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Gregg Walker is a professor of communication, public policy, and environmental sciences, at Oregon State University. He teaches courses in conflict management, negotiation, mediation, and facilitation, among others, and advises graduate and undergraduate students. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas and has authored several publications, including a book on communication and public participation in environmental decision-making. His research interests are in public participation and collaboration in environmental decision making, social and environmental justice, and conflict resolution.
Walker is a member of various professional organizations, including the Association for Conflict Resolution and the National Communication Association. He also served in various roles within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and has received multiple awards and honors for his work in climate change, environmental communication, and conflict resolution.
Climate change conflict mediation
Community-based collaborative learning
Public land management
Faculty member in four colleges at Oregon State University
Ph.D., Communication Studies; University of Kansas, 1983
M.A., Communication Studies; University of Kansas, 1982
B.S., History, Sociology, Speech Communication;; University of Minnesota, 1974, with High Distinction
B.A., Speech Communication; University of Minnesota, 1974, Phi Beta Kappa
Association for Conflict Resolution
International Environmental Communication Association
International Symposium for Society and Resource Management
Mediators Beyond Borders International
National Communication Association
J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement.
Environmental Communication Division, National Communication Association, November 2018
Peace Educator of the Year, Oregon Peace Studies Association, 2006
College of Liberal Arts Excellence Award, 1996
Member, Steering Committee the Research and Independent Non-Government Organizations Constituency (RINGO) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2011-2021.
Member, Core Leadership Team, Education-Communication-Outreach Stakeholders (ECOS) Interest Group of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2018-2021.
Member, Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Climate Reality Project, 2019-present (trained in Brisbane, AU, 2019)
J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement. Environmental Communication Division, National Communication Association, November 2018
Roster Member, United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, 1999-present
Erasmus Mundus Scholar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010, 2014, and 2018
Fulbright Senior Specialist in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, 2008-2013
Co-director, Mediators Beyond Borders Climate Change Project, 2010 – present
Chair, Climate Change Negotiations Working Group, International Environmental Communication Association, 2015 – present
Peace Educator of the Year, Oregon Peace Studies Association, 2006
College of Liberal Arts Excellence Award, 1996
Walker, G. B. (2021, November). Discourses of Convergence, Consensus, and Competition in the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Conference, Seattle, Washington.
Walker, G. B., Severson, G., & Daniels, S. E. (2019, November). Collaborative Alignment: A framework for community-based collaboration about natural resource and environmental policies and practices. Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual conference, Baltimore, MD.
Walker, G.B., & Cruz, S, (2018, November). Human dimensions and implementing climate change policy: The Paris Agreement, universities, and building capacity for action. Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
Walker, G. B. (2018, June). Systems thinking tools for community-based adaptation. Marketplace presentation at the 12th Conference on Community-based Adaptation, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Walker, G. B., & Severson, G. (2018, June). Collaborative Alignment: A framework for community-based collaborative action for adaptation. Marketplace presentation at the 12th Conference on Community-based Adaptation, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Walker, G., Severson, G., Daniels, S., & Russo-Kelly, M. (2018, June). Collaborative Alignment: A framework for community-based governance. Poster presented at Adaptation Futures: 5th International Climate Change Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Walker, G. (2018, June). The Universities Network for Climate Capacity (UNCC): Linking South and North; capacity Building and adaptation. Toolshed presentation at Adaptation Futures: 5th International Climate Change Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Walker, G. B. (2018, May). The Universities Network for Climate Capacity (UNCC): Its origins and objectives. SB 48 Side Event, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change intersession meetings, Bonn, Germany.
Walker, G. B. (2018, April). Opportunities, obstacles, and place-based collaboration on public lands: A pracademic’s perspective. BLM Wild Conference, Palm Springs, CA.
Walker, G. B. (2017, July). The United Nations Negotiations on Climate Change: Reflections on the process. 14th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Leicester, England, UK.
Walker, G.B. (2017, June). Implementing Paris: Integrating the human and technical dimensions of climate change. 14th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Leicester, England, UK.
