Current Research Directions

• The conditions under which people are more reasonable and more environmentally responsible, with a special emphasis on meeting human informational needs.
  
  
• Participatory approaches that take advantage of the respective strengths of experts and laypeople.
  
  
• Facilitating human effectiveness through identifying means of increasing restorative effects and reducing the influence of fatigue-producing environments.

Recent Funded Research (co-PI)

• Orientation, restorativeness and informational factors in a satisfying museum experience. Toledo Museum of Art; 1991 94.
  
  
• Wildlife habitat and employee benefits: Phase One. Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council, 1992-93.
  
  
• Urban forestry and urban youth. 1992-96.
  
  
• The Urban Forestry Design and Management Manual. 1992-97.
  
  
• Preference and restoration: Symbiotic urban forest values. 1994-1998.
  
  
• Expertise and patterns of involvement. 1996-1999.
  
  
• Nearby nature at the urban fringe: Ecological and psychological values. 1999-2003.
  
  
• Natural resources and decision-making for local planning. 2001-2004.
  
  
• Making Metropolitan Areas More Livable: Recognizing and Enhancing Underappreciated Natural Resources. 2002-2007.
  
  
• In collaboration with the University of Washington
  
  
  • The problem of assuming shared images. 1995-1997.
    
    
  • Stakeholder perspectives: A cognitive approach to assessing the human dimensions of forest management. 1996-1999.
    
    
  • Social and psychological impacts of residential development patterns at the urban-forest fringe. 1998-2001. (National Urban & Community Forestry Advisory Council)
    
    
• Participatory design tools for envisioning nearby nature at the workplace. 2008-2009.