Faculty

Viviane Simon-Brown
Professor
Coordinator, The Sustainable Living Project at OSU
Forestry Extension, Forest Resources
Peavy Hall A007
Corvallis OR 97331
541-737-3197 phone
541-737-3008 fax

BA in Science and Foreign Languages: French, Portland State University, 1974
Executive Masters in Public Administration, Lewis & Clark College, 1991
Thesis: A Study of the Effectiveness of Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Programs

Extension and research interests: Integrating three aspects of the human dimensions of natural resources sustainability:
… Sustainable living education to help individuals and families make intelligent, thoughtful quality of life and consumer choices about natural resources;
… Public engagement to better understand the public's natural resource values and beliefs systems; and
… Collaborative public processes that move people from conflict and promote direct and meaningful natural resources decision-making. http://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/cof/extended/sustain/

Courses:

For credit: NR 455 Decision-making

Non-credit:

Sustainable Living http://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/cof/extended/sustain/

Intelligent Consumption

Fair-Open-Honest Public Process

The Collaboration Framework http://crs.uvm.edu/nnco/collab/framework.html

Ethics-Based Education

Graduate Students: Melanie Stidham (MS, Natural Resource Law and Policy); Julie Woodward (MS)

Selected Publications

• Reed, S., and Simon-Brown, V. Fundamentals of Knowledge Transfer. Chapter in Forest Landscape Ecology: Transferring Knowledge to practice. Sage Publications. 2006.
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V. The Sustainable Living Project at OSU: A values approach to intelligent consumer decisions. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 2, 2006.
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V, and J. Creighton. 2005. Using Theater to Address Natural Resource Challenges. Women in Natural Resources. October. <http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/winr/EdenCreek.htm>
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V. (2004). Intelligent Consumption: Addressing Consumer Responsibilities for Natural Resources. Journal of Extension, V42,n5, 8pp.
  
  
• Jackson, B., Habecker, M., Kroenke, M., Reichenbach, M., Traaholt, S., Simon-Brown, V., and Hubbard, B. (2004). Members Evaluate Their Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals (ANREP). Journal of Extension, V42, n6, 10pp.
  
  
• McEvoy, S. (2004-present), Gitt, N. (2000-present), Levine, G. (1999-2000), webmasters, and Simon-Brown, V. author. (1999-present). The Sustainable Living Project at OSU World Wide Web Site. <http://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/cof/extended/sustain/>
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V., Withrow-Robinson, B., Engle, M., Reed, and S., Broussard, S. (2003). Art as Catalyst for Conversations about Forests. Journal of Women in Natural Resources. V.24, no.1, pp 25-31.
  
  
• Douthwaite, V., Fleming, D., and Simon-Brown, V. (2003). Sustainable Rural Development: A Study Guide. Curriculum text in CD and Web formats for a distance education course.
  
  
• Withrow-Robinson B., Broussard, S., Simon-Brown, V., Engle, M., and Reed, S. (2002). Seeing the Forest: Art about Forests and Forestry. Journal of Forestry. December, v.100, no.8, pp 8-14.
  
  
• Reichenbach, M., Simon-Brown, V. (2002). Linking Strategic Thinking and Project Planning: The Oregon State University Extension Forestry Experience. Journal of Extension. August, v.40, no.4. <http://www.joe.org/joe/2002august/iw1.shtml>
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V. (2002). Choosing Your Group's Structure, Mission, and Goals. In, National Coastal Ecosystem Restoration Manual. Ridlington, S., editor. ORESU-H-02-002 Sec. I, Chapter 2, pp.17-29.
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V. (2002). Effective Meetings Management. In, National Coastal Ecosystem Restoration Manual. Ridlington, S., editor. ORESU-H-02-002 Sec. I, Chapter 3, pp 31-43.
  
  
• Dodrill, S., Simon-Brown, V., and Baldwin, J. (2001). Rethinking the American Dream. 16 minute videotape with companion guide (EM 8790) for national distribution to natural resources educators. In partnership with UO Institute for Sustainable Environment, and OSU Extension Communications.
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V. (2001). Sustainable Living: a companion guide. Oregon State University Extension Service. EM 8790. 16 pp. October 2001.
  
  
• Strigel, M., Meine, C., Abramovitz, J., et al. (2001). The Report of the Intelligent Consumption Project.. Strigel, M., and Meine, C., editors. Member of the working group. 30 pp. 2500 distributed.
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V., Fitzgerald, S., Reichenbach, M. (2001). Stewardship and Woodland Planning. In, Backyard Woodlands: A Landowner Resource Notebook. Fitzgerald, project leader. OSU Extension Service, EM 8745. Chapter 1, pp. 3-9.
  
  
• Fitzgerald, S. and Simon-Brown, V. (2001). Tree and Shrub Identification. In, Backyard Woodlands: A Landowner Resource Notebook. Fitzgerald, project leader. OSU Extension Service, EM 8745. Chapter 3, pp. 23-25.
  
  
• Conway, F., Simon-Brown, V., Corcoran, P. (2001). Watershed Stewardship: A Learning Guide. Instructor guide for Section I, Chapters 1-6. EM 8714T.
  
  
• Simon-Brown, V. (2000). Sustainable Living: Strategies for Breaking the Cycle of Work and Spend. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. v.1, n.3, pp 290-296.
  
  
• Faast, T. and Simon-Brown, V. (1999). A Social Ethic for Fish and Wildlife Management. Journal of Human Dimensions of Wildlife. Fall 1999. v.4, n.3, pp 86-92.
  
  
• Driscoll, D., Raab, C., Simon-Brown, V., Wykes, T. (1999). Simple Living: Choosing an Uncluttered, Focused, Rich Life. Developed an instructor's guide, and adapted an Extension publication by Sam Quick and Robert Flashman. Oregon State University Extension Service. HE 3-900T, HE 3-901, HE 3-903. 36 pp. Used by 500+ Family Community Education members in Spring 2000. Adapted by Simon-Brown in 2000 for web use.
  
  
• Osis, V., Simon-Brown, V., Thompson, V. (1999). Water World Marine Science Discovery Project Guide Guide. Updated environmental education material to correlate with Oregon's CIM social sciences benchmarks. Oregon State University Extension Service. 4-H 350L. 20 pp.
  
  
• Bergstrom, A., Clark, R., Hogue, T., Iyechad, T., Miller, J., Mullen, S., Perkins, D., Rowe, E., Russell, J., Slinski, M., Snider, B., Thurston, F. Simon-Brown, V., editor. (1994). Collaboration Framework...Addressing Community Capacity. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, CSREES, National Network for Collaboration. 14 pp. Over 10,000 distributed. Reprinted in 1996.
  

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