Michael P. Nelson

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PhD Philosophy University of California, Riverside
Masters Philosophy University of California, Riverside
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Riverside

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Paul Nelson is an environmental scholar, writer, teacher, speaker, consultant, and Professor of environmental philosophy and ethics at Oregon State University. Nelson is also the philosopher in residence of the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project, a senior fellow with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written word, and the co-founder and co-director of the Conservation Ethics Group. From 2012 to 2022 he served as the Lead Principal Investigator for the H.J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research Program and held the Ruth H. Spaniol Chair in Renewable Resources at Oregon State .

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Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores (2014) (2383)
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation (2018) (652)
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation (2017) (313)
The Great New Wilderness Debate (1998) (302)
BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene (2018) (210)
Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna (2016) (169)
Evaluating whether nature's intrinsic value is an axiom of or anathema to conservation (2015) (160)
Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation (2018) (155)
On Advocacy by Environmental Scientists: What, Whether, Why, and How (2009) (132)
For goodness sake! What is intrinsic value and why should we care? (2017) (113)
Congenital bone deformities and the inbred wolves (Canis lupus) of Isle Royale (2009) (94)
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (2011) (93)
Emotions and the Ethics of Consequence in Conservation Decisions: Lessons from Cecil the Lion (2016) (90)
Sustainability: Virtuous or Vulgar? (2010) (80)
Four cultures: new synergies for engaging society on climate change (2010) (78)
The Normative Dimension and Legal Meaning of Endangered and Recovery in the U.S. Endangered Species Act (2006) (74)
Increased osteoblast adhesion on nanoparticulate crystalline hydroxyapatite functionalized with KRSR (2006) (72)
Resolving the value of the dingo in ecological restoration (2015) (70)
Promoting predators and compassionate conservation (2015) (65)
What are 60 warblers worth? Killing in the name of conservation (2007) (64)
Editing nature: Local roots of global governance (2018) (62)
Why the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is Problematic for Modern Wildlife Management (2017) (60)
Framing a Philosophy of Environmental Action: Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and the Importance of Community (2011) (57)
The elephant (head) in the room: A critical look at trophy hunting (2019) (53)
The wilderness debate rages on : continuing the great new wilderness debate (2008) (51)
Moral dimensions of human–wildlife conflict (2016) (48)
Removing Protections for Wolves and the Future of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (1973) (2014) (43)
Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now (2017) (43)
Geography and Recovery under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (2010) (37)
What the Inbred Scandinavian Wolf Population Tells Us about the Nature of Conservation (2013) (36)
Conservationists’ moral obligations toward wildlife: Values and identity promote conservation conflict (2019) (31)
When all life counts in conservation (2019) (30)
Promoting wildlife health or fighting wildlife disease: Insights from History, Philosophy, and Science (2012) (28)
Wolf Hunting and the Ethics of Predator Control (2017) (27)
Conceptual Ambiguities and Practical Challenges of Ecological Forestry: A Critical Review (2016) (26)
American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study (2003) (23)
Evaluating the principles of wildlife conservation: a case study of wolf (Canis lupus) hunting in Michigan, United States (2017) (20)
The Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project (1958-present) and the wonder of long-term ecological research. (2011) (20)
Cautioning against overemphasis of normative constructs in conservation decision making (2019) (19)
Science, Ethics, and the Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis (2011) (18)
The moral residue of conservation (2020) (18)
Conservation Triage Falls Short Because Conservation Is Not Like Emergency Medicine (2017) (17)
Exploring the ethical basis for conservation policy: the case of inbred wolves on Isle Royale, USA (2011) (16)
1. The Infirm Ethical Foundations of Conservation (2019) (16)
The Ethics of Eliminating Harmful Species: The Case of the Tsetse Fly (2018) (15)
Considering the Case for Diversity in Natural Resources (2020) (15)
Heroes or thieves? The ethical grounds for lingering concerns about new conservation (2017) (14)
Place-Based Care Ethics: A Field Philosophy Pedagogy. (2014) (14)
Emotion as a source of moral understanding in conservation (2021) (13)
Normativity and the Meaning of Endangered: Response to Waples et al. 2007 (2007) (13)
Field philosophy: environmental learning and moral development in Isle Royale National Park (2017) (13)
Demystifying the human dimension of ecological research (2017) (12)
The value of argument analysis for understanding ethical considerations pertaining to trophy hunting and lion conservation (2019) (11)
Teaching Holism in Environmental Ethics (2010) (11)
Field philosophy: dualism to complexity through the borderland (2014) (10)
Nature for whom? How type of beneficiary influences the effectiveness of conservation outreach messages (2018) (10)
Towards Human–Wildlife Coexistence through the Integration of Human and Natural Systems (2019) (10)
Arts and Humanities Efforts in the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Understanding Perceived Values and Challenges (2015) (10)
Rethinking Wilderness: The Need for a New Idea of Wilderness (1996) (9)
