Jaap Vos, Ph.D.
Jaap Vos, Ph.D.
Professor of Planning and Natural Resources | Director of the Environmental Science Program and Department Head, Natural Resources and Society
Water Center 242G
208-364-4595
Department of Natural Resources and Society
University of Idaho
Water Center, 242G
322 E. Front Street
Boise, ID 83702
Jaap is a professor of Planning and Natural Resources, Head of the Department of Natural Resources and Society, and the Director of Environmental Science. He has a Ph.D. in regional planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a MS in Environmental Science from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Born in a small farmhouse and having grown up in a small rural place Jaap is really interested in rural places and how to maintain rural places as rural places rather than as places that are waiting to become urban. His current research is focused on how rural places can maintain their own unique character in the face of development pressure and increased external pressure.
Jaap teaches courses about community planning, sustainable communities and rural planning issues. He also teaches a community assessment course and the advanced class of the Northwest Community Development Institute. He is the founding co-chair of APA Idaho’s Ag Chat, a group of planners and other stakeholders from throughout Idaho that meets monthly to discuss emerging planning issues in rural communities.
Degrees
- Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
- M.S. Agricultural and Environmental Science, 1989
Research Interests
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Planning for rural places, activities, people and communities.
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Informal governance and its importance to local planning practices.
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The impact of rapid change on communities, stakeholders, planning processes and planning outcomes.
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Planning with and for communities.
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Environmental justice and its application to people, places and regions.
Credit Courses
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ENVS 420/520 520 Intro to Bioregional Planning
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ENVS 423/523 Planning Sustainable Places
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ENVS 430/530 Planning Theory and Process
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ENVS 501 Seminar Environmental Science
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NRS 462 Natural Resource Policy
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Mark Rud, Tessa Vogel, Mitch Markey and Jaap Vos, Death and Life of the Great American Landscapes: How traditional planning’s failures fragment rural western places, Critical Planning, 2022.
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Vos, J. (2021), Impacts of Climate Change on Idaho’s Infrastructure. Idaho Climate-Economy Impacts Assessment. James A. & Louise McClure Center for Public Policy Research, University of Idaho. Boise, ID.
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Jaap Vos, Mary Huff and Kurt Hibbert (2021), Rural population and growth trends, Presented at the 2021 Partners for Rural America Virtual Conference October 15.
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Jaap Vos (2021), Understanding Population Change in Idaho: An Analysis of DMV Data from 2010-2021, Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Planning Association Idaho, Virtual Conference, October 7.
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Mary Huff and Jaap Vos (2021), Planning for Rural Towns and Small Cities, Presented at the annual conference of the Idaho Association of Cities, June 18, Boise.
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Jaap Vos (2021), Accelerating Changes in Population and Financial Capital from Urban to Rural Areas: Implications for Rural Communities, presented at the spring IRP board meeting, April 14.
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Mary Huff, Jaap Vos and Mauri Knott (2020), Protecting Working Landscapes: Thinking Outside of the Urban Planning Box, Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Planning Association Idaho, Virtual Conference, October 8.
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Stephen R. Miller, Jaap Vos & Eric Lindquist (2019), Informal Governance Structures and Disaster Planning: The Case of Wildfire, U. Ark Little Rock Law Rev.
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Dave Gottwald and Jaap Vos (2019), Re-Thinking the Design Studio for an Immersive and Responsive World: Acadly, Klaxoon, and Pivothead. Proceedings UCDA Design Education Summit 2019, Johnston City, Tennessee, May 20-21, 2019, pages 154-162.
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Ricky Mullins, Cassidy Hall, Judith Painter, Melinda Davis and Jaap Vos (2019), Recording the World: The Potential of Using Wearable Technologies to Teach Social Studies, Proceedings Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Las Vegas, March 18-22, 2019
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Cassidy Hall, Ricky Mullins, Melinda Davis and Jaap Vos (2018), Making a Case for Digital Inquiry: Using Wearable Video Technology to Engage in Perspective Taking and Inquiry, Proceedings of the EdMedia and Innovate Learning 2018: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology, June 25, 2018.
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Bahar Durmaz-Drinkwater, Aslı Ceylan Öner, Jaap Vos (2018), Amenity Migration and Changing Cultural Landscape in Urla-İzmir, Turkey. In: Vicino, T.J. and Hanlon, B, Companion to the Suburbs, Routledge.
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Stephen R. Miller, Eric Lindquist, Jaap Vos, Thomas Wuerzer, Molly Mowery, Alexander Grad & Brian Stephens (2016), Planning for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface, Idaho State Bar magazine, The Advocate.
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Jaap Vos (2015), Sustainable Development: Meeting the Needs of All Idahoans, Square Feet, Volume 1, Number 1, page 9.
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Jaap Vos (2013), Making Time in Boise: Embracing the Befuddling City, The Blue Review, Volume 1, Number 3, pages 5-6.
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Amanda Ashley and Jaap Vos (2015), The Department as a Third Sector Planner: Implementing Civic Capacity Through the Planning Core Curriculum, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 35, Number 4, pages 501-514.