Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf
Biographic Data
| ID | 6535068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Covelli |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalf |
| SIGNATURE | METCALF E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6917-8729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Institutional Interactions
For ranchers in the U.S., adaptation to drought and climate-related events is not entirely autonomous: it is shaped by the nested institutional context within which ranchers operate, including both formal institutions (e.g. government policies, programs, regulations) and informal institutions (e.g. social norms, social interactions). This study, based on a quantitative survey (n = 450) and in-depth interviews (n = 34), examines Montana ranchers’ …
A Phenomenological Approach to Superfund Community Engagement
Superfund sites across the United States pose contamination and pollution issues for communities and ecosystems. These sites often require years of cleanup and millions of dollars to remediate. A critical aspect of cleanup success revolves around engagement with local communities, but often, these efforts fall short in meeting communities’ needs. We sought to understand this gap in the Environmental Protection Agency’s current community engagemen…
Influence of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Students’ Social Experience
The COVID-19 pandemic affected and continues to modify students’ social life and as a result may impact their long-term development. This study is a part of a larger research project focused on the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students. For this manuscript, we employed content analysis to analyze 1,327 quotes related to changes in social experiences and outcomes related to these changes from a sample of 1,099 stude…
Social networks and transformative behaviours in a grassland social‐ecological system
Social connections among individuals are essential components of social‐ecological systems (SESs), enabling people to take actions to more effectively adapt or transform in response to widespread social‐ecological change. Although scholars have associated social connections and cognitions with adaptive capacity, measuring actors' social networks may further clarify pathways for bolstering resilience‐enhancing actions. We asked how social networks…
The wildlife attitude-acceptability framework’s potential to inform human dimensions of wildlife science and practice
Despite years of research, concepts such as human tolerance and acceptability of wildlife remain inconsistently defined and measured, creating confusion, undermining comparative and longitudinal research, and limiting utility to practitioners. To address these shortcomings, the wildlife attitude-acceptability framework proposed intersecting attitudes toward wildlife species with acceptability of impacts from that species to reveal four archetypes…
Effects of Trust, Public Engagement, Conflict, and Social Networks on Satisfaction with Ecological Restoration
River restoration is one of the most common, expensive, and environmentally influential forms of restoration, but has little post-restoration assessment of social success. In this study, we use social network theory and analysis (SNA), an emerging approach for understanding social dynamics in restoration projects, to examine the social connections, perceptions of project success, and attitudes of stakeholders involved in a river restoration proje…
How agricultural producers use local knowledge, climate information, and on-farm “experiments” to address drought risk
“Messy transitions”
Psychological impacts from Covid-19 among university students
Background University students are increasingly recognized as a vulnerable population, suffering from higher levels of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and disordered eating compared to the general population. Therefore, when the nature of their educational experience radically changes—such as sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic—the burden on the mental health of this vulnerable population is amplified. The objectives of this st…
Beyond the tolerance/intolerance dichotomy
While most wildlife researchers and managers agree that human tolerance is critical in determining the success and persistence of wildlife populations, the concept of tolerance has lacked definitional precision and operational consistency in the literature. This inconsistency has opened the door to a multiplicity of human-wildlife tolerance studies that present tolerance as either an attitude, a normative belief, or a behavioral intention, making…
Rethinking resilience to wildfire
Record-breaking fire seasons are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and large wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of investments to support social–ecological resilience to wildfires. This has prompted new calls for land management and policy reforms as current land and fire management approaches have been unable to effectively respond to the rapid changes in climate and development patterns that s…
Knowledge mobilization for community resilience
Targeting your audience
While there is an assumption that wildlife value orientations can be useful in strategic communication, few studies have empirically explored this topic. This article used the concept of wildlife value orientations to understand how to increase the motivation of people to process information about wildlife in the context of persuasive communication. A confirmatory factor analysis was used to identify mutualism and domination wildlife value orient…
Public Wildlife Management on Private Lands
Wildlife agencies balance the effectiveness of management with public acceptability. Past research has demonstrated stakeholders’ normative beliefs regarding management are influenced by the severity of the human-wildlife interaction, and the harshness of human response. Such beliefs may be more complex when public and private interests intertwine. In Montana, concerns about Brucellosis spreading from wild elk to domestic livestock prompted agenc…
Public Engagement in Social-Ecological Systems Management
Public engagement is important for improving outcomes of social-ecological systems management. We used a social justice theoretical framework to measure residents’ attitudes toward public engagement processes and satisfaction with outcomes of a restoration project in Western Montana. We predicted process control and decision control domains of procedural justice would significantly predict stakeholder satisfaction, with decision control partially…
A social-ecological systems approach for environmental management
Motivations of Female Black Hills Deer Hunters
State fish and wildlife agencies are particularly interested in attracting female participation because of the potential to offset declining participation in hunting. Understanding female hunters’ motivations will be critical for designing effective recruitment and retention programs for women hunters. Although female participation in hunting is increasing, males still outnumber females by about tenfold. Gender differences in deer hunters were ex…
Understanding Hunting Constraints and Negotiation Strategies
This article examined a typology of female hunters, factors constraining participation, and negotiation strategies females used to overcome constraints. A survey of Oregon hunters was conducted in the summer of 2010 to understand hunting characteristics using the 2008 big game license database (n = 392). We created a typology of female hunters using a cluster analysis of Recreation Experience Preference items. Four clusters were identified: less-…
Rethinking resilience to wildfire
Record-breaking fire seasons are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and large wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of investments to support social–ecological resilience to wildfires. This has prompted new calls for land management and policy reforms as current land and fire management approaches have been unable to effectively respond to the rapid changes in climate and development patterns that s…
