Chuck Harris

  Dr. Charles Harris

  Professor of Environmental
  Management, Policy and 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) 885-6314 / FAX (208) 885-6226  
   E-mail: charris@uidaho.edu

Biography:
Dr. Charles C. Harris (Chuck) has been at the University of Idaho for over 20 years, where he has taught and conducted research on a wide variety of topics, including: the human dimensions of ecosystem management and restoration ecology; the impacts of resource management activities and policies on rural communities; social impact assessment and deliberative public input processes; resource management, policy, and planning; the organizational psychology of resource management; and natural resource tourism, impacts, and market analysis.

In a recent publication of state-of-knowledge papers produced in 2004 for the International Association of Society and Resource Management, Dr. Harris' published work was cited on such topics as sense of place, place-based value mapping and resource planning, organizational change in resource management agencies, impacts on resource-dependent communities, and recreation user fees.

Recent Presentation to University Interdisciplinary Colloquium:

Managing for Sustainable Water Resources -- in the World, the Western U.S. & Idaho (PPT pdf)


Selected Publications Available On-line:

Place

An exploration of place as process: The case of Jackson Hole, WY.

Place attachment and managing for critical park issues in Grand Teton National Park.

Testing a Place-Based Theory for Environmental Evaluation: an Alaska Case Study.


Participatory Community-based SIA

An assessment of small rural communities in the Interior and Upper Columbia River basins.

How resilient are rural communities in the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem?

Comparison of a Technical and a Participatory Application of Social Impact Assessment.

Innovative Community Assessments for Sustainable Resource Management: The Case of Salmon-Recovery on the Lower Snake River.

A Participatory Approach to Social Impact Assessment: The Interactive Community Forum. 


Community Development & Economic Policy

Resource-Based Economic Development in Idaho and the Inland Northwest: Resource Management Policies and Community Impacts.

Dimensions of community autonomy in timber communities in the Inland Northwest. 

Allowable sale quantity (ASQ) as a focal point in natural forest management.



Organizational Change in Resource Management Agencies

Professional forestry and the land ethic revisited.

The U.S. Forest Service: Toward the new resource management paradigm?

The U.S. Forest Service: Changing of the guard.

National forest management as tragedy of the commons: A multi-disciplinary analysis

Implications of workforce diversification for the U.S. Forest Service.

Constituency bias in a federal resource management agency: A confirmatory analysis.

The U.S. Forest Service: Whither the new resource management paradigm?

A longitudinal study of environmental attitudes of women and gender diversification in the U.S. Forest Service 1990-1996.


Integrating Social Psychology & Economics for Resource Decision-making

Improving the contingent valuation method: A psychological perspective

Gain, loss, and personal responsibility: The role of motivation in resource valuation decision-making

Propriety of Applying Economic Methods to the Allocation of Public Amenity Resources

Recreation use fees: Pros and cons


Tourism & Resource-Based Recreation

A comprehensive method for studying leisure travel

Cooperative research for monitoring recreation uses on the Lower Salmon River

Integration of recreation and tourism in Idaho

Perceptions of tourism development in Idaho: An assessment by gender and level of community tourism dependence.

Environmental management: A study of Vietnamese hotels.


Other Recent Inter-disciplinary Contributions

Business Plan For the UI Water Resources Program. UI Water Resources Program, University of Idaho.

Cost-Effectiveness of Washington State’s Grazing Program. Final Report. Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee, Washington State Legislature.


Vita:

Education 
B.A.    English Literature, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1973
M.S.    Natural Resources Management, Colorado State University, 
           Fort Collins, 1978
Ph.D. Natural Resources (Psychology, Sociology, Economics), University of
          Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983

Experience
USDA Forest Service, Washington Office RPA Planning Team, 1978
Research Associate and Project Director, Colorado Cooperative Fishery
           Research Unit, 1981-1982
Professor, Department of Conservation Social Sciences, University of
           Idaho, Moscow, 1984 to present
    

Specialty Areas of Interest
Human dimensions of ecosystem management and restoration;
Resource management, policy, and planning -- particularly water, forest, 
            range, and T&E wildlife resources;
Impacts of resource management activities and policies on rural
            communities;
Public-involvement and community-based input to resource management;
Natural resource decision-making;
Recreation and amenity economics;
Natural resource tourism, impacts, and market analysis;
Recreationist/tourist behavior and consumer psychology.

Courses Recently Taught at University of Idaho
CSS 573: Planning & Decision-making in Watershed Management - Grad
CSS 572: Human Dimensions of Restoration Ecology - Grad
CSS 571: Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Management - Grad
CSS 580: Practicum in Restoration Ecology - Grad
CNR 470: Integrated Natural Resource Planning - UGrad & Grad
CSS 385: Resource Recreation & Tourism Management - UGrad and Grad
CSS 591: Theories of Recreation Behavior - Grad
CSS 587: Advanced Wildland Recreation Management - Grad

Recent and Current Research:

	Community-based deliberative approach to assessing environment values: Exploring interactive, participatory group processes.
	Integrated Water Resources research, planning and policy development.
	Sustainability intiatives for a sustainable UI campus and outreach projects.
	Principal investigator for studies of the social and economic characteristics and conditions of small rural communities in the Pacific Northwest.
	Principal investigator for studies of the implications of place meanings & the deeper psychological values for managing natural areas for their amenity values.
	Economic evaluation research on the socio-economic impacts of breaching of the four dams on the Lower Snake River, Army Corps of Engineers.
	Co-principle investigator on research on impacts of wildfire & other natural disturbances on rural communities.
	Organizational change and its impact on resource management policy analysis and decision-making.
	Resource based tourism patterns and tourism development planning.
	Integration of psychology and economics in valuation of public amenity resources.

