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Biosketch

Bruce Stiftel's research concerns collaborative governance of environmental policy, water planning, and planning school advancement. His most recent books are Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict (co-edited with John T. Scholz; Resources for the Future Press), and Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, volume 2 (co-edited with Vanessa Watson and Henri Ascelrad; Routledge). He regularly teaches courses in planning theory, environmental analysis, and citizen participation planning.  A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stiftel is former president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and founding chairperson of the Global Planning Education Association Network. He is a member of the Planning Accreditation Board, serves as Reviews Editor of Planning Theory and as a member of the editorial boards of International Planning Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal for Education in the Built Environment, and Town Planning Review. 

Educational Background
1986 - Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1981 - M.R.P. (Environmental Planning), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1975 - B.S. (Biology and Environmental Studies), State University of New York at Stony Brook

Certifications
Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners

Fields

• Planning Theory
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• Citizen Participation
• Natural Resources and Environmental Planning
• Planning School Advancement

I work to improve the effectiveness of environmental planners at building consensus among policymakers, publics and agencies.  I have examined citizen participation program design in water quality planning and in hazardous waste site remediation; mediation of disputes in environmental enforcement and in mobile home landland-tenant relations; negotiation of large-scale development permitting; and heuristic uses of environmental impact assessment methods.  I have also done work investigating the institutional positioning of urban planning programs in universities, and global cooperation among planning educators.

Currently, I seek to understand the processes by which government agencies bargain with private sector actors.  Observing that governments are often ineffective at multi-lateral bargaining in such diverse situations as environmental permitting and enforcement, land acquisition, industrial location "tournaments," and negotiations with sports franchises, I want to understand and document these reasons and to chart directions to overcome the problems.

I am also active in research promoting the advancement of planning schools within academe, nationally in the US and internationally, seeking to understand how planning scholarship is transmitted internationally and the ways in which planning schools most effectively promote successful research and teaching among their staffs.
  

Publications:

Books:

•  Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson and Henri Acselrad, eds. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 2. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 0-415-40285-9 (cloth); 0-203-96750-X  (e-book).   
• John Scholz and Bruce Stiftel, eds. Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict: New Institutions for Collaborative Planning. Resources for the Future Press, 2005. ISBN: 1-933-11518-1 (cloth); 1-933-11519-X (paper) .
• Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson, eds. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.  ISBN: 0-415-34693-2 (cloth); 0-203-63998-7 (e-book).
• Eric L. Hyman and Bruce Stiftel. Combining Facts and Values in Environmental Impact Assessment: Theories and Techniques, Social impact assessment series, no. 16. Boulder, CO and London: Westview Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8133-7162-7.

Selected Articles and Chapters:

• Bruce Stiftel, Juan Demerutis, Andrea Frank, Thomas Harper, Daniel K.B. Inkoom, Lik-Meng Lee, Jose Julio Lima, Ali Memon, Terence Milstead, Izabela Mironowicz, Tumsifu Nnkya, Didier Paris, Hamish Rennie, Christopher Silver, and Neil Sipe. “Planning Education.”  Chapter 10 in Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009. Nairobi: United Nations, Human Settlements Programme, 2009.  
• Bruce Stiftel. Planning the paths of planning schools. Australian Planner. 46(1,2009):38-47.
• Bruce Stiftel, Ann Forsyth, Linda Dalton and Frederick Steiner. "Assessing planning school performance: multiple paths; multiple measures." Journal of Planning Education and Research. 28(2009):323-34.
• Bruce Stiftel and Chandrima Mukhopadhyay. “Thoughts on Anglo-American hegemony in planning scholarship: do we read each other’s work?” Town Planning Review. 78(5,2007):545-572.   
• Bruce Stiftel and Rebecca Mogg. "Planners guide to the digital bibliographic revolution." Journal of the American Planning Association. 73(1,2007):68-85.
• Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson. “A constução da integração global das Escolas de Planejamento” [“The construction of global integration of the schools of planning”]. Cadernos IPPUR. 19(1-2,2005):17-30. 
• Bruce Stiftel, Deden Rukmana and Bhuiyan Alam. "Faculty quality at U.S. graduate planning schools: an NRC-style study."  Journal of Planning Education and Research. 24(2004): 6-22.
• Frances Berry, Bruce Stiftel and Aysin Dedekorkut. "State agency administrative mediation: a Florida trial."  Pp.207-229 in The Promise of Environmental Conflict Resolution, ed. Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa Bingham. Resources for the Future Press, 2003. ISBN: 1-891853-65-1 (cloth); 1-891853-64-3 (paper).
• Bruce Stiftel. "Planning theory." Pp.4-16 in The National A.I.C.P. Examination Course Guidebook 2000, ed. Roshi Pelaseyed. American Institute of Certified Planners: Washington, DC, 2000.
• Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke and Bruce Stiftel. "Environmental policy." Pp. 171-200 in The Practice of Local Government Planning, third edition, edited by Linda Dalton, Charles Hoch and Frank S. So. International City Management Association: Washington DC, 2000.
• Bruce Stiftel. "Faculty labor and intellectual capital: furthering disciplinary development and institutional positioning in the urban planning academy."  1999 ACSP Presidential Address.  Journal of Planning Education and Research. 19(1999):207-210.
• Neil G. Sipe and Bruce Stiftel. "Mediating environmental enforcement disputes: how well does it work?" Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 15(1995):139-156.
• Bruce Stiftel and Neil G. Sipe. "Mediation of environmental enforcement: overcoming inertia." Journal of Dispute Resolution. 1992(1992):303-324.
• Bruce Stiftel. "Balance of representation in water planning: an assessment of experience from North Carolina." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 17(1990):105-120.
• Eric L. Hyman, David H. Moreau and Bruce Stiftel. "SAGE: a new participant-value method for environmental assessment." Water Resources Bulletin. 20(1984): 915-922.
• David R. Godschalk and Bruce Stiftel. "Making waves: public participation in state water planning." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 17(1981): 597-614.

