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Steven A. Wolf
Associate 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. Teaching and research interests include (i) environmental governance, (ii) forest politics and biodiversity conservation in the northeastern U.S. and Finland, (iii) reconfiguration of knowledge networks in agricultural systems to conserve water quality and mitigate climate change (iv) co-evolution of institutions, knowledge, and environment.

Research

His current research examines (i) environmental governance, (ii) evolution of technical service delivery mechanisms to private forestland owners in the U.S. and Finland (iii) 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 (iv) co-evolution of institutions, knowledge, and environment.

Teaching

Selected Publications

  • Wolf, S. "Professionalization of agriculture and distributed innovation for multifunctional landscapes and territorial development." Agriculture & Human Values, 25(2):203-207.

  • 2008. Wolf, S. and J. Harrison. "Introduction to the symposium: Faultines in U.S. Agriculture." Agriculture & Human Values, S. Wolf and J. Harrison (eds.). 25(2):147-149.

  • 2008. Ohl, B., S. Wolf and W. Anderson. "A modest proposal: Global rationalization of ecological footprint to eliminate ecological debt." Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy spring 4(1).

  • 2007. Melo, C. and S. Wolf. "Eco-certification of Ecuadorian bananas: Prospects for progressive North-South linkages." Studies in Comparative International Development 42(3):256-278.

  • 2007. S. Wolf and J. Klein. "Enter the working forest: Discourse analysis in the northern forest.  Geoforum 38(5):985-998 .

  • 2007. Klein, J. and S. Wolf. "Toward multifunctional landscapes: Cross-sectional analysis of management priorities in New York's northern forest." Rural Sociology 72(3):391-417.

  • 2007. Wolf S. and S. Hufnagl-Eichiner. "External resources and development of forest landowner collaboratives." Society and Natural Resources 20(8):675-688.

  • 2007. Brown, C., S. Wolf and J. Lassoie. "An analytic approach to structuring co-management of community forests in Cameroon." Progress in Development Studies 7(2):135-155.

  • 2007. Young, R. and S. Wolf. "Toward a pragmatic program for urban ecology" (response to critics of our 2006 Urban Ecosystem article). Urban Ecosystems 10(3):359-354.

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

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

  • 2006. Just, D., S. Wolf, and D. Zilberman. " Effect of information formats on information services: Analysis of four selected agricultural commodities. Agricultural Economics 35:289-301.

  • 2005. Melo, C. and S. Wolf. "Empirical Assessment of eco-certification: The case of Ecuadorian bananas. Organization and Environment 18(3):287-317.
  • 2004. Allaire, G. and S. Wolf. "Cognitive representations and institutional hybridity in agrofood innovation." Science, Technology and Human Values, 29(4):431-458.