VITA
Zachary A. Smith
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~zas/
Education
Ph.D.,
B.A.,
Teaching Experience
1989-present,
1986‑1989,
1985‑1986,
1982‑1985,
1980‑1982,
A variety of courses taught in everything
from small graduate seminars to large introductory lectures in Public
Administration, Public Policy and American Politics. Substantive expertise in Natural Resources
and Environmental Policy and Administration.
Courses most often taught Include: Environmental Policy, Environmental
Law, Implementation, Intergovernmental Relations, Natural Resources Policy and
Administration, Public Policy, Policy Analysis and Evaluation and State and
Local Government.
Publications and Research
Books
The Environmental Policy
Paradox,
Fifth Edition, (
Globalization (Contemporary World Issues)
with- Justin Ervin, (
Renewable and Alternative
Energy Resources (Contemporary World Issues) with- Katrina Taylor, (
Environmental Politics and
Policy in the West , with John Freemuth
(editors), (
Protecting Our Environment Lessons
from the European Union, with Janet R. Hunter, (
Ocean Politics and Policy (Contemporary World Issues) with-
Peter Jacques, (
Freshwater Issues (Contemporary World Issues) with
Grenetta Thomassey Fink (
The Environmental Policy
Paradox,
Fourth Edition, (
The National Environmental
Policy Act: Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference & Executive
Neglect,
with Matt Lindstrom, (
Groundwater Management in
the West,
with Jeff Ashley, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999). [Nominated for
the 2000 American Political Science Association’s Lynton Caldwell Award for the
best book on environmental policy for the pervious five years. Also nominated for the
Policy Studies Organization Aaron Wildavsky award
for best policy study book for the year 2000.]
The Environmental Policy
Paradox,
Third Edition, (
Public
Policy and Politics in
The Environmental Policy
Paradox,
Second Edition, (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995).
Environmental Politics and
Policy in the West, (Editor), (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1993).
Public
Policy and Politics in
The Environmental Policy
Paradox,
(New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1992).
Politics and Public Policy
in Hawaii,
edited with Richard Pratt (Smith is the senior or lead editor) (Albany, New
York: State University of New York Press, 1992).
Aloha County: The
Water and the Future of the
Southwest,
(Editor), (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1989).
Groundwater in the West, (San Diego: Academic
Press, 1989).
Groundwater Policy in the
Southwest
(El Paso, University of Texas ‑ Texas Western Press, 1985).
Interest Group Interaction
and Groundwater Policy Formation in the Southwest (Maryland: University Press
of America, 1985).
Books in Progress
Energy Politics
and Policy
(Under contract to ABC-CLIO Press for 2006 delivery).
Environmental Policy in the
West,
(Editor) Under contract to
Ecosystem Management: Failure and Promise in Land
Management Reform ( under contract at
Articles and
Book Chapters
“Estimating Value in Water Resources Management: What Is Water Worth?”
with Kira Russo Bauer, Forthcoming in Water International.
"Comparative Groundwater
Management: Findings from an Exploratory Global Survey," With John Sagala
Forthcoming in Water International.
June 2008, Vol. 33, Issue 2.
“Human
Rights to Water”, with Kristi L. Ross in Handbook
of Globalization and the Environment ,
Khi V. Thai, Dianne Rahm,
and Jerrell D. Coggburn,
editors, (Taylor and Francis/ CRC Press: 2007).
“Transborder Air Pollution”,
with Katrina Darlene Taylor in Handbook
of Globalization and the Environment ,
Khi V. Thai, Dianne Rahm,
and Jerrell D. Coggburn,
editors, (Taylor and Francis/ CRC Press: 2007).
“Teaching Public Administration” Public Money and
Management, pp. 14-15, May 2005
“George W. Bush and
Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Policy”, with John Kemoli
Sagala in A
Bird in the Bush, Dowling Campbell (editor) (
“Bush and the Environment”, with Jaina
L. Moan in A Bird in the Bush,
Dowling Campbell (editor) (
“Water development in the West”, Water Resources Impact 6(2) (2004) pp 10-13.
“Interstate and International Competition for Water
Resources: Revisiting A Groundwater Management Issue
Fifteen Years later,” Journal of International Water Resources – Water
International. VOL .27 , No.4, DECEMBER 2002
“Western Groundwater Wars,” FORUM for Applied
Research and Public Policy, Spring 2001, pp.
