Sanda Kaufman

Professor
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

s.kaufman@csuohio.edu

Sanda Kaufman is a Professor of Planning and Public Administration. She holds degrees in Architecture and in City and Regional Planning from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research field is public decision making. Her research focus is negotiation and intervention in the urban, environmental, organizational, and schools contexts. She has mediated small claims disputes, designed dispute resolution systems and mediation training materials, worked on organizational conflict management, and facilitated community consensus building. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Planning, Education and Research; the Journal of Architectural Planning and Research; the International Journal of Conflict Management; the Negotiation Journal; Environmental Practice; Conflict Resolution Quarterly; Négociations; International Journal of Economic Development; Public Works Management and Policy; and Fractals.

Professor Kaufman is Director of the Masters in Environmental Studies Program and she chairs the Quantitative Methods Group at the Levin College. She teaches courses in quantitative reasoning, negotiation and conflict management, environmental policy, and strategic planning. She has built and is maintaining web resource pages for Planning, Public Administration, Conflict Management, Environment, Decision Making, Research Tools, and Teaching. Her architectural photography -- assembled into a web-based Image Collection for the Levin College - has been requested for journals, posters, books and websites.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Public and joint decision-making
  • Consensus building, civic capacity-building
  • Conflict management and intervention in public and environmental disputes
  • Voluntary pollution reduction
  • Environmental risk perceptions and communication
  • Policy analysis and program evaluation
  • Public leadership training
  • Population movement
  • Interface between public agencies and the public
  • Urban and regional planning

 

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