Instrumental in establishing the School's Environmental Justice Program that focuses on the differential impact of environmental contaminants on people of color and low-income communities; Founder and Director of the Environmental Justice Initiative for research and retrieval/dissemination conferences and policy briefings. Research and conferences include both a domestic and international foci, particularly on climate justice. Teaching portfolio includes: Introduction to Environmental Justice (Environ. 222), Conception, Practical Issues and Dilemmas in Environmental Justice (SNRE 582), and the Masters Project/NRE 701.

Jonathon Bulkley is the Peter M. Wege Professor of Sustainable Systems, and he holds a joint appointment with the College of Engineering.

Teaching efforts are concentrated in water policy, risk-benefit analysis, and case studies in natural resources. Research concentrates on the development and application of both quantitative and qualitative means to help policy makers and decision makers attain improved planning, evaluation, and management of natural resources, especially water resources. Recently, research interests have expanded to include curriculum development for effective teaching of sustainale systems concepts to a wide range of disciplines.

Research Interests:

My area of research is energy and power, and I use methods from stochastic modeling, system identification, dynamics and control. Three application areas encompass my work: power management; modeling and control of aggregated storage devices; and energy technology impact assessment. My current research can be summarized in five projects:

Tom Gladwin is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and he holds a joint appointment with the Ross School of Business.

Professor Gladwin's research focuses on the intersection of environmentalism and globalism in relation to the behavior of industrial corporations. He has published extensively-more than 125 publications-on the theme that the challenges of environmental sustainability and economic globalization are probably the two most profound forces shaping human destiny. This theme is a vital and challenging one, and one to which Gladwin speaks provocatively. At the core of Gladwin's research is the idea that the reintegration of humanity with nature is necessary if organizational science is to support ecologically and socially sustainable development.

Research interests include the incentives associated with pollution policies in a variety of contexts, the distributional effects of environmental programs, policy analysis, and a range of environmental issues. Much of my work has examined the effects of different pollution control instruments, especially the use of incentives compared to standards, in various settings, ranging from theory to empirical applications, from agricultural runoff to ground-level ozone. My interests include the distributional effects of environmental policies, and I have at times dabbled in issues relating to management of federally owned lands. I have found economics a very useful paradigm for examining human behavior in relationship to the environment and for suggesting means to correct destructive activities.

Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise; a position that holds joint appointments at the School of Natural Resources & Environment and the Ross School of Business. His research focuses on corporate strategies that address environmental and social issues.  His disciplinary background lies in the areas of organziational behavior, institutional change, negotiations and change management.  He has published seven books and opver seventy articles. Prior to academics, he worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency, Metcalf & Eddy, the Amoco Corporation, and T&T Construction and Design, Inc. In 2004, he was a Senior Fellow with the Meridian Institute.

Teaching interests include competitive environmental strategy, strategies for sustainable development, organizational behavior, negotiations, green construction, and organizational change

Dr. Keoleian co-founded and serves as co-director of the Center for Sustainable Systems. His research focuses on the development and application of life cycle models and metrics to enhance the sustainability of products and technology.

Teaching and research in evolutionary and behavioral ecology; resource control and reproductive success in vertebrates, including humans; integration of evolutionary theory and resource management; resources and reproductive variance; reproductive and resource tradeoffs for modern women.

Tom Lyon is the Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, and serves as Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise.

Research and teaching interests include corporate environmental strategy; government regulation of business; industrial organization; and energy and the environment.

Michael Moore's teaching involves courses in natural resource and environmental economics. His research interests include analysis of federal water policy and water allocation conflicts between environmental and consumptive uses of river systems; economic aspects of biodiversity and species conservation; and economics of environmental markets, including markets for green products (such as green electricity) and markets for pollution permits (such as the federal SO2 allowance market).

Ted Parson holds a joint appointment with the School of Law. His interests include environmental policy, particularly its international dimensions; the political economy of regulation; the role of science and technology in public issues; and the analysis of negotiations, collective decisions, and conflicts. His recent research has included projects on scientific and technical assessment in international policy-making; the policy implications of carbon-cycle management; the design of international market-based policy instruments; and development of policy exercises, simulation-gaming, and related novel methods for assessment and policy analysis.

My areas of teaching include Field Ecology, a graduate seminar in conservation biology (Conservation in Fragmented Landscapes), and an undergraduate course on sustainable development and globalization (Our Common Future). My research focuses on trophic interactions in tropical agroecosystems and ecological succession in tropical regions.

My current research examines the function of biological diversity in the coffee agroecosystem in Southern Mexico.

Research focus

Issues of social and ecological sustainability with a primary focus on the drivers of overconsumption and the conditions for restrained resource use.  

Courses taught

Graduate

Principles for Sustainability: From the Local to the Global

Food and Water: Research Questions at the Base of the Economy

Localization: Adaptations for the 80% Downshift

Undergraduate

Global Water

Barry Rabe holds a joint appointment with the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy and is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.  He is also a faculty associate and former director of the Program in the Environment. During the 2008-09 academic year, he will be a visiting professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.  Rabe has published widely on issues of state, local and intergovernmental involvement across a range of environmental issues.  Much of his recent work has examined "bottom-up" approaches to climate change, with particular emphasis on the expanding state government role in this area.  In 2007, he received the Daniel Elazar Award for Career Contribution to the Study of Federalism from the American Political Science Association.  In 2006, he received a Climate Protection Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency.   His most recent book is STATEHOUSE AND GREENHOUSE: THE EMERGING POLITICS OF AMERICAN CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY (Brookings, 2004).

My courses are largely case-based and discussion-oriented. They examine different dimensions of environmental decision-making in organizations, agencies and society in the face of conflict. Specific course topics include: Environmental Dispute Resolution; Collaborative Ecosystem Management; Negotiation and Mediation; and Environmental Organizations.

Research interests focus on testing and enhancing human behavior, decision, and persuasion theories in environmental education and communication (especially risk) contexts applying structural equation modeling, meta-analysis and case studies. Most current studies focus on evaluating environmental education resources and programs.