33-39.
“Arizona Government and Politics” in Uniting a
Diverse Arizona, Town Hall Background Paper, State of Arizona, Phoenix
Arizona, December 1999.
“Hawaii House Speakers”
(various) in James Roger Sharp and Nancy Weatherly Sharp (ed.), American Legislative
Leaders in the West, 1911-1994 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997).
Rethinking the
Internationalization of Environmental Interest Groups: A Regime Approach to
Behavior,
with Robert L. Jones, Resources Policy, Vol. 21 No. 1, (1995), pp. 5-12.
"Bureau of Land
Management", "Anne G. Burford", "Environmental Defense Fund" in The
Encyclopedia of Conservation and Environmentalism, 1994.
"Understanding
Affirmative Action: From The Practitioner's Perspectives on Political
Science" with Joseph Michael Pace, Public Personnel Management
Summer 1995.
"Risk Analysis and
Drinking Water: What is `Safe'" with Jeff Ashley for, Science,
Technology and Policy, Dennis Soden, editor.
"Managing Groundwater
in the
"The
"Introduction"
Public Policy and Politics in
"Social
Welfare Policy in
"Environmental
Policy in
"Water Management in
"Water and Pork in the
West," Environmental; Politics and Policy in the West, Zachary
Smith (Editor), (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1993).
"Water and Federalism
in the 1990s," Publius: The Journal of
Federalism, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 1 (Summer 1992).
"Coping With Cutbacks
in Park and Recreation Administration: Priorities, Innovation and Mobilizing
Interest Groups" John D. Hutcheson, Francis P. Noe,
and Robert E. Snow, (editors), Outdoor Recreation Policy: Pleasure and
Preservation, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990).
"The Policy
Environment", "Introduction", "Results and Conclusion"
in Zachary Smith, (editor), Water and the Future of the Southwest,
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989).
"Interstate and
International Competition for Water Resources," Water Resources
Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 5 (October 1987).
"Management Options
During Periods of Fiscal Constraint: Mobilizing Interest Groups" in Policy
Studies Review, Vol. 7 No. 2 (November 1987).
"Competition for Water
Resources: Issues in Federalism," Journal of Land Use and
Environmental Law, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 1987).
"Stability Amid Change in Federal‑State Water Relations,"
"Federal Intervention
in the Management of Groundwater Resources," Publius:
The Journal of Federalism, Vol. 15, No. 1, p. 145 (Winter 1985).
"Centralized
Decision making in the Administration of Groundwater Rights: The Experience of
Arizona,
"Rewriting
"The Selection of
Cabinet Officers and Other Political Executives" with Dean E. Mann, The
International Journal of Political Science, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 211 (1981).
"State Class Action
Notification Requirements After Eisen,"
Other
Publications and Research and Consulting Work
"Methodological
Assessment:
"Improvements to the Williams Ski
Area" co-author, (1991)
"
Authored or co-authored the following entries for Encyclopedia USA
"Coastal Zone
Management Act"
"Coal"
"
"
"Commercial Fisheries
Research and Development Act"
"Connally
`Hot Oil' Act"
"National Conservation
Commission"
"
"
And for: International
Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
"Common
Pool/Property Resources"
"Conservation
Movement"
"Eco-Terrorism"
"Groundwater
Management in the
No. 10‑12
(3 issues) (1985).
"Groundwater,"
"Groundwater
Management in
12 (1985).
Book Reviews
Melvin Melosi- Effluent
Seth Dunn Micropower: The Next Electrical Era, for Perspectives
on Political Science.
Dennis L. Soden (editor)
The Environmental Presidency, for Environment, Jul/Aug2000,
Vol. 42 Issue 6
Terry Anderson and Peter
Hill (editors) Environmental Federalism, for Perspectives on
Political Science, Winter 1999.
Mary Clifford (editor), Environmental
Crime: Enforcement, Policy, and Social Responsibility for Law and
Politics Book Review (American Political Science Association). 1999.
Rodney R. White, North,
South, and the Environmental Crisis, for Human Ecology, 1994.
Peter Self, Government By
Market? The Politics of Public Choice,
for Perspectives on Political Science, 1994.
John D. Graham, editor, Harnessing
Science for Environmental Regulation, for Rivers, 1992.
