Insights on Linking Forests, Trees, and People (Library Channel Classic Presentation)

This presentation was originally hosted on Google Video. The ASU Libraries are presenting it here in order to maintain access to culturally relevant material.

Insights on Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Lab Recorded in the Carson Ballroom, Old Main, ASU Tempe campus, on January 10, 2007 Governing natural resources sustainability is a continuing struggle, and major debates occur over what types of policy "interventions" best protect forests. Ostrom synthesizes the findings from a long-term, interdisciplinary, multiscale, international research, program that analyzes the institutional factors affecting forest management. This program analyzes satellite images, conducts socioecological measurements on the ground, and tests the impact of structural variables on human decisions in experimental labs. Results support a new research frontier and move the debate beyond the boundaries of protected areas into larger landscapes where government, community, and co-managed protected areas are embedded. Speaker: Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University; Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU With Introduction by: Sander van der Leeuw Hosted by: CAP LTER and The Global Institute of Sustainability

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Education

Tags:

• sustainability
• research
• ASU
• Arizona State University
• forests
• trees
• environmentalism
• forest management
• government
• environmental diversity