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Steven A. Wolf

Associate Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • biocomplexity
  • development sociology
  • entrepreneurship
  • forest management
  • international development
  • natural resources
  • resource policy and management
  • science and technology studies
  • sustainable agriculture
  • sustainable development

Graduate Fields

Educational Background

  • Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
  • M.S., University of Virginia, 1991
  • B.S., University of Vermont, 1986
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley and Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France

Research Grants

  • EVALUATING A WORKING FOREST: INTEGRATED MONITORING OF THE FORMER FINCH, PRUYN LANDS

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • S. Wolf and J. Klein. Forthcoming. Enter the working forest: Discourse analysis in the Northern Forest.  Geoforum.

  • Klein, J. and S. Wolf. In press. Toward multifunctional landscapes: Cross-sectional analysis of management priorities in New York's Northern Forest. Rural Sociology.

  • Wolf S. and S. Hufnagl-Eichiner. In Press. External Resources and Development of Forest Landowner Collaboratives. Accepted for publication, Society and Natural Resources.

  • Melo C., S. Wolf. In Press. Eco-certification of Ecuadorian bananas: Prospects for progressive North-South linkages. Accepted for publication, Studies in Comparative International Development.

  • Brown, C., S. Wolf and J. Lassoie. In press. Participation in co-management in community forests in Cameroon, Progress in Development Studies.

  • Wolf, S. 2006. Commercial restructuring of collective resources in agrofood systems of innovation. Pp. 91-121 in The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power, S. Frickel and K. Moore (eds.). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Wolf, S. and E. Primmer. 2006. Between incentives and action: A pilot study of biodiversity conservation competencies for multifunctional forest management in Finland. Society and Natural Resources. 19:845-861.
  • Young, R. and S. Wolf. 2006. Goal attainment in urban ecology research: A bibliometric review 1975-2004, Urban Ecosystems. 9:179-193.

  • Just, D., S. Wolf, and D. Zilberman. 2006. Effect of Information Formats on Information Services: Analysis of Four Selected Agricultural Commodities. Agricultural Economics. 35: 289-301.

  • Melo, C. and S. Wolf. 2005. Empirical Assessment of Eco-Certification: The Case of Ecuadorian Bananas. Organization and Environment 18(3): 287-317.

  • Allaire, G. and S. Wolf. 2004. Cognitive models and institutional hybridity in agrofood innovation. Science, Technology and Human Values, 29 (4): 431-458.