CURRICULUM VITAE
Contact Information
Department of Natural Resources
118 Fernow Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-7778
Fax: (607) 255-0349
E-mail: saw44@cornell.edu
Homepage: http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/saw44
Curriculum Vitae: download PDF
Current Position
Associate Professor of Environmental Social Science
Department of Natural Resources
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Research Interests
Nature-society relations; Environmental governance; Environmental policy, politics and institutional change; Systems of innovation; Coupled natural and social systems research methods
Education
1996, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Environmental Studies; Land Resources
1991, M.A. University of Virginia; Urban and Environmental Planning; Land Use
1986, B.A. University of Vermont; major in English, concentration in Chemistry
Employment History
- 2008 - present, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
- 2001- 2008, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
- 2003 - present, Visiting Scholar (summers), SYKE, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki
- Summer 2001, Visiting Researcher (summer), Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 1996-2001, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley
- 1998-2000, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, Toulouse
- 1992-1995, Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Department of Rural Sociology
- 1991, Policy Intern, Agency for International Development, Arlington, Virgina.
- 1986-1987, Assistant Manager, Contract Packing, West Lynn
Creamery, Lynn, MA. ($100,000,000/yr food service firm)
PUBLICATIONS
(* co-author is a graduate student, ** co-author
is an undergraduate student)
Refereed Journal Articles
- 2008. Wolf, S. “Professionalization of agriculture and distributed innovation for multifunctional landscapes and territorial development.” Agriculture & Human Values, 25(2): 203-207
- 2008. Harrison, J. and S. Wolf. “Introduction to the symposium: Faultlines in U.S. agriculture.” Special section of Agriculture & Human Values, S. Wolf and J. Harrison (eds.), 25 (2): 147-149.
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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.*Melo, C. and S. Wolf. Eco-certification
of Ecuadorian bananas: Prospects for progressive North-South
linkages. Studies in Comparative International Development 42(3).
- 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. Hufangl-Eichiner. External resources
and development of forest landowner collaboratives. Society and
Natural Resources 20(8):675-688.
- *Brown, C., S. Wolf and J. Lassoie. Participation in co-management in 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):349-354.
- 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.

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

- 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.

- Allaire, G. and S. Wolf. Cognitive models and
institutional hybridity in agrofood innovation. Science.
Technology and Human Values 29(4):431-458.
- 2003. Just, D., S. Wolf, and D. Zilberman. Principles
of risk management service relations in agriculture.
Agricultural Systems 75(2-3):199-213.
- 2002. Just, D., S. Wolf, S. Wu, and D. Zilberman. Consumption of economic information in agriculture.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(1):39-52.
- Wolf, S., B. Hueth, B., E. Ligon. Policing mechanisms in
agricultural contracts. Rural Sociology 66(3):359-381.
- 2001. Wolf, S., D. Zilberman and D. Just. Between data
and decisions: The organization of agriculture economic
information systems. Research Policy (30):121-141.
- 2000. Hueth, Brent, E. Ligon, S. Wolf, and S. Wu. Incentive instruments in CA fruit and vegetable contracts:
Input control, monitoring, measuring, and price risk. Review
of Agricultural Economics 21(2):374-389.
- 1999. Fairfax, S., Fortmann, L., Hawkins, A., Huntsinger, L., Wolf, S.
1999. Federal forests are not what they seem: Formal and informal
claims to federal lands. Ecology Law Quarterly 25:630-646.

- 1999. Wolf, S. And P. Nowak. 1999. Institutional failure and
agro-environmental management. Research in Social Problems
and Public Policy 7: 293-310
- 1999. Wolf, S. and D. Zilberman. Public science, biotechnology,
and the industrial organization of agrofood systems.AgBioForum 2(1): 37-42.
- 1997. Wolf, S. and S. Wood. Precision farming:
environmental legitimation, commodification of information,
and industrial coordination. Rural Sociology (62)2:180-206.
- 1996. Wolf, S. and F. Buttel. The political economy of
precision farming. American Journal of Agricultural Economics
78:1269-1274.
- 1996. Wolf, S. and P. Nowak. A regulatory approach
to atrazine management: evaluation of Wisconsin's groundwater
protection strategy. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation,
51(1):94-100.