Robert Gottlieb and Margaret
FitzSimmons, Thirst for Growth: Water Agencies as
Hidden Government in
David Lewis Feldman, Water
Resources Management: In Search of an Environmental Ethic, for American
Political Science Review, 1992.
Helen Ingram, Water
Politics: Continuity and Change, for Pacific Historical Review,
1991.
Norman Vig
and Michael Kraft, (eds.), Environmental Policy in the 1990s, for Forum
for Applied Research and Public Policy, January 1991
Henry C. Kinski,
Saving the Hidden Treasure, for American Political Science Review, March
1991.
Henry C. Kinski,
Saving the Hidden Treasure, for Policy Currents, January 1991.
Naomi B. Lynn and Aaron Wildavsky, (eds.), Public Administration: The State of
the Discipline, for Perspectives on Political Science.
John Opie,
The Law of the Land: 200 Years of American Farm Policy, for Policy
Perspectives on Political Science.
John S. Lewis and Ruth A.
Lewis, Space Resources: Breaking the Bounds of Earth, for The Annals of the
Brack Brown and Richard J. Stillmann III, A Search for Public Administration: The
Ideas and Career of Dwight Waldo, for Perspectives on Political Science,
Vol. 5, No. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986).
John Clark, Beaches of
the Big
David Vogel, National
Styles of Regulation: Environmental Policy in
Pietro S. Nivola, The
Politics of Energy Conservation, forThe
Annals of the
Jonathon Porritt,
Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained for The Review of
Politics, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring 1986), p. 312.
Joan DeBardeleben,
The Environment and Marxism ‑ Leninism: The Soviet and East German
Experience for The Review of Politics, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Fall 1986).
George C. Eads and Michael Fix, Relief
or Reform?: Reagan's Regulatory Dilemma, for The Annals of the
Martin V. Melsoi,
Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industria
lAmerica for Social Science Quarterly(1986)
Serge Taylor, Making
Bureaucracies Think: The Environmental Impact Statement Strategy of
Administrative Reform for Social Science Journal (July 1986).
Robert Durant, When
Government Regulates Itself: The EPA and TVA, for Journal of Politics
(1986).
Other Academic Activity(not
current)
Vice
Chairperson (2004 to present) and Founding Fellow,
Board Member Water International: Journal of the
International Water Resources Association. (2004 to
present).
Interview
– National Public Radio – “Western Water Policy”, NPR, January 2005. (Taped by
Reviewer
for Numerous Professional Journals and University and other book publishers.
Invited
Speaker, “Groundwater Collective Management Systems: The United States
Experience” international conference sponsored by UNESCO and other
organizations on groundwater in
Advisory
Council Member Social Sciences Journal 1995-2002.
2001:
Panel Chair and Discussant:
“Environmental Politics and Policy” WSSA, Reno, April 19-21.
2001: Panel Chair and Discussant, “Natural
Resources Management,” Western Political Science Convention, Las Vegas, March
15-17.
2000: Paper presentation, “International and
Interstate Competition for
Groundwater Resources,” National Groundwater Association, Las Vegas
December 13-15
2000: Section organizer: WSSA
conference-Environmental And Natural Resource Management and Policy section.
2000: Paper presentation, "Water Fraud: the
Development of Western Water Resources", Western Social Science
Association, San Diego.
Invited Speaker,
"Beyond Globalmania: Pursuing Clarity in And Interdependent World" 37th Annual
International Affairs Symposium,
Invited Speaker, Second
International Conference on Citizenship and the Media: Politics and
the Internet,
1999: Section organizer: WSSA
conference-Environmental And Natural Resource Management and Policy section.
1999: Section organizer: WPSA
conference-Environmental politics and policy section.
1998: Panel Chair, "Water Resources
Policy and Management", and Paper Presentation, Western Social
Science Association Conference.
1998: Section organizer: WSSA
conference-Environmental And NaturalResource
Management and Policy section.
1997: Panel Chair, "Western Water
Resources Management", and Paper Presentation, Western Social
Science Association Conference,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1996: Paper Presentation, "Managing
International Conflicts: The WaterResources
Experience", International Conference on Conflict Resolution
And the Environment,
Brisbane, Australia.
1996: Section organizer: WSSA
conference-Environmental and Natural Resource Management and Policy section.
