Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

35. Charnley, S., Kelly, E. C., & Fischer, A. P. (2020). Fostering collective action to reduce wildfire risk across property boundaries in the American West. Environmental Research Letters, 15(2), 025007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab639a

34. Hamilton, M., Salerno, J., & Fischer, A. P. (2019). Cognition of complexity and trade-offs in a wildfire-prone social-ecological system. Environmental Research Letters, 14(12), 125017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab59c1

33. Sayles, J., Mancilla Garcia, M., Hamilton, M., Alexander, S., Baggio, J., Fischer, A. P., Ingold, K., Meredith, G., & Pittman, J. (2019). Social-ecological network analysis for sustainability sciences: a systematic review and innovative research agenda for the future. Environmental Research Letters, 14(9), 093003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2619

32. Bodin, Ö., Alexander, S. M., Baggio, J., Barnes, M. L., Berardo, R., Cumming, G. S., Dee, L., Fischer, M., Fischer, A. P., Mancilla-Garcia, M., Guerrero, A., Hileman, J., Ingold, K., Matous, P., Morrison, T. H., Nohrstedt, D., Pittman, J., Robins, G., & Sayles, J. (2019). Improving network approaches to the study of complex social-ecological interdependencies. Nature Sustainability, 2, 551-559. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0308-0

31. Fischer, A. P. (2019). Characterizing behavioral adaptation to climate change in temperate forests. Landscape and Urban Planning, 188, 72-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.09.024

30. Fischer, A. P., Klooster, A., & Cirhigiri, L. (2019). Cooperation across property boundaries to manage forest landscapes: collective action and social exchange among individual landowners. Landscape and Urban Planning, 188, 151-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.02.004

29. Fischer, A. P. (2019). Adapting and coping with climate change in temperate forests. Global Environmental Change, 54, 160-171. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.10.011

28. Hamilton, M., Fischer, A. P., & Ager, A. (2019). A social-ecological network approach for understanding wildfire risk governance. Global Environmental Change, 54, 113-123. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.11.007

27. Hamilton, M., A.P. Fischer, S. Guikema and G. Keppel-Aleks. (2018). Behavioral adaptation to climate change in fire-prone forests. Wires Climate Change, 9(6), e553. doi:doi:10.1002/wcc.553

26. Fischer, A.P. (2018). Forest landscapes as socioecological systems. Landscape and Urban Planning. 177: 138-147.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.05.001

25. Fischer, A.P. (2018) Pathways of adaptation to external stressors: implications for climate change in coastal natural resource-dependent communities. World Development. 108: 235-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.007

24. Fischer, A. P. and Frazier, T. G. (2018). Social vulnerability to climate change in temperate forest areas: incorporating new measures of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108(3): 658-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2017.1387046

23. Kline, J.D., E.M. White, A.P. Fischer, M. Steen-Adams, S. Charnley, C. Olsen, T.A. Spies, and J.D. Bailey. (2017). Integrating social science into empirical models of coupled human and natural systems. Ecology and Society 22(1).

22. Fischer, A. P., & Jasny, L. (2017). Capacity to adapt to environmental change: evidence from a network of organizations concerned with increasing wildfire risk. Ecology and Society, 22(1):23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08867-220123

21. Fischer, A. P., Spies, T. A., Steelman, T. A., Moseley, C., Johnson, B. R., Bailey, J. D., Ager, A. A., Bourgeron, P., Charnley, S., Collins, B. M., Kline, J. D., Leahy, J. E., Littell, J. S., Millington, J. D. A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Olsen, C. S., Paveglio, T. B., Roos, C. I., Steen-Adams, M. M., Stevens, F. R., Vukomanovic, J., White, E. M., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2016). Wildfire risk as a socio-ecological pathology. Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment, 14(5), 1-9. doi:10.1002/fee.1283

20. Fischer, A. P., Vance-Borland, K., Jasny, L., Grimm, K. E., & Charnley, S. (2016). A network approach to assessing social capacity for landscape planning: the case of fire-prone forests in Oregon, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning, 147, 18-27. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.10.006

19. Fischer, A.P. (2015). A boundary-spanning organization for transdisciplinary science on land stewardship: The Stewardship Network. Ecology and Society, 20(4). doi: 10.5751/ES-08121-200438.

18. Ager A. A., Kline J. D., & Fischer A. P. (2015). Coupling the biophysical and social dimensions of wildfire risk to improve wildfire mitigation planning. Risk Analysis, 35, 1393-1406. doi: 10.1111/risa.12373

17. Paveglio, T. B., Moseley C., Carroll M. S., Williams D. R., Davis, E. J., & Fischer, A. P. (2014). Categorizing the social context of the wildland urban interface: adaptive capacity for wildfire and community ‘archetypes’. Forest Science, 61(2), 298-310. doi:10.5849/forsci.14-036

16. Olsen, C., Mazzotta, D., Toman, E., & Fischer, A. P. (2014). Communicating about smoke from wildland fire: challenges and opportunities for managers. Environmental Management, 54(3), 571-582.

15. Fischer, A. P., Vance-Borland, K., Burnett, K. M., Hummel, S., Creighton, J. H., Johnson, S. L., & Jasny, L. (2014). Does the social capital in networks of fish and fire scientists and managers suggest learning? Society & Natural Resources, 27(7), 671-688.

