Daniel R. Williams, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Laurie Yung, Daniel J. Murphy, Daniel R. Williams, Carina Wyborn, Courtney Schultz. 2025. Response to Reynolds et al. (2024), Accurately characterizing climate change scenario planning in the U.S. National Park Service
• Daniel R. Williams, Brett Alan Miller. 2024. From roots to rhizomes: Place, transitions, and translocality in a less stationary world [Chapter 15]
• Sarah Gottwald, Iga Kołodynska, Matthias Buchecker, Andres Di Masso, Nora Fagerholm, Maciej Frackowiak, Hakkarainen Viola, Katarzyna Kajdanek, Ursula Lau, Lynne C. Manzo, Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka, Jasmine Pearson, Tara Quinn, Lukasz Rogowski, Richard Stedman, William P. Stewart, Agnieszka Trabka, Daniel R. Williams, Timo von Wirth, Jakub Zawieska, Christopher M. Raymond. 2024. Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance - A research agenda
• Lynne C. Manzo, Daniel R. Williams, Andres Di Masso, Christopher M. Raymond, Natalie Gulsrud. 2023. Using senses of place to help communities navigate place disruption and uncertainty
• Daniel J. Murphy, Laurie Yung, Courtney Schultz, Brett Alan Miller, Carina Wyborn, Daniel R. Williams. 2023. Understanding perceptions of climate change scenario planning in United States public land management agencies
• Laurie Yung, Benjamin J. Gray, Carina Wyborn, Brett Alan Miller, Daniel R. Williams, Maureen Essen. 2022. New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation
• Brett Alan Miller, Laurie Yung, Carina Wyborn, Maureen Essen, Benjamin Gray, Daniel R. Williams. 2022. Re-envisioning wildland fire governance: Addressing the transboundary, uncertain, and contested aspects of wildfire
• Evora Glenn, Laurie Yung, Carina Wyborn, Daniel R. Williams. 2022. Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities
• Christopher M. Raymond, Daniel R. Williams, Andrew Di Masso, Lynne C. Manzo, Timo von Wirth. 2021. Introduction: Senses of place in the face of global challenges
• Lynne C. Manzo, Daniel R. Williams, Christopher M. Raymond, Andres Di Masso, Timo von Wirth, Patrick Devine-Wright. 2021. Navigating the spaciousness of uncertainties posed by global challenges: A senses of place perspective [Chapter 25]
• Dan Murphy, Daniel R. Williams. 2021. Navigating the temporalities of place in climate adaptation: Case studies from the US [Chapter 2]
• Kevin S. McKelvey, William M. Block, Terrie B. Jain, Charlie H. Luce, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Bryce A. Richardson, Vicki A. Saab, Anna W. Schoettle, Carolyn H. Sieg, Daniel R. Williams. 2021. Adapting research, management, and governance to confront socioecological uncertainties in novel ecosystems
• Daniel R. Williams, Brett Alan. Miller. 2020. Metatheoretical moments in place attachment research: Seeking clarity in diversity [Chapter 1]
• Patrick Devine-Wright, Lais Pinto de Carvalho, Andres Di Masso, Maria Lewicka, Lynee Manzo, Daniel R. Williams. 2020. “Re-placed” - Reconsiderations of relationships with place and lessons from a pandemic
• Catrin M. Edgeley, Travis B. Paveglio, Daniel R. Williams. 2020. Support for regulatory and voluntary approaches to wildfire adaptation among unincorporated wildland-urban interface communities
• Odd Inge Vistad, Hogne Oian, Daniel R. Williams, Patricia Stokowski. 2020. Long-distant hikers and their inner journeys: On motives and pilgrimage to Nidaros, Norway
• Dale Blahna, Jeffrey D. Kline, Daniel R. Williams, Karla Rogers, Anna B. Miller, Stephen F. McCool, Francisco Valenzuela. 2020. Chapter 12: Integrating social, ecological, and economic factors in sustainable recreation planning and decisionmaking
• Dale Blahna, Lee K. Cerveny, Daniel R. Williams, Jeffrey D. Kline, Matthew Helmer, Stephen F. McCool, Francisco Valenzuela. 2020. Chapter 5: Rethinking “outdoor recreation” to account for the diversity of human experiences and connections to public lands
