Research Associate Professor
SUNY Buffalo Law School
Professor in Honor University of
Freiburg, Germany Honorary Fellow Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England,
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O’Brian Hall Phone: 716/645-5992
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Campus Secretary: 716/645-5984
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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)