Margaret A. Shannon, Ph.D.
Research Associate ProfessorSUNY Buffalo Law School
Professor in Honor University of Freiburg, Germany
Honorary Fellow Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia |
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Research Associate ProfessorSUNY Buffalo Law School
Professor in Honor University of Freiburg, Germany
Honorary Fellow Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia |
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425 O’Brian Hall Phone: 716/645-5992
North Campus Secretary: 716/645-5984
Amherst, New York 14260 Fax: 716/645-2064
Albert Ludwigs University at Freiburg m.shannon@ife.uni-freiburg.de
Faculty of Forest and Environmental Science Phone: +49 761 203 3783
Institute for Forest Economics Secretary: +49 761 203 3691
Tennenbacherstrasse 4 Fax: +49 761 203 3690
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law
1999 – on Research Associate Professor, School of Law (50%)
2002 – on Director, Environmental Law Program
2002 – on Coordinator, Environmental Stewardship Working Group,
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
1995 – 1999 Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law (10%)
1986 Instructor, Environmental Sociology, Department of Sociology
1982 – 1987 Member, Institute for Environment and Society
University of Freiburg, Germany
2002 – on Honorary Professor, Institute for Forest Economics,
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Science
2000-2002 Guest Professor, Institute for Forest Economics
1999-2000 Fulbright Scholar, Institute for Forest Economics
University of New South Wales, Australia
2005 – on Honorary Fellow, Rural Futures Institute, Armidale, NSW, Australia
1995-1998 Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration
1995-1999 Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration 1998-1999
1992-1995 Corkery Family Endowed Professor of Forest Resources,
Associate Professor of Forest Policy and Law (with tenure)
1995-1999 Affiliate Associate Professor
1992 Associate Professor of Natural Resources Policy and Law (with tenure)
1986-91 Assistant Professor of Natural Resources Policy and Law
Resource Policy Analysis, Buffalo, New York
1982-on Consultant on Forest and Natural Resource Policy and Law,
Public Administration and Public Participation, Sociology of Natural Resources
Lewis and Clark School of Law, Portland, Oregon
1979-82 Senior Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Natural Resources Law Institute
University of California at Berkeley
1979 Instructor, Graduate Course in Sociology of Natural Resources
1978 - 79 Graduate Teaching Associate, Forest Policy and Law
1974 - 78 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sociology of Natural Resources,
1975 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Recreation Management
University of California at Berkeley, College of Renewable Natural Resources, Department of Forestry and Resource Management, Ph.D. 1989; M.S. 1977; Wildland Resource Science with specialization in Sociology and Policy.
Dissertation: Managing Public Resources: Public Deliberation as Organizational Learning (Chair, Dr. Jeff Romm (Forest Policy). Committee: Dr. Robert N. Bellah (Sociology) and Dr. Robert G. Lee (Forest Resource Sociology, University of Washington)
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. B.A. 1973; Anthropology and Sociology, with High Honors in both fields. Minor in Economics. Language: German
Sentinel High School, Missoula, Montana. 1964 – 1969.
Bonner Grade School, Bonner, Montana. 1956 - 1964.
Books
(2006) Sustainable Forestry in Theory and Practice. (editors, Keith Reynolds, Keith Rennolls, Alan Thomson, Margaret Shannon, Michael Koehl, Duncan Rae, Margarida Tomé) CABI Publishers. (publication late 2006)
Public Participation in Forest Policy and Planning. (with Gerard Buttoud)
Landscape Loopholes - Altering course towards sustainability through windows of opportunity in linked social-ecological systems. (with David Brunckhorst)
Principles of Sustainability – Economic, Ecological, Social. (with Jerry Franklin (U of Washington) and K. Norman Johnson (OSU)
Journal Articles
Listening Closely: Understanding How People Create Places through Social Conflict. (with Andrea Finger-Stich) (expected early 2006)
Forest Policy Research in North America: From Economic “Scarcity” to Ecological “Scarcity.” (with K. Norman Johnson, OSU, and Ben Cashore, Yale) (Elaboration of a paper presented at the IUFRO World Congress in Brisbane, Australia. Expected early 2006)
Participatory Environmental Governance: Implications of the Emergence of a Civic Science Model of Democracy (based on papers presented in St. Petersburg (May 2005) and Gerardmer, France (June 2005))
Book Chapters
(2006) Integrated Science and Policy for Sustainable Forest Management. (with Gerard Buttoud and Risto Paivinen) Sustainable Forestry in Theory and Practice. CABI Publishers.