Public Engagement in Social-Ecological Systems Management
Public engagement is important for improving outcomes of social-ecological systems management. We used a social justice theoretical framework to measure residents’ attitudes toward public engagement processes and satisfaction with outcomes of a restoration project in Western Montana. We predicted process control and decision control domains of procedural justice would significantly predict stakeholder satisfaction, with decision control partially…
Knowledge mobilization for community resilience
Understanding Hunting Constraints and Negotiation Strategies
This article examined a typology of female hunters, factors constraining participation, and negotiation strategies females used to overcome constraints. A survey of Oregon hunters was conducted in the summer of 2010 to understand hunting characteristics using the 2008 big game license database (n = 392). We created a typology of female hunters using a cluster analysis of Recreation Experience Preference items. Four clusters were identified: less-…
A social-ecological systems approach for environmental management
Motivations of Female Black Hills Deer Hunters
State fish and wildlife agencies are particularly interested in attracting female participation because of the potential to offset declining participation in hunting. Understanding female hunters’ motivations will be critical for designing effective recruitment and retention programs for women hunters. Although female participation in hunting is increasing, males still outnumber females by about tenfold. Gender differences in deer hunters were ex…
Targeting your audience
While there is an assumption that wildlife value orientations can be useful in strategic communication, few studies have empirically explored this topic. This article used the concept of wildlife value orientations to understand how to increase the motivation of people to process information about wildlife in the context of persuasive communication. A confirmatory factor analysis was used to identify mutualism and domination wildlife value orient…
Public Wildlife Management on Private Lands
Wildlife agencies balance the effectiveness of management with public acceptability. Past research has demonstrated stakeholders’ normative beliefs regarding management are influenced by the severity of the human-wildlife interaction, and the harshness of human response. Such beliefs may be more complex when public and private interests intertwine. In Montana, concerns about Brucellosis spreading from wild elk to domestic livestock prompted agenc…
Public Engagement in Social-Ecological Systems Management
Public engagement is important for improving outcomes of social-ecological systems management. We used a social justice theoretical framework to measure residents’ attitudes toward public engagement processes and satisfaction with outcomes of a restoration project in Western Montana. We predicted process control and decision control domains of procedural justice would significantly predict stakeholder satisfaction, with decision control partially…
Knowledge mobilization for community resilience
Beyond the tolerance/intolerance dichotomy
While most wildlife researchers and managers agree that human tolerance is critical in determining the success and persistence of wildlife populations, the concept of tolerance has lacked definitional precision and operational consistency in the literature. This inconsistency has opened the door to a multiplicity of human-wildlife tolerance studies that present tolerance as either an attitude, a normative belief, or a behavioral intention, making…
Rethinking resilience to wildfire
Record-breaking fire seasons are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and large wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of investments to support social–ecological resilience to wildfires. This has prompted new calls for land management and policy reforms as current land and fire management approaches have been unable to effectively respond to the rapid changes in climate and development patterns that s…
Psychological impacts from Covid-19 among university students
Background University students are increasingly recognized as a vulnerable population, suffering from higher levels of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and disordered eating compared to the general population. Therefore, when the nature of their educational experience radically changes—such as sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic—the burden on the mental health of this vulnerable population is amplified. The objectives of this st…
“Messy transitions”
Influence of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Students’ Social Experience
The COVID-19 pandemic affected and continues to modify students’ social life and as a result may impact their long-term development. This study is a part of a larger research project focused on the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students. For this manuscript, we employed content analysis to analyze 1,327 quotes related to changes in social experiences and outcomes related to these changes from a sample of 1,099 stude…
Social networks and transformative behaviours in a grassland social‐ecological system
Social connections among individuals are essential components of social‐ecological systems (SESs), enabling people to take actions to more effectively adapt or transform in response to widespread social‐ecological change. Although scholars have associated social connections and cognitions with adaptive capacity, measuring actors' social networks may further clarify pathways for bolstering resilience‐enhancing actions. We asked how social networks…
The wildlife attitude-acceptability framework’s potential to inform human dimensions of wildlife science and practice
Despite years of research, concepts such as human tolerance and acceptability of wildlife remain inconsistently defined and measured, creating confusion, undermining comparative and longitudinal research, and limiting utility to practitioners. To address these shortcomings, the wildlife attitude-acceptability framework proposed intersecting attitudes toward wildlife species with acceptability of impacts from that species to reveal four archetypes…
Effects of Trust, Public Engagement, Conflict, and Social Networks on Satisfaction with Ecological Restoration
River restoration is one of the most common, expensive, and environmentally influential forms of restoration, but has little post-restoration assessment of social success. In this study, we use social network theory and analysis (SNA), an emerging approach for understanding social dynamics in restoration projects, to examine the social connections, perceptions of project success, and attitudes of stakeholders involved in a river restoration proje…
How agricultural producers use local knowledge, climate information, and on-farm “experiments” to address drought risk
A Phenomenological Approach to Superfund Community Engagement
Superfund sites across the United States pose contamination and pollution issues for communities and ecosystems. These sites often require years of cleanup and millions of dollars to remediate. A critical aspect of cleanup success revolves around engagement with local communities, but often, these efforts fall short in meeting communities’ needs. We sought to understand this gap in the Environmental Protection Agency’s current community engagemen…
Institutional Interactions
For ranchers in the U.S., adaptation to drought and climate-related events is not entirely autonomous: it is shaped by the nested institutional context within which ranchers operate, including both formal institutions (e.g. government policies, programs, regulations) and informal institutions (e.g. social norms, social interactions). This study, based on a quantitative survey (n = 450) and in-depth interviews (n = 34), examines Montana ranchers’ …
Psychology (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Biology (5 works)