Cecilia Marie Danks

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Education:

Ph.D. 2000. Wildland Resource Science, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Division of Resource Institutions, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley. Dissertation: Community Participation in Forest Mangement: The Role of Social Capital and Organizational Capacity in Collaborative Efforts in Trinity County, California.

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient
• US Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Fellowship recipient
• Switzer Foundation Fellowship recipient

M.S. 1991. Wildand Resource Science, Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California at Berkeley.

B.A. 1983. magna cum laude, with Highest Honors in Biology, coordinate major in Environmental Studies, Williams College, Massachusetts.

Experience:

Asscociate Professor, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources/Environmental Program.

• Courses taught: Community Forestry at Home and Abroad, Forest Carbon and Communities, Intermediate Environmental Studies, Integrating Analyses in Natural Resources Issues, Sustainable Forest Certification, Introduction to Environmental Studies, Nature and Culture, Special Topics.
• Current Grants and Projects:
• Carbon Market Acess for Urban and Community Forestry, U.S. Forest Service
• Enhancing Sustainability of Community-Based Biomass, NE States Research Cooperative (NSRC) and others
• Effectiveness and Equity in Small Landowner Access to Carbon Markets, USFS, NSRC, NRCS-CIG
• Role of State Government in Effective and Equitable Forest Carbon Markets in the US
• Recent Grants and Projects:
• Survey of Research on Community-based Forestry in the US, Ford Foundation
• Institutional Innovations in Community-based Forestry, McIntire-Stennis
• Barriers to Community-based Collaboratives, CBCRC, University of Virginia
• Institutional Analysis of Community-based Forestry, Colorado State University
• Institutions for the Working Forest, NE States Research Cooperative

Director of Socioeconomic Research, Watershed Research and Training Center, Hayfork, CA, 1997-2001. Led socioeconomic research team.

Social Science Analyst, Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (FEMAT-team of scientists that developed the Northwest Forest Plan), 1983.

Research Assistant, University of California At Berkeley, 1988-1993. Conducted qualitative field work and statistical analysis for studies of forest communities in California.

Research Associate, World Wildlife Fund/The Conservation Foundation, Washington, DC, 1986-1988. Policy analysis of US agriculture and forestry and collaboration with Central American environmental NGOs.

Thomas J. Watson Fellow, study-travel in Central and South America focusing on tropical deforestation and conservation efforts, 1983-1985.

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