Zachary D Miller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1574068 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Zachary D Miller |
| PRENOMES | Zachary D |
| SOBRENOME | Miller |
| ASSINATURA | MILLER Z D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9909-1202 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Communicating Darkness
Utah parks are attracting an increasing number of visitors due to the quality dark sky viewing opportunities. Despite increasing engagement in nighttime recreation, limited research exists on visitor interest in interpretation for dark skies in state and national parks. Nighttime visitors at nine Utah state and national park units certified as dark sky parks were surveyed to evaluate their preferences for dark sky-related interpretive topics and …
Integrating moral norms and stewardship identity into the theory of planned behavior to understand altruistic conservation behavior among hunters in southwestern Utah (USA)
We integrate moral norms and stewardship identity into the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict the use of non-lead ammunition in the California condor recovery zone of southwestern Utah. Data were collected from licensed hunters via an online survey. Structural equation models of the TPB without and with the moral norms and stewardship identity constructs were compared to evaluate the utility of integrating these constructs into the TPB. …
An exploratory study on Chinese tourists’ visitation to a U.S. National Park
This study adopts semi-structured interviews in Grand Teton National Park (GRTE) in the United States and aims to understand Chinese tourists’ decision-making processes and experiences. The results reveal that geographic distances, China's unique technical infrastructure and policies influence Chinese tourists’ information sources and reasons for visiting GRTE. Their information sources are unique, and their decisions for visiting GRTE are ad-hoc…
Pavement treatment type influences visitor experiences related to vehicular road sound in Death Valley National Park
In many parks and protected areas around the globe, reducing human-caused sounds is a critical component to providing quality visitor experiences. However, very little research examines the effect of vehicular road sounds on visitor experiences. Additionally, emerging pavement treatments have the potential to provide a new management tool for reducing impacts from vehicular road sounds. In this research, intercept surveys of visitors in Death Val…
What's ‘SUP’ with paddlers? Integrating spatial, social, and ecological data to understand behavior among paddlesport users at a popular lake destination
Using social media to measure and map visitation to public lands in Utah
Ecosystem services enhanced through soundscape management link people and wildlife
Burgeoning urbanization, development and human activities have led to reduced opportunities for nature experience in quiet acoustic environments. Increasing noise affects both humans and wildlife alike. We experimentally altered human‐caused sound levels in a paired study using informational signs that encouraged quiet behaviours in week‐on, week‐off blocks on the trail system of Muir Woods National Monument, California, USA to test if the sounds…
Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds
Levenhagen, M. J., Z. D. Miller, A. R. Petrelli, L. A. Ferguson, Y.-H. Shr, B. Taff, K. M. Fristrup, C. J. W. McClure, S. Burson, M. Giamellaro, P. Newman, C. D. Francis, and J. R. Barber. 2021. Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds? Ecology and Society 26(2):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12277-260232
Protected areas and noise abatement
Hunter and Non-Hunter Perceptions of Costs, Benefits, and Likelihood of Outcomes of Prescribed Fire in the Mid-Atlantic Region
In the mid-Atlantic region, prescribed fire is as an important tool for natural resource managers to achieve a variety of outcomes, including the management of wildlife habitat and wildfire risk reduction. However, little research has been conducted in this region to help inform managers about public perceptions and acceptance of prescribed fire. In this research, data from intercept surveys of hunter and non-hunters on public lands in New Jersey…
Beyond benefits
The challenge of managing protected areas to purvey benefits through visitor experiences has been a major subject of research within the fields of recreation and leisure. Driver and others have advocated for the benefits approach to leisure with relative success. However, this largely-social approach discounts the role of the setting in purveying benefits and the tradeoffs managers must make between ecological and visitor wellbeing. In an emergin…
A Theory of Planned Behavior approach to developing belief-based communication
Communicating with visitors to parks and other protected areas is an important strategy for reducing human-wildlife conflict. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) can be used to develop communication strategies that target specific beliefs and increase visitor compliance with desired behaviors. In this study, 647 day hikers participated in a self-administered electronic survey via an iPad with a response rate of 85%. A mixed methods approach was …
What do outdoor recreationists think of fracking? Politics, ideology, and perceptions of shale gas energy development in Pennsylvania State Forests
Understanding Visitor Motivations at Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
National park sites draw tourism all across the United States. Although large natural parks see much attention, most national park units are actually designed to protect and interpret unique cultural and historic resources. As an example of this, the National Park Service administers numerous presidential historic sites. However, we know very little about the people who visit them. Understanding visitor motivations to presidential historic sites …
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…
The Enduring Use of the Theory of Planned Behavior
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been used to understand a variety of different wildlife-related behaviors for more than two decades. Since its introduction, a large body of research involving this theory has allowed for a critical look at the concept to develop. This opinion piece is designed to give researchers and professionals in the field a holistic perspective on TPB, including the merits of using the theory, the criticisms of the t…
Using visual-based social norm methods to understand distance-related human–wildlife interactions
Distance-related human–wildlife interactions are a challenge in diverse settings across the globe. However, few methodological approaches have been proposed to explore the issue of distance in human dimensions research. Drawing from previous research related to crowding, noise pollution, and other visitor experience concepts, this methodological article describes a novel visual-based social norm method for evaluating distance-related human–wildli…
Birding by Ear
Soundscapes have become recognized as an important natural resource. The traditional human-made versus natural soundscape comparison currently used in recreational resource management is challenged by borrowing soundscape components (i.e., biophony, anthrophony, geophony) from soundscape ecology. This article evaluated the soundscape preference of birders. A three-component model of recreational specialization was used to evaluate how recreationi…
Birding by Ear
Soundscapes have become recognized as an important natural resource. The traditional human-made versus natural soundscape comparison currently used in recreational resource management is challenged by borrowing soundscape components (i.e., biophony, anthrophony, geophony) from soundscape ecology. This article evaluated the soundscape preference of birders. A three-component model of recreational specialization was used to evaluate how recreationi…
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…
The Enduring Use of the Theory of Planned Behavior
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been used to understand a variety of different wildlife-related behaviors for more than two decades. Since its introduction, a large body of research involving this theory has allowed for a critical look at the concept to develop. This opinion piece is designed to give researchers and professionals in the field a holistic perspective on TPB, including the merits of using the theory, the criticisms of the t…
Using visual-based social norm methods to understand distance-related human–wildlife interactions
Distance-related human–wildlife interactions are a challenge in diverse settings across the globe. However, few methodological approaches have been proposed to explore the issue of distance in human dimensions research. Drawing from previous research related to crowding, noise pollution, and other visitor experience concepts, this methodological article describes a novel visual-based social norm method for evaluating distance-related human–wildli…
Understanding Visitor Motivations at Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
National park sites draw tourism all across the United States. Although large natural parks see much attention, most national park units are actually designed to protect and interpret unique cultural and historic resources. As an example of this, the National Park Service administers numerous presidential historic sites. However, we know very little about the people who visit them. Understanding visitor motivations to presidential historic sites …
A Theory of Planned Behavior approach to developing belief-based communication
Communicating with visitors to parks and other protected areas is an important strategy for reducing human-wildlife conflict. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) can be used to develop communication strategies that target specific beliefs and increase visitor compliance with desired behaviors. In this study, 647 day hikers participated in a self-administered electronic survey via an iPad with a response rate of 85%. A mixed methods approach was …
What do outdoor recreationists think of fracking? Politics, ideology, and perceptions of shale gas energy development in Pennsylvania State Forests
Protected areas and noise abatement
Hunter and Non-Hunter Perceptions of Costs, Benefits, and Likelihood of Outcomes of Prescribed Fire in the Mid-Atlantic Region
In the mid-Atlantic region, prescribed fire is as an important tool for natural resource managers to achieve a variety of outcomes, including the management of wildlife habitat and wildfire risk reduction. However, little research has been conducted in this region to help inform managers about public perceptions and acceptance of prescribed fire. In this research, data from intercept surveys of hunter and non-hunters on public lands in New Jersey…
Beyond benefits
The challenge of managing protected areas to purvey benefits through visitor experiences has been a major subject of research within the fields of recreation and leisure. Driver and others have advocated for the benefits approach to leisure with relative success. However, this largely-social approach discounts the role of the setting in purveying benefits and the tradeoffs managers must make between ecological and visitor wellbeing. In an emergin…
Pavement treatment type influences visitor experiences related to vehicular road sound in Death Valley National Park
In many parks and protected areas around the globe, reducing human-caused sounds is a critical component to providing quality visitor experiences. However, very little research examines the effect of vehicular road sounds on visitor experiences. Additionally, emerging pavement treatments have the potential to provide a new management tool for reducing impacts from vehicular road sounds. In this research, intercept surveys of visitors in Death Val…
What's ‘SUP’ with paddlers? Integrating spatial, social, and ecological data to understand behavior among paddlesport users at a popular lake destination
Using social media to measure and map visitation to public lands in Utah
Ecosystem services enhanced through soundscape management link people and wildlife
Burgeoning urbanization, development and human activities have led to reduced opportunities for nature experience in quiet acoustic environments. Increasing noise affects both humans and wildlife alike. We experimentally altered human‐caused sound levels in a paired study using informational signs that encouraged quiet behaviours in week‐on, week‐off blocks on the trail system of Muir Woods National Monument, California, USA to test if the sounds…
Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds
Levenhagen, M. J., Z. D. Miller, A. R. Petrelli, L. A. Ferguson, Y.-H. Shr, B. Taff, K. M. Fristrup, C. J. W. McClure, S. Burson, M. Giamellaro, P. Newman, C. D. Francis, and J. R. Barber. 2021. Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds? Ecology and Society 26(2):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12277-260232
An exploratory study on Chinese tourists’ visitation to a U.S. National Park
This study adopts semi-structured interviews in Grand Teton National Park (GRTE) in the United States and aims to understand Chinese tourists’ decision-making processes and experiences. The results reveal that geographic distances, China's unique technical infrastructure and policies influence Chinese tourists’ information sources and reasons for visiting GRTE. Their information sources are unique, and their decisions for visiting GRTE are ad-hoc…
Integrating moral norms and stewardship identity into the theory of planned behavior to understand altruistic conservation behavior among hunters in southwestern Utah (USA)
We integrate moral norms and stewardship identity into the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict the use of non-lead ammunition in the California condor recovery zone of southwestern Utah. Data were collected from licensed hunters via an online survey. Structural equation models of the TPB without and with the moral norms and stewardship identity constructs were compared to evaluate the utility of integrating these constructs into the TPB. …
Communicating Darkness
Utah parks are attracting an increasing number of visitors due to the quality dark sky viewing opportunities. Despite increasing engagement in nighttime recreation, limited research exists on visitor interest in interpretation for dark skies in state and national parks. Nighttime visitors at nine Utah state and national park units certified as dark sky parks were surveyed to evaluate their preferences for dark sky-related interpretive topics and …
Geography (14 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Ecology (12 obras) · Environmental resource management (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Visitor pattern (9 obras) · National park (8 obras) · Environmental Science (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Urban Green Space and Health (7 obras)