From Global Eyes- Summer 2010
by Roger and Annette Moore
A group of NC State students spent their first summer session travelling and learning in Queensland, Australia. The 23 undergraduates were participants in two Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management courses (PRT 449 – Human Dimensions of Natural Resources in Australia and PRT 450 – Sustaining Natural Environments in Australia) which are designed to expose students to diverse ecosystems and cultures in Australia.
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From NBC17 / MyNC.com – 6/4/2010
by Maggie Alexander
While the cleanup continues in the Gulf Coast, students in North Carolina are learning how to respond to disasters just like that one.
Linda Taylor teaches OSHA's Hazwoper, that's a safety training class at N.C. State. What students learn in the classroom can be taken down to the Gulf to help with the oil spill.
"We've had students contact us about what they need to do to go down and help with the oil spill so this is one option we can make available to them," Taylor said.
Read the complete story and Watch the video on MyNC.com.
Learn more about the Hazwoper course and the Environmental Technology degree in NC State's Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources
On a beautiful spring morning in May, volunteers from the NC State College of Natural Resources (CNR) went to work tearing apart a house on the shores of Lake Wheeler. No, they weren’t crazed, they were in fact helping families in Wake County obtain a greener, less expensive way to obtain building materials by volunteering with Habitat for Humanity – Wake (HFH) on one of their de-construction projects.
Many think of HFH as home builders, not destroyers, but the de-construction program offers opportunities for HFH to earn money for building projects plus provide an excellent service in “re-use” of building materials.
And faculty and staff are not the only volunteers from the college, giving their time and expertise to Habitat for Humanity – Wake. During spring semester, the student chapter of the Forest Products Society, along with several wood products faculty and graduate students, reprocessed untreated deck boards into interior baseboard moulding for Wake Habitat for Humanity. The boards were donated by Georgia Pacific after a drying study the wood products group did for GP.
The May HFH deconstruction project's four faculty/staff volunteers [Dr. Myron Floyd (PRTM), Laura Johnson (ET), Melinda Hall (Business) and James Jeuck (Ext. Forestry)] are part of an ongoing program developed by the CNR's staff and faculty to come together and be of service to the community.
Other projects in the past year have included sorting food donations at the Foodbank, staffing the Wake County Library book sale, cleaning up litter in local parks and more. Over 30 members of the faculty and staff have turned out to participate with the CNR Volunteers, many for multiple projects.
Over
the past three decades, governments at the local, state, and federal
levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations, often in
partnership with nongovernmental organizations and communities, to try
to address their environmental and natural resource management tasks.
Many of these efforts have failed. Innovations, by definition, are
transitory. How, then, can we establish new practices that endure?
In her new book, Implementing Innovation-Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance, Dr. Toddi
A. Steelman argues that the key to successful and long-lasting
innovation must be a realistic understanding of the challenges that
face it. She examines three case studies – land management in Colorado,
watershed management in West Virginia, and timber management in New
Mexico and reveals specific patterns of implementation success and
failure. Steelman challenges conventional wisdom about the role of
individual entrepreneurs in innovative practice. She highlights the
institutional obstacles that impede innovation and its longer term
implementation, while offering practical insight in how enduring change
might be achieved.
Learn more and purchase the book from Georgetown University Press
Follow Dr. Steelman on Twitter
Toddi A. Steelman
is an associate professor in the Department of Forestry and
Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. She is
coauthor of Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making and Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government?
