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Wolf, Steven A.
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- Associate Professor, Natural Resources (NTRES/DNR), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
Steven Wolf teaches and conducts research on environmental governance with a specific focus on efforts to secure public goods from private landscapes. His training and approach engage sociology, economics and geography. While most projects address socioecological dynamics in industrialized societies of Europe and USA, he has current projects in India and China.
Research Areas
- biocomplexity
- development sociology
- entrepreneurship
- forest management
- international development
- natural resources
- resource policy and management
- science and technology studies
- sustainable agriculture
- sustainable development
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Affiliations
member of
- David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) Faculty Fellow
Research
research overview
- Environmental and natural resource sociology, conservation planning and management, institutional analysis, innovation systems and sustainable development
research activities
principal investigator on
- EVALUATING A WORKING FOREST: INTEGRATED MONITORING OF THE FORMER FINCH, PRUYN LANDS awarded by FOREST SERVICE, USDA 2008 - 2012
- MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE NATURE CONSERVANCY awarded by NATURE CONSERVANCY 2010 - 2013
area(s) of concentration/expertise
- Community-based management, agroforestry
- Conservation
- Development, Environmental Sociology and Qualitative Sociology
- Economy and Society, Ag Soc, Soc Stratification
- Ecosystem Management, Wetlands and Forest
- Environment and Natural Resource Management
- Environmental Management
- Environmental Social Science
- Environmental and Resource Economics / Policy and Development
- Water Quality
keywords
- agriculture, forest management, land use, sustainability, institutions, innovation
geographic focus
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country
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new york state geographical region
submitted impact statement
- Maple syrup as a model system for development of multifunctional, working landscapes
- Maple syrup as a model system for development of multifunctional working landscapes
- Implications of pursuing long-term sustainability through short-term policy instruments
- Associate editor of a new journal: Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research
- Analysis of "fault lines" and sources of resilience in U.S. agrifood systems
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Forest rights and forest fights: Working Forests in New York State. . Society and Natural Resources. 25:1205-1220. 2012
- Assessing socio-ecological coupling: Agriculture and hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Global Environmental Change. Special Issue: The Politics and Policy of Carbon Capture and Storage. 21:530-539. 2011
- Ecotourism development in China: prospects for expanded roles for non-governmental organisations. Journal of Ecotourism. 10:46-63. 2011
- Integrating ecological and socioeconomic monitoring of working forests. BioScience. 61:631-637. 2011
- Network Governance as Adaptive Institutional Response: The Case of Multifunctional Forested Landscapes. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research. 3:223-235. 2011
- Agrifood alternatives and reflexivity in academic practice: Introduction to symposium. Rural Sociology. 75. 2010
- Empirical accounting of adaptation to environmental change: Organizational competencies and biodiversity in Finnish forest management. Ecology and Society. 14:27. 2009
- A modest proposal: Global rationalization of ecological footprint to eliminate ecological debt. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. 4:147-149. 2008
- Introduction to the symposium: Faultlines in U.S. agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values. 25:147-149. 2008
- Professionalization of agriculture and distributed innovation for multifunctional landscapes and territorial development. Agriculture and Human Values. 25:203-207. 2008
- Enter the working forest: Discourse analysis in the northern forest. Geoforum. 38:985-998. 2007
- External resources and development of forest landowner collaboratives. Society and Natural Resources. 20:675-688. 2007
- Participation in co-management in community forests in Cameroon. Progress in Development Studies. 7:135-155. 2007
- Toward a pragmatic program for urban ecology response to critics of our 2006 Urban Ecosystem article. Urban Ecosystems. 10:349-354. 2007
- Toward multifunctional landscapes: Cross-sectional analysis of management priorities in New York’s northern forest. Rural Sociology. 72:391-417. 2007
- Between incentives and action: A pilot study of biodiversity conservation competencies for multifunctional forest management in Finland. Society and Natural Resources. 19:845-861. 2006
- Effect of Information Formats on Information Services: Analysis of Four Selected Agricultural Commodities in the USA. Agricultural Economics. 35:289-301. 2006
- Effect of information formats on information services: Analysis of four selected agricultural commodities. Agricultural Economics. 35:289-301. 2006
- Goal attainment in urban ecology research: A bibliometric review 1975-2004. Urban Ecosystems. 9:179-193. 2006
- Empirical assessment of eco-certification: The case of Ecuadorian bananas. Organization and Environment. 18:287-317. 2005
- Cognitive representations and institutional hybridity in agrofood innovation. Science. Technology and Human Values. 29:431-458. 2004
- Principles of Risk Management Service Relations in Agriculture. Agricultural Systems. 75:199-213. 2003
- Consumption of Economic Information in Agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 84:39-52. 2002
- Between Data and Decisions: The Organization of Agricultural Economic Information Systems. Research Policy. 30:121-141. 2001
- Policing mechanisms in agricultural contracts. Rural Sociology. 66:359-381. 2001
- Spintronics: A spin-based electronics vision for the future. Science. 294:1488-1495. 2001
- Incentive instruments in CA fruit and vegetable contracts: Input control, monitoring, measuring, and price risk. Review of Agricultural Economics. 21:374-389. 2000
- Federal forests are not what they seem: Formal and informal claims to federal lands. Ecology Law Quarterly. 25:630-646. 1999
- Institutional failure and agro-environmental management. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. 7:293-310. 1999
- Public science, biotechnology, and the industrial organization of agrofood systems. AgBioForum. 2:37-42. 1999
- Precision farming: environmental legitimation, commodification of information, and industrial coordination. Rural Sociology. 62:180-206. 1997
- A regulatory approach to atrazine management: evaluation of Wisconsin's groundwater protection strategy. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 51:94-100. 1996
