Margaret A. Shannon, Ph.D.

 

 

 

 

Research Associate Professor

SUNY Buffalo Law School

 

Professor in Honor

University of Freiburg, Germany

 

Honorary Fellow

Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

 


SUNY Buffalo School of Law                                                mshannon@buffalo.edu

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

                                                           

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

 

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

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

1995-1998             Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration

1995-1999             Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration 1998-1999

College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle

1992-1995       Corkery Family Endowed Professor of Forest Resources,

                        Associate Professor of Forest Policy and Law (with tenure)

1995-1999       Affiliate Associate Professor

College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse

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

 

EDUCATION    

 

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.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

In Progress

 

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

 

(2005)  Democratic Theory and Participatory Governance. In Gerard Buttoud (editor), Participation in Forest Policies : Apple-pie or New Mode of            Governance? Proceedings, International Research Seminar. ENGREF: Nancy, France.

 

 

PUBLISHED

 

        Books

 

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.

 

            Book Chapters

 

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.

 

RECENT SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

 

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.

2003 - 2005     Member, Organizing Committee for IUFRO Conference on Sustainability Theory and Practice to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland in April 2005. Editor of the book resulting from this conference, Sustainable Forestry in Theory and Practice, CABI Publishers.

2001-2005       Officer, IUFRO 6.12 Working Group on Forest Policy and Administration

2001-2003 Member, Fulbright Review Committee, Germany and Austria Programs.

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.

1999-2003       Participant, COST Action E-19, National Forest Programmes in a European Context, European Union research initiative. Duration: 1999 to 2003.  Only member from USA.

2001    Member, Science Review Committee, The Nature Conservancy a private NGO.

2001    Member, STAR Water and Watersheds Review Panel for the EPA Science Advisory Board, Office of Research and Development. 

2001    Participant, Workshop of Experts on Implementation of Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators in the US.  Member Technical Working Team on Criterion 7. Workshops Spring 2000.

2001    Program Chair, Learning Sustainability: A Regional Community Forum.  Bi-national forum to be held in Buffalo, New York sponsored by UB Environment and Society Institute in cooperation with the Buffalo Green/Gold Development Corporation to be held on October 10, 11 and 12, 2001. 

2000    Co-Organizer, Bi-national Conference on Great Lakes Governance and Stewardship Capacity. Organized by the Great Lakes Governance Task Group and funded by the Canadian Embassy to be held at SUNY Buffalo on October 12 and 13, 2001.

1999    Fulbright Scholar, Institute for Forest Economics, University of Freiburg, Germany.

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.

 

 

SELECTED RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

 

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

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2002 on           Director, Environmental Law Program

2002 on          Steering Committee Member, Environment and Society Institute

2001 on           Coordinator, Environmental Stewardship Working Group, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University of Buffalo

2005                Advisor, Progressive Law Society, Student Association

 

TEACHING

 

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences,

Vienna, Austria. 

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

 

Swedish University, Faculty of Forestry,

Alnarp, Sweden

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

 

Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat,

Freiburg, Germany

Institute for Forest Economics, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Sciences

MSc                 Strategic Environmental Assessments.  January 9 – 27, 2006

MSc     Coordinator, Integrated Environmental Management. December 6 -22, 2005

PhD Course IPP Program, Research Design and Methodology.  December 8-12, 2002

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.

PhD Seminar Participatory Approaches in Bioregional Science-Policy Processes.  With Dr. K. Norman Johnson, Oregon State University and Guest                    Professor Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Sciences.  June 16, 2003

PhD Seminar      Research Process and Strategies.  March 14 and 15, 2003

PhD Course IPP Program, Research Design and Methodology.  December 9-13, 2002

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)

 

University of Buffalo, State University of New York

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

 

Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Department of Public Administration,

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)

 

University of Washington, Seattle

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

 

College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY, Syracuse, NY

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)

 

Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon

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)

 

STUDENTS

University of Freiburg

PhD Dissertations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3                                                                                              

Diploma Theses supervised                                                                                                                                                       1

Grosse Hausarbeit Supervised                                                                                                                                                  1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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)