Kay, David L
Senior Extension Associate
David Kay is an Extension Associate with the Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) in the Department of Development Sociology. David provides leadership to CaRDI in the area of Landscape Management and Land Use Planning, with the goal of helping to "support sound management of New York`s land resources". His land use programming involves research, outreach, and training efforts that attempt to build community-based decision making capacity and to help weave local policy into a regionally coherent fabric. David also serves on his local planning board and has served on the boards of several local and New York State planning organizations.
research
domestic geographic focus
- New York State | state
submitted impact statement
- The role of service sectors in economic development | 2007 Impact statement
- Farm neighbor conflict | 2006 Impact statement
affiliations
academic staff in
- Development Sociology (D SOC) | Cornell department
background
featured in
- Agriculture's impact far more than economic, study says | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Cornell team shows how Tompkins County can cut its 'carbon footprint' by two-thirds | Cornell Chronicle Feature
publications
speaker at Cornell event
Keywords: collaborative problem solving, community development, conflict, economic impact, fiscal analysis, input output, land use, land use planning, local government, public issues education, residential housing