Speaker: Rich Margerum, professor of planning, public policy, and management at the University of Oregon (WRM’ 92)
Dr. Richard D. Margerum is professor and associate dean at the University of Oregon. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, where he also received an MS in water resources management.
His dissertation, which was funded in part by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, focused on developing a model for collaborative watershed management. He received a postdoctoral research Fulbright fellowship to study collaboration in Australia, and held a faculty position there for five years.
For the past 20 years, his research has focused on collaborative approaches to planning and management, including collaborative governance and implementation issues related to consensus building. He has examined practices in Wisconsin, Australia and the Pacific Northwest, and included evaluations of efforts addressing watershed management, regional growth management, social services, and regional transportation planning.
He has published over 40 articles and book chapters on collaboration. His book Beyond Consensus (MIT Press, 2011) examines the research and theory of collaboration, focusing in particular on the approaches to implementation. He is also co-editor of the book The Challenges of Collaborative Governance (Edward Elgar, 2016), which addresses some of the difficult issues facing collaborative practice in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
The Weston Roundtable is made possible by a generous donation from Roy F. Weston, a highly accomplished UW-Madison alumnus. Designed to promote a robust understanding of sustainability science, engineering, and policy, these interactive lectures are co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability.