Training Environmental Decisionmakers: A Special Case of Environmental Education

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Biographical Note: The Honorable Rosina Bierbaum served as the Director of the Environment Division of the White House Science Office under President Clinton and was a Senior Associate for Environment at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1980-1993. She holds a BA in English, a BS in Biology (both from Boston College), and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SUNY at Stony Brook).

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3 Wise, G., Retzleff, D., and Reilly, K. 2002. Adapting Scholarship Reconsidered and Scholarship Assessed to Evaluate University of Wisconsin–Extension Outreach Faculty for Tenure and Promotion. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 7(3):5–18.

4 Pfirman, S., and the AC–ERE. 2003. Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life, and Society in the 21st Century—A report summarizing a 10–year outlook in environmental research and education for the National Science Foundation. 68pp.