Forest Policy and Communities: Struggles for Power and Control. (In Forests and Communities. Ellen Donohue and Victoria Sturtevant, editors. Under review.)
Proceedings
1998 The National Forest Management Act: How Has It Worked? Will It Work in the 21st Century? K. Norman Johnson and Margaret A. Shannon, co-editors. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13210. (Copies available from Margaret Shannon mshannon@buffalo.edu or Natural Resources Law Institute, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado. (Proceedings of the National Public Lands Conference held in Boulder, Colorado in September 1996.)
1989 Managing Public Resources: Public Deliberation as Organizational Learning. Doctoral dissertation. University of Michigan Microfilms.
Refereed Publications
Journals
2005 Science Priorities for Reducing the Threat of Invasive Species to Sustainable Forestry. (with E. Chornesky, A. Bartuska, G. Aplet, K. Britton, J. Cummings-Carlson, F. Davis, J. Eskow, D. Gordon, K. Gottschalk, R. Haack, A. Hansen, R. Mack, F. Rahel, M. Shannon, L. Wainger, T. B. Wigley) BioScience 55 (4): 335-348.
2000 Getting to Know Ourselves and Our Places Through Participation in Civic Social Assessment. (with Linda Kruger) Society and Natural Resources 13 (5):461-468.
2000 Science Advocacy is Inevitable: Deal With It. Reflections: Newsletter of the Program for Ethics, Science and the Environment, Dept. of Philosophy, Oregon State University. Special Issue 4 (April) 8-9.
1999 Who Should Deliberate When? Human Ecology Review 5(1)45-47 (with Thomas Dietz and Caron Chess).
1998 When Amateurs Are the Experts: Amateur Mycologists and Wild Mushroom Politics in the Pacific Northwest, USA. (with Rebecca McLain and Harriet H. Christensen) Society and Natural Resources 11:615-626.
1992 Foresters as Strategic Thinkers, Facilitators, and Citizens. Journal of Forestry 90(10):24-27.
1996 Civic Science is Democracy in Action. Northwest Science Forum 70(1). February. (with Alexios R. Antypas)
1994. Making Ecosystem Policy: Three Decades of Change. (with Lynton K. Caldwell and Charles Wilkinson). Journal of Forestry, Vol. 92(4):7-10.
1995 Coordination of Wildlife Corridor Policies Across Jurisdictional Boundaries: The Need for Institutional Corridors. (with Anne Hoover) Greenway Issue of Landscape and Urban Planning 33: 433-459.
1991 Resource Managers as Policy Entrepreneurs. Journal of Forestry 89(6):27-30.
1981 Sociology in Public Land Management: The Critical Link. Western Wildlands 7:3-8.
2003 The Northwest Forest Plan as a Learning Process: A Call for New Institutions Bridging Science and Politics. Chapter 16. In Karen Arabas and Joe Bowersox (co-editors). Forest Futures: Science, Politics and Policy for the Next Century. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. Pages 256 – 279.
2003 The Use of Participatory Approaches, Methods and Techniques in the Elaboration of Integrated Management Plans. In Brun, A. and Buttoud, G. eds. The Formulation of Integrated Management Plans (IMPs) for Mountain Forests. EOMF - Universita degli Studi di Torino, Grugliasco. pp. 119-134.
