Keith G. Tidball founded S.C.I. - Links Consulting in 2001. His areas of expertise include natural resources management in post-conflict and post-disaster, international research and scientific exchanges, international agricultural and natural resources development, environmental security and conflict resolution, urban ecology, community greening, community resilience, and land use planning.
Tidball has been working with Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources since 2003. He co-founded and served as Associate Director of the Civic Ecology Lab for ten years, working to connect people with nature in urban contexts for purposes of education, community restoration and regeneration, and biodiversity conservation. His research in Environmental Security, Community Based Approaches to Natural Resource Management, Community Resilience, and Urban Ecology pursues questions such as: What roles can the field of natural resources play in local, regional, national and international strategic planning for post-conflict and other potentially volatile transition scenarios? How might community based natural resources management knowledge and approaches be adapted to enhance urban community resilience to catastrophe or conflict? What roles might natural resources, defined broadly, play in creating, enhancing, or restoring societal equilibrium in urban environments?