- The political economy of precision farming. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 78:1269-1274. 1996
- Cropping systems and conservation policy: the roles of agrichemical dealers and independent crop consultants. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 50:263-269. 1995
- Development of information intensive agrichemical management services in Wisconsin. Environmental Management. 19:371-382. 1995
- Recasting alternative agriculture as a management model: the value of adept scaling. Ecological Economics. 12:5-12. 1995
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booksection
- Wise use movement. Vol. V4: Natural Resources & Sustainability. 2012
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chapter
- Agrienvironmental policy, rural environments and the fork in the road: A comparative analysis of the US and the EU.. Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the UK and US.. 216-232. 2012
- Temporal dimensions of governance: Critical analysis of projects as analogues of professions.. Short-termism and Sustainability: Changing Time-frames in Spatial Policy Interventions. 181-200. 2012
- Network forms in natural resources management and policy: A co-evolutionary analysis. . Chapter in Maxwell Conference on Organization and Environment. 2007
- Commercial restructuring of collective resources in agrofood systems of innovation. in The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power. 91-121. 2006
- Institutional dimensions of knowledge system design and analysis. Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture. 357-366. 2001
- Institutional relations in agricultural information systems. Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture. 233-266. 2001
- Introduction. Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture. 2001
- “Institutional Relations in Agricultural Information Systems,” in Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture. Kluwer Academic Press. 233-266. 2001
- Institutional relations in agricultural information: Transitions and consequences. Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization. 3-22. 1998
- Privatization of crop production information service markets. Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization. 151-182. 1998
- Introduction. Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization. 1988
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conference paper
- Analysis of institutional and technical adaptation: biodiversity conservation capabilities of forestry organisations responding to social-ecological challenges. Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. 2008
- Site-specificity in agriculture: hard or soft paths for Wisconsin agrichemical supply dealers. Proceedings of 1994 Wisconsin Fertilizer, Ag Lime and Pest Management Conference. 146-160. 1995
- The status of information-based agrichemical management services in Wisconsin's agrichemical supply industry. Proceedings of Site-Specific Management of Agricultural Systems Conference. 909-920. 1995
- Using GIS to analyze agrichemical dealer practices and agrichemical use. Proceedings of GIS/LIS '94, Annual Conference and Expo, Phoenix, AZ. 282-294. 1994
- Impacts of atrazine restrictions on weed management in corn. Proceedings of Agricultural Research to Protect Water Quality, Soil and Water Conservation Society, Minneapolis, MN. 166-168. 1993
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document part
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report
- Commentary: The perils of privatization 1997
- Institutional/sociological links between sustainable agriculture and wildlife need further examination 1992
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Teaching
teaching overview
- My teaching focuses on concepts and practices that structure efforts to address the challenge of aligning private interests/behaviors with public purposes. Courses include survey (theory) courses, undergraduate research practicums and graduate seminars
teaching activities
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Spring 2013
- DSOC-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- NTRES-4940: Special Topics in Natural Resources - Spring 2013
- NTRES-6940: Special Topics in Natural Resources - Spring 2013
- NTRES-6970: Graduate Individual Study in Natural Resources - Spring 2013
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- BSOC-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2012
- DSOC-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2012
- DSOC-6320: Environmental Governance - Fall 2012
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Fall 2012
- DSOC-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- NTRES-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2012
- NTRES-4991: Honors Research in Natural Resources - Fall 2012
- NTRES-6310: Environmental Governance - Fall 2012
- NTRES-6970: Graduate Individual Study in Natural Resources - Fall 2012
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- STS-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2012
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Spring 2012
- DSOC-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- NTRES-6970: Graduate Individual Study in Natural Resources - Spring 2012
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- BSOC-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2011
- DSOC-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2011
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Fall 2011
- DSOC-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- NTRES-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2011
- NTRES-4991: Honors Research in Natural Resources - Fall 2011
- NTRES-6940: Graduate Special Topics in Natural Resources - Fall 2011
- NTRES-6970: Graduate Individual Study in Natural Resources - Fall 2011
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- STS-3311: Environmental Governance - Fall 2011
Service
service to the profession
- Rural Sociological Society Publications Committee Committee Member 2007 -
- Rural Sociological Society Natural Resource Research Interest Group Chairperson 2006 - 2008
reviewer or editor for
- Alto University - Helsinki, Finland
- Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research
- USDA National Research Initiative, Agricultural Systems and Markets and Trade
- USDA National Research Initiative, Prosperity for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
- USDA National Research Initiative, Rural Development
- University of Florida
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Environmental Studies - Land Resources, University of Wisconsin - Madison 1996
- M.A. in Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia 1991
- B.A. in English, University of Vermont 1986
Other
college
- CALS
research keyword
- agriculture, forest management, land use, sustainability, institutions, innovation