2003 What Is Meant By Public Participation In Forest Certification Processes? Understanding Forest Certification within Democratic Governance Institutions. (pages 179-196) In E. Meidinger, C. Elliott and G. Oesten (eds.) Social and Political Dimensions of Forest Certification. www.forstbuch.de
2003 Mechanisms for Coordination. Chapter 5. In Dube, Y. and F. Schmithusen (Eds.) Cross-Sectoral Policy Impacts Between Forestry and Other Sectors. FAO Forestry Paper No. 142. FAO, Rome.
2002 Future Visions: Landscape Planning in Places That Matter. In J. Graham, Ian Reeve, and David Brunckhorst (eds.), Landscape Futures: Social and Institutional Dimensions. Armidale, Australia. Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. (ISBN 1 86389 811 5 on CD-Rom)
2002 Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Intersectoral Policy Integration. In I. Tikkanan, P.Glueck, and H. Pajouja (eds.) Cross Sectoral Impacts on Forests. European Forest Institute 46: 15-26. Joensuu, Finland.
2002 Understanding Collaboration: Organizational Form, Negotiation Strategy, and Pathway to Multi-level Governance. O. Gislerud and I. Neven (eds), National Forest Programs in a National Context, European Forest Institute 44: 9-27. Joensuu, Finland.
1999 Moving from the Limits and Problems of Rational Planning: Toward a Collaborative and Participatory Planning Approach. Formulation and Implementation of National Forest Programmes. Peter Glück, Gerhard Oesten, Heiner Schanz, Karl-Reinhard Volz, (editors). European Forest Institute 30(1): 139-151. Joensuu, Finland.
1999 Understanding Social Organizations and Institutions. In R. J. Naiman and R. E. Bilby, River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion. Springer Verlag, New York. Chapter 21. Pages 529-551.
1999 The Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Report: Lessons for Bioregional Science Assessments. (co-authors: K. Norman Johnson, Jim Holthausen, Jim Sedell -- lead scientists on the FEMAT) . In K. Norman Johnson, et.al.(Eds), At the Crossroads of Science, Management and Policy: A Review of Bioregional Assessments. Island Press: Covelo, California.
1999 Social and Cultural Dimensions - Overview. Ecological Stewardship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management. Volume III. Elsevier Science Ltd.: Oxford, England. Pages 183-188.
1999 Some Contributions of Social Theory to Ecosystem Management (co-authors: J. Kathy Parker, Victoria E. Sturtevant, William R. Burch, Jr., Morgan Grove, Jeremiah C. Ingersoll, and Lois Sagel) Ecological Stewarship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management. Volume III. Elsevier Science Ltd.: Oxford, England. Pages 245-278.
1999 Social Science in the FEMAT: Lessons for Scientists and Policy Makers. (co-authors Roger Clark and George Stankey) Chapter 15. Integrating Social Science with Ecosystem Management. Sagamore Press: Champaign, Illinois. Pages 237-264.
1996 Open Institutions: Uncertainty and Ambiguity in 21st Century Forestry. (with Alexios R. Antypas, PhD candidate) In Jerry F. Franklin and Kathryn A. Kohm, editors. Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century: The Science of Ecosystem Management. Island Press. Chapter 28. pages 437-445.
1994 Coordination among Federal Agencies: Agency Cultures, Budgets, and Policies. U. S. Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service. Ecosystem Management: Status and Potential. U.S. Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works. S.Prt. 103-98. Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, December 1994. 330 pages.
1993 Forest Care: A Feminist Theory of Forest Management. Starker Lectures: Culture and Natural Resources. Oregon State University, College of Forestry. (pages 73-92)
1992 Building Public Decisions: Learning Through Planning. U. S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Forest Service Planning: Accommodating Uses, Producing Outputs, And Sustaining Ecosystems. (Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office). Volume II, Part A: Contractor's Documents: pages 227-338.
1992. Achieving a Common Approach to Problems and Directions. Watershed Resources: Balancing Environmental, Social, Political and Economic Factors in Large Basins. P. W. Adams and W. A. Atkinson, eds. Oregon State University: Corvallis, Oregon. (pp. 38-44).
