# overview
John Casellas Connors is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University's Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. He is a human-environment geographer whose research primarily addresses the politics of conservation and wildlife management. His research combines concepts and approaches from political ecology, land change science, legal geographies, and more than human geography. His ongoing research projects examine the politics of white-tailed deer management in suburban communities as well as the intersections of gun politics and conservation politics. Through this work he explores how people make decisions about living with and killing animals, and how existing wildlife management institutions shape the possibilities for human-animal coexistence. In addition, he has ongoing research projects related to food and water security, particularly food pantry access.

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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4101 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

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Arizona State University - (Tempe, Arizona, United States)

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Clark University - (Worcester, Massachusetts, United States)

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Clark University - (Worcester, Massachusetts, United States)

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Becoming Killable: White-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills

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Establishing the relationship between urban land-cover configuration and night time land-surface temperature using spatial regression

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Soils can help mitigate CO2 emissions, despite the challenges.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter

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Socio-Political and Ecological Dimensions of Municipal Wildlife Management

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Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events.

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Range of Categorical Associations for Comparison of Maps with Mixed Pixels

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American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Perceptions, concerns, and management of white-tailed deer among municipal officials

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Identifying attributes of food system sustainability: emerging themes and consensus

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Violent Entanglements: The Pittman-Robertson Act, Firearms, and the Financing of Conservation

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The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms

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Fewer Americans are hunting, and that raises hard questions about funding conservation through gun sales

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The valuation of off-site ecosystem service flows: Deforestation, erosion and the amenity value of lakes in Prescott, Arizona

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Policy Mobilities, Infrastructures, and Nonhuman Political Agency

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Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects: assessing the relationship between landscape characteristics and land surface temperature in Phoenix, Arizona

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Mapping vulnerability: Opportunities and limitations of participatory community mapping

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The impact of forest thinning on the reliability of water supply in central Arizona.

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Beyond fragmentation at the fringe: A path-dependent, high-resolution analysis of urban land cover in Phoenix, Arizona

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Agricultural Losses in a Telecoupled World

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Activating uncertainty: Scientific evidence and environmental values in wildlife management

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Measuring access to food banks and food pantries: A scoping review of spatial analysis approaches

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Water insecurity tradeoffs: U.S. drinking water systems during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The value of agricultural water rights in agricultural properties in the path of development

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Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography: Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information for Environmental Monitoring

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Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: Transcending poverty alleviation to climate change mitigation and adaptation

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A meta-analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in mediating climate change

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Texas A&M University; Geography; 3147 TAMU