1996: Panel Chair, "Environmental
Policy Formation", and Paper Presentation, Western Social Science
Association Conference,
Nevada.
1995: Panel Chair, "Water Policy
Formation", and Paper Presentation, Western Social Science
Association Conference,
1995: Section organizer: WSSA
conference-Environmental and Natural Resource Management and Policy section.
1994:
College. [Aspinall
Lecture-and paper.]
1994: Panel Chair, "Water Policy
Formation", Western Social Science Association Conference,
1994: Paper Presentation, "The
Development of Western Water: The Players", Western Social Science
Association Conference,
New Mexico.
1994: Paper Presentation, "Risk
Assessment and Water Quality in the
Mexico.
1994: Paper Presentation,
"Intergovernmental Relations in the Mangement of
Water Resources", Western Social Science Association
Conference,
1994: Section organizer: WSSA conference-Environmental
and NaturalResource Management and Policy section.
Invited Speaker,
"Managing Water Resources: Lessons for
from seven countries invited to Ahmedabad to discuss revisions in the India Water Code
related to groundwater with Indian officials, 1993
1993: Section organizer: WSSA
conference-Environmental and Natural Resource Management and Policy section.
1993: Section Coordinator, Land and Natural
Resources Section,Western
Social Science Association Conference,
1993: Paper Presentation, "Conflict
Management in Interstate Water Relations" American Political Science
Association,
1993: Panel Chair, "Planning the Urban
Environment" Western Social Science-Association Conference,
1993: Paper Presentation, "The Urban
Environment: Managing Urban Areas for the Future" Western Social Science
Association Conference,
1992: Section organizer: WSSA
conference-Environmental and NaturalResource
Management and Policy section.
1992: Paper Presentation,
"Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy Formation: Toward a Descriptive
Model" Western Social Science
Association Conference,
1992-2003: Study Tour Leader, International Environmental
Policy Study Tour. I have taken 12
groups to meet with environmental policy experts in
1992: Panel Chair, "Environmental
Policy Formation" Western Social Science Association Conference,
1992: Paper Presentation,
"Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy Formation: Toward a Descriptive
Model" Western Social Science
Association Conference,
1991: Participant, People to People Exchange to the
1991: Panel Chair, "Southwestern State
Politics"
1991: Paper Presentation, "Western
Water Management" Southwest Social Science Association Conference,
1991: Paper Presentation,"Unanticipated
Budget Impacts and Flexibility in Municipal Finance" Southwest Social
Science Association
Conference,
1990: Paper Presentation "Unanticipated
Budget Impacts and Flexibility in Municipal Finanace"
Southwest Social Science Association
Conference,
1990: Paper Presentation, "Changing
Priorities: The Impact on Local Government of the End of Federal Revenue
Sharing" Southwest Social
Science Association Conference, Fort
Worth.
1990: Paper Presentation, "Changing
Priorities: The Impact on Local Government of the End of Federal Revenue
Sharing" Western Social
Science Association Conference, Portland.
1990:
Panel Chair, "Responses to Fiscal Stress in Local Government"
Western Social Science Association Conference,
1990:
Paper Presentation, "Unanticipated Budget Impacts and Flexibility in
Municipal Finance" Western Social Science Association
Conference,
1988: Paper Presentation, "Incrementalism and Organizing Interest Groups in Parks and Recreation
Administration", Southwest Social
Science Association
conference,
1988:
Panel Chair, "Environmental Policy", Southwest Social
Science Association Conference,
1987:
Paper Presentation, "Water and the Future of the
Southwest", Southwest Social Science Association Conference,
1986: Panel Chair,
"Groundwater Management Issues", American Society for Public
Administration Conference,
1986: Panel Chair,
"Federal/State Relations in the management of Water Supplies",
Southwest Social Science Association Conference,
1986: Paper
Presentation, "Interstate Competition and Federal Intervention in Groundwater
Management", Southwest Social Science
Association Conference,
1986: Panel Chair,
"Water Policy and the Future of the Southwest", Southwest Social Science Association
Conference,
1986: Paper
Presentation, "Competition for Groundwater Resources, A Survey and Analysis" Western Social Science
Convention,
1985: Special
Consultant to Leven Jester Productions of the film
"Crystals From the Atlas and the
1984: Paper
Presentation, "Rewriting
1981-82: Research Associate, UCSB, Los Alamos
Scientific Laboratory and
1980: Administrative
Assistant to Gordon E. Baker, Summer Seminar on reapportionment, National Endowment
for the Humanities.
