2013 – We Want to Have a Conversation about Natural Resource Issues with the Public: Now What?
An exploration of what social science can tell us.
May 7, 2013
Room 214, Springfield Interagency Office
Snapshot: A healthy relationship between humans and their environment requires ecological knowledge and attitudes. This workshop brings together several social scientists/ethicists/philosophers to explore the basic questions:
Do we hear the public? Do they hear us?
1: Welcome and Overview of the Day
Cheryl Friesen, Science Liaison, and Gordie Blum, Deputy Forest Supervisor
Bruce Shindler, Emeritus Appointment, Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU
3: How do community/social networks work?
Paige Fischer, Forest Service Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center
Lee Cerveny, PNW Research Station
5: Collaboration and 'informal power sharing': What does that mean, and why is it important?
Dale Blahna, PNW Research Station
6: How do people make decisions? A recipe of information and emotion.
Michael Nelson, OSU
7: Environmental groups as key stakeholders: how do they think?
James Johnston, formerly of Cascadia Wildlands