We focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of environmental decision-making involving multiple stakeholders from local to international scales (e.g., community participation, town planning, federal regulatory decision making, tribal government, international agreements). We approach theoretical aspects of environmental decision making primarily from the perspectives of environmental policy, environmental justice, and natural resource management. While much of our work is applied in the United States, faculty and students routinely conduct projects and research in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America.
The key interests of students and faculty:
- Adaptive governance
- Collaborative natural resource management
- Common property resources
- Community-based ecosystem management
- Corporate power
- Ecological economics
- Economic relocalization
- Environmental justice
- Distributive governance
- Local knowledge
- Public participation
- Public policy
- Social movements and grassroots organizing
- Stakeholder engagement
