Steve Daniels is a Community Development Specialist in University Extension and Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology and in the Department of Environment and Society. Previously, he was the Director of the Western Rural Development Center at Utah State University (1999-2004), on the faculty at Oregon State University as a professor of forest policy and economics (1989-1999) and on the faculty of Utah State University (1986-1988). Much of Dr. Daniels professional interests focus on community linkages to natural resources and in collaborative processes in natural resource management. He has been involved in a number of community-level collaborations, primarily in the Pacific Northwest. With Dr. Gregg Walker of OSU, he is a co-author of “Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach.” In addition to the Collaborative Learning book, Dr. Daniels has published more than 80 scientific papers, book chapters, and reports. Many of these report experiences or methods developed through Collaborative Leaning projects on behalf of agencies or communities. Working with various federal natural resource management agencies has been Dr. Daniels’ major area of practice. As a result of this broad base of experience, Dr. Daniels has taught in courses for several agencies, NGOs, and at 14 universities in the USA and abroad.
Articles
Examining the Compatibility between Forestry Incentive Programs in the US and the Practice of Sustainable Forest Management (with Michael A. Kilgore, Michael G. Jacobsen, John L. Greene, and Thomas J. Straka), Forests (2010)
This research explores the intersection between the various federal and state forestry incentive programs and...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Managing Social Conflict and Forest Restoration (with J. Emborg and G. B. Walker), Functional Ecosystems and Communities (2010)
The Role of Intermediating Institutions in Species Conservation: The Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances Program (with K. Womack), SSWA Faculty Publications (2010)
Unifying Negotiation Framework 1.0: An Organizing Metanarrative of Policy Discourse (with Jens Emborg and Gregg Walker), UNF Research (2009)
The broad field of participatory approaches to public decision making has been a hugely active...
Exploring the Feasibility of Mediated Final Offer Arbitration as a Technique for Managing "Gridlocked" Environmental Conflict, Society & Natural Resources (2009)
This article presents a case study of what may be one of the first applications...
Books
Working through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach (with Gregg B. Walker), Working Through Environmental Conflict (2001)
Environmental and natural resource policy decision making is changing. Increasingly citizens and management agency personnel...
Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach (with Gregg B. Walker), Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach (2001)
Examines the uses of collaboration in environmental and natural resource policy decision making and conflict...
Contributions to Books
Discourse-Based Approaches to Conflicts of Multi-Party Restoration Projects (with J. Emborg and G. Walker), Forest Landscape Restoration (2010)
Facilitating Dialogue and Deliberation in Environmental Conflict: The Use of Groups in Collaborative Learning (with Gregg B. Walker and Anthony S. Cheng), Facilitating Group Comunication in Context: Innovations and Applications With Natural Groups (2006)
Collaborative Resource Management: Discourse-based Approaches and the Evolution of TechnoReg (with A. S. Cheng), Society and natural resources: a summary of knowledge prepared for the 10th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (2004)
Dialogue and Deliberation in Environmental Conflict: Enacting Civic Science (with Gregg B. Walker), The Environmental Communication Yearbook (2004)
Civic science in practice can foster shared understanding and discovering areas of both agreement and...
Natural Resource Policy and the Paradox of Public Involvement: Bringing Scientists and Citizens Together (with G. B. Walker), Understanding Community-Based Forest Ecosystem Management (2001)
Immersed in natural resource policy approaches such as ecosystem management is the expectation that the...