Walker, G. B. (2017, June). Human dimensions of climate change from Paris forward: Insights from the Unifying Negotiation Framework. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Umea, Sweden.
Walker, G. B. (2017, November). Integrating research, consulting, and activism: Two Stories from the Field. National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Walker, G. B. (2017, November). Human dimensions of climate change policy: Culture, conflict, and collaboration. Side event, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Conference of the Parties (COP) 22, Marrakech, Morocco.
Walker. G. B. (2016, October). Integrating the technical and human dimensions of climate change: Communication, culture, conflict, and collaboration. The World Conference on Climate Change, Valencia, Spain.
Walker, G. B., Daniels, S. E., Timko, S., Hansen, S., & Lockwood, C. (2016, June). Listening and learning: Stakeholder views of participation and communication in forest planning. Paper and plenary Session presentation at the Iowa State University Symposium on Science Communication, Ames, IA.
Emborg, J., Walker, G.B., Daniels, S.E., & Stumann, C. (2015, November). Working with trust in natural resource and environmental management decision situations: A Framework for Analysis. National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Walker, G. B., Daniels, S. E., & Emborg, J. (2014, 19 November). Public participation in environmental policy decision-making: Insights from twenty years Of Collaborative Learning fieldwork. Paper presented at the National Communication Association conference, Chicago, IL.
Walker, G. B. (2014, May). Beyond boom and bust: Improving community resilience In Rural Ghana. Paper presented at the Resilience 2014 Conference, Montpelier, France.
Walker, G. B. (2013, November). Confronting complex global challenges: Comparing the climate change and Law of the Sea negotiations. Paper presented at the National Communication Association conference, Washington, D.C. .
Walker, G. B. (2013, June). Seeking progress in the climate change negotiations: Insights from the Unifying Negotiation Framework. Paper presented at the Eleventh Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Uppsala, Sweden.
Walker, G. B., Russo-Kelly, M., & Watson, J. E. (2013, June). Collaboration for resilient ecosystems and communities? The Partnership for Coastal Watersheds project. Poster presented at the Eleventh Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Uppsala, Sweden.
Daniels, S. E., Emborg, J., Sarfo-Mensah, P., & Walker, G. (2013, June). Community capacity, local governance, and rural development in Ghana. Paper presented at the International Symposium for Society and Resource Management, Estes Park, CO.
Russo-Kelly, M., Watson, J. E., & Walker, G. B. (2012, February). Coastal communities collaborating and adapting to climate change: An evaluation of the Partnership for Coastal Watersheds. Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association conference, Reno, NV.
Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2012, November). Agency leadership as unifying leadership: Building and sustaining collaboration in natural resource management and environmental policy decision-making. Paper presented at the National Communication Association conference, Orlando, FL.
Walker, G. B., & Russo-Kelly, M. (2012, September). Dominant discourses in climate change negotiations: Culture, interests, and identity conflict. Paper presented at the Culture, Politics, and Climate Change Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2012, February). Managing for stewardship and sustainability: The SAMAN model for partnership assessment and development. Paper presented to the Environmental Communication Division of the Western States Communication Association, Albuquerque, NM.
Walker, G. B. (2011, November). Dominant discourses in climate change negotiations. Paper presented at the National Communication Association conference, New Orleans, LA.
Walker, G. B., (2011, November). In search of a global climate agreement: The discourse(s) of climate change negotiations. Paper presented as part of a “Peacebuilding” Roundtable at the National Communication Association conference, New Orleans, LA.
Walker, G. B. (2011, June). Dialogue, deliberation, and innovation: Procedural resilience in the 2010 climate change negotiations. Paper presented at the the11th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment (COCE), University of Texas El Paso.
Walker, G. B. (2011, June). Resilience, creativity, and constraints in the climate negotiations: Insights from the Unifying Framework. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Society & Resource Management (ISSRM), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Walker, G. B., & Russo, M. (2011, June). Working through the conflicts and disputes of climate change: The Mediators Beyond Borders International Climate Change Project. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Society & Resource Management (ISSRM), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia..
