
Paul D. Hirsch
Assistant Professor
114 Marshall Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210
Phone:
(315) 470-6669
Email: pahirsch@esf.edu
See Paul Hirsch’s contributions to the “Conflict and Collaboration” Blog
Affiliations
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Research Director, Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts: Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC)
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Research Associate: Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA) Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Education
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Ph.D., Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
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M.S., Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, 2003
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B.S., Biology and Society, Cornell University, 1995
Research Interests
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Water, Biodiversity, Climate
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Trans-boundary Conservation Initiatives
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Trade-offs between Conservation and Development
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Philosophy / Practice of Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity
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Governance and Decision-Making under conditions of Complexity
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Integrative Environmental Policy Analysis
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Role of Science in the Policy Process
Recent Publications
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Thinking Like a Planet. Paul Hirsch and Bryan Norton. In Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change:Human Virtues of the Future, edited by Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer. MIT Press (Forthcoming).
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Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Social-Ecological Systems: The Politics of Scale in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania (Forthcoming). Ecology and Society.
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Inequity in the Distribution of Science and Technology Outcomes: A Conceptual Model. Barry Bozeman, Catherine Slade, and Paul Hirsch. Policy Sciences (2011). [link]
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Acknowledging Trade-offs, Embracing Complexity: A Challenge for Conservation. Paul Hirsch, William Adams, Peter Brosius, Asim Zia, Nino Bariola, Juan Luis Dammert. Conservation Biology Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 259–264, April 2011. [link]
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Hard Choices: Making Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Human Wellbeing. Thomas McShane, Paul Hirsch, Tran Chi Trung, Alexander Songorwa, Ann Kinzig, Bruno Monteferri, David Mutekanga, Hoang Van Thang, Juan Luis Dammert, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Meredith Welch-Devine, Peter Brosius, Peter Coppolillo, Sheila O’Connor. Biological Conservation Volume 144, Issue 3, Pages 966-972, March 2011. [link]
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Understanding Bureaucracy in Health Science Ethics: Toward a Better Institutional Review Board. Barry Bozeman, Catherine Slade, and Paul Hirsch. American Journal of Public Health 2009, 99 (9): 1549-1556 [link]
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Science Ethics as a Bureaucratic Problem: IRBs, Rules, and Failures of Control. Barry Bozeman and Paul Hirsch. Policy Sciences (Special Issue on Integrating Knowledge and Practice to Advance Human Dignity) 2005, 38 (4): 269-291 [link]
Courses
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EST 796 Environment and Natural Resources Policy Analysis
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EST 635 Public Participation and Decision Making
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EST 321 Government and Environment
Research Projects and Funding
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MacArthur Foundation / Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability, 2007 – 2010. “Advancing Conservation in a Social Context: Working in a World of Trade-offs.”
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NSF Program in Human Social Dynamics, 2005 – 2008. “Ecological Boundary-Setting in Mental and Eco-physical Models.”
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W. K. Kellogg Foundation and Center for Science and Policy Outcomes, 2003-2005. “Science, Policy and Social Inequality.”
Networks and Associations