Carissa Schively Slotterback

Humphrey School of Public Affairs
612-625-0640
cschively@umn.edu

Carissa Schively Slotterback is an associate professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She teaches courses in environmental and land use planning, participation, and sustainability planning. Her research focuses on participation in environmental and land use decision-making, environmental impact analysis, and planning processes and implementation, with a particular emphasis on how people use information to make decisions.

Her current projects focus on collaborative environmental planning processes related to landscape-scale forest planning in northeastern Minnesota and watershed planning to support biomass production and water quality in agricultural landscapes. In addition, she is working on a study of complete streets planning and implementation.

Slotterback directs the Graduate Sustainability Education Network, a University of Minnesota collaboration of faculty focused on enhancing sustainability education. She also serves as director of the Urban and Regional Planning graduate program. She has faculty appointments in Conservation Biology; Natural Resource Sciences and Management, and Landscape Architecture. In addition, she is a faculty scholar in the Center for Transportation Studies.

See Schively's faculty page for more info.

Portrait: Carissa Schively Slotterback.

    BEYOND THE BIO

  • Fun Fact:
    I played the trumpet in my high school and college bands.
  • Favorite Fair Food:
    Cheese curds of course, I was born in Wisconsin.