Research Areas

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Research Interests

Planning for Sustainable Development, Development Dispute Resolution, Participation, Protected and Sensitive Lands.

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Recent Publications

Conroy, Maria Manta; and Jennifer Evans-Cowley. Forthcoming. Informing and Interacting: The Use of E-government for Citizen Participation in Planning. Journal of E-Government.

Conroy, Maria Manta; and Philip R. Berke. 2004. What Makes a Good Sustainable Development Plan? An Analysis of Factors that Influence Principles of Sustainable Development. Environment and Planning A 36:1381-1396.

Conroy, Maria Manta; and Steven I. Gordon. 2004. Utility of Interactive Computer Based Materials for Enhancing Public Participation. Environmental Planning and Management 47(1): 19-33

Conroy, Maria Manta. 2004. EcoCity Columbus: Using an Ohio State University Planning Class to Bring Sustainability Concepts to Columbus, Ohio. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 5(2): 199-212.

Conroy, Maria Manta. 2003. The Process of Planning for Sustainable Development: Dimensions, Comparisons, and Insights. International Journal of Sustainable Development 6(4):460-477.

Berke, Philip R.; and Maria Manta Conroy. 2000. Are We Planning for Sustainable Development?: An Evaluation of 30 Comprehensive Plans. Journal of the American Planning Association 66(1): 21-33.

Maria Manta Conroy. 2000. A Commentary on Planning for Sustainable Development - or, Confessions of a Hypocrite. The New Planner.  Spring.

Berke, Philip R.; and Maria Manta. 1999. Planning for Sustainable Development: Measuring Progress in Plans. Working Paper for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Manta, Maria; and Philip R. Berke. 1998. How are we doing? A Look at the Practice of Planning for Sustainable Development. Carolina Planning 23(2): 29-40.

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Recent Research Activities

Maria Manta Conroy and Steven I. Gordon. Technology Enhanced Participation for Watershed Planning, 2005-2006. Funded by the US Geological Society through the Ohio Water Resources Institute.

Maria Manta Conroy and Jennifer Evans-Cowley. E-Government: Citizen Engagement in Public Planning, 2003-2004. Funded by the Battelle Endowment for Technology & Human Affairs.

Maria Manta COnroy. Sustainability and the "Average" City: An Exploration of the Pervasiveness of Sustainability Concepts in Communities in Central Ohio. Present. Funded by the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis at the Ohio State University.

Steven I. Gordon and Maria Manta Conroy. Linking Measures of Watershed Quality to Citizen Participation to Facilitate Watershed Protection. Pres. Investigator. Funded by The Ohio State University Environmental Policy Initiative Research Seed Grant 2000.

 

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