- 1995. Wolf, S. and P. Nowak. Development of information
intensive agrichemical management services in Wisconsin.
Environmental Management 19(3):371-382.
- 1995. Wolf, S. Cropping systems and conservation policy:
the roles of agrichemical dealers and independent crop
consultants. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.
50(3):263-269.
- 1995. Wolf, S. and T. F. Allen. Recasting alternative
agriculture as a management model: the value of adept scaling.
Ecological Economics 12:5-12.
Books
- 2001. Wolf, S. and D. Zilberman (eds.). Knowledge generation and technical change: Institutional
innovation in agriculture. Kluwer Academic Press, Norwell,
MA. 371 pp.
- 1998. Wolf, S. (ed.). Privatization of information
and agricultural industrialization. CRC Press, Boca Raton,
FL. 299 pp.
Book Chapters
- 2006. Wolf, S. 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.).
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI.
- 2001. Wolf, S. and D. Zilberman, Introduction.
Pp. xi-xxii in Knowledge Generation and Technical Change:
Institutional Innovation in Agriculture, S. Wolf and D.
Zilberman (eds.). Kluwer Academic Press, Norwell, MA
- 2001. Wolf, S. and D. Zilberman. Institutional
dimensions of knowledge system design and analysis.
Pp. 357-366 in Knowledge Generation and Technical Change:
Institutional Innovation in Agriculture, S. Wolf and D.
Zilberman (eds.). Kluwer Academic Press, Norwell, MA.
- 2001. Wolf, S., D. Zilberman, S. Wu and D. Just.
Institutional relations in agricultural information systems.
Pp. 233-266 in Knowledge Generation and Technical Change:
Institutional Innovation in Agriculture, S. Wolf and D.
Zilberman (eds.). Kluwer Academic Press, Norwell, MA.
- 1998. Wolf, S. Introduction. Pp. xvii-xxv in
Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization,
S. Wolf (ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
- 1998. Wolf, S. Privatization of crop production information
service markets. Pp. 151-182 in Privatization of Information
and Agricultural Industrialization, S. Wolf (ed.). CRC Press,
Boca Raton, FL.
- 1998. Wolf, S. Institutional relations in agricultural
information: Transitions and consequences. Pp. 3-22 in
Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization,
S. Wolf (ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Articles/Chapters in Review
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Published conference proceedings
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2008. E. Primmer and S. Wolf. Analysis of institutional and technical adaptation: biodiversity conservation capabilities of forestry organisations responding to social-ecological challenges. Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change. Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change International Conference of the Social-Ecological Research Programme Berlin, Germany Feb. 22-23.
- 2004. S. Wolf and E. Primmer. Biodiversity conservation
competency acquisition among Finnish forest management
service providers. Proceedings of Conference on Policy
Instruments for Safeguarding Forest Biodiversity - Legal
and Economic Viewpoints, Helsinki, Finland.
http://www.metla.fi/tapahtumat/2004/forest-biodiversity/kotisivu-en.htm
- 2002. Allaire and S. Wolf. Professional networks
in innovation processes. Proceedings of 4th Triple Helix
Conference, Copenhagen Business School.
- 1995. Wolf, S. and P. Nowak. The status of
information-based agrichemical management services
in Wisconsin's agrichemical supply industry. In
Proceedings of Site-Specific Management of Agricultural
Systems Conference. American Society of Agronomy, Crop
Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America,
Madison, WI. pp. 909-920.
- 1995. Nowak, P. and S. Wolf. 1995. Site-specificity in
agriculture: hard or soft paths for Wisconsin agrichemical
supply dealers. In Proceedings of 1994 Wisconsin Fertilizer,
Ag Lime and Pest Management Conference, University of
Wisconsin - Madison, Cooperative Extension. pp. 146-160.
- 1994. Ferber, D., S. Wolf, P. Nowak. Using GIS to
analyze agrichemical dealer practices and agrichemical use.
In Proceedings of GIS/LIS '94, Annual Conference and Expo,
Phoenix, AZ. Pp. 282-294
- 1993. Wolf, S., H. Hartley, R. McCallister, P. Nowak. Impacts of atrazine restrictions on weed management in corn.
In Proceedings of Agricultural Research to Protect Water
Quality, Soil and Water Conservation Society, Minneapolis,
MN. Pp. 166-168.
Extension publications
- 2006. S. Wolf, J. Klein, S. Hufnagl-Eichiner, L. Buck.
Taking stock and looking ahead: Benchmarking New
York State maple sugar production. (Statistical
compendium profiling sugarbush management, maple production
and marketing and enterprise management). Pp. 132.
http://maple.dnr.cornell.edu/pubs/maple%20sugar%20report.pdf.
Editorials
- Wolf, S. 1997. Commentary: The perils of
privatization. AgConsultant, 53(4): 26.
- Wolf S. 1992. Institutional/sociological
links between sustainable agriculture and wildlife
need further examination. Editorial in American
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 7(1 & 2):68-69.
Reports
- Wolf, S., D. Just, S. Wu and D. Zilberman. 1998.
Foundations of agricultural economic information networks.
Report for USDA-ERS Commercial Agriculture Division. 109 pp.
- Purvis, A., S. Wolf, and S. Batie. 1996. Privatization
of technology and information transfer in U.S. agriculture:
toward a policy research agenda. Texas A&M University,
Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics. Pp. 96-1.
- Haimes, Y., J. Pet-Edwards, S. Wolf. 1991.
Risk management through waste minimization. Center for
Risk Management in Engineering Systems. University of Virgina. 271 pp.
Research
Current External Funding
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Northern States Research Consortium, Evaluating a Working Forest: Integrated Monitoring of The Nature Conservancy-DEC Management of the Former Finch, Pruyn Lands. PI. Richard Stedman (Co-PI, Cornell), Michelle Wood (Co-PI, New York State Chapter of The Nature Conservancy). $140,000.
- National Science Foundation, Biocomplexity in the Environment,
Dynamics of Coupled Human and Natural Systems. Understanding
linkages between human and biogeochemical processes in
agricultural landscapes. Co-PI with Laurie Drinkwater
(PI, Cornell), Mark David(Co-PI, UIL), John Westra (Co-PI, LSU),
Sig Snapp (Co-PI, MSU), Suzie Greenhalgh (Co-PI, World
Resources Institute). $1,600,000. 2005-2008.
- Finnish Academy of Sciences, Law and Biodiversity Initiative.
Law, forests and biodiversity: an analysis of policy instruments for
sustainability, Co-Investigator with Michael Hilden, PI, Finnish
Environment Institute). EU 300,000. 2005-2008.
- The Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation. Development
of biodiversity conservation capabilities: an
institutional analysis of actors and practices.
Co-Investigator with Mikael Hilden (PI, Finnish Environment
Institute) and Eeva Primmer (co-investigator, Finnish
Environment Institute ). EU 45,800, 2005-2008.
- Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station.
Inter-organizational networks for cross-boundary
land management: assessment and development of organizational
and territorial competencies. Principal Investigator,
$45,000, 2006-2008.
- Cornell University Einaudi Center for International
Studies, Graduate workshop on Development, Governance
and Nature. Chair with Ron Herring (Co-Chair, Government,
Cornell). Up to $6000 per year, 2003-present.
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University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives. Collective action in management and policy of forested landscapes. $10, 000. 2008-2009.
- Cornell University Einaudi Center for International Studies,
Cornell Social Sciences Institute, Polson Institute for
Global Development, Academy of Finland and University of
Helsinki. Workshop on projectification, governance and
sustainability: North American-EU comparison and synthesis.
Principal Investigator with Stefan Sj?blom (Co-PI, University
of Helsinki and Sarah Skerratt (Co-PI, Scottish Agricultural
University), $25,000, October 21-24, 2007.
http://sockom.helsinki.fi/forum/eng/CornellWorkshop.html
- Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station. Organizational
dimensions of working landscapes: resources for stewardship
enterprises. Principal Investigator with Louise Buck
(co-PI, Cornell). $61,000, 2004-2006.
- Northeastern States Research Cooperative. University
of Vermont School of Natural Resources. Institutional
arrangements for working forests. Principal Investigator
with Ceclia Danks (Co-PI, UVM). $42,439, 2003-2005.
