Faculty

Bruce Goldstein

Associate Professor

Department
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Planning and Design
 

Degrees Held
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• PhD in City and Regional Planning (University of California, Berkeley 2004)
• MS in Forest Ecology (Yale University, 1990)
• BA in Literature and Biology (dual major) (Wesleyan University, 1986)

Research Interests
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• Environmental Planning and Policymaking
• Long-term, Large-scale Social-ecological Planning
• Collaborative Negotiation and Governance 

Profile
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Bruce came to UC Denver from Virginia Tech, where he was Assistant Professor in the Program in Urban Affairs and Planning since 2004. Bruce received his PhD in Environmental Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, an MS in Forest Ecology from Yale University, and BA from Wesleyan University. He examines how planners, activists, public agency managers and other stakeholders can develop collaborative responses to social-ecological challenges, such as rapid growth in the wildlands-urban interface, biodiversity loss and climate change. Bruce is directing a study of the U.S. Fire Learning Network. This novel approach to restoring disrupted fire regimes across multi-jurisdictional landscapes was organized by the U.S. Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy, who are sponsoring the research. He was the organizer of the Virginia Tech Symposium on Enhancing Resilience To Catastrophic Events Through Communicative Planning, and is the editor of a collection of symposium papers that will be published by MIT Press in 2010, as well as a special issue of the journal Ecology and Society.

Courses Taught

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Planning issues and Processes (Fall 2009). Class blogs online at:
     Planishprocom   
     WTBP 
     Superstumpers  
     14footers  

Recent Publications and Works in Progress
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• Goldstein, Bruce Evan. (In Revision). Boundary Objects and Boundary Work: Opening the Black Box Of Collaborative Planning Expertise. Planning Theory and Practice.
• Butler, William Hale and Goldstein, Bruce Evan. (Submitted). The US Fire Learning Network: Springing a Rigidity Trap through Multi-scalar Collaborative Networks. Ecology and Society.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan. (In Revision). The Weakness of Strong Ties: Why Scientists Almost Destroyed the Coachella Valley Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan In Order To Save It. Environmental Management.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan and Butler, William Hale. (In Press). The U.S. Fire Learning Network: Providing a Narrative Framework for Restoring Ecosystems, Professions, and Institutions. Society and Natural Resources.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan and Butler, William Hale. (In Press). Expanding the Scope and Impact of Collaborative Planning: Combining Multi-stakeholder Collaboration and Communities of Practice in a Learning Network. Journal of the American Planning Association.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan and Butler, William Hale. (In Press). The Fire Learning Network: A Promising Conservation Strategy for Forestry. Journal of Forestry.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan. (In Press). Resilience To Surprises Through Communicative Planning. Ecology and Society.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan and Butler, William Hale (2009). The Network Imaginary: Coherence and Creativity within a Multiscalar Collaborative Effort to Reform U.S. Fire Management. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 52(8), 1013-1033.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan and R. Bruce Hull. (2008). Socially Explicit Fire Regimes. Society and Natural Resources, 21(6): 469-482.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan. (2007). Skunkworks In the Embers of the Cedar Fire: Enhancing Societal Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster. Human Ecology, 36(1): 15-28.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan and Hall, Rogers. (2007). Modeling without end: Conflict across organizational and disciplinary boundaries in habitat conservation planning. In R. Lesh, E. Hamilton & J. J. Kaput (Eds.), Models & Modeling as Foundations for the Future in Mathematics Education, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing Company.
• Goldstein, Bruce Evan. (2007). The Futility of Reason: Incommensurable Differences Between Sustainability Narratives in the Aftermath of the 2003 San Diego Cedar Fire. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 9(4):227-244.