Nina Burkardt - USGS

Policy Analysis & Science Assistance

Soc Science Research Analyst

Duty Station:
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave
Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Phone: 970-226-9275
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: burkardtn@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Update and Test the LIAM Software
• Institutional Response Index System (IRIS)
• Use of Science in Decision Making and Conflict Resolution
• Negotiation Training
• Socioeconomic Considerations for Public Lands Management and Planning
• Program Assessment for Agencies of the Department of the Interior

Products

Publications

Total Records:39

• Stakeholder evaluation for Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge: Completion Report
• The virtues of Q methodology in natural resource planning and decision making
• Mathematical models frame environmental dispute [Review of the article Useless arithmetic: Ten points to ponder when using mathematical models in environmental decision making]
• Technical Memorandum No. 86-68211-09-01: An exploration of Bureau of Reclamation approaches for managing conflict over diverging science - Institutional solutions for water resource conflicts workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 24-27, 2007
• Negotiation training courses for natural resources professionals
• Watershed management councils and scientific models: Using diffusion literature to explain adoption
• Using role analysis to plan for stakeholder involvement: a comparison of three workshops
• Pigs on the plains: institutional analysis of a Colorado water quality initiative
• The effects of urgency to reach agreement on the process and outcome of multi-party natural resource negotiations
• Watershed management and organizational dynamics: nationwide findings and regional variation
• Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge visitors: behaviors and attitudes about recreation opportunities
• Background and applications of the Legal-Institutional Analysis Model (LIAM) for management of infrastructures
• Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge: a survey of visitor experiences: report to respondents
• Use of the Legal-Institutional Analysis Model to assess hydropower licensing negotiations
• Role analysis to initiate citizen involvement: a case study of the Wyoming grizzly bear management planning process
• Success of the North Umpqua River relicensing negotiation: A completion report
• Instream flows for riverine resource stewardship
• Thoughts on motivational problems in networks
• The importance of defining technical issues in interagency environmental negotiations
• Salient technical issues for resolving hydropower conflicts involving instream flow
• Thinking outside the lines: parks and the quality of life in area communities
• Paradise confounded: the status of Alaska's instream flow program. Review of "Annual Summary of Instream Flow Reservations and Protection in Alaska" by Christopher E. Estes
• Use of the 'Legal-Institutional Analysis Model' for resolving environmental disputes involving hydropower
• Decision analysis tools: use of the Legal-Institutional Analysis Model, Chap. 9
• A policy model to initiate environmental negotiations: three hydropower workshops
• Negotiation and Decision-Making
• Desire to bargain and negotiation success: lessons about the need to negotiate from six hydropower disputes
• Power distribution in complex environmental negotiations: does balance matter?
• Quants and wonks in environmental disputes: Are scientists experts or advocates?
• What makes a hydropower negotiation successful?
• Rules for success in environmental negotiations
• Technical clarity in inter-agency negotiations: lessons from four hydropower projects
• Highlights from the Eastman Falls Hydroelectric Project
• The effects of power on inter-agency negotiations
• Technical understanding in successful environmental negotiations
• Introduction: the greater Yellowstone ecosystem: biosphere reserves and economics
• Assessing the "need to negotiate" in FERC licensing consultations: a study of two hydropower projects
• Highlights from the Ashton-St. Anthony Project Case Study
• Self and organizational efficacy of front-line managers in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Training

Total Records:1

• Negotiation Training Courses