• Andres Di Masso, Daniel R. Williams, Christopher M. Raymond, Matthias Buchecker, Barbara Degenhardt, Patrick Devine-Wright, Alice Hertzog, Maria Lewicka, Lynne Manzo, Azadeh Shahrad, Richard Stedman, Laura Verbrugge, Timo von Wirth. 2019. Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world
• Travis B. Paveglio, Matthew S. Carroll, Amanda M. Stasiewicz, Daniel R. Williams, Dennis R. Becker. 2018. Incorporating social diversity into wildfire management: Proposing 'pathways' for fire adaptation
• David N. N. Bengston, Jonathan Peck, Robert Olson, Melissa Barros, Richard Birdsey, Daniel R. Williams, Juan Carlos Leyva Reyes, Francisco José Zamudio. 2018. North American Forest Futures 2018-2090: Scenarios for Building a More Resilient Forest Sector
• Daniel R. Williams. 2018. Spacing conservation practice: Place-making, social learning, and adaptive governance in natural resource management [Chapter 15]
• Alison Steiner, Daniel R. Williams. 2017. Fostering personal relationships with the wild: Oral history's role in recreation management
• Daniel R. Williams. 2017. The role of place-based social learning [Chapter 7]
• Daniel J. Murphy, Laurie Yung, Carina Wyborn, Daniel R. Williams. 2017. Rethinking climate change adaptation and place through a situated pathways framework: A case study from the Big Hole Valley, USA
• Vegard Gundersen, Bjorn Petter Kaltenborn, Daniel R. Williams. 2016. A bridge over troubled water: A contextual analysis of social vulnerability to climate change in a riverine landscape in south-east Norway
• Brian Cooke, Daniel R. Williams, Travis Paveglio, Matthew Carroll. 2016. Living with fire: How social scientists are helping wildland-urban interface communities reduce wildfire risk
• Daniel Murphy, Carina Wyborn, Laurie Yung, Daniel R. Williams, Cory Cleveland, Lisa Eby, Solomon Dobrowski, Erin Towler. 2016. Engaging communities and climate change futures with Multi-Scale, Iterative Scenario Building (MISB) in the western United States
• Alan E. Watson, Steve Martin, Neal Christensen, Gregg Fauth, Daniel R. Williams. 2015. The relationship between perceptions of wilderness character and attitudes toward management intervention to adapt biophysical resources to a changing climate and nature restoration at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
• Daniel R. Williams, Joseph G. Champ. 2015. Performing leisure, making place: Wilderness identity and representation in online trip reports [Chapter 16]
• Daniel J. Murphy, Carina Wyborn, Laurie Yung, Daniel R. Williams. 2015. Key concepts and methods in social vulnerability and adaptive capacity
• Tavis B. Paveglio, Cassandra Moseley, Matthew S. Carroll, Daniel R. Williams, Emily Jane Davis, A. Paige Fischer. 2015. Categorizing the social context of the wildland urban interface: Adaptive capacity for wildfire and community "archetypes"
• Carina Wyborn, Laurie Yung, Daniel Murphy, Daniel R. Williams. 2015. Situating adaptation: How governance challenges and perceptions of uncertainty influence adaptation in the Rocky Mountains
• Daniel R. Williams. 2014. Making sense of 'place': Reflections on pluralism and positionality in place research
• Soren M. Newman, Matthew S. Carroll, Pamela J. Jakes, Daniel R. Williams, Lorie L. Higgins. 2014. Earth, wind, and fire: Wildfire risk perceptions in a hurricane-prone environment
• Daniel R. Williams. 2014. "Beyond the commodity metaphor," revisited: Some methodological reflections on place attachment research
• William P. Stewart, Daniel R. Williams, Linda E. Kruger. 2013. Conclusion: From describing to prescribing--transitioning to place-based conservation [Chapter 18]
• Daniel R. Williams, William P. Stewart, Linda E. Kruger. 2013. The emergence of place-based conservation [Chapter 1]
