Environmental Politics and Policy
My work addresses several dimensions of environmental politics and policy, with a generally US-based geographic focus. For a long time I have been interested in understanding the potential that local and participatory politics has for environmental management and protection. Topically, I work mostly on resource conservation issues, although I am also very interested in the policy questions that arise over industrial pollution and resource consumption. I am currently working on several projects, including:
- A co-authored book on changes in conservation politics and policy in the state of California.

- A comparative study of the environmental impacts from manufacturing in Europe and the US.

For Prospective Graduate Students:

Getting a Ph.D. is a great privilege and a lot of fun; I like working with students who want to be doing this work above all else and are thus deeply engaged. That engagement is all the more critical, given that we are a relatively new program at a small, public university ˆ and always facing budgetary constraints. These factors mean that 1) we admit very few graduate students, and so the fit between applicants and the program must be very close, and 2) new graduate students should be ready to jump into research design and fundraising.

Substantively, I am best able to support graduate work in conservation and/or green manufacturing politics and policy, preferably with a US focus, but by no means exclusively. I have had (and continue to have) several graduate students who did their work overseas (and I am embarking on comparisons with Europe). I also feel best able to advise students whose work will be theoretically-driven, but empirically-tested. In research epistemology terms, I would describe myself as a positivist, primarily, but one with a healthy regard for the more critical (or post-positivist) research traditions. I strongly recommend that you contact me and other faculty if you have a serious interest in applying to our doctoral program.

Industry, Environmental Policy and Environmental Outcomes. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 32, 2007.

Saving Open Space: The Politics of Local Preservation in California, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

"Conservation Easements as a Conservation Strategy: Is There a Sense to the Spatial Distribution of Easements?" (with Christopher Yuan-Farrell, Michelle Marvier, and Peter Kareiva), Natural Areas Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 , pp. 282-289, 2005.

"Who Votes for Natural Resources in California?" Society and Natural Resources, Vol. 16, pp. 835-846, 2003.

Press, Daniel and Daniel A. Mazmanian."The Greening of Industry: Combining Government Regulation and Voluntary Strategies," in Norman Vig and Michael Kraft (eds), Environmental Policy: New Directions for the 21st Century, 6th edition, Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2006.