Biographical Information about George Stankey

George H. Stankey is a Research Social Scientist with the Human and Natural Resources Interactions Program of the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in geography from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. in geography from Michigan State University. He spent 20 years with the Wilderness Management Research Unit at the Intermountain Research Station in Missoula, Montana.

From 1980-82, he taught at the University of Canberra, Australia and consulted with resource management agencies in Australia and New Zealand. He returned to Australia in 1987, working for New South Wales National Parks and teaching at the university level. Dr. Stankey moved to the Department of Forest Resources at OSU in 1989. In 1993, he served on the social assessment team of FEMAT. In 1995, he rejoined the Forest Service.

His research focuses on resource management institutions and on the factors that shape social acceptability judgments of resource management policies. He also led an evaluation of adaptive management in the Northwest Forest Plan. Dr. Stankey served on the Executive Board of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations and is a member of IUCN’s Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas and the Research Planning Committee of Canada’s Sustainable Forest Management Network.