• Daniel R. Williams. 2013. Science, practice, and place [Chapter 2]
• Joseph G. Champ, Daniel R. Williams, Catherine M. Lundy. 2013. An on-line narrative of Colorado wilderness: Self-in-"cybernetic space"
• Barry A. Garst, Daniel R. Williams, Joseph W. Roggenbuck. 2012. Trends in developed forest camping
• Daniel R. Williams, Pamela J. Jakes, Sam Burns, Antony S. Cheng, Kristen C. Nelson, Victoria Sturtevant, Rachel F. Brummel, Emily Staychock, Stephanie G. Souter. 2012. Community Wildfire Protection Planning: The Importance of Framing, Scale, and Building Sustainable Capacity
• Laurie Yung, Mason Bradbury, Daniel R. Williams. 2012. Experimental Forests and climate change: views of long-term employees on ecological change and the role of Experimental Forests and Ranges in understanding and adapting to climate change
• Joseph G. Champ, Jeffrey Brooks, Daniel R. Williams. 2012. Stakeholder understandings of wildfire mitigation: A case of shared and contested meanings
• David N. Cole, Daniel R. Williams. 2012. Wilderness visitor experiences: Lessons from 50 years of research
• Jeffrey Brooks, Daniel R. Williams. 2012. Continued wilderness participation: Experience and identity as long-term relational phenomena
• Daniel R. Williams, Norman McIntyre. 2012. Place affinities, lifestyle mobilities and quality-of-life
• Pamela J. Jakes, Christine Esposito, Sam Burns, Antony S. Cheng, Kristen C. Nelson, Victoria E. Sturtevant, Daniel R. Williams. 2012. Best management practices for creating a community wildfire protection plan
• Pamela J. Jakes, Kristen C. Nelson, Sherry A. Enzler, Sam Burns, Antony S. Cheng, Victoria Sturtevant, Daniel R. Williams, Alexander Bujak, Rachel F. Brummel, Stephanie Grayzeck-Souter, Emily Staychock. 2011. Community wildfire protection planning: is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act's vagueness genius?
• Roian Matt, Katie Knotek, Daniel R. Williams, Laurie Yung, Alan E. Watson. 2011. Traditional wisdom: Protecting relationships with wilderness as a cultural landscape
• Rachel F. Brummel, Kristen C. Nelson, Pamela J. Jakes, Daniel R. Williams. 2010. Social learning in a policy-mandated collaboration: Community wildfire protection planning in the eastern United States
• Barry A. Garst, Daniel R. Williams, Joseph W. Roggenbuck. 2010. Exploring early twenty-first century developed forest camping experiences and meanings
• Daniel R. Williams, Pamela J. Jakes, Sam Burns, Antony Cheng. 2009. Community wildfire protection plans: enhancing collaboration and building scoial capacity
• Travis B. Paveglio, Pamela J. Jakes, Matthew S. Carroll, Daniel R. Williams. 2009. Understanding social complexity within the wildland urban interface: A new species of human habitation? Environmental Management
• Joseph G. Champ, Daniel R. Williams, Katie Knotek. 2009. Wildland fire and organic discourse: Negotiating place and leisure identity in a changing wildland urban inteface
• Stephanie A. Grayzeck-Souter, Kristen C. Nelson, Rachel F. Brummel, Pamela Jakes, Daniel R. Williams. 2009. Interpreting federal policy at the local level: the wildland-urban interface concept in wildfire protection planning in the eastern United States
• Daniel R. Williams, Michael E. Patterson. 2008. Place, leisure, and well-being
• Susan R. Van Patten, Daniel R. Williams. 2008. Problems in place: Using discursive social psychology to investigate the meanings of seasonal homes
• Patricia J. Cohn, Daniel R. Williams, Matthew S. Carroll. 2008. Wildland-urban interface resident's views on risk and attribution
• Daniel R. Williams. 2008. Pluralities of place: A user's guide to place concepts, theories, and philosophies in natural resource management
• Pamela Jakes, Sam Burns, Antony Cheng, Emily Saeli, Kristen Nelson Rachel Brummel, Stephanie Grayzeck, Victoria Sturtevant, Daniel R. Williams. 2007. Critical elements in the development and implementation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs)
