Bruce Stiftel, FAICP
Professor
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Faculty Associate, Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium
bstiftel@fsu.edu
Education
B.S. (Biology-Environmental Studies) State
University of New York, Stony Brook, 1975. M.R.P. (Environmental
Planning) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981.
Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 1986.
Interests
Professor Stiftel studies collaborative processes in environmental planning and policy. Currently, he is examining planners' power as exercised in local land use permitting and development control in the United States and the United Kingdom. Stiftel is editor (with Vanessa Watson and Henri Acselrad) of the book series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning; editor (with John T. Scholz) of Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict ; reviews editor of Planning Theory, and Chair of the Association of Collegiate School of Planning's Committee on the Academy and the Profession. In 2004, he ws inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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Selected Publications
Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson and Henri Acselrad, eds. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 2. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0415402859 (cloth).
John Scholz and
Bruce Stiftel, eds. Adaptive
Governance and Water Conflict: New Institutions for Collaborative
Planning. Resources for
the Future Press, 2005. ISBN: 1933115181 (cloth); 193311519X
(paper)
Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson, eds. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 0-415-34693-2 (cloth); 0-203-63998-7 (e-book).
Eric L. Hyman and Bruce Stiftel. Combining Facts and Values in Environmental Impact Assessment: Theories and Techniques, Social impact assessment series, no. 16. Boulder, CO and London: Westview Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8133-7162-7.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Frances Berry, Bruce Stiftel and Aysin Dedekorkut. "State agency administrative mediation: a Florida trial." Pp.207-229 in The Promise of Environmental Conflict Resolution, ed. Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa Bingham. Resources for the Future Press, 2003. ISBN: 1-891853-65-1 (cloth); 1-891853-64-3 (paper).Bruce Stiftel.
"Planning
theory." Pp.4-16 in The
National A.I.C.P. Examination Course Guidebook 2000, ed. Roshi
Pelaseyed. American Institute of Certified Planners: Washington, DC,
2000.
Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke and Bruce Stiftel. "Environmental policy." Pp. 171-200 in The Practice of Local Government Planning, third edition, edited by Linda Dalton, Charles Hoch and Frank S. So. International City Management Association: Washington DC, 2000.
Bruce Stiftel and Michael Boswell. "Assumptions and alternatives testing in Florida comprehensive plans: do we plan the future or project the present?" Pp. 91-102 in Florida's Future: A Guide to Revising Florida's Comprehensive Plan, edited by Lance de-Haven Smith. Florida Institute of Government: Tallahassee, 1999.
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
Bruce Stiftel and Rebecca Mogg. "Planners guide to the digital bibliographic revolution." Journal of the American Planning Association. 73(1,2007).
Bruce Stiftel,
Deden Rukmana and Bhuiyan Alam. "Faculty
quality at U.S. graduate planning schools: an NRC-style
study." Journal of
Planning
Education and Research. 24(2004): 6-22.
Bruce Stiftel, Robert M. Jones and Thomas A. Taylor. "Statewide offices of dispute resolution: the Florida experience." Espaces et Socíetés. 97-98(1999):155-182.
Bruce Stiftel. "Mediation of mobile home landlord-tenant disputes: an assessment of government agency implementation of mediation." Mediation Quarterly. 14(1996):53-64.
Neil G. Sipe and Bruce Stiftel. "Mediating environmental enforcement disputes: how well does it work?" Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 15(1995):139-156.
Bruce Stiftel. "Myths of journal publication." Journal of Planning Literature. 8(1993):140-142. [Purchase from Infotrieve.]Bruce Stiftel and
Neil
G. Sipe. "Mediation
of environmental enforcement: overcoming inertia."
Journal
of Dispute Resolution. 1992(1992):303-324.
Bruce Stiftel. "Balance of representation in water planning: an assessment of experience from North Carolina." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 17(1990):105-120.
Bruce Stiftel and Rafael Montalvo. "Florida's twenty day meeting: resolution of the appeal of the development order for the Tampa Bay Park of Commerce." Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 9(1989):367-390.
Eric L. Hyman, David H. Moreau and Bruce Stiftel. "SAGE: a new participant-value method for environmental assessment." Water Resources Bulletin. 20(1984): 915-922.David R. Godschalk and Bruce Stiftel. "Making waves: public participation in state water planning." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 17(1981): 597-614.