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Daniel Weiner

POSITION

EDUCATION

B.A . Geography, Clark University 1979

M.A. Geography, Clark University 1981

Ph.D. Geography, Clark University 1986

RELEVANT OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE:

1981 Research Associate for Beijer Institute (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). Member of the Beijer Institute/Kenya Ministry of Energy "Fuelwood Project." Based in Kenya for ten months.

1983 - 1984 Research Associate, Beijer Institute (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). Member of the Zimbabwe Energy Accounting Project. Based in Zimbabwe for fourteen months.

1988 - 1999 I have been involved in numerous projects in South Africa since 1988 and have visited over fifteen times for periods ranging from two weeks to six months.

1999 I visited Beira, Mozambique to discuss collaboration with the Catholic University of Mozambique.

RELEVANT LANGUAGE SKILLS

My conversant language skills are limited to English.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Association of American Geographers

Association of International Education Administrators

South African Geographical Society

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Land Use and Agrarian Reform in Southern Africa; Community-Integrated GIS and Society; Political Ecology of Appalachia; Popular Participation and Rural Development; Discourses of Development

CURRENT AND RECENT PROGRAM COORDINATION

In August of 1997, I was appointed as Director of the WVU Office of International Programs (OIP). The Office of International Programs coordinates and facilitates a range of international activities. Student study abroad programs are administered within OIP and the WVU study abroad advisor is a member of the staff. OIP is also where international linkage agreements are produced and housed, faculty area studies groups facilitated, and, campus-wide international policy formulated. OIP also sponsors faculty development activities, including seed money for projects, and submits grants for external funding.

I am presently co-leader of the NCGIA (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis) project entitled "Empowerment, Marginalization and Public Participation GIS." (see: http://ncgia.ncgia.ucsb.edu:80/varenius/. In 1996 and 1997, I was co-leader of the NCGIA Initiative # 19, "The Social Implications of How People, Space and Environment are Represented in GIS." (see: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/i19/).

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED

• Integrating Regional Political Ecology and GIS for Rural Reconstruction in the South African Lowveld. National Science Foundation, $150,000 (January, 1997 - June, 2000).

• WVU-Southern Africa Linkage for Rural Development Program." $12,000 from Ford Foundation for a Workshop in Zimbabwe to Establish a Linkage Program Between WVU and Universities in Zimbabwe and South Africa (with Bob Maxwell and Calvin Masilela, July, 1995)

• Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, $254,494 (Principal Investigator and co-manager with Richard Levin; January, 1992 - June, 1994).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Weiner, D. and T. Harris, 1999. Community-Integrated GIS for Land Reform in South Africa." WVU

Regional Research Institute Research paper # 9907, Morgantown W.V.

(http://www.rri.wvu.edu/wpapers/1999wp.htm)

Harris, T. and D. Weiner, 1998. "Empowerment, Marginalization and Community-Integrated GIS."

Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 25(2): 67-76.

Abbot, J., R. Chambers, C. Dunn, T. Harris, E. de Merode, G. Porter, J. Townsend and D.

Weiner, 1998. "Participatory GIS: Opportunity or Oxymoron". PLA Notes, 33: 27-34.

Levin, R. and D. Weiner (eds.), 1997. ‘No More Tears:’ Struggles for Land in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Trenton: Africa World Press.

Levin, R. and D. Weiner, 1996. "The Politics of Land Reform in South Africa After Apartheid: Perspectives, Problems, Prospects." Journal of Peasant Studies, 23(2/3): 93-119.

Masilela, C. and D. Weiner, 1996. "Resettlement Planning in Zimbabwe and South Africa's Rural Land Reform Discourse." Third World Planning Review, 18(1): 23-43.

Harris, T., Weiner, D., Warner, T. and R. Levin, 1995. "Pursuing Social Goals Through Participatory Geographical Information Systems: Redressing South Africa's Historical Political Ecology." In J. Pickles, (ed.), Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems. New York: Guilford Publications.

Weiner, D., Warner, T., Harris, T., and R. Levin, 1995. "Apartheid Representations in a Digital Landscape: GIS, Remote Sensing and Local Knowledge in Kiepersol, South Africa. Cartography and GIS, 22(1): 30-44.

Weiner, D., Munslow, B., and S. Moyo, 1992. "Energy for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Zimbabwe." Growth and Change, 23(3): 335-362.

Weiner, D., Moyo, S., Munslow, B., and P. O'Keefe, 1985. "Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe." Journal of Modern African Studies, 23(2): 251-285.

Weiner, D., 1990. "The Land Question in South Africa." in R. Prosterman et al. (eds.),

Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies. Boulder: Lynn Rienner.

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P.O. Box 6214, Morgantown, WV 26506-6214

Citizenship: United States

E-Mail: dweiner@wvu.edu