ENVIRONMENTAL
POLITICS AT NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY
WITH ENVIRONMENTAL INTERESTS
David E. Camacho, Ph.D., Professor
David
Camacho's environmental work centers around issues of environmental
justice. His most recent publication is Environmental Injustices,
Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment (Duke University
Press, 1998). His main research objective is to better understand the public
policy process; to this end, he has examined environmental policy, Native
Americans and the environment, multicultural education, and social movement
theory.
Geeta Chowdhry, Ph.D., Professor
Geeta
Chowdhry's work centers on the Political Economy of Development, Gender and
Development, and the Politics of Hunger, focusing especially on India and South
Asia.
Sheila Nair, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Sheila Nair
studies the politics of social movements in Southeast Asia, with a focus on the
relationship between environmental, women's, and human rights organizations.
Robert A. Poirier, Ph.D., Professor
Robert
Poirier is a Comparativist by training, with an emphasis on the Middle
East. His environmental concerns include the relationship between tourism
and development in that region. As a Colorado River river runner, he has
developed a particular expertise in the politics surrounding the management of
the Colorado River and Grand Canyon National Park.
David S. Schlosberg, Ph.D., Professor
Professor
Schlosberg's general interests are in political philosophy and environmental
politics. He teaches courses on political theory, environmental movements,
environmental political theory, and the environmental science/policy interface
(the core course in the Environmental Science and Policy MS Program). His
theoretical research deals with issues of pluralization, difference, and
discursive democracy in contemporary theory and political life; and his
environmental research focuses mainly on the political theory, tactics, and organization
of social movements, especially the U.S. environmental movement and
environmental justice movement. Recent publications include Debating
the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader, Second edition, edited with John
Dryzek; Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of
Diversity for Environmentalism; and Green States and Social
Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, Britain, Germany, and Norway,
co-authored
with John Dryzek, David Downes, and Christian Hunold. He is completing another
book on the definition of justice in environmental and ecological justice, to
be published in 2007
(all
with Oxford University Press).
Zachary A. Smith, Ph.D., Regents Professor
of Political Science
Zachary A.
Smith teaches environmental and natural resources policy and administration,
public administration and state, local and urban politics. Interested in both
theoretical and applied work he served for six years as the chair, of the
Advisory Committee, Arizona Commission on the Environment, served as city
council person for the City of Flagstaff, and has consulted with governments
revising their natural resource management laws both nationally and
internationally. He has over seventeen books and thirty articles written or
edited on various environmental, natural resource, state government and public
management topics including Water and the Future of the Southwest, Groundwater
in the West,
Politics and Public Policy in Arizona, Environmental Politics and
Policy in the West, The Environmental Policy Paradox, Groundwater
Policy in the Southwest, The Environmental Impact Statement: History and
Success,
and The International Management of Groundwater Resources.
Frederic I. Solop, Ph.D., Professor
Professor
Solop's environmental work focuses on public opinion on environmental issues
locally, regionally, and nationally. As Director of NAU's Social Research
Laboratory, he has done numerous surveys for local governments, various
governmental agencies, and private organizations on issues such as
environmental values, urban growth, and tourism.
Mary Ann E. Steger, Ph.D., Professor
Professor
Steger has done extensive work on environmental policy and environmental
organizations. Her published work in the environmental arena focuses on
the links between values (political cultural and postmaterialist or new
politics values) and environmental attitudes and the impact of culture and
context on the formation of policy in the areas of forest management,
immigration, and Native
American land and resource rights. This work is found in a number of
journal articles and the following books: Only a Border Apart?
Culture, Context and Public Policy by John C. Pierce, Nicholas P. Lovrich,
Brent S. Steel, Mary Ann E. Steger, and John R. Tennert (The Edwin Mellen
Press, in press), and Citizens, Political Communication, and Interest
Groups: Environmental Organizations in Canada and the United States by John C.
Pierce, Mary Ann E. Steger, Brent S. Steel, and Nicholas P. Lovrich (Praeger
Publishers, 1992).
Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Ph.D., Professor
Before
coming to NAU in 1997, Professor Swizter worked in the public and private
sectors as a policy analyst, program coordinator, campaign manager, and
legislative aide. Her primary teaching interests are in public policy and
public administration, with a focus on environmental and disability policy. She
regularly teaches courses on environmental policy, environmental law,
environmental movements, international environmental law, and ecological
restoration policy. She is an
adjunct member of the faculty in Environmental Sciences, and a faculty research
associate with the Ecological Restoration Institute. Among her publications,
Sitzer is the author of Environmental
Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions, 5h ed. (2005); Environmental
Activism: A Reference Handbook (2003), and Green Backlash: The
History and Politics of Environmental Opposition in the United States (1997).
Carol B. Thompson, Ph.D., Professor
Professor
Thompson's research focuses on the impact of the international political
economy and trade practices on the development of Southern Africa. She
has a particular interest in intellectual property rights (IPRs) as they relate
to the patenting of seeds and plants; she has consulted with the
Government of Zimbabwe on post-Lome trade issues, including the impact of IPRs
on biodiversity in Southern Africa.
Stephen J. Wright, Ph.D., Professor
Stephen
Wright integrates into his classes materials on ecological security and
environmental regimes. His research interests focus upon issues of
development in Africa within the context of globalization; in addition, he is
increasingly interested in European Union issues, including the EU's growing
environmental agenda.