
Michael Meitner
Michael Meitner
Mike is an environmental psychologist whose research is focused on scenic beauty and aesthetics of the natural world, environmental visualization and geographic information systems, and sustainability planning. He is also quite interested in outdoor recreation, visual perception, human emotional processing, and decision making. Prior to coming to UBC, Mike was a children’s counselor working with the Tohono O’odham nation in southern Arizona. He has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects focused on: 1) public involvement in sustainable ecosystem planning efforts, 2) the projection of future forest conditions according to economic, ecological and social indicators of sustainability, 3) the management of spatial and temporal data at a scale required for landscape planning, and 4) distributed artificial intelligence modeling of human/landscape interactions with specific attention to issues of conflict in outdoor recreation and tourism.
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Current Courses
CONS340 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Forestry and Conservation Sections
Introduction to principles, practice and context of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applied to forest management and natural resource conservation issues. Priority enrolment to students in the Faculty of Forestry.
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CONS481 Conservation Planning and Wildland Recreation Sections
Theory and tools needed for the selection and design of protected areas, the designation of land use types, and the management and conservation of wildland recreation resources.
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GEM510 Geographic Information Systems for Forestry and Conservation Sections
Principles and practices of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
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FRST492 Environmental Perception Sections
How individuals perceive their environment. Emphasis will be given visual perception in the context of natural resource issues and the effects of those perceptions on individuals including issues of human wellbeing.
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FRST524 Environmental Perception Sections
Perceptual processes mediating behaviour in humans, with special attention given to the emotional processing of visual stimuli.
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