Carissa Schively Slotterback

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and land use planning; public participation; planning decision-making; plan implementation; sustainable development

Biography

Carissa Schively Slotterback, Associate Professor, teaches courses in environmental planning, participation, and sustainability planning. She currently serves as Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Her research is focused on stakeholder involvement and decision-making related to environmental, land use, and transportation planning. She has a particular interest in how stakeholders perceive impacts and use information in making decisions, focusing on impact assessment, collaborative decision-making, and sustainability planning approaches.

Her current projects include a study of participatory modeling and visualization of water quality impacts in agricultural landscapes, funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Innovation Grant. Additional ongoing projects include a study of regional sustainability planning approaches funded by the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies and an analysis of approaches to complete streets planning and implementation funded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. She is also co-organizing a series of workshops to explore translational research around urban ecosystems and sustainability with funding from the National Science Foundation. Recent projects addressed topics including participatory scenario planning for transportation, sustainability indicators, climate change in environmental impact analysis, flexible zoning approaches, and health into urban plans and policies.

Dr. Schively Slotterback is the founder and faculty director of the University of Minnesota Graduate Sustainability Education Network, a collaborative of faculty teaching in sustainability and focused on enhancing sustainability curricula and networks at the University. She maintains strong inter-disciplinary connections, serving as member of the graduate faculties in Conservation Biology and Natural Resources Science and Management, and as an adjunct faculty member in Landscape Architecture. She is currently a Resident Fellow in the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment and a Faculty Scholar in the Center for Transportation Studies.

She was recently elected to the Governing Board for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and serves as co-chair of the environmental planning track for the Association's annual conference. She also serves as a member of the Transportation Research Board's Environmental Analysis in Transportation Committee. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Schively Slotterback also engages extensively with the planning practice community, serving as a Faculty Liaison to the American Planning Association (APA) Minnesota chapter. Before joining the Humphrey School in 2004, Schively Slotterback worked as a long-range planner in Las Vegas and as a planning consultant in Minneapolis. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).

She holds a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from Florida State University, a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from Clemson University.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Selected Publications

• Slotterback, C.S., A. Forsyth, K.J. Krizek, A. Johnson, and A. Pennucci. Accepted and in press. Testing three health impact assessment tools in planning: A process evaluation. Environmental ImpactAssessment Review.
• Forsyth, A., C.S. Slotterback, and K.J. Krizek. 2010. Health impact assessment in planning: Development of the Design for Health HIA tools. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 30(1): 42-51.
• Krizek, K.J., A. Forsyth, and C.S. Slotterback. 2009. Is there a role for evidence-based practice in urban planning and policy? Planning Theory and Practice 10(4): 455-474.
• Deyle, R.E. and C.S. Slotterback. 2009. Empirical analysis of mutual learning in consensual planning processes: An exploratory analysis of local mitigation planning in Florida. Journal of Planning Education and Research 29(1): 23-38.
• Slotterback, C.S. 2008. Stakeholder involvement in NEPA scoping processes: Evaluating practices and effects in transportation agencies. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 51(5): 663-678.
• Schively, C. 2007. A quantitative analysis of consensus building in local environmental review. Journal of Planning Education and Research 27(1): 82-98.
• Schively, C. 2007. Understanding the NIMBY and LULU phenomena: Reassessing our knowledge base and informing future research. Journal of Planning Literature 21(3): 255-266.

Courses Taught

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Fall 2011

• PA 5253: Designing Planning and Participation Processes