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Assistant Professor of Sustainable Land Use Planning
Department of Conservation Social Sciences
College of Natural Resources
University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441139
Moscow, ID 83844-1139 U.S.A.
Phone: 208-885-7117 FAX: 208-885-6226
E-mail: laninga@uidaho.edu |
Education:
2005 Ph.D. Design and Planning, December 2005
College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Denver, CO.
Dissertation: Collaboration and the Bureau of Land Management: Differential Adoption of Community-Based Approaches to Public Lands Planning in the West
2001 Graduate Interdisciplinary Certificate in Environmental Policy.
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
2000 M.A., Geography. Emphasis in water resources.
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Thesis: Watershed Councils: The Significance of Geographic Focus on Goals, Actions, and Success.
1994 B.S., Environmental Policy and Assessment.
Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.
Current Position:
2007-Present: Assistant Professor of Sustainable Land Use Planning, Conservation Social Sciences and Bioregional Planning and Community Design Program.
I am a new faculty member with a joint appointment in Conservation Social Sciences and the new Bioregional Planning and Community Design program. My research interests are in community-based collaborative planning, federal land management planning processes, and sustainable land use planning.
On the CSS front, I am collaborating with Bill McLaughlin, a CSS graduate student, and BLM staff in the Upper Snake Field Office (Idaho Falls, ID). We are developing and conducting a community assessment and a visitor study for special recreation management areas to inform the BLM’s resource management planning process. We are also developing a public process for identifying visitor use allocations on the South Fork of the Snake River.
During the fall 2007 semester I taught the first course in the planning program. In the course, I covered the historical and theoretical underpinnings of bioregional planning, which is grounded in the works of Lewis Mumford, Benton Mackaye, Ian McHarg and others. More recent contributors to the bioregional literature include Kirkpatrick Sale, Peter Berg and Robert Thayer. Bioregional planning starts by understanding the biophysical systems of a region and then examines how the social, political, economic and cultural systems can work in harmony with the environment to create sustainable communities.
An important piece of the Bioregional Planning program is the Learning and Practice Collaborative (LPC). The LPCs link students and faculty with Idaho communities to address local and regional planning issues. The first LPC is focused on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation Community Bioregion. During the fall semester graduate students created a bioregional atlas for the region (visit www.bioregionalplanning.uidaho.edu to view the atlas). This spring, Steve Drown, chair of the Landscape Architecture Department, myself, and students in the program worked on two planning projects in the area. First we assisted the City of Plummer with an update to their zoning regulations. The community had two goals for the zoning update: to use zoning regulations to create a central business district (CBD) and to protect environmentally sensitive lands within and surrounding the city. We developed form-based zoning codes to aid in creating the CBD. A team of students developed a number of environmental overlay regulations to protect the community’s environmental amenities. The second project is working with the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Housing Authority to develop a site design for new housing, emphasizing environmental protection and sustainable design.
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