Biography
Dr. Satterfield is a Research Scientist at Decision Research and an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Resources, the Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on environmental values; cultural analyses of environmental disputes; risk and culture; emotion and environmental conflict; lay perceptions of science; the social impact of technological hazards; environmental risks and environmental justice.

She has examined old-growth forest disputes in Oregon and British Columbia; worked to qualitatively and quantitatively define the experience of toxic exposure in a contaminated African-American community; studied, with colleagues, Maori perceptions of GMO risks, and has ongoing projects studying the elicitation and expression of environmental values in policy decision contexts.

Her recent book, Anatomy of a Conflict: Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests, was published in 2002 by University of British Columbia Press. What's Nature Worth? Exploring Narrative Expressions of Environmental Values, edited with Scott Slovic, is forthcoming from University of Utah Press.

CRED Projects
» The Future is Now: Climate Change Detection and Behavior in Regions Experiencing Significant Climate Change

Last Updated: June 1, 2006