Wagenet, Linda Plummer
Senior Extension Associate
My work this year has focused on the "Aging and Environment Initiative". Working collaboratively with Professor Karl Pillemer in the College of Human Ecology, we have done research and outreach on a program to increase the civic engagement of older adults by involving them in environmental volunteering. The program is currently funded by Federal Formula Funds, College of Human Ecology funds and some foundation funding. We will pilot the program in Tompkins County in the Spring of 2008 and in the Capital Region of New York in late 2008. My several publications this year have related to civic participation and environmental management, which this initative supports.
research
research and scholarship focus
My research focus is to work in a multi-disciplinary fashion linking social, biological and physical components of watershed management and civic participation.
research areas
- water resource management | collaborative research area (CALS)
domestic geographic focus
- New York State | state
submitted impact statement
- Retiree Environmental Stewards Program: Promoting Environmental Civic Engagement and Volunteering of Older Adults | 2007 Impact statement
- Aging and the environment | 2006 Impact statement
- Linking natural and social sciences in watershed management | 2005 Impact statement
- Linking biological, physical, and social sciences in a forested watershed | 2004 Impact statement
affiliations
academic staff in
- Development Sociology (D SOC) | Cornell department
service
outreach focus
My work crosses research and outreach boundaries and I collaborate with stakeholders in a watershed context to look at enviornmental management issues, especially related to retirees and the older adult population.
background
featured in
- Pilot program builds corps of 'green retirees' to serve as environmental stewards | Cornell Chronicle feature
Keywords: aging and environment, aging and the environment, civic engagement, civic participaton, environmental management, environmental policy, public participation, watershed management