Judith Eleanor Innes
Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning
University of California, Berkeley
Summary
Judith Innes holds a Ph.D. from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning and an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard University. Her dissertation and first book looked at theory and practice of social indicators use in public policy. She has done research on the processes of planning and decision making across a wide range of substantive topics, including land use and environmental policy, water management, growth management, transportation, human rights, environmental justice and social policy. Her recent interests have focused on collaborative policy making and action at the state and regional levels. She maintains a continuing interest in how to improve the use of information in planning and public policy. She taught planning theory for many years, developing ideas through her research on communicative planning. She is author, editor or coauthor of more than 50 articles and book chapters, four books and two major monographs. Her articles have been translated into Chinese, French, Italian, and Korean. She has given presentations on her research in countries around the world.
| Current Institution | University of California, Berkeley |
| Current School | College of Environmental Design |
| Department | City & Regional Planning |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 232 Wurster Hall #1800 Berkeley California 94720-1800 United States Phone: (510) 642-4942 |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D.,
Urban Studies and Planning
Harvard University
Harvard College
B.A.,
English Literature
Publication Summary
Publications
Books and Monographs
- Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Oxford, 2010.
- Knowledge and Public Policy: The Search for Meaningful Indicators, Transaction Books, Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1990.
- The Land Use Policy Debate in the United States. (ed) Plenum Press, New York, 1981.
- Social Indicators and Public Policy: Interactive Processes of Design and Application, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co. Amsterdam, 1975.
- Bay Area Transportation Decision Making in the Wake of ISTEA: Planning Styles in Conflict at MTC. With Judith Gruber. University of California Transportation Center, Berkeley CA, 2001.
- Coordinating Growth and Environmental Management Through Consensus Building, California Policy Seminar Policy Research Program Report, University of California at Berkeley, December 1994. With J. Gruber, M. Neuman and B. Thompson. (Report, Appendix)
Selected Articles and Reports
- "Governance for Resilience: CALFED as a Complex Adaptive Network for Resource Management" (with David Booher), forthcoming in Ecology and Society.
- "Informality as a Strategy of Planning: Collaborative Water Management in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program" (with Sarah Connick and David E. Booher), Journal of the American Planning Association, 73, 2, 195-210, Spring 2007.
- “Collaborative Regional Initiatives: Civic Entrepreneurs Work to Fill the Governance Gap” (with Jane Rongerude), Insight, James Irvine Foundation and Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California Berkeley, Working paper 2006-04, January 2006.
- “Collaborative Governance in the CALFED Program: Adaptive Policy Making for California Water” (with Sarah Connick, Laura Kaplan and David E. Booher). Working Paper # 2006-01 Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California Berkeley, CA, January 2006.
- “Reframing Public Participation: Strategies for the 21st Century” (with David E. Booher) Planning Theory and Practice, 5, 4, 419-436, 2005.
- “Planning Styles in Conflict: The Metropolitan Transportation Commission” (With Judith Gruber), Journal of The American Planning Association. 71, 2, Spring, 177-188, 2005.
- “Outcomes of Collaborative Water Policy Making: Applying Complexity Thinking to Evaluation” with Sarah Connick, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 46, 2, March, pp. 177-197, 2003.
- “Collaborative Policy Making: Governance Through Dialogue,” (with David E. Booher) Chapter 1 in Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Hajer, Maarten and Hendrik Wagenaar eds., Cambridge University Press. 2003.
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