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6807
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7292
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2452

Overview

Tara L. Teel is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research primarily intersects with Ecology, Social Psychology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Genetics.

Their scholarly output includes significant work on topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal and Plant Science Education, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Geographies of human-animal interactions, and Forest Management and Policy.

Teel has frequently published in a number of academic venues, with notable contributions in Conservation Science and Practice and Human Dimensions of Wildlife, each with four publications. Other repeated venues include Conservation Biology, Nature Sustainability, and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, where they have published two papers each.

Representative recent papers include:

  • The changing sociocultural context of wildlife conservation, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work, 2021, Global Environmental Change
  • 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

Throughout their career, Tara L. Teel has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Michael J. Manfredo
  • Jeremy T. Bruskotter
  • Richard E. W. Berl
  • Alan D. Bright
  • Rebecca M. Niemiec

The combination of publications, collaboration patterns, and topical focus illustrate an interdisciplinary approach that bridges social science perspectives with ecological and conservation issues. The work also reflects an engagement with environmental policy, education, and stakeholder integration in wildlife and habitat management.

Best Publications

  • Conservation social science: understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Robin Roth;Sarah C. Klain;Kai Chan

  • Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Robin Roth;Sarah C. Klain;Kai M. A. Chan

  • 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

  • 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

  • Implications of human value shift and persistence for biodiversity conservation

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

  • A conceptual model for the integration of social and ecological information to understand human-wildlife interactions

    Stacy A. Lischka;Stacy A. Lischka;Tara L. Teel;Heather E. Johnson;Sarah E. Reed;Sarah E. Reed

  • 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

  • The changing sociocultural context of wildlife conservation.

    Michael J. Manfredo;Tara L. Teel;Andrew W. Don Carlos;Leeann Sullivan

  • The Potential for Conflict Index: A Graphic Approach to Practical Significance of Human Dimensions Research

    Michael J. Manfredo;Jerry J. Vaske;Tara L. Teel

  • Human-Black Bear Conflict in Urban Areas: An Integrated Approach to Management Response

    Andrew W. Don Carlos;Alan D. Bright;Tara L. Teel;Jerry J. Vaske

  • Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work

    Cara Steger;Julia A. Klein;Robin S. Reid;Sandra Lavorel

  • Patterns of human–coyote conflicts in the Denver Metropolitan Area†

    Sharon A. Poessel;Stewart W. Breck;Tara L. Teel;Stephanie A. Shwiff

  • Are attitudes toward wolves changing? A case study in Utah

    Jeremy T. Bruskotter;Robert H. Schmidt;Tara L. Teel

  • Understanding the cognitive basis for human-wildlife relationships as a key to successful protected-area management

    Tara L. Teel;Michael J. Manfredo;Frank S. Jensen;Arjen E. Buijs

  • Social value shift in favour of biodiversity conservation in the United States

    Michael J. Manfredo;Tara L. Teel;Richard E. W. Berl;Jeremy T. Bruskotter

  • Utah stakeholdersʼ attitudes towardselected predator management issues

    Tara L. Teel;Richard S. Krannich;Robert H. Schmidt

  • Publishing social science research in Conservation Biology to move beyond biology.

    Tara L. Teel;Christopher Brian Anderson;Mark A. Burgman;Joshua Cinner

  • Evidence of biased processing of natural resource-related information: A study of attitudes toward drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

    Tara L. Teel;Alan D. Bright;Michael J. Manfredo;Jeffrey J. Brooks

  • Human Dimensions of wildlife

    Maarten H. Jacobs;Jerry J. Vaske;Tara L. Teel;Michael J. Manfredo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Manfredo
Michael J. Manfredo Colorado State University
Kevin R. Crooks
Kevin R. Crooks Colorado State University
Jeremy T. Bruskotter
Jeremy T. Bruskotter The Ohio State University
Nathan J. Bennett
Nathan J. Bennett University of British Columbia
Stewart W. Breck
Stewart W. Breck United States Department of Agriculture
Kai M. A. Chan
Kai M. A. Chan University of British Columbia
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joel Berger
Joel Berger Colorado State University
Richard C. Stedman
Richard C. Stedman Cornell University
Robert Arlinghaus
Robert Arlinghaus Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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