14. Spies, T. A., White, E. M., Kline, J. D., Fischer, A. P., Ager, A., Bailey, J., Bolte, J., Koch, J., Platt, E., Olsen, C. S., Jacobs, D., Shindler, B., Steen-Adams, M. M., & Hammer, R. (2014). Examining fire-prone forest landscapes as coupled human and natural systems. Ecology and Society, 19(3).

13. Fischer, A. P., Kline, J. D., Ager, A., Charnley, S. & Olsen, K. (2013). Objective and perceived wildfire risk and their influence on private forest owners’ fuel treatment activities in Oregon’s ponderosa pine region. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 22(8), 143-153.

12. Fischer, A. P., Paveglio, T., Carroll, M., Murphy, D. & Brenkert-Smith, H. (2013). Assessing social vulnerability to climate change in human communities near public forests and grasslands: a framework for resource managers and planners. Journal of Forestry, 111(5), 357-365.

11. Fischer, A. P., Korejwa, A., Koch, J., Spies, T. A., Olsen, C. S., White, E. M., & Jacobs, D. (2013). Using an agent-based social network model to investigate interactions between social and ecological systems: early reflections on the Forest, People, Fire project. Practicing Anthropology, 35(1), 8-13.

10. Fischer, A. P., Kline, J. D., Charnley, S., & Olsen, C. S. (2012). Identifying policy target groups with qualitative and quantitative methods: the case of wildfire risk on nonindustrial private forest lands. Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, 25, 62-71.

9. Fischer, A. P., & Charnley, S. (2012). Risk and cooperation: reducing hazardous fuels on private forest lands in eastern Oregon. Environmental Management, 49(6), 1192-1207.

8. Fischer, A. P., & Charnley, S. (2012). Private forest owners and invasive plants in Oregon: risk perception and management. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 5(3), 375-398.

7. Fischer, A. P. (2011). Reducing hazardous fuels on nonindustrial private forests: factors influencing landowner decisions. Journal of Forestry, 109(5), 260-266.

6. Fischer, A. P., Bliss, J., Ingemarson, F., Lidestav, G., & Lönnstedt, L. (2010). From the small woodland problem to ecosocial systems: the evolution of social research on small-scale forestry in Sweden and the USA. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 25(4), 390-398.

5. Fischer, A. P., & Charnley, S. (2010). Social and cultural influences on management for carbon sequestration on U.S. family forestlands: a literature synthesis. International Journal of Forestry Research, 14.

4. Fischer, A. P. & Bliss, J. C. (2009). Framing conservation on private lands: conserving oak in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Society and Natural Resources, 22(10), 884-900.

3. Fischer, A. P. & Bliss, J. C. (2008). Behavioral assumptions of conservation policy: conserving oak habitat on family forestland in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Conservation Biology, 22(2), 275-283.

2. Charnley, S., Fischer, A. P., & Jones, E. T. (2007). Integrating traditional and local ecological knowledge into forest biodiversity conservation in the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management, 246, 14–28.

1. Fischer, A. P. & Bliss, J. C. (2006). Mental and biophysical terrains of biodiversity: conservation of oak woodland on family forests. Society and Natural Resources, 19(7), 625-643.

Books and Book Chapters

2. Flitcroft,R., Cerveny, L., Bormann, B.,Smith, J.,Asah, S., & Fischer, A. P. (2017). From involvement to participation, the emergence of watershed and forest collaboratives. Chapter 9. In Olson, D., & VanHorne, B. (Eds.), People, Forests, and Change: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest (116-133). Washington D.C.: Island Press.

1. Bliss, J. C. & Fischer, A. P. (2011). Toward a political ecology of ecosystem restoration. In Egan, D. J., Hjerpe, E., & Abrams, J. (Eds.), Integrating Nature and Culture: Exploring the Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration (136-148). Washington D.C.: Island Press.

Other Refereed Publications

4. Kline, J. D., Ager, A. A. and Fischer, A. P. (2016). A conceptual framework for coupling the biophysical and social dimensions of wildfire to improve fireshed planning and risk mitigation. In Proceedings of the 13th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit & 4th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, April 20-24, 2015, Boise, Idaho, USA Published by the International Association of Wildland Fire, Missoula, Montana, USA, 204 pp.

3. Hummel, S., Fischer, A. P., Lowell, E., & Lehmkuhl, J. (2015). Social trends affecting successful implementation of forest restoration guidelines. In Silviculture and monitoring guidelines for integrating restoration of dry mixed-conifer forest and spotted owl habitat management in the Eastern Cascade range, Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-915. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR. 158 pp.

2. Fischer, A. P., & Bliss, J. C. (2006). Oak in the Valley: A case study of private forest conservation in the United States. In Proceedings of the IUFRO 3.08 Small-scale Forestry International Symposium: Small-scale Forestry and Rural Development: The Intersection of Ecosystems, Economics and Society, June 18-23, 2006, Galway, Ireland.

1. Charnley, S., Fischer, A. P. & Jones, E. T. (2008). Traditional and local ecological knowledge about forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-751. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 52 pp.

Other Published Materials

3. Koch, G., Ager, A., Kline, J., & Fischer, A. P. (2016). Polishing the prism: improving wildfire mitigation planning by coupling landscape and social dimensions. Science Findings, Issue 189, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.

2. O’Callaghan, J., Fischer, A. P. & Charnley, S. (2012). Managing wildfire risk in fire-prone landscapes: how are private landowners contributing? Science Findings, Issue 154, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.

1. Fischer, A. P. (2005). Listening to landowners: conservation case studies from Oregon's Willamette Valley. West Linn, OR, Defenders of Wildlife: 39 p.