Nora Mitchell

Background

About Nora Mitchell

Nora is co-editor and contributing author to two recent books: A Thinking Person's Guide to America's National Parks (2016) see thinkingpersonsguide.info Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions (2015) Nora Mitchell is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Vermont. Prior to this, for twelve years she was the founding director of the Conservation Study Institute, established by the National Park Service to enhance leadership and innovation in the field of collaborative conservation and to share good practice in landscape scale conservation, partnerships, and community engagement. Nora was also the founding director for the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, a technical center of the National Park Service that conducts research on landscape history and provides management advice. She has worked in collaboration with many national parks and national heritage areas across the U.S. and has been actively engaged in international conservation of landscapes with ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites), IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), and UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. She is a member of ICOMOS Cultural Landscape Committee and IUCN Specialist Group on Protected Landscapes. She has published widely including a recent publication from IUCN on World Heritage criterion (vii), a chapter in Managing Cultural Landscapes (Routledge 2012), World Heritage Papers 26: World Heritage Cultural Landscapes: A Handbook for Conservation and Management with Mechtild Rössler, and Pierre-Marie Tricaud (UNESCO 2009), and The Protected Landscape Approach: Linking Nature, Culture and Community with Jessica Brown and Michael Beresford (IUCN, 2005). Nora holds Masters degrees in Ecology from the University of Montana and in Environmental Planning and Policy from Tufts University, as well as a doctorate in Landscape Studies from Tufts University.