Faculty Profile
Valerie Luzadis

Valerie Luzadis

Interim Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School

227 Bray Hall

315-470-6980
vluzadis@esf.edu

Global Council for Science and the Environment, Chair, Board of Directors  www.gcseglobal.org

Planet Forward, Board of Advisors www.planetforward.org

• Vita

Highest Education

Ph.D., SUNY ESF (Forest Policy and Economics), 1997.

Areas of Study

Ecological Economics; Social-Ecological Systems; Natural Resources Policy and Values; Science-Policy Interface

Most Recent Publications

Spethman, D. and V.A. Luzadis. 2020. Moral and ethical foundations for ecological economics. Chapter 14. In: Costanza, R. et al., Eds., Sustainable Wellbeing Futures:  A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, 480 pp. ISBN: 978 1 78990 094 1.

Costanza, R., E.M.B. Doran, T. Gladkikh, I. Kubiszewski, V.A. Luzadis, and E. Zencey. 2020. Creating positive futures for humanity on earth. Chapter 2 In: Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics, Robert Costanza, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, Ida Kubiszewski, Eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 480 pp. ISBN: 978 1 78990 094 1.

Luzadis V.A. 2019. Engaging Intuition and Imagination for Solutions to Confounding Science and Societal Problems. In: Leal Filho W., Consorte McCrea A. (eds) Sustainability and the Humanities. Springer, Cham.

Barresi, P.A., R.C. Smardon, and V. A. Luzadis. 2018. Institution-wide design: Sustainability education across the curriculum and beyond.  Chapter 12 In: Focht, W. et al. (eds). Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: From Theory to Practice.  Routledge: London. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351171601. 296 pages. eBook ISBN 9781351171601.

Kuehn, D. M., V.A. Luzadis and M. Brincka. 2017. "I catch whatever's biting!": Motivations, constraints, and facilitators of non-preference anglers residing along New York's Lake Ontario Coast. Fisheries Research, 194:188-196.

Caputo, J., C.M. Beier, V.A. Luzadis and P.M. Groffman. 2016. Integrating beneficiaries into assessment of ecosystem services from managed forests at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, USA . Forest Ecosystems (2016) 3:13 DOI 10.1186/s40663-016-0072-9

Montefrio, M. J.F., D.A. Sonnenfeld and V.A. Luzadis. 2015. Social construction of the environment and smallholder farmers' participation in ‘low-carbon’, agro-industrial crop production contracts in the Philippines. Ecological Economics, 2015, vol. 116, issue C, 70-77.

Abolina, E. and V.A. Luzadis - 2015. Abandoned agricultural land and its potential for short rotation woody crops in Latvia, Land Use Policy, 49:435-445.

Stewart Ibarra, A.M., V.A. Luzadis, M.J., Borbor Cordova, M. Silva, T. Ordoñez, E. Beltrán Ayala, S.J. Ryan. 2014. A social-ecological analysis of community perceptions of dengue fever and Aedes aegypti in Machala, Ecuador. BMC Public Health; 11/2014; 14(1):1135. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1135.

Abolina, E., V.A. Luzadis and D. Lazdina. 2014. Analysis of the Adoption of Willow Growing Practice in Latvia.  Baltic Forestry, 20(1):78-87.

Abolina, E., V.A. Luzadis. 2013. Forest Sustainability and Social Policy: The Role of Ecosystem Services. Chapter: Chapter 6 In book: Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy, Publisher: Springer, Editor: Isidor Wallimann, pp.63-78.

Kuehn, D. M., V.A. Luzadis and M. Brincka. 2013. An analysis of the factors influencing fishing participation by resident anglers. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 18(5): 322-339.

Hirsch, P. D. and V. A. Luzadis. 2013. Scientific Concepts and Their Policy Affordances: How a Focus on Compatibility Can Improve Science-Policy Interaction and Outcomes.  Nature and Culture 8(1), Spring 2013: 97–118.

Kuehn, D., V. A. Luzadis and M. Brincka. 2013. An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Fishing Participation by Resident Anglers. Human Dimensions of Wildlife: An International Journal, 18:5, 322-339.

Kuehn, D. P. D;Luhosch, V.A. Luzadis, R. Malmsheimer and R. Schuster. 2011. Attitudes and intentins of off-highway vehicle riders towards trail use: implications for forest managers. Journal of Forestry. 109(5):281-287.

Limburg, K.E., V.A. Luzadis, M. Ramsey, K.L. Schulz. 2010.  The good, the bad, and the algae: perceiving ecosystem services and disservices generated by zebra and quagga mussels.  Journal of Great Lakes Research.  36(1):86-92.  

Luzadis, V.A., L. Castello, J. Choi, C.B. Franco, E. Greenfield, S. Kim, J. Munsell, E. Nordman, F. Olowabi.  2010. The science of ecological economics: A content analysis of Ecological Economics, 1989–2004. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1185, Issue Ecological Economics Reviews: 1-10.

Buchholz, T., T. Volk, and V.A. Luzadis.  2009.  Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy Systems: Results from an expert survey.  Journal of Cleaner Production.  Vol 17, Supplement 1: S86-S98. 

Castello, L., J.P. Viana, G. Watkins, M. Pinedo-Vazquez, and V.A. Luzadis.  2009.  Integrating small-scale fishers in management: the case of piraracu in Mamirauá, Amazon. Environmental Management: 43(2):197-209.

Buchholz, T., T. Volk, and V.A. Luzadis. 2007. A participatory systems approach to modelling social, economic, and ecological components of bioenergy.  Energy Policy 35:6084-6094.

Buchholz, T., E. Rametsteiner, T. A. Volk, V.A. Luzadis.  2009. Multi criteria analysis for bioenergy systems assessments.   Energy Policy, 37(2): 484-495. 

Labriole, M. and V. A. Luzadis.  2011. Foresters’ attitudes toward the potential impact of climate change in New York.  Journal of Forestry.   109(2):89-94.

Quaye, A.K.,  C.A.S. Hall and V.A. Luzadis.  2010. Agricultural Land Use Efficiency and Food Crop Production in Ghana.  Environment, Development, and Sustainability.  12:967-983.

Solomon, Barry D. and Valerie A. Luzadis, editors. 2008. Renewable energy from forest resources in the United States. Routledge: London.

Luzadis, V.A., T. Volk, and T. Buchholz. 2008. Using a systems approach to improve bioenergy sustainability assessment. Chapter 9 In: Solomon and Luzadis, eds. Renewable Energy from Forest Resources in the United States. Routledge: London.

Volk, T. and V. A.. Luzadis. 2008. Willow Biomass Production for Bioenergy, Biofuels and Bioproducts in New York. Chapter 11 In: Solomon and Luzadis, eds. Renewable Energy from Forest Resources in the United States. Routledge: London.

Buchholz, T., T. Volk, and V.A. Luzadis. 2007. A participatory systems approach to modelling social, economic, and ecological components of bioenergy. Energy Policy 35:6084-6094.

Parrish, B. D., V.A. Luzadis, and W.R. Bentley. 2005. "What Tanzanian Coffee Farmers Can Teach the World: A Results-based Look at the Fair Trade - Free Trade Debate." Sustainable Development, 13(3): 177-189.