Expertise: Community-Based Engagement (Natural Resource Management)

James S. Gruber (PE, PhD, MS, MPA)

Description

Extensive experience engaging individuals, groups, and communities in collaborative work that seeks to build environmentally healthy, culturally rich, and economically strong schools and communities. Significant experience with leadership training, environmental education, and applied research conducted through his association with Antioch New England Institute.

Experience with domestic and international research and consulting on environmental policy and sustainable development based upon a strong support for the value of citizen participation, community education, and effective public-private partnerships between local communities and their citizens, institutions, and businesses. Recent research and publications have focused on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and strategies for sustainably managing common-pool resources.

Qualifications

Dr. James Gruber has more than thirty years of experience in public sector environmental management, environmental NGO management, and facilitating collaborative multi-stakeholder sustainable development initiatives including international work in ten countries. He has presented a paper at numerous national and international conferences and holds membership in the World Conservation Union: Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP); and the Theme on Governance, Equity, and Rights (TGER). Dr. Gruber is a doctor of natural sciences in the field of environmental science and has earned a PhD from the University of Zagreb, Croatia; a MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; a MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a BS in Civil Engineering from San Diego State University.