Recent Publications and Presentations

Brown, G., T. Squirrell, C. Harris.  Forthcoming.  Growing organizational challenges for the U.S. Forest Service: Results of a longitudinal study in a period of major environmental change.  Accepted for publication in Journal of Forestry.

Cohen, K., N. Sanyal, & C. Harris.  Forthcoming. Community coaching: Answering the call for innovative approaches to community-based development initiatives. Journal of Program Planning & Evaluation.

C.C. Harris.  2009.  A proposed framework for evaluating socio-economic and organizational impacts of Forest Service Economic Recovery Projects.  Final report, submitted to the Policy Analysis Office, USDA Forest Service, National Headquarters.  Washington, DC.

Harris, C.C., E. Nielsen, D. Becker, and W.J. McLaughlin.  2003.  Innovative Community Assessments for Sustainable Resource Management: The Case of Salmon-Recovery on the Lower Snake River.  The International Association for Impact Assessment.  Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal.21(2): 109-118.

Becker, D., Harris, C.C., McLaughlin, W.J., and Nielsen, E.  2003.  A Participatory Approach to Social Impact Assessment: The Interactive Community Forum.  Environmental Impact Assessment Review 21(3): 367 382.

Smaldone, D., Harris, C.C., and N. Sanyal.  2002.  Visitor Survey—Summer & Fall 2000: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.  Final report submitted to the National Park Service and Grand Teton National Park.  Contribution Number 946 of the Idaho Forest, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow.

Harris, C.C.  2001.   Review and Critique of the Socio-Economic Analysis and Sections of The Bitterroot National Forest Burned Area Recovery Draft EIS.  Contracted by the Fire Science Laboratory, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station.  Sept. 2001.  Missoula, Montana.

Harris, C.C., W.J. McLaughlin, D.R. Becker and E.A. Nielsen.  2001.  Impacts of Salmon Recovery Efforts on Towns and Cities in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.: Results from a Community-Based C&I Assessment. In, A. Franc, O. Laroussinie, T. Karjalainen, (eds.),  Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management at the Forest Management Unit Level, pp. 29-44.  European Forest Institute, Joensuu, Finland.

Russell, K., and Harris, C.C.  2001.  Dimensions of community autonomy in timber communities in the Inland Northwest.  Society and Natural Resources 14: 21-38.  

Brown, G., and C.C. Harris.  2001.  A longitudinal study of environmental attitudes of women and gender diversification in the U.S. Forest Service 1990-1996. Forest Science. 47(2): 246-257.

Brown, G., and C.C. Harris.  2000.  The U.S. Forest Service: Whither the new resource management paradigm?  Journal of Environmental Management, 58, 1-19.

Harris, C.C., W.J. McLaughlin, E. Nielsen, and D. Becker.  1999.  Lower Snake Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report and EIS: Community-Based Social Impact Assessment, Phase I and II.   Conducted for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla, WA; Foster-Wheeler Environmental Corp.  College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

Harris, C.C., Brown, G., and W.J. McLaughlin. 1998. How resilient are rural communities in the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem? Journal of Forestry 96(2): 11-15.

Brown, G., and C.C. Harris. 1998. Professional forestry and the land ethic revisited. Journal of Forestry, 96(1): 4 - 12.

Smaldone, D., and C.C. Harris. 1997. Sense of Place on the Clearwater National Forest. Submitted to the USDA Forest Service, Clearwater National Forest, Orofino, ID. Idaho Forestry, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

Harris, C.C. 1997. Auger Falls Valuation Project: Progress Report and Focus Group Results. Submitted to the Office of the Idaho Attorney General, Boise, ID. Idaho Forestry, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

Harris, C.C. 1997. (W. McClure, ed.) People make change work in the rural communities of the Columbia River Basin. A Primer on the Rural Town: Designing for Growth and Sustainability. College of Art and Architecture, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

Crystal, L., and C.C. Harris. 1997. The SOS -- A spirituality opportunity spectrum: Theory, applications and implications. In H.K. Cordell (ed.), Integrating Social Sciences and Ecosystem Management: A National Challenge, pp. 87-97. Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC.

Harris, C.C. 1996. Rural communities in the Inland Northwest -- An assessment of small communities in the Interior and Upper Columbia River Basins. Final report submitted to the Interior Columbia River Basin Ecosystem Management Project, Walla Walla, WA. Idaho Forestry, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. With assistance from G. Brown, W.J. McLaughlin, C. Wall and J. Haley.

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Recent Teaching Courses

RRT/FOR 470: Integrated Natural Resource Planning

Teaching Courses On-line

CSS 572: Human Dimensions of Restoration Ecology

CSS 573: Decision-making for Watershed Management

CSS 580: Practicum in Restoration Ecology