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Overview

Michael J. Manfredo is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a strong emphasis on wildlife ecology and conservation. Over the course of their career, they have contributed 24 publications to this field, exploring various interconnected subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, social psychology, ecological modeling, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The main topics they have explored include wildlife ecology and conservation, animal and plant science education, forest management and policy, species distribution and climate change, geographies of human-animal interactions, conservation ecology, wildlife education, and economic and environmental valuation.

Michael J. Manfredo has authored several papers published in notable academic venues. Some of the recent works include:

  • The changing sociocultural context of wildlife conservation (2020), Conservation Biology
  • Social value shift in favour of biodiversity conservation in the United States (2020), Nature Sustainability
  • Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions (2021), Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Integrating social science into conservation planning (2021), Biological Conservation
  • Evaluating alternative survey methodologies in human dimensions of wildlife research (2022), Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Their frequent co-authors consist of Tara L. Teel, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Leeann Sullivan, Richard E. W. Berl, and Andrew W. Don Carlos. The scholar often publishes in several prominent venues, including Conservation Science and Practice, Nature Sustainability, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Biodiversity and Conservation, and Conservation Biology.

This profile highlights a body of work founded on integrating social science perspectives into environmental and wildlife conservation efforts, as well as applying ecological and policy-related approaches to address current issues in conservation biology and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Measuring Leisure Motivation: A Meta-Analysis of the Recreation Experience Preference Scales

    Michael J. Manfredo;B. L. Driver;Michael A. Tarrant

  • Wildlife value orientations: A conceptual and measurement approach

    David C. Fulton;Michael J. Manfredo;James Lipscomb

  • Understanding the diversity of public interests in wildlife conservation.

    Tara L. Teel;Michael J. Manfredo

  • Linking Society and Environment: A Multilevel Model of Shifting Wildlife Value Orientations in the Western United States*

    Michael J. Manfredo;Tara L. Teel;Kimberly L. Henry

  • Concepts for Exploring the Social Aspects of Human–Wildlife Conflict in a Global Context

    Michael J. Manfredo;Ashley A. Dayer

  • Why social values cannot be changed for the sake of conservation.

    Michael J. Manfredo;Jeremy T. Bruskotter;Tara L. Teel;David C. Fulton

  • Why Are Public Values Toward Wildlife Changing

    Michael Manfredo;Tara Teel;Alan Bright

  • Using normative beliefs to determine the acceptability of wildlife management actions

    Harry C. Zinn;Michael J. Manfredo;Jerry J. Vaske;Karin Wittmann

  • Opinion: Governing the recreational dimension of global fisheries.

    Robert Arlinghaus;Robert Arlinghaus;Joshua K. Abbott;Eli P. Fenichel;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • A test of concepts inherent in experience based setting management for outdoor recreation areas.

    Michael J. Manfredo;B. L. Driver;Perry J. Brown

  • Specificity and the Cognitive Hierarchy: Value Orientations and the Acceptability of Urban Wildlife Management Actions

    Doug Whittaker;Jerry J. Vaske;Michael J. Manfredo

  • Who Cares About Wildlife?: Social Science Concepts for Exploring Human-Wildlife Relationships and Conservation Issues

    Michael J. Manfredo

  • Application of the theory of reasoned action to the National Park Service's controlled burn policy.

    Alan D. Bright;Michael J. Manfredo;Martin Fishbein;Alistair Bath

  • Who Cares About Wildlife

    Michael J Manfredo

  • A conceptual model of attitudes toward natural resource issues: A case study of wolf reintroduction

    Alan D. Bright;Michael J. Manfredo

  • Implications of human value shift and persistence for biodiversity conservation

    Michael J. Manfredo;Tara L. Teel;Alia M. Dietsch

  • Segmenting the public: an application of value orientations to wildlife planning in Colorado

    Alan D. Bright;Michael J. Manfredo;David C. Fulton

  • Attitudes toward prescribed fire policies.

    Michael J. Manfredo;Martin Fishbein;Glenn E. Haas;Alan E. Watson

  • The Need and Theoretical Basis for Exploring Wildlife Value Orientations Cross-Culturally

    Tara L. Teel;Michael J. Manfredo;Holly M. Stinchfield

  • Values, trust, and cultural backlash in conservation governance: The case of wildlife management in the United States

    Michael J. Manfredo;Tara L. Teel;Leeann Sullivan;Alia M. Dietsch

  • A model for assessing the effects of communication on recreationists.

    Michael J. Manfredo;Alan D. Bright

Frequent Co-Authors

Tara L. Teel
Tara L. Teel Colorado State University
Jerry J. Vaske
Jerry J. Vaske Colorado State University
Jeremy T. Bruskotter
Jeremy T. Bruskotter The Ohio State University
Robert Arlinghaus
Robert Arlinghaus Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel J. Decker
Daniel J. Decker Cornell University
Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn University of Washington
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago
Ayse K. Uskul
Ayse K. Uskul University of Sussex

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