1992 Community Governance: An Enduring Institution of Democracy. Multiple Use and Sustained Yield: Changing Philosophies for Federal Land Management? U.S. House, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Committee Print No. 11. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1992. 336 pages.
1990. Building Trust: The Formation of a Social Contract. Community and Forestry: Continuities In Natural Resources Sociology. Robert G. Lee, Donald R. Field, and William R. Burch, Jr., Editors. Westview Press. Chapter 16: 229-240.
1990 Public Participation in RPA. Forest Service Planning: Setting Strategic Direction under RPA, OTA-F-441 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 1990). Volume II: Contractor's Documents: pages 278-357.
1987 Forest Planning: Learning With People. Social Science In Natural Resource Management Systems. Mark L. Miller, Richard P. Gale, and Perry Brown, Editors. Westview Press. Chapter 14: 233-252.
Proceedings
2004 Obtaining multiple values from forests: working across landscapes by building new institutions. (with K.Norman Johnson) In Nikola Nikolov et.al. (editors). Management of forests as a natural resource in the Balkan/SEE region. (Faculty of forestry-Skopje, 2004) (31-59)
2004 Collaboration and Communication in NFPs - Challenges for the Future (Public Participation as a Goal, Not Just a Means, for National Forest Programmes). In: Glück, Peter; Voitleithner, Johannes (eds): NFP Research: Its Retrospect and Outlook. Proceedings of the Publication Series of the Institute of Forest Sector Policy and Economics - Vol. 52. Vienna: Institute for Forest Sector Policy and Economics. pp. 49-63.
2000 Engaging Rural People and Catchment Communities: Weaving Together the Local and Global to Make our Actions Count: The Maurice Wyndam Plenary Address. Proceedings International Symposium on Landscape Futures. David Brunckhorst and David Mouat (editors), UNESCO Institute for Bioregional Resource Management at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia and the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.
1997 Science Advocacy is Inevitable: Deal With It. Proceedings, 1996 Society of American Foresters Annual Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Excerpt in Reflections: Newsletter of the Program for Ethics, Science and the Environment, Dept. of Philosophy, Oregon State University. Special Issue 4, April 2000. Pages 8-9.
1993 What Can Forests Tell Us About Our Society? Sustaining Ecosystems, Economies, and a Way of Life in the Northern Forests. A Conference Report for Conference on Sustaining Ecosystems, Economies and a Way of Life in the Northern Forest. University of Vermont, Burlington, November 12-13.
1991 Is American Society Organized to Sustain Its Forest Ecosystems? Proceedings, Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Plenary Session Paper.
Reports
Evaluation of Forest Sector Reforms in Latvia. Report in preparation for the Deputy Minister of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Lativa. (expected completion, Fall 2005)
1998 Integrating Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management: Lessons and Opportunities From North America. (co-authors Roger N. Clark, Errol E. Meidinger and others) General Technical Report PNW-GTR-441. September.
1997 Learning to Innovate, Innovating to Learn: A Social and Organizational Assessment of the Adaptive Management Areas in the Northwest Forest Plan. Report to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, Oregon. (co-authors Amanda Graham and Alexios Antypas)
1996. Case Studies: Science-Policy Management Project. Primary author: PACFISH, Colorado Instream Flow, FEMAT, Northern Goshawk, Interregional Habitat Assessments. Secondary author: Columbia River Basin Assessment, Red Cockaded Woodpecker Assessment, Southern Applachian Ecosystem Assessment, , NAPAP, Tongass Forest Plan. Second author: Propositions from Cases and Literature.
1995 Organizing for Innovation: A Look at the Agencies and Organizations Responsible for Adaptive Management Areas: The Case of the Applegate AMA. (co-authors Dr. Victoria Sturtevant, Southern Oregon State University and Dave Trask, retired FS director of engineering for R-6). Report submitted to Interagency Liason, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, Applegate Adaptive Management Area.
1995 Institutional Strategies for Managing Resources Across Jurisdictions and Ownerships: A Theoretical Assessment of Ten Cases. (co-authors Gordon Smith, PhD student and Christina Robinson, Masters Student) Final Report for the Washington State Forest Land Management Project, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Olympia.