Spencer, D., & Walker, G. B. (2011, June). Confronting complexity and controversy surrounding dam removal in the Klamath Basin: A Unifying Framework Analysis. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Society & Resource Management (ISSRM), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Walker, G. B. (2022, January). Strengthening Community Resilience: Collaborative Alignment and Locally-Led Action. Keynote presentation at the Impact Collaborative Summit of the Extension Foundation (an organization of US Land Grant Universities).
Walker, G. B. (2021, November). Climate Learning and Action: Reflecting on Our Roles and Contributions as Teachers. Keynote presentation to Royal Geographical Society’s Climate Change Research Group Workshop.
Walker, G. B. (2021, November). Collaborative Alignment: A Framework for Locally-led Adaptation and Climate Action. Side Event presentation, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Conference of the Parties 26 (UNFCCC-COP 26), Glasgow, Scotland.
Walker, G. B. (2021, September). Organizing and Empowering Local Voices and Views: Collaborative Alignment and Locally-led Adaptation Planning and Action. Presentation as part of the “E-Lecture” Series,
International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka.
Walker, G. B. (2021, April). Understanding Expectations. Presentation as part of a webinar on expectations and collaboration n forest management, National Collaboration Cadge, USDA-Forest Service.
Walker, G. B. (2019, December). Storytelling as environmental communication – theory and practice. Presentation as part of the Indonesian Pavilion Side Event, Storytelling to Communicate the Climate Crisis, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Conference of the Parties 25 (UNFCCC-COP 25), Madrid, Spain.
Walker, G.B. (2019, December). Climate change and conflict: Empowerment through building conflict resolution capacity. Side event presentation, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Conference of the Parties 25 (UNFCCC-COP 25), Madrid, Spain.
Walker, G.B. (2019, December). Conflict resolution capacity and the climate crisis: An empowering human dimension. Presentation at the Capacity Building Hub, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Conference of the Parties 25 (UNFCCC-COP 25), Madrid, Spain.
Walker, G.B. (2019, December). The Universities Network for Climate Capacity (UNCC): What role and next steps? Side event presentation, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Conference of the Parties 25 (UNFCCC-COP 25), Madrid, Spain.
Walker, G. B. (2019, November). Communities and Climate Action: Human Dimensions and Aligning for Collaboration. Presentation and Discussion Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation
University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus, 07 November 2019
Walker, G. B. (2019, September). From knowledge to action: Collaboration, the SDGs, and the climate crisis. Guest teaching and lecture at Kauai Community College (two classes), Kauai, HI.
Walker, G. B. (2019, May). The discourses of climate change negotiations: Competition, convergence, and consensus. Presentation at the International Communication Association Conference (pre-conference talk), Washington DC.
Walker, G.B. (2019, March). The conflict-positive path: Engaging conflict through consultation, advocacy, and negotiation. Keynote address at the Oregon Dairy Farmers Association Annual Convention, Salem Oregon.
Walker, G. B. (2019, March). Dealing with workplace conflict: Progress and Improvement. An Educational Breakout Session at the Oregon Dairy Farmers Association Annual Convention, Salem Oregon.
Walker, G. B. (2019, February). Environmental conflict and climate change. Guest lecture (via Skype). Environmental conflict resolution graduate seminar, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Walker, G.B. (2018, November). Negotiating climate change: The path to Paris, to Poland, and pursuing 1.5oC. Campus lecture, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Walker, G. B. (2018, November). Collaborative Alignment as a framework for community-based governance: Cases from the forest and the coast. Invited Seminar, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Walker, G. B. (2018, October). The Evolution of climate change negotiations: The past, Paris, to Poland, and beyond. Guest lecture, University of Oregon Knight School of Law, Eugene, OR.
Walker, G. B. (2018, April). Opportunities, obstacles, and place-based collaboration on public lands: A pracademic’s perspective. BLM Wild Conference, Palm Springs, CA.
Walker, G.B. (2018, February). Collaborative Alignment and community-based governance: Cases from the forest to the coast. Speech Communication Research Colloquium, Oregon State University.
Walker, G. B. (2018, 2017, 2016, January). The evolution of climate change negotiations: The past, the present, Paris, and beyond. Guest lectures, University of Oregon Law School course on environmental conflict resolution.