1978-82: Undergraduate
Political Science and Public Service Advisor, UCSB. Duties included advising approximately 500
majors and placing
and supervising students in federal, state, and local
internships.
1977-78: Research
Assistant,
University/Community Service (not current)
1989-Present: Member two or more departmental or college
committees at NAU.
1993-96 & 98-2000:
Member, NAU, SBS Promotion and Tenure Committee
1993-95: Member AWRA
Publications Committee
1992-93: Member, NAU,
SBS Senate Budget Review Committee
1992: Vice-Presidents
Planning Committee, NAU
1992: Member,
1991: NAU Honors Week
Organizing Committee
1991: Consultant
"Improvements to the Williams Ski Area"
1990: Wrote successful
proposal for NAU to host the Council for Excellence in Government program. NAU was among the seven
universities selected from 145 applicants.
1991-96: Chair, Water
Advisory Committee,
1990-91: Vice Chair,
Water Advisory Committee,
1989-90: Consultant, Coconino National Forest,
Fisher-Campbell Saw timber Sale, Environmental Assessment ID Team
1989-90: Director,
Master's of Public Administration Program, Northern
director).
1989-97: Member, NAU,
1989-90: Member, NAU,
Department of Political Science, Graduate Work
Committee.
1989-present: Member,
NAU, MPA Committee (chair 1989-90).
1989-96: Member,
Advisory Committee,
1987-89: Director,
1986-89: UHH campus
coordinator, Environmental Policy and Political Economy Certificate.
1986-89: UHH campus
coordinator, Public Administration and Public Service Certificate Program.
Various: Environmental
Impact Statement Workshops
1988-89: President,
UHH
1988-89: Chairperson,
UHH Department of Political Science and Sociology.
1988-89: Member, UH
Council of Faculty Senate Chairs.
1988-89: Member,
Executive Committee, UHH Council
1988-89: Member,
Executive Committee,
1987-89: UHH
representative to UH President's System-wide Policy Committee
1987-88: UHH
Telecommunications Committee
1987-88: Social
Sciences Division Personnel Committee
1986-88: UHH Academic
Affairs Committee (Chairman 1987-88)
1986-89: Master of
Administration Development Committee (Chair)
1985-86: OU Graduate
Committee
1985-86: OU
Professional Development Committee
1984-86: UHH
Curriculum Review Committee
In addition to these formal
committee assignments I have served on numerous ad hoc committees for personnel
matters and curriculum development. I
often work with local government officials and regularly speak to community
organizations.
Political Experience
1996-98: Member
Elected to
Intern,
California Assemblyman Paul Carpenter, 1975.
Campaign Involvement: Prop. 20 (1972-Coastal Protection); Woods for
Honors, Grants, and Professional Organizations
Member: ASPA, APSA,
WPSA, WSSA, and American Water Resources
Association.
1990-92 HUD Community Development Work Study Grant (to support
MPA graduate students).
($198,000)
1990-present: Who's
Who in
1988-present: Who's
Who in the World
1988: UH President's
Instructional Improvement Development Grant.
($3,000)
1987-present: Who's
Who of Emerging Leaders in
1987: UH Office of
Research Administration Research Grant.
($4,670)
1986-present: Who's
Who in the American West
1984: UH Office of
Research Administration, Academic Development
Grant. ($4,500)
Dean's
List, two-and-a-half years,
References
David
Schlosberg (Department Chair 2005)
David
Schlosberg@nau.edu
Carol
Thompson (Former Chair)
Carol.thompson@nau.edu
Dan Cothran
Dan.cothran@nau.edu
Robert
Poirier
Robert.poirier@nau.edu
Department of Political Science
Northern
(928)523-3163
Daniel
McCool
Department
of Political Sceince
Director,
center for the Study of the American West
dan.mccool@poli-sci.utah.edu
William
R. Mangun
Distinguished
Professor
Department
of Political Science
and Coastal Resources Management
mangunw@mail.ecu.edu
A. Didrick Castberg (Political Science Chair)
College
of Arts and Sciences
castberg@hawaii.edu