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Keith G. Tidball, PhD Keith G. Tidball founded S.C.I. - Links Consulting in 2001. His areas of expertise include natural resources management in post- conflict and post-disaster, international research and scientific exchanges, international agricultural and natural resources development, environmental security and conflict resolution, urban ecology, community greening, community resilience, and land use planning. Tidball has been working with Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources since 2003. He co-founded and served as Associate Director of the Civic Ecology Lab for ten years, working to connect people with nature in urban contexts for purposes of education, community restoration and regeneration, and biodiversity conservation. He currently leads a team called SPEAR4, and is an anthro-ecologist serving as a Senior Extension Associate member of the faculty. He focuses on the dynamics of natural resource management in the context of disasters, war, and other cirsisv. Experiences in the military and in the field of international disaster response and relief inform his unique brand of applied scholarship, including stints throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas. Tidball’s doctoral work focused on the role of community based natural resource management in Post-Katrina resilience of New Orleans, and he continues to work in post-disaster contexts, as well as in disaster readiness, resilience, and response. Current work includes documentation and investigation of community based natural resource management in so-called “Red Zones.” He also studies how outdoor recreation contributes to and enhances resilience and recovery for returning combatants, and provides leadership for national extension programs dealing with veterans and military families, and with disaster education for communities. Prior to his work at Cornell, Tidball worked in Washington DC at the US Department of Agriculture as an International Affairs Specialist in the Foreign Agriculture Service's Office of International Cooperation and Development. Full C.V. |