Walker, G. B. (2017, January). Connecting campus and community: Universities and building climate capacity. Keynote Address at the Gobeshona 3 Conference on Climate Change Research in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Walker, G. B. (2016, May). Conflict Management as collaboration: Leadership and collaborative action. Four hour seminar presented to the Western Extension Leadership Development (WELD) program, Anchorage, AK.
Severson, G., and Walker, G. (2016, February). Care and feeding of Your Collaborative. Interactive Session presented at the Idaho Forest Restoration Conference, Boise, ID.
Walker, G. B. (2015, April). Working through multi-party conflicts: Systems thinking. Workshop presented at the Mediators Beyond Borders International 7th Congress, Bucharest, Romania.
Walker, G. B. (2015, April). Progress, problems, and prospects: The United Nations Climate Change Negotiations. Presentation to BIOL 502 – Topics: Natural Resource Conflict Management, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS (delivered remotely via Skype).
Walker, G. B. (2015, January). Negotiating climate change: Discourses, divergence, and convergence in the search for a comprehensive agreement. Environmental Conflict Resolution Seminar, University of Oregon Law School, Eugene, OR.
Walker, G. B. (2015, January). Collaboration, communication, and environmental conflict: A pracademic’s perspective. Presentation to EST 609 – Collaborative Governance for Environmental & Natural Resource Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY (delivered remotely via Skype). Presented earlier (2014, November) at a Speech Communication Research Colloquium, Oregon State University.
Walker, G. B. (2014, June). Dominant discourses in climate change negotiations: Comparing progress on REDD+ and Loss and Damage. Presentation to WRP 599 – Wicked Problems in Natural Resources Decision-Making, Oregon State University.
Walker, G. B. (2014, June). Dominant discourses of the climate change negotiations: Divergence and convergence in the search for a comprehensive agreement. Brown Bag (lunch) Seminar, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Walker, G. B. (2014, May). Dominant discourses in climate change negotiations: Comparing progress on REDD and Loss and Damage. Brown Bag (lunch) Seminar, IFRO, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Walker, G.B. (2014, April). Working with multiple stakeholders in environmental contexts:
Insights from two decades of Collaborative Learning fieldwork. Workshop presented at Texas A&M University (Department of Communication), College Station, TX.
Walker, G. B. (2013, November). Making progress in the climate change negotiations: Insights from the Law of the Sea. Presentation at a side event at COP 19, the UNFCCC (climate change) meetings in Warsaw, Poland.
Walker, G. B. (2013, August). Wicked situations, systems, and engagement: Looking back…and looking forward. Opening keynote presentation at the Aspen Conference on Organizational Communication, Aspen, CO.
Walker, G. B., (2013, March). Conflict and resilience in natural resource management:
Insights from the Unifying Negotiation Framework. Seminar presented at the University of New Mexico (Department of Communication and Journalism), Albuquerque, NM.
Walker, G.B., & Daniels, S. E. (2012, February). Managing conflict and making decisions about public lands: An introduction to Collaborative Learning. Two-day workshop presented to the leadership and senior staff of the Willamette National Forest, Springfield, OR.
Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2011, March). Innovative public lands management: The Collaborative Learning approach. Two-day workshop presented to the leadership and senior staff of the Umpqua National Forest, Roseburg, OR.
Walker, G. B. (2009, October). Developing partnerships for conservation and natural resource management: A framework for assessment. Presentation and training module for the Partnerships Workshop, Water & Environmental Center, Walla Walla Community College, Walla Walla, WA.
Walker, G., and Emborg, J. (2009, July). Incorporating systems thinking into conservation management decision-making: Tools and technologies for civic science. One-day short course presented at the International Congress for Conservation Biology (23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology), Beijing, China.
Walker, G. B. (2009, March). Resolving environmental and sustainable development conflicts: Three triangles and an approach. Presentation as part of a Water Policy Workshop, Al Quds University, West Bank, Palestine.
