Ronald Meyers

• Renewable Energy Siting

• Research methods: qualitative, quantitative (survey research), and psychometrics

• Social/economic/environmental considerations in renewable energy siting

• Environmental ethics

Human dimensions of natural resources

• Fish and wildlife conservation
• Hunter recruitment and retention
• Ethics (including treatment of wildlife), attitudes, values, and behavior
• Environmental education
• Research methods: qualitative, quantitative (survey research), and psychometrics

 

• Meyers, R.B., et al. Catawba Sustainability Center and Catawba Hospital Social Feasibility Assessment for Solar Photovoltaics Facility, 2023 Update. Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA. 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10919/117751

• Meyers, R.B., et al. Catawba Sustainability Center Renewable Energy Facilities Siting Study. Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA. 2020. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/items/2a5a59cd-c5b7-4263-954c-8422c9f2e26e
• Meyers, Ronald, Miller, Patrick, Schenk, Todd, Hirsh, Richard F., Marathe, Achla, Seth, Anju, Stern, Marc J., Sim, Jisoo, and Ozturksari, Sevda. “A framework for sustainable siting of wind energy facilities: Economic, social, and environmental factors.” In, Energy Impacts: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of the Social Impacts of Energy Development, edited by Jeffrey B. Jacquet, Julia H. Haggerty, and Gene L. Theodori. Logan, UT: Social Ecology Press, Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv19t41pj
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• Environmental Education and Ethics
  
• Lerner, H.R., J. Fraser, J. Voiklis, C. D. Saunders, and R. B. Meyers. Zoo and Aquarium Visitors’ Wildlife Values and Ethics Orientations. Pages 97 – 112 in Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind. 2023 Springer. Switzerland. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367182392_Zoo_and_Aquarium_Visitors'_Wildlife_Values_and_Ethics_Orientations
• Orth, D.J., and R. B. Meyers. Ethical reasoning and conservation planning in, Fish, Fishing, and Conservation. Virginia Tech Publishing. Blacksburg, Virginia https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
• Marcinkowski, Thomas, Erdogan, Mehmet, Volk, Trudi, and Meyers, Ronald B. “National Environmental Literacy Assessment in Four Countries: Israel, Korea, Turkey and the USA”. In, International Handbook of Environmental Education Research. American Educational Research Association. 2014.
• Meyers, Ronald B. "A Pragmatic Epistemology for Free Choice Learning." Environmental Education Research, Special Issue on free choice learning”, v11, n3, 309-320. 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504620500081178.
• Meyers, Ronald B. “Summary of the 5th Annual North American Association for Environmental Education’s Research Symposium.” Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. V3, n1, 13-18. 2009.
• Meyers, Ronald B., Brody, Michael, Dillon, Justin, Hart, Paul, Krasny, Marianne, Monroe, Martha, Russell, Constance and Wals, Arjen. “Towards creating an inclusive community of researchers: the first three years of the North American Association for Environmental Education research symposium’, Environmental Education Research, v13, n5, 639 - 661. 2007.
• Meyers, Ronald B. “Environmental Learning: Reflections of practice, research and theory.” Environmental Education Research, Special Issue: Researching education and the environment: retrospect and prospect, v12, n3-4, 459-470. 2006.
• Meyers, Ronald B. "A Pragmatic Epistemology for Free Choice Learning." Environmental Education Research, Special Issue on free choice learning”, v11, n3, 309-320. 2005.
• Jackson, Golden, and Meyers, Ronald B. “Challenges of Institutional Outreach: COPC Example.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, v5, n1, 125-140.  2001.

Heimlich, Joe E. and Meyers, Ronald B. “Method Boundness Among Zoo and Park Educators." Environmental Education Research, v5, n1, 67-76. 1999.

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