PLENARY III: 
WHAT ARE THE NECESSARY SCIENCE & POLICY LINKS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES?

CASE STUDY: PORTLAND, OREGON

Greg Wolf
Office of the Governor of Oregon

Greg Wolf graduated from the University of Oregon Honors College in 1975 with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on land use issues.  In the mid to late 1980s Wolf served as the Executive Director of the Capitol Planning Commission.  He then moved to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD), where he served as Assistant Director.  At DLCD, he founded a dispute resolution program for natural resource issues.  He has been an advocate of collaborative planning and mediation in resolving public policy issues throughout his career.  When Governor Kitzhaber took office in January 1995, he hired Wolf as his Community Development Advisor, with primary responsibility for programs in the Departments of Transportation, Economic Development, Land Conservation and Development and Housing, where he created the Community Solutions Team.  Wolf is currently the Community Policy and Dispute Resolution Advisor and heads up Governor Kitzhaber’s Sustainability effort.  In January, Greg will take a new position as Director of the National Consensus Center.  The Center provides governors and policy makers with consultation and research into consensus building.

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