Walker, G. B. (2009, March). Beyond tech-reg to collaborative management: A discourse-based framework for understanding natural resource conflict and decision situations. Department of Forest and Landscape Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Walker, G. B. (2009, January). Beyond tech-reg: A discourse-based framework for understanding natural resource conflict and decision situations. Spring Seminar Speaker presentation for the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Mediating Climate Change Conflicts: Building Conflict Resolution Capacity in the UN Climate Change Regime, 2009-present. I serve as co-director for this project for Mediators Beyond Borders International.
Participatory Rural Development in Ghana: Community Resilience, Collaborative Governance, and Poverty Reduction. Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD) at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, 2013-2014. In its early stages, this long-term project is lead by a faculty team from KNUST, the University of Copenhagen, Utah State University, and Oregon State University (Walker). The project integrates community-based collaboration with participatory action research.
Developing a Roads Investment Plan: Working with Stakeholders and Multiple Scales. Public participation/stakeholder involvement consultant (meeting/event designer and facilitator) to the Willamette National Forest, Springfield, Oregon, 2012-2014.
National Collaboration Cadre. Academic (or “Pracademic”) advisor to the National Collaboration Cadre of the USDA-Forest Service, 2010-present. The Cadre works with national forests and their local communities to build and improve collaborative capacity around forest management issues. This includes the development and delivery (with Steve Daniels of Utah State University) of a USDA-Forest Service 200 level training course on “Collaboration and NEPA.” As a member of the Cadre, I have conducted staff trainings and designed and facilitated community workshops for national forests in Alaska, Idaho, Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming.
Partnership for Coastal Watersheds. Consultant and Project Evaluator, Partnership for Coastal Watersheds, Charleston, OR, January 2011 to 2013. The PCW has been convened by the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Coos Watershed Association to address climate change, ecosystem health, and resilience issues at the community level.
Communities, Desired Conditions, and Collaborative Learning: Forest Planning under the New Rule, March 2005 – 2008. Comprehensive Collaborative Learning training, assessment, community workshop, and Cooperators project conducted for the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Jackson, WY (with Steve Daniels of Utah State University).
Protecting Tribal Harvests: Policy Work Teams at the EPA Tribal Leaders Summit, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, August 2006. Working with Kathleen Feehan, Water Quality Specialist for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, I designed and directed policy work team sessions for Tribal Leaders Summit participants.
Mixing Zone Workshop, Salem, Oregon, March, 2006, sponsored by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and OSU Institute for Natural Resources. I helped design the day-long workshop of ninety participants, facilitated the workshop, and directed the afternoon’s Collaborative Learning activities. The workshop also included my presentation, “The Collaborative Learning Approach to Environmental Policy Decision-making: A Quick View.”
Community-based Collaboration and Kenai Winter Access Planning: A Collaborative Learning Approach, January 2005-May 2007. Collaborative Learning training, assessment, coaching, and community workshop activities to address winter activities on the Kenai Peninsula, Chugach National Forest, Alaska (with Steve Daniels of Utah State University).
Improving Public Lands Management, Planning, and Decision-Making: An Introduction to Collaborative Learning, April 2003 – May 2005. This forest plan revision project featured comprehensive Collaborative Learning training, assessment, and community workshops conducted for the Allegheny National Forest, Warren, PA (with Sue Senecah of SUNY-ESF and Steve Daniels of Utah State University).
The Mouth of the Columbia River Regional Sediment Management Demonstration Initiative: A Collaborative Learning Approach to Stakeholder Involvement, September 2003-September 2004. Sponsored by the Portland and Seattle Districts of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, this comprehensive Collaborative Learning (CL) project that included conversations with over seventy stakeholders, CL training workshops for stakeholders and Corps personnel, and a CL community workshop on the science and organization of RSM (with assistance from Pat Corcoran of Oregon Sea Grant, Steve Daniels of Utah State University, Corrine Gobeli of Oregon State University, and present and former graduate students).
Improving Public Lands Management: Fundamentals of the Collaborative Learning Approach, November 2002. Comprehensive Collaborative Learning training and community workshop project conducted for the Shawnee National Forest, Harrisburg, IL (with Steve Daniels of Utah State University).
