Bruce Stiftel

Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, is professor of urban and regional planning, and associate dean of graduate studies at Florida State University. His research concerns collaborative governance of environmental policy, and methods for improving government agency bargaining. He regularly teaches courses in planning theory, methods of environmental analysis, and planning dispute resolution, and organizes Preparing Future Faculty events for the FSU campus.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stiftel is former president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and founding chairperson of the Global Planning Education Association Network. He is editor (with John T. Scholz) of Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict; reviews editor of Planning Theory, and chair of the Association of Collegiate School of Planning's Committee on the Academy and the Profession.