Daniel Miller

Doctoral Track: 
Resource Policy and Behavior (RPB)
Entering year: 
2007

Research interests include the politics of international biodiversity conservation, the social impacts of conservation, social dimensions of climate change adaptation, and the role of donors in shaping conservation and development outcomes. Dissertation research examines the relationship between biodiversity conservation and the capacity of rural communities to adapt in the face of climate change in the W Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger).

Email: 
dcmille@umich.edu
Committee Chair/Advisor: 

Arun Agrawal

Committee Members: 

Rebecca Hardin, Maria Carmen Lemos (SNRE); Kent Redford (Wildlife Conservation Society/Columbia University)

Educational Background: 

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Natural Resources & Environment, expected April 2012

M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Political Science, May 1999

B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Political Science, Minor in French, May 1997

weblinks: 
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/danielcmiller
Areas of interest: 

Politics of international conservation and development; social impacts of conservation in the face of climate change, esp. in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger).   For more information, see: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/danielcmiller