Research Professor, College Of Law - Dean
Associate Professor (Clinical), City & Metropolitan Planning
Director, Environmental Dispute Resolution Program, College Of Law

danya.rumore@law.utah.edu

Publications

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Rumore, D., Stoker, P., Katcher, J. & Sodja, L. (2024). Tools and Resources for Gateway Communities. National Institute for Transportation and Communities., 03/2024
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Rumore, D. & P. Stoker (2023). Rural gentrification and the spillover effect. Vol. 1475. Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)., 03/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Powell, J., D. Rumore & J. Smith (2021). The GNAR Initiative: Empowering gateway communities through collaboration. Innovative and Promising Practices in Sustainable Tourism, VUI Publications., 12/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Stoker, P., D. Rumore, L. Romaniello & Z. Levine (2020). Planning and Development Challenges in Western Gateway Communities. Journal of the American Planning Association. Vol. 87(1), 21-33., 08/2020
• AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Zajchowski, C., M. Brownlee, M. Blacketer, J. Rose, D. Rumore, J. Watson & D. Dustin (2019). “Can You Take Me Higher?”: Normative Thresholds for Air Quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area. Journal of Leisure Research. Vol. 50., 02/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Rumore, D., T. Schenk, and L. Susskind (2016) Enhancing Communities’ Readiness to Adapt to Climate Change Through Role-Play Simulations, Nature Climate Change., 07/2016

Presentations

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Growth and Development Challenges in Gateway and Natural Amenity Region Communities, GNAR Initiative, 10/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: COVID 19 Impacts to Gateway Communities, Western Governors Association, 06/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: GNARly Challenges: Planning in Western Gateway and Natural Amenity Regions, Stanford Bill Lane Center., 05/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Collaboration and Partnerships around National Parks. Qinghai Administration for Sanjiangyuan National Park: Short Course on Managing Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Salt Lake City, Utah., 12/2019 CHINA
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: GNARly Challenges: Planning in Gateway and Natural Amenity Region Communities, Utah State University Quinney College of Natural Resources Seminar, Logan, UT., 11/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Planning in Gateway and Natural Amenity Region Communities. Destination: West Conference (hosted by the Stanford University Bill Lane Center), Park City, UT, 2019. , 04/06/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Collaboration and Partnerships around National Parks. Qinghai Administration for Sanjiangyuan National Park: Short Course on Managing Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018., 12/17/2018 CHINA
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Planning Across Boundaries: A Regional Approach, Mountain and Resort Town Planners Summit, Canmore, British Columbia, 2018., 11/30/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Planning in Gateway and Natural Amenity Regions, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Buffalo, NY, 2018., 10/26/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Gateway and Natural Amenity Region Initiative, Utah Outdoor Recreation Summit, Heber, UT, 2018., 09/05/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Collaborative Regional Planning: A Tool for Helping Gateway and Small Resort owns Thrive, Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Denver, CO, 2017., 03/2017
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Collaborative Regional Planning: A Tool for Helping Gateway Communities Thrive. Presentation. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Portland, OR, 2016., 11/2016
• WATER: Water Diplomacy: Theories, Tools, and Techniques. Oregon State University Water Cooperation and Peace Seminar Series, Corvallis, OR, 2016., 11/2016
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Collaborative Planning: A Tool for Helping Gateway Communities Thrive. Utah Outdoor Recreation Summit, Cedar City, UT, 2016., 09/2016

Internal Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Center for Ecological Planning and Design Steering Committee, 07/2017

External Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Gateway and Natural Amenity Region Initiative, 09/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Bonner Regional Team, 01/2017-05/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Zion Regional Collaborative, 01/2016-01/2020

