Rural Urban Wildland Interactions Team
Dale Blahna, Team Leader
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
400 N 34th Street, Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98103
Phone: (206)732-7833 Team Members:
Lee Cerveny, Research
Social Scientist
Kelly Lawrence, Social
Science Analyst
OUR GOAL
Our goal is to develop knowledge and methods that facilitate
the application of public values, uses, and concerns in natural
resource
management. This work will lead to a better understanding of
human-natural resource interactions at multiple spatial and temporal
scales, improve ways to integrate social science in natural resource
planning and decision-making, and help agencies adapt to social
and economic changes occurring in urban and rural communities.
*Key topics for research include: recreation & public access,
open space conservation, dispersed recreation, urbanization & public
use, public connections to nature, tourism & amenity migration,
protected area management, partnerships & volunteers, planning & decision-making
UNIVERSITY PARTNERS University
of Washington Virginia
Tech Utah
State University University
of Idaho Oregon
State University Southern
Illinois
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CURRENT RESEARCH
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Bear-viewing
in Alaska: A Regional Ecosystem Management Approach (w/ACaFE)
Discretion & Decision-making
in Travel Management Planning: Analysis of NEPA Processes
Agency
Capacity for Science Integration in Recreation Decisions
Organizational
Change: Analysis of Recreation Facilities Review Process
Tourism
and Change in Tongass Communities
Estimating
Community Forest Linkages (w/ ACaFE)
Indicators
of Resilience in
Amenity Transition Communities (w/ ACaFE)
Expanding
Recreation Capacity through Partnerships
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
GTR 734 - Sociocultural
Effects of Tourism in Hoonah, AK. Cerveny, Lee K.
GTR 705 - An assessment
of frameworks useful for public land recreation planning. McCool, Stephen
F.; Clark, Roger N.; Stankey, George, H.
GTR 698 - Proceedings:
national workshop on recreation research and management. Kruger, Linda
E.; Mazza, Rhonda; Lawrence, Kelly, eds.
GTR 678 - Integrated research
in natural resources: the key role of problem framing. Clark, Roger N.;
Stankey, George H.
Achieving
Integrative, Collaborative Ecosystem management. Keough, Heather L.;
Blahna, Dale J.
GTR 654 - Adaptive management
of natural resources: theory, concepts, and management institutions. Stankey,
George H.; Clark, Roger N.; Bormann, Bernard T.
GTR 566 - Understanding
community-forest relations. Kruger, Linda E.; tech. ed.
GTR 580 - Human migration
and natural resources: implications for land managers and challenges for researchers.
McCool, Stephen F.; Kruger, Linda E.
RP 567 - Learning to Manage
a Complex Ecosystem: Adaptive Management and the Northwest Forest Plan.
Stankey, George, H.; Clark, Roger N.; Bormann, Bernard T.
RP 566 - Tourism and its
effects on southeast Alaska communities and resources: case studies from Haines,
Craig, and Hoonah, Alaska. Cerveny, Lee K.
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