Reciprocal Relationships Between Forest Management and Regional Landscape Structures
Speaker: Dr. Darla Munroe
Professor & Department Chair, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University
Thursday, 20 February 2020
3:00 PM
Turlington Hall 3018
University of Florida
Meet & Great reception to follow in Turlington 3018
Maintaining forest cover and function given large-scale changes in population distribution, infrastructure, and regional economies represents a formidable societal challenge. Current research on enduring and emerging forest policy issues, including parcelization and multifunctionality, neglects how changing landscape conditions mediate land-use decisions. I argue that effective forest policy must reconsider how we define “management” as structured through landscape- and community-level interactions and interdependencies.
Ohio State University, Department of Geography Professor & Department Chair, Dr. Darla Munroe will present her research in the first of two talks for the University of Florida Anderson Research Lecture series, in a talk titled Reciprocal Relationships Between Forest Management and Regional Landscape Structures.
Dr. Darla Munroe is an economic, and human-environment geographer specializing in landscape-level, long-run environment-economy relationships, with a particular focus on how political and economic restructuring manifest in local land-use change. She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Global Land Programme and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Land Use Science. Her research is comparative, addressing land systems, particularly forests at the urban-rural interface in Eastern Europe, Central America, and Southeast Asia. Her current research focuses on boom-bust natural resource economies and forested community change in Appalachian Ohio.