• Jeffrey Brooks, George N. Wallace, Daniel R. Williams. 2007. Is this a one-night stand or the start of something meaningful? Developing relationships to place in National Park backcountry.
• Daniel R. Williams. 2007. Recreation settings, scenery, and visitor experiences: a research assessment.
• Linda E. Kruger, Daniel R. Williams. 2007. Place and place-based planning.
• Daniel R. Williams, Michael E. Patterson. 2007. Snapshots of what, exactly? A comment on methodological experimentation and conceptual foundations in place research
• Daniel R. Williams, Alan E. Watson. 2007. Wilderness values: Perspectives from non-economic social science
• Jeffrey Brooks, Hannah Brenkert, Judy E. Serby, Joseph G. Champ, Tony Simons, Daniel R. Williams. 2006. Integrating social science into forestry in the wildland/urban interface
• Stephen F. McCool, James A. Burchfield, Daniel R. Williams, Matthew S. Carroll. 2006. An event-based approach for examining the effects of wildland fire decisions on communities
• Jeffrey Brooks, George N. Wallace, Daniel R. Williams. 2006. Place as relationship partner: an alternative metaphor for understanding the quality of visitor experience in a backcountry setting
• Jeffrey Brooks, Alexander Bujak, Joseph G. Champ, Daniel R. Williams. 2006. Collaborative capacity, problem framing, and mutual trust in addressing the wildland fire social problem: An annotated reading list
• Daniel R. Williams, Susan R. Van Patten. 2006. Home and away? Creating identities and sustaining places in a multicentered world
• Daniel R. Williams. 2006. Leisure, environment, and the quality of life
• Michael E. Patterson, Daniel R. Williams. 2005. Maintaining research traditions on place: diversity of thought and scientific progress
• Erik A. Backlund, Daniel R. Williams, Daniel R. Williams. 2004. A Quantitative Synthesis of Place Attachment Research: Investigating Past Experience and Place Attachment
• Daniel R. Williams. 2004. Environmental psychology: Human responses and relationships to natural landscapes
• Brian Kent, Krista Gebert, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Wade Martin, David Calkin, Ervin Schuster, Ingrid Martin, Holly Wise Bender, Greg Alward, Yoshitaka Kumagai, Patricia J. Cohn, Matt Carroll, Daniel R. Williams, Carol Ekarius. 2003. Social and economic issues of the Hayman Fire
• Robert Snyder, Daniel R. Williams, George Peterson. 2003. Culture loss and sense of place in resource valuation: Economics, anthropology and indigenous cultures
• Daniel R. Williams, Jerry J. Vaske. 2003. The measurement of place attachment: validity and generalizability of a psychometric approach
• Daniel R. Williams. 2002. Social construction of arctic wilderness: place meanings, value pluralism, and globalization
• Bjorn P. Kaltenborn, Daniel R. Williams. 2002. The meaning of place: attachments to Femundsmarka National Park, Norway, among tourists and locals
• Daniel R. Williams. 2002. Leisure identities, globalization, and the politics of place
• Daniel R. Williams. 2002. Post-utilitarian forestry: What's place got to do with it?
• Michael E. Patterson, Daniel R. Williams. 2002. Collecting and analyzing qualitative data: Hermeneutic principles, methods and case examples
• Daniel R. Williams. 2001. Sustainability and public access to nature: Contesting the right to roam
• Daniel R. Williams, Norman McIntyre. 2001. Where heart and home reside: changing constructions of place and identity
• Jerry J. Vaske, Maureen P. Donnelly, Daniel R. Williams, Sandra Jonker. 2001. Demographic influences on environmental value orientations and normative beliefs about national forest management
• Daniel R. Williams. 2000. Anatomy of the academy: Dissecting the past, resecting the future
