Ivonne Audirac is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Florida State University where she teaches a course on sustainable development in the Americas. She is co-organizer of the 1991 conference: Rural Planning and Development: Visions of the 21st Century.
Charles H. Barnard joined USDA's Economic Research Service in 1980. A resource economist by training, he has worked on a variety of land economics issues including real estate valuation and urban-fringe development.
Lionel J. Beaulieu is Professor of Rural Sociology with the Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. He is the author of two edited books entitled, The Rural South in Crisis: Challenges for the Future and Investing in People: The Human Capital Needs of Rural America.
Mark Benedict is Adjunct Research Scientist at the University of Florida, Department of Landscape Architecture. Dr. Benedict is a scientist with over seventeen years experience in ecological research and administration.
Michael R. Boswell is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, The Florida State University. His doctoral work examines environmental planning in south Florida after the establishment of sustainable development and ecosystem management initiatives.
Dan Chiras is founder and president of the Sustainable Futures Society and Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver at the University of Colorado. He is author of several college textbooks of environmental science. His most recent trade books include Voices for the Earth: Vital Ideas from America's Best Environmental Books and Lessons from Nature: Learning to Live Sustainably on the Earth.
Rick Clugston is Executive Director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment. His most recent books include: God, Nature, and Justice: Learning to Meet the Environmental Crisis, with Dieter Hessel; and Greening Higher Education: A Guide to Colleges and Universities.
Erik Davies is Environmental Planner with ESSA Technologies Ltd, Ottawa. He has conducted work and research in environmental management and impact assessment both in Canada and abroad.
Donn A. Derr is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Cook College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, where he conducts research on the economics of waste recycling.
Pritam S. Dhillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Cook College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick. His research interests include farm management, farm economic adjustment, farmland preservation and the recycling of urban waste through farming operations.
Anthony Flaccavento is Executive Director of Clinch Powell Sustainable Development Initiative. He is the author of Habits of Creation: A Facilitators Handbook and teaches a class on sustainable development at Emory and Henry College.
Owen J. Furuseth is Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is the US Editor of Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, an international serial addressing contemporary issues in rural planning and development.
Gary Green is Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has a joint appointment with University of Wisconsin-Extension, and conducts applied research on economic restructuring of localities, urban inequality and local economic development.
Ralph E. Heimlich is a planner and regional scientist with USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS). Dr.Heimlich has worked on river basin planning, land use issues, and conservation provisions of 1985 and 1990 farm legislation.
Julie Herman is a landscape architect and works as the transportation coordinator in the environmental affairs office of the city of Boulder, Colorado. Ms. Herman is a research associate at the Sustainable Futures Society.
Glenn D. Israel is Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in Program Evaluation and Organizational Development at the University of Florida. Dr. Israel's major responsibilities include providing leadership in the areas of program development and evaluation and rural development.
Mark B. Lapping is Professor in the Muskie Institute of Public Affairs and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. He is author and co-author of several books including, A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England, Rural Planning and Development in the United States, The Small Town Planning Handbook, and Rural America; Legacy and Change.
Joseph Luther is the Hyde Distinguished Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Luther has been involved in exploring, describing and explaining the planning and community development of small towns over twenty years.
Thomas S. Lyons is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at California State University, San Bernadino. Dr. Lyons is co-author of Creating an Economic Development Action Plan, and has written many articles on rural and small town incubation and economic development.
George Penfold is a partner with Westland Resource Group in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he was Professor in the University School of Rural Planning and Development at the University of Guelph. His primary research and teaching interests are in planning and development theory, agricultural land evaluation and policy, and rural community development.
William E. Rees is Professor and Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of the University of Toronto's Pollution Probe, one of Canada's foremost environmental NGOs. Dr. Rees' teaching and research emphasize the policy implications of global environmental trends and the ecological requirements for sustainable socioeconomic development.
James A. Segedy is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University. He was chair of the Small Town and Rural Planning Division of the American Planning Association and President of the Indiana Planning Association and Indiana Community Development Society.
James Seroka is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida where he is also Director of the Center for Local Government Administration. His publications on public policy and public administration in rural America include Rural Public Administration (1985). He is also the Rural Development Editor for the National Civic Review.
Matthew S. Sexton is the Conservation Fund's Florida Sustainable Projects Manager and is developing the Fund's Florida Sustainable Communities Program. He has served as a planning and economic development consultant to regional heritage tourism and sustainable development projects throughout the south and southeastern US.
Nola-Kate Seymoar serves as Deputy to the President of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada. Prior to assuming her tenure at IISD, Dr. Seymoar served as Executive Director of the We the Peoples : 50 Communities Awards. She is well known internationally for her role as Executive Director of ECO-ED (Education and Communication on Environment and Development).
Raymond A. Shapek is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. He has completed major research projects for the Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and the Florida Department of Commerce on recycling incentives, recycled commodities marketing, and public information and education programs for recycling.
Earl M. Starnes is Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida. His public service has included county and state offices and memberships on various state advisory groups including the recently concluded Florida Greenways Commission.
Deborah S.K. Thomas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, University of South Carolina. Ms. Thomas received the 1995 Outstanding Graduate Student Project Award given by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association in recognition of her research effort to develop a sustainable planning framework for small towns.
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