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2002-2003 Starker Lecture Series

Forests and Environmental Sustainability

October 10, 2002, Dr. Patricia Limerick
"Which Way's Up? Working with Progressive Era Policies When the Definition of 'Progress' Is Up for Grabs."

Dr Limerick is currently in the Dept of History, University of Colorado and a Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Born and raised in Banning, CA, Limerick is a Western American Historian, with particular interests in ethnic history and environmental history. She received her B.A. in American Studies in 1972 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her Ph.D. in American Studies in 1980 from Yale University. She has published a wide variety of books, articles and reviews. More about Dr. Limerick and a complete list of her publications can be found at: http://www.colorado.edu/history/faculty/limerick/limerickcv.html

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October 31, 2002, Dr. Elinor Ostrom
"People and Trees: An Institutional Analysis"

Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Crafting Institutions for Self-Governing Irrigation Systems (1992) and Governing the Commons (1990); co-author with Robert Keohane of Local Commons and Global Interdependence (1995), Roy Gardner and James Walker of Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (1994), and Larry Schroeder and Susan Wynne of Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development (1993). More about Dr. Ostrom can be found at: http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/people/elinor_ostrom.html

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November 14, 2002, Dr. Richard Knight
"Speaking Western: Honest Conversations in the New West"

Professor of Wildlife Conservation at Colorado State University. He received his graduate degrees from University of Washington, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Governor of the Society for Conservation Biology, and sits on the Boards for the Center of the American West, and the Natural Resources Law Center, both at the University of Colorado. He has coedited the following books: Wildlife and Recreationists (1995, Island Press), A New Century for Natural Resources Management (1995, Island Press), Stewardship Across Boundries (1998, Island Press), The Essence of Aldo Leopold (1999, University of Wisconsin Press), and Forest Fragmentation in the Southern Rocky Mountains (1999, University Press of Colorado). His research interests focus on the effects of outdoor recreation on wildlife, and how the loss of rural private lands to residential development is changing regional biodiversity. More about Richard can be found at: http://www.leopoldleadership.org/content/fellows/search-detail.jsp?id=22

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November 21, 2002, Rorke Bryan
Dean and Graduate Chair, Forestry, University of Toronto

Rorke Bryan has broad research interests in soil erosion, hillslope and dryland geomorphology, and in environmental management and land reclamation in dryland regions. Research approaches include intensive experimental work, primarily at the unique Soil Erosion Laboratory at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Toronto, but also at field sites in Canada, Mexico, Italy and Israel. Environmental management and land reclamation research has involved projects in Arctic Canada and Sweden, but has recently focused mainly on projects in the northern Rift Valley of Kenya and the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. More information about Dr. Bryan can be found at: http://www.forestry.utoronto.ca/ac_staff/current/bryan_detail.html

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