Collaboration, Systems Thinking, Facilitation, and Community Decision-making, March 2002. Three day workshop presented to the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Service, Las Vegas, NV (with Steve Daniels of Utah State University and Pat Corcoran of Oregon Sea Grant Extension)
Improving Public Land Management: An Introduction to Collaborative Learning, USDA Forest Service, Region 2, Fort Collins, CO, 06-07 September 2001.. This was a two- Day introductory training course prepared for and presented to planning staff from Colorado and Wyoming (Region 2) national forests (with Steve Daniels, Director, Western Rural Development Center, Utah State University).
Planning, Participation, and Public Land Management: The Collaborative Learning Approach, USDA-Forest Service, Region 9, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two and one-half day introductory training course about the philosophy, framework, and techniques of Collaborative Learning. The course was presented to the senior planners from the National forests of Region 9–the Midwest, Mideast, and Northeast United States (with Steve Daniels, Director of the Western Rural Development Center, Utah State University, formerly of the Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State University).
Improving Public Land Management: The Collaborative Learning Approach, USDA-Forest Service Eastern and Southern Regions [Regions 9 and 8] University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 29-31 January 2001. This was a three day course in the theory and practice of Collaborative Learning in public land management, decision making, public participation, and conflict resolution (with Steve Daniels).
People, Watersheds, and River Parks: A Collaborative Learning Design and Facilitation Training, College Station Texas, June-July 2000. This project was sponsored and hosted by the Center for Public Leadership Studies, George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A & M University. Funded by the San Antonio Water System and the San Antonio River Authority, the project included two separate 2-day training programs. The first, held in June, presented an introduction to Collaborative Learning. The subsequent July training emphasized how to design and facilitate Collaborative Learning activities (with Steve Daniels of Utah State University).
Hunt, K., Walker, G. & Depoe, S., eds. (2019). Breaking Boundaries: Innovative Practices of Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Walker, G. B., & Kinsella, W. J., eds. (2005). Finding our way(s) in environmental communication: Proceedings of the seventh biennial conference on communication and the environment. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Department of Speech Communication.
Daniels, S. E., & Walker, G. B. (2001). Working through environmental conflict: The collaborative learning approach. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Walker, G. B., Bella, D. A., & Sprecher, S. J., eds. (1992). The military-industrial complex: Eisenhower’s warning three decades later. New York: Peter Lang.
Walker, G. B., Daniels, S. E., & Emborg, J. (2022, in press). Insights and opportunities in public participation practice: Applying collaborative learning in environmental policy decision situations. In In A. Hansen & R. Cox (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of environment and communication, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
Daniels, S. E., & Walker, G. B. (2021, in press). On discourse-intensive approaches to environmental decision-making: Applying social theory to practice. In Bell, M., Carolan, M., Legun, K., & Keller, J. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of environmental sociology. Cambridge University Press.
Emborg, J., Daniels, S. E., & Walker, G. B. (2020). A framework for exploring trust and distrust in natural resource management. Frontiers in Communication,5:13. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.00013
Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2019). Collaboration in environmental conflict management and decision-making: Comparing best practices with insights from Collaborative Learning work. Frontiers in Communication, 4:2. doi: 0.3389/fcomm.2019.00002
Walker, G.B., Daniels, S.E., Timko, S., Lockwood, C., & Hansen, S. (2019). Listening and Learning: Stakeholder Views of Participation and Communication in Forest Planning. In K. Hunt, G. Walker, and S. Depoe (eds.), Breaking boundaries: Innovative practices of communication and public participation in environmental decision making. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Hunt, K., Senecah, S., Walker, G., & Depoe, S. (2019). Introduction: From public participation to community engagement – and beyond. In K. Hunt, G. Walker, and S. Depoe (eds.), Breaking boundaries: Innovative practices of communication and public participation in environmental decision making. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Walker, G. (2017). Reflections of a conflict management pracademic. In R.G. Heath and M.G. Isbell, Interorganizational communication: Complexity, ethics, and communication. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Walker, G. B., Daniels, S. E., & Emborg, J. (2015). Public participation in environmental policy decision-making: Insights from twenty years of collaborative learning fieldwork. In A. Hansen & R. Cox (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of environment and communication (pp. 111-130). New York: Routledge.
