College of Architecture and Urban Studies | School of Public and International Affairs

Asst. Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning 103 Architecture Annex 540-231-7507 brugo@vt.edu

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ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY

Education:

• Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning (University of California, Berkeley 2004)
• M.S. in Forest Ecology (Yale University, 1990)
• B.A. in Literature and Biology (dual major) (Wesleyan University, 1986)

Major Areas of Specialization:

• Expertise in Environmental Planning and Policymaking
• Long-term, Large-scale Ecological Planning
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Collaborative Negotiation and Governance

Bruce examines how social networking can generate ideas and capacity to address large-scale, long-range environmental challenges, including disaster recovery, biodiversity loss, and climate change.  His core interest is in how networks can cultivate responses to rapid change and uncertainty that threaten to overwhelm ways of reasoning, living, and governing that previously had proven sufficient. Working with colleagues in SPIA and the VT Dept. of Forestry, Bruce is directing a study of the U.S. Fire Learning Network. This novel approach for addressing challenges associated with 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.

Bruce is the organizer of the Virginia Tech Symposium on Enhancing Resilience To Catastrophic Events Through Communicative Planning, November 16-18, 2008. Website and rfp at: http://www.ipg.vt.edu/resilience.html

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

Goldstein, Bruce Evan. Boundary Objects and Boundary Work: Opening the Black Box Of Collaborative Planning Expertise. In revision for Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Goldstein, Bruce Evan and Butler, William. Learning Networks to Catalyze Change In Socially-Explicit Fire Regimes: Ecological Restoration Through Storytelling. In revision for Society and Natural Resources.

Goldstein, Bruce Evan and R. Bruce Hull. Socially Explicit Fire Regimes. Society and Natural Resources, 21(6), 2008

Goldstein, Bruce Evan. Skonkworks In the Embers of the Cedar Fire: Enhancing Societal Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster. Human Ecology, 36(1): 15-28, 2008

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

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Bruce is webmaster of the UAP jobsblog (username: UAP, password: UAP) and runs a class blog for Community Involvement and Public Participation (UAP 4184), Spring 2008.