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Dr. Mark Nechodom Head of Social and Policy Sciences, Sierra Nevada Research Center |
Mark
Nechodom is head of Social and Policy Sciences at the Sierra Nevada Research
Center, a multi-disciplinary unit of the Pacific Southwest Research Station
of the USDA Forest Service. Nechodom's current research focuses on the
economic and policy aspects of biomass utilization and renewable energy.
He also continues to study the institutional dynamics of environmental
decision-making and the roles of local government and NGOs in ecosystem
restoration and reinvestment. Nechodom has been a consultant and researcher
in Latin America on agricultural and environmental policy and has traveled
globally on official trade and environmental delegations.
Mark joined the Forest Service after several years on the research faculty
at the University of California, Davis. At UC Davis, he founded and co-directed
the Land Use and Natural Resources program, one of the nation's top education
and training programs for local land use and natural resource management
career professionals. He also established and directed the Public Policy
and Natural Resources Education program at California State University,
Sacramento. In both private practice and as a public employee, he has
been a research consultant to the California Department of Forestry, the
US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Bureau of Land Management and
several public and private environmental management agencies. Nechodom
holds a doctorate in political theory and environmental politics from
the University of California, Santa Cruz.