• Muzaffer Uysal, Joseph S. Chen, Daniel R. Williams. 2000. Increasing state market share through regional positioning
• Daniel R. Williams. 2000. Personal and social meanings of wilderness: Constructing and contesting places in a global village
• Daniel R. Williams, Bjorn P. Kaltenborn. 1999. Leisure places and modernity: the use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA
• Christine A. Vogt, Daniel R. Williams. 1999. Support for wilderness recreation fees: The influence of fee purpose and day versus overnight use
• Daniel R. Williams, Christine A. Vogt, Joar Vitterso. 1999. Structural equation modeling of users' response to wilderness recreation fees
• Daniel R. Williams, Michael E. Patterson. 1999. Environmental psychology: Mapping landscape meanings for ecosystem management
• Michael E. Patterson, Daniel R. Williams. 1998. Paradigms and problems: The practice of social science in natural resource management
• Daniel R. Williams, Susan I. Stewart. 1998. Sense of place: An elusive concept that is finding a home in ecosystem management
• Michael E. Patterson, Alan E. Watson, Daniel R. Williams, Joseph R. Roggenbuck. 1998. An hermeneutic approach to studying the nature of wilderness experiences
• Daniel R. Williams, Susan Van Patten. 1998. Back to the future? Tourism, place, and sustainability
• Daniel R. Williams, Cary D. McDonald, Carla M. Riden, Muzaffer Uysal. 1995. Community attachment, regional identity and resident attitudes toward tourism
• Alan E. Watson, M. J. Niccolucci, Daniel R. Williams. 1994. The nature of conflict between hikers and recreational stock users in the John Muir wilderness
• Alan E. Watson, Michael J. Niccolucci, Daniel R. Williams. 1993. Hikers and recreational stock users: Predicting and managing recreation conflicts in three wildernesses
• Deborah S. Carr, Daniel R. Williams. 1992. Social Structural Characteristics of Hispanic Recreationists on the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests
• Alan E. Watson, Daniel R. Williams, Joseph W. Roggenbuck, John J. Daigle. 1992. Visitor characteristics and preferences for three National Forest wildernesses in the South
• Alan E. Watson, Joseph W. Roggenbuck, Daniel R. Williams. 1991. The influence of past experience on wilderness choice
• Daniel R. Williams. 1985. A developmental model of recreation choice behavior
• Richard Schreyer, Richard C. Knopf, Daniel R. Williams. 1985. Reconceptualizing the motive/environment link in recreation choice behavior

• Program
  

  Human Dimensions

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/humandimensions
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/comfrt
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Identifying and Assessing Needs, Values, Capacities and Future Landscape Visions to Inform Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Strategies

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-needs-values-capacities-visions-wildfire-risk-reduction
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Other Publications

• Fact Sheet
  

  CoMFRT at a Glance

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/understory/comfrt-glance

Multimedia

• Video

  Meet Research Social Scientist Dan Williams

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-research-social-scientist-dan-williams
• Webinars
  

  Cross boundary fire risk mitigation webinar series

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/cross-boundary-fire-risk-mitigation-webinar-series
• Webinars

  Co-Managing Wildfire Risk Across Boundaries (CoMFRT)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/co-managing-wildfire-risk-across-boundaries-comfrt

• University of Nevada, B.S., Natural Resources, 1978
• Utah State, M.S., Outdoor Recreation, 1980
• University of Minnesota, Ph.D., Forest Resources, 1984