1993 Institutional Barriers and Incentives for Ecosystem Management: A Problem Analysis. (co-authors Dr. Hanna Cortner and others). USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Consortium for Social Values of Natural Resources and People and Natural Resources Program.
Selected Examples of Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations
2005 Participatory Environmental Governance: Implications of the Emergence of a Civic Science Model of Democracy. Globalization, Forest Governance, and Forest Certification. Conference at the Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1999. Engaging Rural People and Catchment Communities: Weaving Together the Local and Global to Make our Actions Count. Maurice Wyndam Plenary Address. International Symposium on Landscape Futures. Armidale, Australia.
1998. Who’s Next? The Collapse of Allocative Politics in the Face of High Uncertainty, High Risk and High Stakes in Environmental Policy. Public presentation to the American-German Carl Schurz Society and Colloquuium Politicum, University of Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany.
1997. Ecosystem Management as a Social Movement. Plenary Address, Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1996. Making Science in Political Forums: Alternative Models of Science. Opening Plenary Paper. At the Crossroads of Science, Management and Policy: A Review of Bioregional Assessments. Invitational Workshop held at McMenamins Edgefield, Portland, Oregon on November 6-8, 1995.
1996 Placing Ourselves Within Sustainability: Reflective Practice and Civic Science. Invited Opening Plenary Session Paper. International Conference on Sustaining Ecosystems and People in Temperate and Boreal Forests: Integrating Conservation of Biological Diversity with Social and Economic Goals. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. September 8-13, 1996.
1995 Growing Action from Knowledge: Reinvigorating Civic Politics and Science. International Conference on the Conservation of Northern Forests: Responsible Stewardship for the Future, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. November 27 to December 1, 1995.
1992 Forest Care: A Feminist Theory of Forest Management. Starker Lectures: Culture and Natural Resources. Oregon State University, College of Forestry.
2005 Chair, IUFRO Working Group 6.12 on Forest Policy and Governance
2005 Guest Professor, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, Vienna, Austria.
2004 on Consultant, Emerging Forms of Forest Governance in Europe. GoFor project.
2004 Guest Professor, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, Vienna, Austria.
2002 on Panel Member, National Academy of Science and National Research Council, Project on Public Participation in U.S. Federal Agencies: Practice and Evaluation.
2001-2005 Officer, IUFRO 6.12 Working Group on Forest Policy and Administration
2002-2003 Co-Organizer. Colloquium on Law, Democracy and Science. Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Environmental Stewardship Working Group. $ 4500
2001-2002 Co-Organizer. Sustainable Urban Ecosystems – A Workshop. Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Environmental Stewardship Working Group. $2990
2001-2002 Co-Organizer. Environmental Law for a Sustainability Conference. Also a Special Issue of the Buffalo Environmental Law Journal. Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Environmental Stewardship Working Group. $4600
1999-2001 Principal. An International Symposium on Great Lakes Governance and Stewardship Indicators. Project funded by the Canadian mbassy. $7,000.
1998-9 Member, Committee of Scientists, The People’s Lands: Recommendations for Stewardship of the National Forests and Grasslands into the Next Century. Report prepared for the Secretary of Agriculture and Chief of the Forest Service, March 15, 1999.
1999 Co-Organizer, Workshop on Governance and Stewardship held at SUNY Buffalo, June 10 and 11. (Co-Organizer: Dr. George Francis, University of Waterloo). Sponsors: Canadian-American Studies Committee, Institute for Regional Governance and Local Growth, Great Lakes Research Consortium and the SUNY Buffalo Great Lakes Program.
1999 Co-organizer, Working Group on Governance and Stewardship, Great Lakes Research Consortium Task Group.
1998 Scholar-In-Residence, Institute for Forest Economics, University of Freiburg, Germany. Funded under a grant from the German- American Academic Exchange to spend two weeks at the University of Freiburg to give public lectures, teach courses in social science and resource management to Masters and Ph.D. courses, and meet with faculty and students. Visited January 17-29, 1998.
