Steven Wolf
Associate Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment

Steven Wolf teaches and conducts research on environmental governance with a specific focus on efforts to secure public goods from private landscapes. His training and approach engage sociology and economics. While most projects address socioecological dynamics in industrialized societies of Europe and USA, he has current projects in India and China.
Education
- 1996-2001, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Agricultural & Resource Economics, Univ. of California-Berkeley
- 1998-2000, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse
- 1996, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Environmental Studies; Land Resources
- 1991, M.A. University of Virginia; Urban and Environmental Planning; Land Use
- 1986, B.A. University of Vermont; major in English, concentration in Chemistry
Recent Research
- Sareen and S. Wolf. 2021. Accountability and sustainability transitions. Ecological Economics. 185: July. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107056
- Zhuang, H. and S. Wolf. 2021. Environmental public interest litigation: New roles for civil society organizations in environmental governance in China. Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2021.1897243
- Ghosh, Ritwick and S. Wolf. 2021. Environmental accounting and performances of hybrid governance. Journal of Environmental Management.
- S. Wolf. 2020. COVID-19 and medical professional: Lessons for agriculture. Agriculture & Human Value.
- Wang, P. and S. Wolf. 2019. A targeted approach to payments for ecosystem services. Global Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00577.
- Wolf, S. and R. Ghosh. 2019. A practice-centered analysis of environmental accounting: Integrating agriculture into carbon governance. Land Use Policy (96). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.08.003
- Wolf, S., N. Kudva, A. Varghese, A. Willford, R. Stoltzfus, S. Nath, and P. Roy. 2018. Slow conservation in the Nilgiris Field Learning Center: An integrative model of education, research, and practice. Current Conservation.
Awards & Honors
President, Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and Food, International Sociological Association
Courses Taught
Environmental Governance, CIDA Digital Agriculture Hackathon
Steven in the news

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The event, held virtually March 5-7, brought together 176 students from 32 teams representing five of the world’s top agriculture schools for a 36-hour hackathon. A mix of undergraduate and graduate students in fields ranging from agriculture...
- Cornell AgriTech
- Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
- School of Integrative Plant Science

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The project, which will focus specifically on the impact of high-bandwidth farm networking, has received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Phoebe Sengers, associate professor of information science, is...
- Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
- Natural Resources and the Environment
- Agriculture