Previous Research Funding
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Cornell University Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell Social Sciences Institute, Polson Institute for Global Development, Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki. Workshop on projectification, governance and sustainability: North American-EU comparison and synthesis. Principal Investigator with Stefan Sjöblom (Co-PI, University of Helsinki and Sarah Skerratt (Co-PI, Scottish Agricultural University), $25,000, October 21-24, 2007. http://sockom.helsinki.fi/forum/eng/CornellWorkshop.html
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Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station. Organizational dimensions of working landscapes: resources for stewardship enterprises. PI with Louise Buck (co-PI, Cornell). $61,000, 2004-2006.
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Northeastern States Research Cooperative. University of Vermont School of Natural Resources. Institutional arrangements for working forests. PI with Ceclia Danks (Co-PI, UVM). $42,439, 2003-2005.
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Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. Associational forestry in the U.S.: organizational alternatives in non-industrial private forest management for environment, economy and community. PI. $30,000, 2002-2005.
External Funding Secured Prior to Professional Appointment
NB: as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and a graduate student,
I was not eligible for PI status. My contribution
to each proposal is specified below.
- USDA-National Research Initaitive, Program
on Rural Development. Claiming rural places:
the impacts of migrations and markets on resource
access and control. Co-investigator with Sally Fairfax,
Louise Fortmann, Lynn Huntsinger, and Nancy Peluso
(Principle Investigators, UC-Berkeley). $245,000,
1998-2001. (I was a co-author of the proposal, and
my CV was included as part of the research team)
- USDA-National Research Initiative, Program on
Markets and Trade. Quality measurement and risk
sharing in contracts for fruit and vegetables. Ethan
Ligon (Principal Investigator). $140,000, 1998.
(I was a contributor to proposal, and my CV was
included as part of the research team)
- Giannini Foundation Award, UC-Berkeley. Research
Conference: Knowledge generation and transfer:
implications for agriculture in the 21st century.
$30,000, 1998. (I wrote the proposal and organized
and hosted an academic conference leading to publication
of an edited volume)
- USDA-Economic Research Service, Markets
and Trade Economics Division. Assessing the
market for agriculture economic information.
David Zilberman (Principal Investigator, UC-Berkeley).
$150,000, 1997-1999. (I wrote the proposal and
executed the project)
- USDA-National Research Initiative, Farming
Systems Division. USEPA, USDA-NRCS, Ciba-Geigy,
Farm Foundation, Leopold Center, American Society
of Agronomy, DowElanco. Privatization of information
and technology transfer in U.S. agriculture:
research and policy implications. $35,000. 1995.
(I wrote the proposal and organized and hosted an
academic conference leading to publication of an edited volume)
- USEPA Agriculture Policy Branch, Soil and Water
Conservation Society. Environmental implications
of farmers' alternative sources of fertilizer
and pesticide recommendations. Co-investigator.
Peter Nowak (Principal Investigator, UW-Madison).
1994. $30,000. (I wrote the proposal and completed
the research which was published as my doctoral dissertation)
Proposals pending
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USDA National Research Initiative, Agricultural Prosperity for Small and Medium Sized Farms. Understanding and Addressing Social and Spatial Determinants of Organic Agriculture Development in three U.S. Regions. PI. Leland Glenna (Co-PI, PSU), Clare Hinrichs (Co-PI, PSU), Amy Traeger (Co-PI, PSU) and Ryan Galt (Co-PI, UC-Davis). $500,000 requested.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentations
- Construction of multifunctional landscapes:
Institutional analysis of innovation. Keynote
address, Fairness and Welfare in Rural-Urban Relations.
Ruralis Institute, Mikkeli, Finland. Dec. 8-10, 2005.
- Hybrid governance in technical systems. Environmental
Synergies Seminar of Helsinki University of Technology
and Finnish Graduate School in Environmental Social Science.
February 1, 2002.
- Natural resource conservation in U.S. agricultural
policy: path dependency in institutional innovation.
Finish Environmental Institute Seminar, Developments in
Future Alternatives of Finnish Agriculture: Dimensions and
Scales of Sustainability. Helsinki, February 5, 2002.
- Natural resource conservation in U.S. agricultural policy:
developments at the intensive and extensive margins.
University of Oulu (Finland). February 6, 2002.
- Assessment of ecological management competencies in Finnish
local forest management associations. University of Oulu
(Finland). February 7, 2002.
- The 'market' for agricultural economic information.