1998 Member, Steering Committee, National Conference on “Wilderness Science for the Next Century” sponsored by the University of Montana Bolle Institute for People and Resources and the Leopold Institute for Wilderness Research.
1997-8 Member, Program Committee for “Crossing Boundaries” – Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Vancouver, BC June 10- 14, 1998.
1997. Consultant. “Alternative Approaches for Valuation.” Presentation to the Valuation Subcommittee for the Integrated Risk Project, Science Advisory Board, Environmental Protection Agency. Participate in work of subcommittee and contribute to writing the report on valuation. April 3-5, 1997.
1996-7 Member, Steering Committee, Ecological Stewardship Project. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
1996-7 Coordinator, Peer Review and Publication of the Social Science Thematic Papers, Ecological Stewardship Project. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. Held a meeting of authors in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 1996. Meet regularly with the other coordinators to address issues of organizing the peer review of the papers. Hosted the Peer Review Panel Meetings in Portland, Oregon, May 5 and 6, 1996.
1993 Technical Co-Team Leader for Social and Economic Analysis, FEMAT – Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, Interagency Team appointed by President Clinton. Co-author of Chapter 7, Social Assessment, FEMAT Report, July 1, 1993.
2005-2006 Principal Investigator. Landscape Loopholes: Transformations in Linked Social-Ecological Systems: Understanding Windows of Opportunity to Alter Course towards Sustainable Futures. Cooperative Research Grant, University of New England, Rural Futures Institute, Armidale, NSW, Australia. 20,000 AUD
2004-2005 Co-Principal Investigator. Governing the Niagara Escarpment: Options for Managing Complex Public-Private Landscapes. Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Environmental Stewardship Working Group. (with Lynda Schneekloth, Architecture and Planning, and Chris Renschler, Geography). $4205
2004-2005 Principal Investigator. Evaluation of Forest Sector Reform in Latvia. Project for the Deputy Minister of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Latvia.
2003-2004 Co-Principal Investigator. Democratic Theory and Community-Based Processes: Experiences from Western New York. Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Environmental Stewardship Working Group. $2307
2002-2004 Principal Investigator. Developing a Theoretical and Conceptual Book on Participatory Processes in Forest Policy and Planning. Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Environmental Stewardship Working Group.2002 – 2003: $3490 and 2003-2004: $3525
2002-2003 Co-Principal Investigator. Citizen Engagement in Environmental Controversies in the Western New York Region. Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Environmental Stewardship Working Group. $3400
1998-2001 Principal Investigator. Examining Governance Processes in the Great Lakes. Co-organizer along with Dr. George Francis, University of Waterloo, Canada and Dr. Richard Smardon, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry of a Working Group on Governance and Stewardship with Task Group support from the Great Lakes Research Consortium. $2500.
1999 Principal Investigator. “A Niagara Region Workshop on Great Lakes Governance and Stewardship Indicators.” Project funded jointly by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth and the Canadian-American Studies Committee. $2000.
1998-2002 Principal Investigator. Analysis of the Implementation Capacity of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. Cooperative Agreement between SUNY Buffalo Environment and Society Institute and Pacific Northwest Research Station. Research Award: $10,000.
1996-1997 Principal Investigator. Developing a Holistic and Integrative Understanding of Community “Well-Being.” Cooperative agreement between University of Washington Institute for Resources in Society and the Pacific Northwest Research Station. Research Award: $15,000
1995-1996 Co-Organizer. The National Forest Management Act: How Has it Worked? Will It Work in the 21st Century? Organized an independent assessment project of the law and regulations over the past year that included a national conference held in Boulder, Colorado with the Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law. Co-organizers: Dr. K. Norman Johnson, Oregon State University and Ms. Elizabeth Rieke, Director, NRLC. Co-editor with K. Norman Johnson of the book resulting from this conference.
