Bio:

Paul Gobster is Research Social Scientist with the USDA Forest

Service's North Central Research Station in Chicago. He is also

co-director of the Station's integrated research program on

Midwestern landscape change and co-leads a research team under

the National Fire Plan looking at people's responses to fuel

treatments to reduce wildland fire and restore the health to fire

dependent ecosystems. Paul holds degrees in regional planning,

landscape architecture, and environmental studies from the

University of Wisconsin, and before joining the Forest Service in

1987 worked as a natural resource planner and an assistant

professor of landscape architecture. His personal research

interests focus on people's perceptions natural areas restoration

and management, landscape aesthetics, and access and equity

issues in urban parks.

List of suggested readings:

Gobster, P.H. (1997). The Chicago Wilderness and Its Critics

III. The Other Side: A Survey of the Arguments. Restoration

and Management Notes 15(1): 33-38.

Gobster, P.H. (1999). An Ecological Aesthetic for Forest

Landscape Management. Landscape Journal 18(1): 54-64.

Gobster, P.H., Haight, R.G., and Shriner, D. (2000). Landscape

Change in the Midwest: An Integrated Research and Development

Program. Journal of Forestry- 98(3): 9-14.

Gobster, P.H., and Hull R.B., Eds. (2000). The Restoration and

Management of Nature: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and

Humanities. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Hull, R.B., and Gobster, P.H. (2000). The Human Dimensions of

Restoration Projects. Journal of Forestry 98(8): 32-36.

Gobster, P.H. (2001). Human Dimensions of Early Successional

Landscapes in the Eastern United States. Wildlife Society

Bulletin 29(2): 474-482.

Gobster, P.H. (2001). Visions of Nature: Compatibility and

Conflict in Urban Park Restoration. Landscape and Urban Planning

56(1-2): 35-51.

Ribe, R.G., Armstrong, E.T., and Gobster, P.G. In press. Scenic

Vistas and the Changing Policy Landscape: Visualizing and Testing

the Role of Visual Resources in Ecosystem Management. Landscape

Journal 21(2) December 2001.