USDA Economic Research Service Workshop. Washington, DC.
November 20, 1997.
- The role of private sector service providers in pesticide
decision making. EPA Pesticide Regulatory Education Program.
University of California - Davis. July 15, 1997.
- Institutional roles in agricultural production information
service markets. Annual Meeting, American Society of Agronomy,
Crop and Soil Science Society, Soil Science Society of America.
Indianapolis, IN. November 3-8, 1996.
- Conflict of interest in agrochemical consulting markets.
Annual Meeting, Entomological Society of America. Louisville,
KY. December 1996.
- Public and private information channels in agricultural
production systems. Extension Agricultural and Natural Resource
Program Leaders. Kansas City, KS. January 1996.
- Public and private information channels in agricultural
production systems. Annual Meeting, National Alliance of
Independent Crop Consultants. Orlando, FL. January 1996.
- GIS as a research tool in applied economics. American
Agricultural Economics Association, Annual Meeting Learning
Workshop. Indianapolis, IN. August 1995.
- Private sector technology and information transfer in U.S.
agriculture. Annual Meeting, Brookside Laboratories, Silver Lake,
WI. August 1995.
- Privatization of information transfer. National IPM
Coordinators Workshop. Washington, D.C. March 1995.
Invited presentations at Cornell University
Conference Presentations
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Wolf, S. Toward a public environmental and natural resource sociology. Annual Meeting, Rural Sociological Society. Manchester, NH. July 2008.
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Wolf, S. Allaire and Wolf reprise: Innovation dynamics in agrifood systems and opportunities for public scholarship. Sociology of Agrifood Research Interest Group miniconference. Annual Meeting, Rural Sociological Society. Manchester, NH. July 2008.
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Wolf, S. Organizational and administrative forms for sustainable development: Comparative program of work in U.S. and E.U. QUCAN research consortium, Cornell University. June 2008.
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Primmer E. and S. Wolf. Analysis of institutional and technical adaptation: biodiversity conservation capabilities of forestry organisations responding to social-ecological challenges. Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change 2008 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change International Conference of the Social-Ecological Research Programme Berlin, 22-23 February 2008.
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Hufnagl-Eichiner, S., Wolf, S. A. & L. E. Drinkwater. Evidence for ecological modernization? An analysis of the United States’ federal research portfolio on farm nutrient management. German Environmental Sociology Summit Nov. 8-10, 2007. Lüneburg, Germany.
- Wolf, S. Professionalization of U.S. agriculture: Toward
accountability, adaptive capabilities and territorial development.
Annual Meeting, Rural Sociological Society. Santa Clara, CA. August 2007.
- Wolf, S. The sky is, indeed, falling: Carbon, carbon
everywhere. Annual Meeting, Rural Sociological Society.
Santa Clara, CA. August 2007.
- Wolf, S. and E. Primmer. Between incentives and action: a
pilot study of biodiversity conservation competencies for
multifunctional forest management in Finland. Poster in the
European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy Meeting:
Actions for the 2010 biodiversity target in Europe- how does
research contribute to halting the biodiversity loss? Helsinki,
Finland. November 16-19, 2006. http://www.epbrs.org/epbrs_next%20meeting.html
- Primmer E. and S. Wolf. Kannustimista toimintaan: suomalaisen
mets?talouden biodiversiteetin turvaamisen edellytysten
tarkastelu (Between incentives and action: an assessment
of biodiversity conservation competencies for forest
management in Finland.) Ideasta innovaatio, innovaatiosta
k?yt?nt?. Ymp?rist?my?nteisten innovaatioiden edist?minen
yrityksiss? ja yhteiskunnassa. A Network for Research on
Governance for Sustainability workshop. Helsinki, Finland. Nov. 11, 2006.
- Shapiro, D. and S. Wolf. Culinary agritourism and sustainable
rural development. National Extension Tourism Conference.
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Sept. 10-13,
2006. http:/www.esf.edu/NET2006/
- Wolf, S. and L. Drinkwater. Understanding linkages
between human systems and biogeochemical processes at multiple:
Managing the nitrogen conservation cascade. Integrated Approaches
for Agroecosystem Management in the 21st Century. Ecological
Society of America. Memphis, TN. Aug 10, 2006.
- Wolf, S., L. Buck, W. Anderson and S. Hufnagl-Eichiner.
Multifunctionality, conservation enterprises and theories of
innovation: A statistical analysis of NY maple syrup.
Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Louisville,
KY. August 10-13, 2006.
- S. Wolf. Construction and analysis of natural resource
conservation competencies. Rural Sociological Society Annual
Meeting. Louisville, KY. August 10-13, 2006.
- Primmer, E. and S. Wolf. 2003. Development and testing of an
institutional approach to forest policy and management. Poster
presented at XIII World Forestry Congress Quebec City, Quebec,
Canada. September 2003.
- Wolf, S. Sociological and economic research on agricultural
contracts. Paper presented at Rural Sociological Society/American
Agricultural Economics Associations Joint Annual Meeting.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. August 2003.
- Wolf, S. Forest and agricultural eco-certification as a
process of innovation in extended networks. U.S. Society for
Ecological Economics Annual Meeting. Saratoga, NY. May 2003.
- Danks, C., S. Wolf, K. Fligger, and J. Klein. Institutional
arrangements for working forests. Northern Forest Research
Cooperative Conference. Nov. 13, 2003. Burlington, VT.
http://www.uvm.edu/snr/nsrc/.
- Wolf, S. Associational forestry in Finland. Forest
owner cooperation: Balancing ecology and economics.
Community Forestry Resource Center. Northampton, MA. Nov 2, 2002
- Wolf, S. Rethinking the role of professions in knowledge society,
Leader of Track #5 of 4thTriple Helix Conference. Copenhagen,
Denmark. November 2002.
- Wolf, S. Institutional analysis of private forestry in the U.S.
Chair, Researcher/Practitioner Panel, Rural Sociology Society Annual
Meeting. Chicago, IL. August 2002.
- Wolf, S. Environmental governance assessment: innovation
in non-industrial forest management in Finland and USA.
International Conference: Nature Conservation on Private
Land. European Forestry Institute. Lahti, Finland. June 12-15, 2002.
- Wolf, S. Evolution of U.S. agro-environmental policy: a
knowledge-based perspective. Presentation at 9th International
Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Bloomington, IN.
June 2-5, 2002.
- Hueth, B., E. Ligon and S. Wolf. Contracting practices in
CA fruit and vegetable markets. Workshop on Contracting
Practices in Agriculture, USDA-ERS. Washington, DC. May 23, 2000.
- Wolf, S. Water resources and U.S. agriculture. Presented
at 5th Universit? d'?t? de l'Innovation Rurale. Marciac, France.
Aug. 11, 1999.
- Allaire, Gilles and S. Wolf. Governance in information system:
Local-global linkages. Les Journees de la Proximit?. Toulouse,
France. May 19-20, 1999.
- Wolf, Steven and David Zilberman. Agricultural information
networks. Impact analysis and decision strategies for
agricultural research, NC-208. Tucson, AZ. Feb. 26-27, 1999.
- Hueth, Brent, Ethan Ligon, Steven Wolf, and Steve Wu.
Contracts and quality management in produce markets.
Food Distribution Research Society Conference. Monterey,
CA. October 28, 1998.
- Wolf, S. The impact of agriculture's industrialization
on the environment, technology, and the rural community.
American Agricultural Economic Association. Salt Lake
City, UT. August 2-5, 1998.
- Wolf, S., P. Nowak, R. McCallister. Methodological
and institutional barriers to farm practices assessment.
IPM Data Needs Assessment Panel, Third National IPM
Symposium/USDA-ERS Methodological Workshop. March 1996.
TEACHING
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Environmental Governance 2002 - present
Institutional analysis and modern historical survey of the status
of state, market and civil society in environmental policy.
Graduate section meets separately.
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Environmental Strategies 2003 – present
Seminar and research practicum focused on critical analysis of market-based
natural resource conservation and environmental management.
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Environmental & Natural Resources Policy Processes 2002 - present
Contributor to Professor B. Knuth’s Washington, DC-based course on federal policy processes. I have coordinated case studies on agricultural policy, Endangered Species Act, National Forests administration, scientific integrity in policy processes and energy policy.
- Natural Resource Conservation, Organization and Learning 2002
Graduate seminar convened with L. Buck & G. Nagle.