1996 Contractor, Science and Policy Project. In preparation for a workshop to develop policies for the administrative management of science assessments, the purpose of this contract is to develop ten studies of ongoing or recent assessments and to develop a literature review. (Dr. Errol E. Meidinger, SUNYAB Law was a collaborator on this project)
1993-1997 Principal Investigator. Landscape Strategies for Cross-Jurisdictional, Cross- Boundary Resource Management. Research documented cases of “landscape” or “bioregional” level institutional strategies. Current work focuses on the administrative aspects of innovation in the AMAs. Cooperative agreement between University of Washington Institute for Resources in Society and the Pacific Northwest Research Station. Research Award: $94,000
1995-1996 Principal Investigator. Organizational Change. Cooperative agreement between UW Institute for Resources in Society and the Pacific Northwest Research Station. Research Award: $10,549
1994-1996 Principal Investigator. Special Forest Products on the Olympic Peninsula: Policy Frameworks and Institutions. Cooperative agreement between UW Institute for Resources in Society and the PNW Station. Research Award: $60,000
1993-1996 Principal Investigator. Policy Options for Special Forest Products: Participatory Policy and the Role of Local/Indigenous Knowledge. Cooperative agreement between the UW Institute for Resources in Society and the PNW Station. Research Award: $30,000.00
1993-1996 Principal Investigator. Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-organizational Strategies for Cooperative Governance. Cooperative agreement between the UW Institute for Resources in Society and the PNW Station. Special Project for the Washington Department of Natural Resources Landscape Management Project. Research Award: $31,000.00
1994-1996 Co-Organizer. Adaptive Management and the Experimenting Society. Workshop on new forms of Civic Governance sponsored by a grant from the W. Alton Jones Foundation. Workshop will be the collaborative work of the Institute for Resources in Society and the Northwest Policy Center, University of Washington. Research Award: $42,000.00
1993-1994 Co-Principal Investigator with Brian Boyle. Analysis of the Policies and Mythologies Governing National Forests.
Cooperative agreement UW Institute for Resources in Society and the Pacific Northwest Research Station. Research Award: $345,000.00
2001 on Coordinator, Environmental Stewardship Working Group, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University of Buffalo
2005 Advisor, Progressive Law Society, Student Association
Guest Professor, Social Science in Natural Resources Management. 1.5 credit block, June 2005
Guest Professor, Social Science in Natural Resources Management. 1.5 credit block, March 2004
International Masters Course on Forest Policy.
Understanding policy analysis “for” and “of” forest policy. Participatory forest governance.
January 21 to February 1, 2002.
January 20 to January 25, 2003
January 19 to January 23, 2004
January 30 to February 1, 2006 and February 6 and 7, 2006
Course Taking a Bioregional Approach in Forest Management: Origins, Methods, Results,
and Implications. With Dr. K. Norman Johnson, OSU and Guest Professor at IFE, and Dr. Michael Pregernig, BOKU, Vienna. June 30 to July 4, 2003.