Moving Toward a Global Moral Consensus on Environmental Action (2013) (8)
Pathways from Environmental Ethics to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Insights from Psychology (2020) (8)
Michigan Mute Swan Management: A Case Study to Understand Contentious Natural Resource Management Issues (2016) (8)
Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem ManagementBY BRYAN G. NORTON xviii + 607 pp., 22.5 × 15 × 3.5 cm, ISBN 0 226 59521 8 paperback, US$ 37.50/GB £ 24.00, Chicago, USA: The University of Chicago Press, 2005 (2007) (7)
Arts and humanities inquiry in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network: empathy, relationships, and interdisciplinary collaborations (2017) (7)
Enhancing Public Trust in Federal Forest Management (2017) (6)
Temporal consistency of undercanopy thermal refugia in old-growth forest (2021) (6)
The World and the Wild: Expanding Wilderness Conservation beyond its American Roots (2004) (6)
Resilience: insights from the U.S. LongTerm Ecological Research Network (2021) (6)
On Doing Helpful Philosophy (2008) (5)
The Anthropocene: disturbing name, limited insight (2015) (5)
Ethical Foundations for the Lethal Management of Double-Crested Cormorants (Phalocrocorax auritus) in the Eastern United States: An Argument Analysis (2018) (5)
Ecological value and the US Endangered Species Act: Comment on Waples et al. (2015) (2016) (5)
What Drives Declining Support for Long-Term Ecological Research? (2020) (5)
The role of science in understanding (and saving) large carnivores: A response to Allen and colleagues (2017) (4)
Wilderness, Value of (2013) (4)
Challenges at the intersection of conservation and ethics: Reply to Meyer et al. 2021 (2020) (3)
Discernment and Precaution : A Response to Cochrane and Mech (2013) (3)
Translating climate change policy into forest management practice in a multiple-use context: the role of ethics (2018) (3)
Earthcare: An Anthology in Environmental Ethics (2009) (3)
Earth, Air, Water. . . Ethics (2003) (3)
Trophy hunting: Values inform policy (2019) (3)
A Defense of Environmental Ethics: A Reply to Janna Thompson (1993) (2)
Hunted predators: Intrinsic value. (2015) (2)
Rewilding the American West (2022) (2)
ALDO LEOPOLD, ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, AND THE LAND ETHIC (1998) (2)
The Moral Urgency of Action to Protect the World's Megafauna (2016) (2)
Teaching the Land Ethic (2004) (2)
Exploring the ins and outs of biodiversity in the moral community (2020) (2)
Defending the value of intrinsic value: A reply to Schaubroeck (2018) (2017) (1)
On Doing Helpful Philosophy - Commentary on 'Redefining Ecological Ethics: Science, Policy, and Philosophy at Cape Horn' (2008) (1)
ORIGINS OF THE DEEP ECOLOGY MOVEMENT (2008) (1)
Ethical Reasoning for Natural Resource Professionals (2019) (1)
The Logical and Practical Necessity of Ethics in Ecological Forestry: A Reply to Palik and D'Amato 2016 (2017) (1)
Should We Preserve the Wolves of Isle Royale? An Empirical Assessment ofPublic Input (2016) (0)
Socrates Goes to the Woods (2008) (0)
Fusing Science and Ethics: Tools for Natural Resource Educators (2008) (0)
Mountain Thinking: A Howl for Environmental Ethics (2006) (0)
IPCC Handout.doc (2017) (0)
Creating Dirty Minds: The Promise of Outdoor Philosophy (2008) (0)
Singing Hope's Praises (2016) (0)
How We Continue to Perpetuate the Attitude of Human Superiority in Environmental Science and Management—and What We Can Do about It (2021) (0)
J. Baird Callicott 1941 (2017) (0)
An interrupted history of digital divides (2016) (0)
Integration of the Arts and Humanities with Environmental Science in the LTER Network (2021) (0)
Martin Gorke. The Death of Our Planet's Species: A Challenge to Ecology and Ethics (2005) (0)
Environmental Humanities Initiative3 (2).doc (2017) (0)
FORECASTING EARTH ’ S ECOSYSTEMS WITH LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH Resilience: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network (2021) (0)
The conservation social sciences: An overview and a process for setting a research agenda (2015) (0)
Why it's Wrong to Wreck the World: Moving from Description and Disempowerment Toward Integrity (2015) (0)
Edward L. McCord: Review of The Value of Species (2015) (0)
Linda Sargent Wood: A More Perfect Union: Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II (2012) (0)
The Pine Island Paradox (2007) (0)
Challenges at the intersection of conservation and ethics: Reply to Meyer et#x26;#x26;#x000A0;al. 2021 (2021) (0)
The Science of Climate Change: A Love Story (2022) (0)
The Next Aldo Leopold: A Place for Moral Reasoning in Natural Resource Education (2008) (0)
At the Intersection of Ecology, Philosophy, and Ethics (2019) (0)
Diversity Beyond Demographics: Environmental Worldviews of Forestry and Natural Resource Undergraduate Students (2021) (0)
Socrates Goes to the Woods: Including Philosophy and Ethics in the Fisheries and Wildlife Curriculum (2008) (0)
Philosophy caused our environmental mess, and can fix it too (2022) (0)
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection, BY LISA H. SIDERIS, viii + 311 pp., 23×15×1.8 cm, ISBN 0 231 12661 1 paperback, US$ 24.50/GB£ 18.00, New York, USA: Columbia University Press, 2003 (2004) (0)
Forest discovery: place relationships on an environmental science, arts and humanities (eSAH) field trip (2020) (0)
Lynn White, Jr 1907–1987 (2017) (0)
Distinguishing Wilderness Conceptions (2010) (0)
Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground (2005) (0)
How environmental science might contribute to a new worldview (2022) (0)
The logic of persistence (2010) (0)
The Venn Diagram from Hell (2020) (0)
Field philosophy: dualism to complexity through the borderland (2014) (0)
Hydrochemical responses of an old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest to future climate change under the representative concentration pathway scenarios (2018) (0)
Infinite Nature.. By Bruce R. Hull. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 258 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $25.00 (2007) (0)

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