Community-Based Collaboration: Bridging Socio-Ecological Research and Practice

Contributors

Contributors Heidi L. Ballard is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Education at the University of California, Davis. Her work focuses on participatory research approaches and citizen science efforts for ecological monitoring in conservation and natural resource management contexts. Her recent work examines the environmental learning outcomes of participatory action research for community members and scientists, and the relationship between youth wildfire education and socio-ecological resilience in fire-prone communities in the United States. Previously she worked with Latino migrant workers and a Native American tribe in Washington to research harvest impacts on nontimber forest products. She received her doctorate in environmental science, policy, and management from the University of California, Berkeley. Juliana E. Birkhoff is a conflict resolution scholar and an experienced mediator, facilitator, and trainer. She is Vice President for Programs and Practice at RESOLVE. Birkhoff has an extensive background in multidisciplinary research on conflict and conflict analysis, in particular the use of collaborative decision-making processes in politically charged and technically complex issues. She has twenty years of experience as a mediator and facilitator with federal, state, and local level government, as well as with consumer, community, grassroots, and public interest groups. She has investigated how stakeholders and collaborative leaders integrate different ways of knowing into collaborative processes, and best practices for public participation. She studied with the Harvard Negotiation Project, Harvard University, and holds a doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University. 218 Contributors Charles Curtin is a biologist whose work links ecological and social systems . His research primarily examines how changes in climate and land use interact to alter landscape composition. Curtin has developed large-scale community-based science programs for the rancher-led Malpai Borderlands Group in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands. He has also developed collaborative projects between indigenous pastoral peoples in the U.S. Southwest and East Africa in conjunction with the African Conservation Centre and UNESCO, and community-based fisheries conservation programs in eastern Maine. He currently serves as core faculty in conservation biology at Antioch University, Keene, New Hampshire. He holds a master’s degree in land resources and a doctorate in zoology, both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Cecilia Danks is Associate Professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, the University of Vermont. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Vermont she was director of socioeconomic research at the Watershed Research and Training Center, Hayfork, California , in the years 1997–2001. She has done extensive work in social science and statistical analyses of community forestry issues. Her research publications have focused largely on institutional issues in community-based forestry . Recent work includes community-based approaches to forest carbon markets and wood biomass energy. Formerly she served as a social science analyst for the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, which developed the Northwest Forest Plan. Dank received her doctorate in wildland resource science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of numerous publications devoted to land and communities. E. Franklin Dukes is Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University of Virginia and the Environmental Conflict Resolution Initiative at George Mason University. He is both a researcher and a practitioner of collaborative environmental processes. He initiated the Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium and is past cochair of the Environment/Public Policy Section of the Association of Conflict Resolution. He teaches courses in public participation, consensus building, and mediation and has worked as a mediator and facilitator at the local, state, and national level on projects involving environment and land use, community development, education, and health. He is the author of Resolving Public Conflict: Transforming Community and Governance and coauthor of Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution and Collaboration: A Guide for Environmental Advocates. He holds a doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University. contributors 219 María Fernández-Giménez is Associate Professor in the Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University . Her research interests include the ecological dynamics of rangeland landscapes, management practices that maintain the productivity and natural variation of these ecosystems, and institutional arrangements that facilitate or enforce sustainable management practices. Recent projects have addressed community-based and collaborative natural resource management , adaptive management, traditional and local ecological knowledge, pastoralism and pastoral development, participatory research, and the effects of livestock grazing and other disturbances on the structure and function of rangeland ecosystems. She...