Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
 

Bruce Hull - Professor of Forestry

Teaching Responsibilities

Books:

Three Focus Areas:

  • Beyond Environmental Fundamentalism Towards Sustainability: The trap of environmental fundamentalism gets sprung early and often, environmental issues get framed as either-or debates: economy or environment, humans or nature, government regulation or market economy, preservation or development, growth or steady state. This polarization paralyzes the civil debate needed to construct a sustainable future. As a consequence, critics worry about the death of environmentalism and search for a new conservation philosophy.  I’ve been exploring ethics and language of pluralism that promote biocultural ideals.
    • Tea Party and Sustainable Development
    • Teaching Sustainability blog: http://blog.gale.com/gettingtogreenr/author/bhull/
    • Hull, R.B. 2009. Land Love. In Helen Bogsworth (editor) The Love. New Age Press. Pgs 21-25.
    • Hull, R.B. 2008. Environmental Pluralism. In J. Baird. Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. Macmillan Reference USA. Pgs. 384-387
    • Beyond Environmental Fundamentalism (blog)
    • Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (editorial board): http://www.gale.cengage.com/greenr/
    • Goldstein, B. and Hull, R.B. 2008. Socially Explicit Fire Regimes. Society and Natural Resources. 21:469–482
    • Hull, R.B (2006). Rene Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth.  Bioscience 56 (10): 852-853.
    • Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute graduate 2004 http://www.virginia.edu/ien/VNRLI_home.html
    • Robertson, D.P. and Hull, R.B. 2003. Public ecology: an environmental science and policy for global society Environmental Science & Policy Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2003, Pages 399-410
    • Robertson, D.P and Hull, R.B. 2003. Biocultural ecology: exploring the social construction of the Southern Appalachian Ecosystem. Natural Areas Journal 23(2): 180-189.
    • R. Bruce Hull, David Richert, Erin Seekamp, David Robertson, Gregory J. Buhyoff. 2003. Understandings of Environmental Quality: Ambiguities and Values Held by Environmental Professionals. Environmental Management 31(1): 1-13. http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00267/tocs/t3031001.html
    • Hull, R. B., D. P. Robertson, D. Richert, E. Seekamp, and G. J. Buhyoff. 2002. Assumptions about ecological scale and nature knowing best hiding in environmental decisions. Conservation Ecology 6(2): 12. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol6/iss2/art12
    • Hull, R.B., Robertson, D., and Kendra, A. 2001. Public understandings of nature: a case study of local knowledge about 'natural' forest conditions. Society and Natural Resources 14: 325-340.
    • Robertson, D. and Hull, R.B. 2001. Which Nature? A Case Study of Whitetop Mountain. Landscape Journal 20: 1-10.
    • Robertson, D. and Hull, R. B. 2001. Beyond Biology: Toward a More Public Ecology for Conservation. Conservation Biology 15(4): 970-979.

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  • Conservation Practices: Globalization, urbanization, and political polarization have created a new context requiring new solutions. I’m studying/advising/nurturing several innovative conservation approaches, including localism, university engagement programs, and learning networks
    • Hull, RB. 2011. Landcare: The Reason to Act
    • Hull, RB. 2011. Landcare: Paths Toward Sustainability
    • Hull, RB 2011 Landcare: The Will to Act
    • Kimmel, C, Hull, RB, Stephenson, M, Robertson, D. 2011. Building Community Capacity and Social Infrastructure through Landcare: A Case Study of Land Grant Engagement. Higher Education (in press).
    • Kimmel, C. and Hull, R.B. 2011. Ecological Entrepreneurship Support Networks:  Roles and Functions for Conservation Organizations. Geoforum. (in press)
    • Kimmel, C. and Hull, R.B. 2011. Conservation 2.0. Conservation Biology (in Review)
    • Catawba Landcare
    • Model Forest Policy Program: www.mfpp.org/
    • Goldstein, B., Butler, Will and Hull, R.B. 2009. Fire Learning Networks as Forest Conservation Strategy. Journal of Forestry 18(3): 120-125
    • Hull, R.B. 2008. Adaptive management.  In J. Baird. Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. Macmillan Reference USA. Pgs 3-6.
    • Robertson, D., Hull, RB, Moles, J, et al. 2007.   Landcare in America.  In  D. Catacutan & C. Neely (Eds) Landcare: Local Action-Global Progress. Landcare International. Adams Printers Pty Ltd. Melbourne, Australia
    • Hull, R. B. and Gobster, P. 2000. The human dimensions of successful restoration projects. Journal of Forestry. 98(8): 32-36

 

  • Forest Sustainability: Forests have new owners and new neighbors. Globalization is siphoning away industry and management expertise. Science wars are diminishing professional influence and rational planning. Climate chaos and invasive exotics are altering ecosystems.  Urbanization is paving and fragmenting watersheds. As these challenges rise, so does our value for water, scenery, climate, energy, habitat and countless other services that forest provides.
    • We are a forest people.
    • Hull, R.B. 2011. Forestry’s Conundrum: High Value, Low Relevance. Journal of Forestry: 109 (1): 50-56.
    • Hull, R.B. and Nelson, K. 2011. Wildland-Urban Interface Forest Entrepreneurs:  A Look at a New Trend. Journal of Forestry (in press)
    • Johnson, J.E., Rasamoelina, M.S., and R.B. Hull. (2010) Adoption of Woodland Management Practices by Private Forest Owners in Virginia. Forest Science. 56(5):444-452.
    • Hull, R.B. 2010. Valuing Urban Forests: Lessons to Learn from Hurricanes In K.G. Tidball and M Krasny (eds). Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience, and Community Greening. Springer. Chapter 19: 165-172.
    • Hull, R.B. 2008. Make carbon sequestration good for Virginia. Virginia Forests. Winter, pgs. 9-10.
    • Hull, R.B. et al. 2008. The Changing Roles curriculum section emphasizing forest management in the urban-wildland interface (http://www.interfacesouth.org/products/changing-roles), including a webinar on amenity management (http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/wildland-urban-interface-issues-and-connections-module-2/ )
    • Hull, R.B. and Ashton, S. 2008. Forestry Cooperatives Revisited. Journal of Forestry. March 100-106.
    • Kendra, Angelina; Hull, R. Bruce 2005. Motivations and Behaviors of New Forest Owners in Virginia. Forest Science, 51 (2): 142-154
    • Hull, R.B., Robertson, D.P., Buhyoff, G.J. 2004. Boutique Forestry: New forest practices in urbanizing landscapes. Journal of Forestry: 102 (1): 14-19.
    • Hull, R.B. and Stewart, S.I. 2002. Social consequences of change in the wildland-urban interface forest. Pages 115-132 In Edward Macie and L. Annie. Hermenson (eds.). Human Influences on Forest Ecosystems: the Southern Wildland-Urban Interface Assessment. General Technical Report SRS-55. Asheville, NC" US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 159p. http://www.interfacesouth.org/assessment/view.html#
    • Hull, R.B., Robertson, D, Buhyoff, G. and Kendra, A. 2000. What are We Hiding Behind the Visual Buffer Strips? Forest Aesthetics Reconsidered. Journal of Forestry. 98(7): 32-36
    • Dedrick, J.P., Hall, T.E., Hull, R.B., and Johnson, J.E. 2000. The Forest Bank: An Experiment in Managing Fragmented Forests. Journal of Forestry 98 (3): 22-25.