Media

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Where’s the new St. George-Zion bus? A driver shortage has slowed its roll," KUER , 10/02/2024
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Extra dialogue required: Get to know EDR Director Danya Rumore," SJ Quinney College of Law, 08/13/2024
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "The Western U.S. has a major housing crisis. The solution may be hiding in plain sight," FastCompany., 03/19/2024
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Could building on public land address the housing crisis?", High Country News, 03/07/2024
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Could public lands be key to solving the housing shortage?," Salt Lake Tribune, 01/18/2024
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Digital nomads," Utah Insights, PBS Utah, 06/30/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "How you can help protect Utah's open space and recreation," Salt Lake Tribune, 06/08/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "How to enjoy nature responsibly," Salt Lake Tribune, 04/17/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "To save the soul of a mountain town," Outside Podcast, 03/01/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "The remote workers have left, but the housing havoc they created remains," NBC News, 02/06/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "At the Environmental Dispute Resolution Program, thorny issues lead to “elegant solutions,” Res Gestae - S.J. Quinney College of Law., 11/23/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "How to throw bombs, save lives, and raise a family in paradise on $22 an hour," Outside Magazine., 11/22/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Living off the land: Utah’s public lands and gateway communities," KCPW., 09/28/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Zoom towns are booming across America," USA Today, 09/22/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "How growing Western rec towns might hold onto their futures," High Country News, 06/28/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "A Delicate Balance - The Search for Sustainable Tourism and Resource Protection in the American West," University of Utah Magazine, 06/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Welcome to America's new 'Zoomtowns,' where an invasion of remote workers with big-city paychecks is driving long-time locals into tent cities and homeless shelters," Insider., 04/18/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "The small cities and towns booming from remote work," BBC News, 01/26/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Where are all the workers?," Sandpoint Reader, 10/28/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Zoom towns in the Intermountain West," Changing Places Podcast, 10/14/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Zoom Towns," BYU Radio Top of Mind with Julie Rose, 07/29/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Zoom Towns," University of Utah Magazine, 05/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Facing a GNARly Future for Sandpoint," Sandpoint Magazine., 05/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "How an infrastructure bill can help rural communities in the West", Deseret News., 04/23/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "What to do when your small town is overrun by the rich," Deseret News, 01/29/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Triple whammy from COVID': How pandemic put vacation spots through the grinder," KSL, 12/24/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "GNAR with Danya Rumore," Partnership Podcast, 11/24/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Gateway and Natural Amenity Region Initiative," KFRY Radio Community Conversations., 11/12/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "How remote working can transform small town life," Forbes, 11/06/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "The road to Montana," Flathead Beacon, 10/28/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "'Zoom Towns' are booming," Architectural Digest , 10/20/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "'Zoom towns’ are exploding in the West," Fast Company, 10/17/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "The rise of 'zoom towns' in the rural west," Phys Org, 10/15/2020
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: "The rise of ‘Zoom Towns’ in the rural west," @theU , 10/14/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Air quality in dispute: How Utahns can find collaborative solutions to air quality problems," Deseret News., 12/06/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Amid influx of nightly rentals, Park City grapples with a changing community," Park City Record, 10/20/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: “Survey illuminates shared values, opportunities,” Bonner County Daily Bee, 01/01/2017
• CLIMATE CHANGE: “New research by law school’s Rumore is altering the game of climate change,” S.J. Quinney College of Law, 08/03/2016

Grants

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Rural gentrification and the spillover effect: integrated transportation, housing, and land use challenges and strategies in gateway communities. PI: Rumore, D.. Co-PI(s): P. Stoker, 10/2021-12/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Smart and Connected GNAR Communities: A tourism decision support system for Western gateway and natural amenity region communities . PI: Jordan Smith. Co-PI(s): Derek Van Berkel, 01/01/2021-04/01/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Using serious games to address air quality as an environmental health problem. PI: Ben Davies. Co-PI(s): Danya Rumore, Katherine Davies, and Jeff Rose. University of Utah 1U4U Grant, . PI: Ben Davies. Co-PI(s): Danya Rumore, Kate Davies, Jeff Rose, 01/2020-08/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: National Park Service Cooperative Research and Training Programs: Colorado Plateau Dark Skies Cooperative. . PI: Danya Rumore, 12/2017-09/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Planning in gateway and amenity communities: understanding unique challenges associated with transportation, mobility, and access to opportunity. PI: Danya Rumore. Co-PI(s): Philip Stoker, 08/01/2017-04/15/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Collaborative Regional Planning: Tools and techniques for teaching collaborative regional planning to enhance livability and sustainable transportation. PI: Danya Rumore. Co-PI(s): Sarah Hinners and Divya Chandrasekhar, 08/01/2016-07/31/2017
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Impact Assessment of NCR RSF under the National Disaster Recovery Framework. PI: Divya Chandrasekhar. Co-PI(s): Danya Rumore, 07/01/2016-03/28/2018