This year's workshop will be held in Vermont. Please check back for more information as workshop planning continues.

Background Reading:

  • Creative Tensions in the New Community Based Research (pdf)

  • Wright, S. and Nelson N. (1995), 'Participatory research and participant observation: two incompatible approaches', in N. Nelson and S. Wright (eds) Power and Participatory Development: Theory and Practice, Intermediate Technology Publications, London

  • Yamaguchi, T. (2007) 'Impartial Observation and Partial Participation: Feminist Ethnography in Politically Charged Japan', Critical Asian Studies, vol 39, no 4, pp583-608

Participant Abstracts:

Eveli Abeyta (Undergraduate Intern 2008)
Adaptive Landscape Management at Santo Domingo Pueblo

Rosalie Carnam (Undergraduate Intern 2008)
Labor Policy and Working Conditions in the Forests of the Pacific Northwest

Laura Eichelberger (Dissertation fellow 2008) & Darlene Hadley
Iñupiaq Experiences of Utility Scarcity:Power, Water, and Health in the Northwest Arctic Borough

Emily Evans (Predissertation fellow 2008)
Volunteer Citizen Science: Water Quality Monitoring in the Laguna Creek Watershed

Anna Godduhn & Susie Sam ,
The Northway Harvest and Health Project

Introduced by Elizabeth Guilette

Matthew Hoffman & Patti Smith
Community and Stewardship in the Green Mountains
Introduced by Charles Geisler

Alex Kudryatsev
Urban forestry and restoration: Nurturing environmental stewards

Joyce Lecompt-Mastenbrook (Predissertation fellow 2008)
The Social Worlds of the Mountain Huckleberry

Gaylen Lee (Undergraduate Intern 2008)
Protection of Environmental and Cultural Resources at North Fork Rancheria

Camille Lewis (Undergraduate Intern 2008)
The Untold Story: Water war in the tri-state area

Raoul Lievanos(Predissertation fellow 2008)
Unpacking Privileged Access and Accounts around Water Quality: 'EJ Communities' Moving Beyond Third Parties in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Daniel Lim (Undergraduate Intern 2008)
Urban Green Spaces: Community Environmental and Cultural Resource

Abigail Nelson
Wolf habitat selection and predation patterns in the Absaroka Mountains of Wyoming: identifying the drivers of wolf-livestock conflict
Introduced by Matthew Kauffman

Carla Norwood (Dissertation Fellow, 2007)
Participatory mapping for community-based planning

Oghenekome Onokpise (advisor to undergraduate research assitant Shaumese Massesy)
Forestry and Conservation Education Summer Program for Minority High School Students

Lenya Quinn-Davidson (Masters fellow 2008) & Nadya Novack
Perceptions of Prescribed Fire in Collaborative Landscape Management: Social dimensions of burning in Hayfork, CA
Introduced by Yvonne Everett

Brandon Scales (Undergraduate Intern 2008)
Community Gardens in Nashville, Tennessee

Melanie Stansbury (Predissertation fellow 2008)
Understanding the Social Dimensions of Watershed Conflict in Indian Country: A Case Study of the State of New Mexico vs. Aamodt Water Rights Conflict

Keith Tidball & Jean Fahr
Trees and Rebirth: Urban Community Forestry in Post-Katrina Resilience
Introduced by Marianne Krasny

Mehana Vaughn (via satellite)
Ahupua'a Based Resource Management in Hawai'i, Constituting Common Property in the Face of Rapid Change



Workshop Information:

 

Community Forestry & Environmental Research Partnerships
UC Berkeley,101 Gianinni Hall, #3100, Berkeley, CA 94720
tel: 510.642.3431
email: cffellow@nature.berkeley.edu

Photo credits:
Monarch Butterfly: Jennifer E. Dacey, University of Rhode Island, www.insectimages.org
Giant Sequoia: Paul Bolstad, University of Minnesota, www.forestryimages.org
Racoon: Terry Spivey, USDA Forest Service, www.forestryimages.org