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Steven A. Wolf
Assistant Professor


124 Fernow Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ph: 607-255-7778
Fx: 607-255-0349
e.mail: saw44@cornell.edu

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Steven A. Wolf

Ph.D - University of Wisconsin-Madison - 1996
M.S. - University of Virginia - 1991
B.S. - University of Vermont - 1986

Steve Wolf joined the Department of Natural Resources in 2001 after a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France. His interdisciplinary research and teaching is focused on institutional innovation applied to questions of natural resource conservation and sustainable development.

Research

His current research examines (i) evolution of technical service delivery mechanisms to private forestland owners in the U.S and Finland, (ii) policy tools for sustaining “working forest” in The Northern Forest (New England and New York State), reconfiguration of knowledge networks in agricultural systems to conserve water quality and (iii) co-evolution of institutions, knowledge, and environment.

Teaching

Selected Publications

  • S. Wolf and J. Klein. Forthcoming. Enter the working forest: Discourse analysis in the Northern Forest.  Geoforum.

  • Klein, J. and S. Wolf. In press. Toward multifunctional landscapes: Cross-sectional analysis of management priorities in New York's Northern Forest. Rural Sociology.

  • Wolf S. and S. Hufnagl-Eichiner. In Press. External Resources and Development of Forest Landowner Collaboratives. Accepted for publication, Society and Natural Resources.

  • Melo C., S. Wolf. In Press. Eco-certification of Ecuadorian bananas: Prospects for progressive North-South linkages. Accepted for publication, Studies in Comparative International Development.

  • Brown, C., S. Wolf and J. Lassoie. In press. Participation in co-management in community forests in Cameroon, Progress in Development Studies.

  • Wolf, S. 2006. Commercial restructuring of collective resources in agrofood systems of innovation. Pp. 91-121 in The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power, S. Frickel and K. Moore (eds.). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

  • Wolf, S. and E. Primmer. 2006. Between incentives and action: A pilot study of biodiversity conservation competencies for multifunctional forest management in Finland. Society and Natural Resources. 19:845-861.

  • Young, R. and S. Wolf. 2006. Goal attainment in urban ecology research: A bibliometric review 1975-2004, Urban Ecosystems. 9:179-193.

  • Just, D., S. Wolf, and D. Zilberman. 2006. Effect of Information Formats on Information Services: Analysis of Four Selected Agricultural Commodities. Agricultural Economics. 35: 289-301.

  • Melo, C. and S. Wolf. 2005. Empirical Assessment of Eco-Certification: The Case of Ecuadorian Bananas. Organization and Environment 18(3): 287-317.

  • Allaire, G. and S. Wolf. 2004. Cognitive models and institutional hybridity in agrofood innovation. Science, Technology and Human Values, 29 (4): 431-458.