Walker, G. B. (2013). Confronting complex global challenges: Comparing the Climate Change and Law of the Sea Negotiations. In O.C. Ruppel, C. Roschmann, & K. Ruppel-Schlichting (Eds). Climate change and global governance: International regimes in a changing environment. Berlin: Nomos Publ.
Daniels, S. E., Walker, G. B., & Emborg, J. (2012). The unifying negotiation framework: A model of policy discourse. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 30(1), 1-14.
Daniels, S. E., Emborg, J., & Walker, G. B. (2012). Seeing the forest for the trees: Managing social conflict and forest restoration. Tree and Forestry Science and Biotechnology,6 (Special Issue 1), 1-6.
Daniels, S. E., & Walker, G. B. (2012). Lessons from the trenches: Twenty years of applying systems thinking to environmental conflict. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 29, 104-115.
Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2012). The nature and role of agency leadership: Building and sustaining collaboration in natural resource management and environmental policy decision-making. In D. Rigling Gallagher (Ed.), Environmental leadership: A reference handbook (pp. 147-158). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Emborg, J., Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2012). Forest landscape restoration decision-making and conflict management: Applying discourse-based approaches. In J. Stanturf & P. Madsen (Eds.), Forest landscape restoration: Principles and practices (pp. 131-153). New York: Springer.
Walker, G. B., & Senecah, S. L. (2011). Collaborative governance: Integrating institutions, communities, and people. In E. F. Dukes, K. E. Firehock, and J. E. Birkhoff (Eds.), Community-based collaboration: Bridging socio-ecological research and practice. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
Walker, G. B., Daniels, S. E., & Emborg, Jens (2008). Tackling the tangle of environmental conflict: Complexity, controversy, and collaborative learning. Emergence: Complexity and Organization (E:CO), 10(4), 17-27.
Walker, G. B. (2008). The transformative potential of environmental melodrama and its conflict (resolution) implications. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 2(1), 85-90.
Walker, G. B. (2007). Public participation as participatory communication in environmental policy decision-making: From concepts to structured conversations. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 1, 64-72.
Walker G. B, Senecah, S. L., & Daniels, S. E. (2007) Reflections from the road: new and improved concepts, tools, and lessons for community-based collaboration. In: Volkening, L.S. et al (Eds). Proceedings of the 8th biennial conference on communication and the environment (pp. 213-234). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Department of Speech Communication.
Walker, G. B., Senecah, S. L., & Daniels, S. E. (2006). From the forest to the river: Citizen views of stakeholder engagement. Human Ecology Review, 13, 193-202.
Walker, G. B., Daniels, S. E., & Cheng, A. (2006). Facilitating dialogue and deliberation in environmental conflict: the use of groups in collaborative learning. In L. Frey (Ed.), Facilitating group communication: Innovations and applications with natural groups. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2005). Assessing the promise and potential for collaboration: The Progress Triangle framework. In G. B. Walker & W. J. Kinsella (Eds.), Finding our Way(s) in Environmental Communication: Proceedings of the seventh biennial conference on communication and the environment (pp. 188-201). Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Department of Speech Communication.
Walker, G. B. (2004). The roadless areas initiative as national policy: Is public participation an oxymoron? In S. W. Depoe, J. W. Delicath, & M-F. Aepli Elsenbeer (Eds.), Communication and public participation in environmental decision making (pp. 113-136). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Walker, G. B. & Daniels, S. E. (2004). Dialogue and deliberation in environmental conflict: Enacting civic science. Environmental communication yearbook, Vol. 1. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Walker, G. B., & Daniels, S. E. (2001). Natural resource policy and the paradox of public involvement: Bringing scientists and citizens together. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 13(1/2), 253-269.
Blatner, K. A., Carroll, M.S., Daniels, S. E., & Walker, G. B. (2001). Evaluating the application of collaborative learning to the Wenatchee fire recovery planning effort. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 21, 241-270.
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