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Environmental Studies

Victoria Sturtevant, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Education: Ph.D. in Development Sociology, Cornell University, 1984

Office: 019A Taylor Hall
541-552-6762

sturtevant@sou.edu

 

Areas of interest: Community, Society and Resource Management, Community-based Forestry

Courses taught:  Soc 310 (Community), Soc 350 (People and Forests), ES 210-211 (Environmental Studies I and II)

Affiliations:

International Association for Society and Natural Resources
Rural Sociological Society
Community Based Collaboratives Research Consortium

Recent publications:

Donoghue, E. and Sturtevant, V. (eds.) Forest Community Connections.  Washington, D.C.:  Resources for the Future.  In press.

Donoghue, E. and Sturtevant, V.  Social Science Constructs in Ecosystem Assessments:   Revisiting Community Capacity and Community Resiliency.  Society and Natural Resources.  Accepted.

Jakes, P., Kruger, L., Monroe, M., Nelson, K., and Sturtevant, V.  Improving Wildfire  Preparedness: Lessons from Communities across the U.S.  Human Ecology Review.  Accepted.

Sturtevant, V. and Jakes, P.  Collaborative Planning to Reduce Risk.  Chapter 3 in Martin, W., C. Raish, B. Kent. eds. Wildfire Risk:  Human Perceptions and Management Implications.  Washington, D.C.:  Resources for the Future.  In press.

Sturtevant, V. and McCaffrey, S.M.  2007.  Encouraging Wildland Fire Preparedness:  Lessons Learned from Three Wildfire Education Programs.  In McCaffrey, S.M., tech. ed. The public and wildland fire management: social science findings for managers. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station.

Ryan, C. and Sturtevant, V.  2006.  Citizen and Manager Views of Adaptive Management and the AMAs:  A Qualitative Assessment.  In Stankey, G.H, B.T. Bormann and R.N. Clark.  Learning to Manage a Complex Ecosystem:  Adaptive Management and the Northwest Forest Plan.  Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-RP-567.  Portland, OR:  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

Sturtevant, V.  2006.  Reciprocity of Social Capital and Collective Action.  Journal of the Community Development Society, Vol. 37(1): 52-64.

Sturtevant, V., M.A. Moote, P.J. Jakes, and A.S. Cheng.  2005.  Social Science to Improve Fuels Management:  A Synthesis of Research on Collaboration.  Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-257.  St. Paul, MN:  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 

Sturtevant, V. and Bryan, T. 2004.  Commentary on “Environmental Resistance to Place-Based Collaboration,” by M. Hibbard and J. Madsen.  Society and Natural Resources. 17:455-560.

Burdge, R. and Sturtevant, V.  2004.  Social impact assessment: Seldom used & rarely understood. In Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. ed. M.J. Manfredo, J.J. Vaske, B.L. Bruyere, D.R. Field,  P.J. Brown, 97-105.  Jefferson: Modern Litho.

Sturtevant, V. and J. Lange. 2003.  From them to us:  The Applegate Partnership.  2003.  In Forest Communities, Community Forests: Struggles and Successes in Rebuilding Communities and Forests, ed. J. Kusel and E. Adler, 117-133.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.  

Stankey, G.H., B.T. Bormann, C. Ryan, B. Shindler, V. Sturtevant, R. Clark, and C. Philpot.  2003.  Adaptive management and the Northwest Forest Plan:  Rhetoric and reality.  Journal of Forestry 101(1):40-46.  

Sturtevant, V.  2003.  Methods of Community Inquiry.  In Kruger, L.E., tech. ed.  Understanding Community-Forest Relations.  Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-566. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

Kruger, L.E. and Sturtevant, V.  2003. Divergent Paradigms for Community Inquiry: An Argument for Including Participatory Research.  In Kruger, L.E., tech. ed. Understanding Community-Forest Relations. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-566. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 

 

Recent Presentations:

 

 Sturtevant, V. and S. McCaffrey.  2006.  Firewise, FireFree, and FireSafe Councils: How three education programs encourage adoption of fire mitigation practices.  Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.  San Diego, CA. 

 Sturtevant, V., H. Ballard and M. Fernandez-Gimenez.  2006.  Collaborative Stewardship in Community-based Monitoring.  International Symposium for the Study of Society and Natural Resources.  Vancouver, BC.

Sturtevant, V.  2006.  Collaborative Planning for Wildfire: Community Matters.  Schatz Energy Research Center Speaker Series.  Humboldt University, Arcata, CA. 

Sturtevant, V.  2006.  Is Community-Based Forestry a Path to Sustainability?  Social Science Noon Lecture Series.  Southern Oregon University, Ashland, CA.

Sturtevant, V., H. Ballard and M. Fernandez-Gimenez.  2005.  Community-based Monitoring and Stewardship:  The Ford Demonstration Projects.  Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium.  Sedona, AZ.

Sturtevant, V. and P. Jakes. 2004.  Collaborative Planning to Reduce Wildfire Risk: Linking Context and Outcomes.  Workshop on Wildfire Risk and Fuels Management: Risk and Human Reaction.  Santa Fe, NM. 

Sturtevant, V., M. Main, and J. Shipley.  2004.  Igniting Community Involvement in Forest Management.  Starker Lecture Series, Oregon State University.  Corvallis, OR.

 

Sturtevant, V. 2004.  Community-Based Fire Planning.  Interagency Environmental Design Symposium.  Salt Lake City, UT. 

Sturtevant, V. 2004.  Community Capacity and All that Jazz.  Evaluation Methods Workshop.  Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium.  Frisco, CO.

Sturtevant, V. 2004.  The Many Faces of Community Research.  International Symposium for the Study of Natural Resources (ISSRM), Keystone, CO.

Sturtevant, V. and Corson, C.  2003.  Collaborative Planning for Fire Protection in the Applegate Valley.  Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting.  Portland, OR.

 

Current Research Projects:

 

Community Wildfire Protection Plans:  Enhancing Collaboration and Building Social Capacity.  USDA. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.  Collaborators: Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College and University of Minnesota

Identifying Measures of Community Capacity Related to Challenges and Opportunities of Forest Restoration.  USDA. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

 Diffusion of Innovation for Fire Planning.  USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station.

Community Partnerships: Landscape Level Strategies to Reduce the Risk and Loss of Wildfire.   USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station.  Collaborators: University of Minnesota and University of Florida.

Community-based Forestry Demonstration Program Evaluation.  Ford Foundation.  Collaborators:  Colorado State University, University of Vermont, Rutgers University, University of California at Davis,  Purdue University, and University of Utah.

 

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