (2) expand types of social science contributions to management; (3) improve integration of HD/SS in management; (4) build strong…
Trends in human dimensions of wildlife at Cornell University: 50 Years and Counting
The human dimensions of wildlife (HDW) program at Cornell University has contributed to the development of the HDW field for approximately 50 years. In this essay, faculty and staff of the Cornell Center for Conservation Social Sciences (formerly known as Human Dimensions Research Unit) reflect on how their HDW work has evolved, primarily describing their experience in terms of two trends: broadening perspectives about who are stakeholders requir…
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do
To protect wild deer populations (and their beneficiaries) from the negative consequences of chronic wasting disease (CWD), it is crucial to engage deer hunters in disease prevention. Early qualitative findings suggest CWD-relevant behaviors evoke moral or ethical considerations in deer hunters which may help to explain behaviors. The present study applies norm-activation theory (NAT) to explore the relationship between personal norms and CWD-pre…
Political science (20 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Environmental resource management (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Wildlife (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Wildlife management (11 works)