MS Course Organizational Theory (July 10-13, 2002)
PhD Seminar Conflict Theory in Social Science Research (April 15-16, 2002)
PhD Seminar Research Methodologies in Social Science Research on Forests and Forestry (February 7-8, 2002)
PhD Seminar Environmental Governance and Collaborative Planning: The Emergence of New Principles and Practices (February 2-3, 2001)
Seminar Governing at the Bioregional Scale: Implications of Bioregional Science/Policy Assessments (November 29 -December 3,1999)
Seminar Social Science in Natural Resource Management (January 1998 – with Errol Meidinger, Heiner Schanz, and Louise Fortmann)
PhD Seminar Social Science and Natural Resource Management (January 1998 – with Errol Meidinger)
School of Law
Law 851 Critical Perspectives in Environmental Law (2004 on) (with Prof. Barry Boyer)
Law Science and Environmental Law (2003-on)
Law 672 Environmental Law 1 (2000-on) (with Prof. Barry Boyer and Errol Meidinger)
Law 850 Environmental Law Colloquium (2000-2003)
Law 852 Power Vistas: Legal, Architectural and Planning Perspectives on the FERC Relicensing Process for the Niagara Power Plant (with Barry Boyer (Law) and Lynda Schneekloth (Architecture)). (Spring 2001)
Law 851 Environmental Governance and Stewardship (Spring 2000)
Law 725 Issues in the Redevelopment of Niagara Falls, New York (Fall 1998)
Law 725 Creating Collaboration: Community, Law and Planning (Spring 1997) co-listed
Law 690 Legal Dimensions of Environmental Planning (Spring 1996)
Department of Planning
PD 212 Introduction to Planning (Spring 1999)
PD 586 Creating Collaboration: Community, Law and Planning (Spring 1997) co-listed
PPA 730 Emerging Forms of Environmental Governance (Fall 1997) (co-taught with Ross Whaley and Jack Manno, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse)
PPA 709-1 Organization Theory (Fall and Spring Semesters 1996-1998)
PPA 730 Environmental Administration (Spring Semesters 1996 and 1997)
Seminar Theories of Conflict (Fall 1997)
College of Forest Resources, Faculty of Forest Management
FRM 470 Forest Policy and Law (required course 1992-1995)
FRM 571 Forest Policy Analysis (graduate core course 1992-1995)
FRM 590B Natural Resources Policy and Law (graduate core course 1992-1995)
FRM 504 Research Methods (graduate core course -- 1995)
FRM 570 Seminar: Organization Theory and Implementation of Policy (1995)
FRM 576 Seminar: Nature, Gender and Science (1995)
FRM 576 Seminar: Community Governance (with R. Lee) - 1993
FRM 576 Seminar: Community Resource Management (with R. Lee) - 1994
Faculty of Forestry
FOR 796 Building Public Decisions: Politics, Planning and Administration (1991)
FOR 753 Advanced Natural Resources and Environmental Policy (1987-1991)
FOR 665 Natural Resources and Environmental Policy (1991)
FOR 796 People and Forests, Landscapes and Policy: New Perspectives for Northeastern Forests (1992)
(a seminar funded by the US Forest Service)
FOR 796 Nature, Gender and Science (1990, as a Seminar in 1991)
ENS 621 Environmental Policy Analysis (1989)
FOR 796 Community Resources Management (1988, 1989)
FOR 796 Forest Policy Research (1987, 1988)
FOR 465 Natural Resources and Environmental Policy (1987-1992) (Core course and required for degree)
FOR 496 Nature, Gender and Science (1990)
Natural Resources Law Institute
Natural Resources Law and Policy (1980-1982)
Seminar on Law and Social Policy (1980-1982)
Lewis and Clark College, Public Administration Executive Program
Natural Resources Policy (1980-1982) (with Errol Meidinger)
University of Washington and SUNY ESF
Dissertations supervised (8 signed as chair) 13
Masters Theses supervised 12
Masters Professional Papers supervised 11
Graduate Independent Study Papers 15
Undergraduate Independent Study Papers 3
Community Service (recent only)
2001 on Trustee, Board of Trustees for the Western and Central New York Chapter of the Nature Conservancy
2002 -2004 Member, Board of Directors, Friends of the Buffalo and Niagara Rivers
Personal Background
Born February 18, 1951 in Columbus, Ohio. Father: Dr. Richard E. Shannon, Professor of Forest Policy, Law, and Economics, University of Montana (deceased). Mother: Geraldine M. Shannon (deceased). I was raised in Missoula, Montana and enjoy spending time with my children and husband, traveling, cooking, camping, hiking, X-C skiing, and gardening.
Husband: Errol E. Meidinger, Ph.D. and J.D.
Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Interdisciplinary Research, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology (since 1982), State University of New York at Buffalo
Professor in Honor, Faculty of Forest and Environmental Science, Albert-Ludwigs- University, Freiburg, Germany
Children : Christopher Adair Shannon Meidinger (born October 29, 1981 in Portland, Oregon)
Clara Marion Shannon Meidinger (born August 26, 1986 in Buffalo, New York)
