Teaching Responsibilities

• NR 5634 – Urban Ecology
• GIA/PSCI 5364 – Public Ecology
• NR 5984 – Landcare
• NR 5014 – Constructing Sustainability
• Program Coordinator and Faculty – Executive Master of Natural Resources (XMNR) Program – www.cnr.vt.edu/xmnr  

Selected Publications

• Robertson, D., C. Gabbard, B. Hull, J. Moles, J. Stokoe, S. Burge, and J. Waldon. 2009. Landcare in America: Changing Landscapes, Lifestyles & Livelihoods. In Catacutan, D. et al., editors. Landcare: Local Action-Global Progress. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre.
• Murrill, S., J. Munsell, and D. P. Robertson. 2009. Forest Landcare in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: A Case Study of the Blue Ridge Forest Cooperative. In Burke, D. G. & Dunn, J. (Eds.). A Sustainable Chesapeake:  Better Models for Conservation. The Conservation Fund.  Arlington, Virginia.
• Hull, R. B., D. P. Robertson, and G. J. Buhyoff. 2004. “Boutique” Forestry: New Forest Practices in Urbanizing Landscapes. Journal of Forestry 102(1):14-19. [online] URL: http://www.forestrycenter.org/library/admin/uploadedfiles/Boutique_Forestry_New_Forest_Practices_in_Urba.pdf 
• Robertson, D. P., and R. B. Hull. 2003. Public Ecology: An Environmental Science and Policy for Global Society. Environmental Science & Policy 6(5):399-410. Environmental Science & Policy Volume 6, Issue 5
• Robertson, D. P., and R. B. Hull. 2003. Biocultural Ecology: Exploring the Social Construction of the Southern Appalachian Ecosystem. Natural Areas Journal 23(2):180-189.
• Hull, R. B., D. P. Robertson, and G. J. Buhyoff. 2003. Beyond the interventionist-preservationist duality. Conservation Ecology 7(1): r4. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss1/resp4
• Hull, R. B., D. P. Robertson, D. Richert, E. Seekamp, and G. Buhyoff. 2002. Assumptions about Ecological Scale and Nature Knowing Best Hiding in Environmental Decisions. Conservation Ecology 6(2),12pp. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol6/iss2/art12
• Hull, R. B., D. Richert, E. Seekamp, and D. P. Robertson, and G. Buhyoff. 2002. Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: Ambiguity and Values Held by Environmental Professionals. Environmental Management 31(1):1-13. http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00267/tocs/t3031001.html
• Robertson, D. P., and R. B. Hull. 2001. Beyond Biology: Toward a More Public Ecology for Conservation. Conservation Biology 15(4):970-979.
• Robertson, D. P., and R. B. Hull. 2001. Which Nature? A Case Study of Whitetop Mountain. Landscape Journal 20(2):176-185. 
• Hull, R. B., D. P. Robertson, and A. Kendra. 2001. Public Understandings of Nature: A Case Study of Local Knowledge about “Natural” Forest Conditions. Society and Natural Resources 14:325-340.
• Hull, R. B., D. P. Robertson, G. Buhyoff, and A. Kendra. 2000. What Are We Hiding Behind the Visual Buffer Strip? Forestry Aesthetics Reconsidered. Journal of Forestry 98(7):34-38.
• Hull, R. B., and D. P. Robertson. 2000. The Language of Nature Matters: Toward a More Public Ecology. Pages 97-118 in P. H. Gobster and R. B. Hull, editors, Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences. Island Press: Washington, DC. [online] URL: http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2000/nc_2000_Hull_003.pdf
• Hull, R. B., and D. P. Robertson. 2000. Which Nature? A Conclusion. Pages 299-307 in P. H. Gobster and R. B. Hull, editors, Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences. Island Press: Washington, DC.