Distinctions

• Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service to Planning Education, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2008
• Reviews Editor, Planning Theory
• Editorial Board Member: International Planning Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal for Education in the Built Environment, Town Planning Review
• Member, Planning Accreditation Board
• Fellow, American Institute of Certified Planners (inducted 2004).
• Founding Chairperson (2002-3), Global Planning Education Association Network
• President (1999-2001), Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
• Co-editor (1991-6) Journal of Planning Education and Research

Recent Courses

• CP6002: Introduction to the Fields of City and Regional Planning.  Introduction to the various subfields of planning through reading, discussion, and guest lectures by practicing planners. Course also covers professional ethics and career planning and development.
• CP8883: Citizen Participation.  This course seeks to build understanding about why planners undertake participation, how it can be best framed for success, and how best to carry it out.  A catalog of participatory tools will be developed, social psychological principles for group process will be reviewed, and examples of the various participatory tools/methods in planning practice will be examined.  Recent innovations in participation and consensus building will be explored
• CoA8520: Seminar in Planning Theory. Advanced seminar on planning theory, including philosophy of sciences, political philosophy, and ethical theory. The course explores the theoretical basis for planning as a social activity.

Dissertations Supervised 

•  Severine Mayere, PhD (Florida State University) 2007. "The influence of local political coalitions on the effectiveness of urban containment policies: empirical evidence from six U.S. states," available online. Dr. Mayere is Lecturer, School of Urban Development, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

• Carissa Schively Slotterback, AICP. PhD (Florida State) 2004. "Risk Perception, Uncertainty, and Facility Siting: Lessons from Merchant Power in California," available online.  Dr. Schively is Assistant Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
• Neil G. Sipe. PhD (Florida State) 1996. "Mediating environmental enforcement disputes: an empirical analysis."  Dr. Sipe is Head of Discipline, Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith School of Environment. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.  
• Omondi Odhiambo. PhD (Florida State) 1992. "Men and family planning in Kenya: alternative policy intervention strategies for reducing population growth." Dr. Odhiambo is a population and reproductive health consultant in Nairobi, Kenya.

Master’s Applied Research Papers Supervised (recent)

• Nathan  Barnett, MCRP 2010; MS (Civil Engineering) 2010.  “One-way couplet facilities in medium-sized cities & their significance on the built environment.” Now Associate, Connetics Transportation Group, Atlanta.
• Jody Norman. MCRP 2010. “Global patterns of nutrient runoff: green infrastructure as a policy option in Georgia.” Research Intern,  Studio Urbanista, Denver CO
• Shelley Stevens.  MCRP 2010. “Biofuel sustainability: using the ‘three Es’ of sustainable development to determine the sustainability of biofuel production and consumption.”
• Katherine Bailey. MSP 2008 (Florida State). Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. 
• Marybeth Groff. MSP 2008 (Florida State). Environmental Planner, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.Middleton, CT .

Current PhD Advisees

• Mellini Sloan. Dissertation topic: Knowledge, power and (in)action: dynamics and implications of water metering adoption in progressive era American cities.

Current Master’s Advisees

• Neela Ram.  Thesis topic:  Land conservation as an economic development tool.
• Catherine York.  Thesis topic: Water planning.