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Courses are cross-listed with Science & Technology Studies, Development Sociology and Biology and Society
ADVISING
Undergraduate Advising
Advisor for Student Organizations
- Faculty Advisor, Society for Natural Resources
Conservation, 2005-2007 http://www.rso.cornell.edu/snrc/
- Faculty Advisor, Cornell Men's Squash, 2007 - present
Undergraduate Research
- Kjirsten Alexander. 2007. Honors thesis
co-supervisor, Human Ecology. Profit Priorities
and Cost Distribution: Sociocultural ecological
impacts of Chilean forest management
- Joshua Perlman. 2007. Independent research. Land Use
Change on the Urban Fringe: Exploratory Research on Suburban
Growth and Its Implications for Adaptive Capacity
- Dana Shapiro. 2006. Honors thesis supervisor,
Natural Resources. Culinary Agritourism in Sustainable
Rural Development
- Mathew Gonser, Ava Goodale and Julia Raybould. 2004.
Independent research. Environmental practice on campus:
green purchasing for responsible forest management
Graduate advising
Graduate Field Memberships
- Natural Resources
- Development Sociology
- Cornell Institute for Public Affairs
- Conservation and Sustainable Development
Post-Doctoral Research Associates
- Ryan Galt, Ph.D. UW-Madison, Geography 2006-2007 -
Accepted a position in August 2007 as Assistant Professor,
Department of Human and Community Development & Agricultural
Sustainability Institute, University of California, Davis
Support for Visiting Scholars
- Faculty Liaison for Prakash Mathema (Nepal),
Hubert Humphrey Fellow, 2003-2004
- Host for Sebastian Godenhjelm, Ph.D. student,
Department of Public Administration, University of Helsinki,
Swedish School of Social Science, fall, 2007
Graduate Majors - Current
- Stefanie Hufnagl-Eichiner, Ph.D. Natural Resources,
expected May 2008
- Andrew Lesser, MPS, Natural Resources, expected January 2008
Graduate Majors - Completed
- Robert Young, Ph.D. Natural Resources, 2007.
Crossing boundaries in urban ecology: Pathways to
sustainable cities.
- Jeff Klein, M.S. Natural Resources, 2005. The politics,
management priorities and discourse in the Northern Forest.
- Brian Ohl, M.P.A. CIPA, 2005. Utilizing ecological
footprinting methodology to achieve global sustainability
and equity.
- Cristian Melo, M.S. Natural Resources, 2004. Empirical
assessment of eco-certification schemes in Ecuadorian
banana production.
Graduate Minors - Current
Graduate Minors - Completed
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Committee Assignments, Cornell University
- Natural Resources, Teaching and Curriculum Committee, 2002-present
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Natural Resources, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2007-present
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Natural Resources, Seminar Committee, Chair, 2004-05. 2006-2007
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Natural Resources, Sustainability Committee, Chair, 2008-present
- Co-Director, Program on Governance, Nature and Development:
Rural Livelihoods and Biological Resources, Einaudi Center
for International Studies, Cornell University (with
Ron Herring, Government). 2003-present
- Biology and Society faculty, 2003-present
- Biology and Society, Curriculum and Policy Committee, 2005-present
- Cornell Faculty Steering Committee, Community and Rural Development Institute, 2006-present
- Cornell Faculty Senate ad hoc committee on University Strategic Corporate Alliances, 2004
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Cornell Faculty Search Committee, Landscape Architecture, 2008.
- Cornell ad hoc committee on socially responsible investment of the Cornell endowment, 2008-present
International Collaborations
Editorships and Editorial Boards
- Associate Editor, Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 2007-present
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Editorial Board, Agriculture and Human Values, 2005-present
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Editorial Board, Environmental Policy and Governance, 2008 – present
Professional Society Leadership Positions
Reviewer
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Conservation Biology
- Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
- Environmental Biosafety Review
- Environment, Development and Sustainability
- Environmental Management
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
- Research Policy
- The Review of Agricultural Economics
- Rural Sociology
- Rural Studies
- Society and Natural Resources
- Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
- Society and Natural Resources
- USDA National Research Initiative, Agricultural
Systems and Markets and Trade
- USDA National Research Initiative, Rural Development
- USDA National Research Initiative, Prosperity for
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
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