Ken Genskow

Office: 106 Music Hall

Office Hours: By appointment only

Phone: (608) 262-8756

Email: kgenskow@wisc.edu

Assistant Professor Ken Genskow addresses issues of environmental planning and policy, watershed planning, and collaborative and participatory approaches to resource management. His research and applied work have explored the evaluation and assessment of collaborative watershed management, watershed governance, and the effectiveness of educational and technical assistance programs on land management. Genskow is interested in planning processes that provide for meaningful participation by stakeholders in resource management initiatives as well as planning approaches that explicitly incorporate a social component into environmental planning and management.

Ken holds a joint appointment with UW-Extension, where he serves as a specialist on water resources and directs Extension’s statewide Basin Initiative. This natural resources outreach and extension program involves fifteen Basin Educators working throughout the state in territories defined by Wisconsin’s major river basins. Basin Educators work with local agency and organizational partners to develop and deliver educational programs on priority state and local resource management issues. The Basin Initiative is supported through ongoing partnerships with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. For more information, visit basineducation.uwex.edu. Ken is also affiliated with the UW-Madison/UW-Extension Environmental Resources Center.

Professor Genskow has a BS in General Engineering and a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois. He earned his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Wisconsin-Madison.