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Margaret I. Fitzsimmons Home  Directory Margaret I. Fitzsimmons
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Margaret I. Fitzsimmons
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Professor; Associate Director, Monterey Bay Regional Studies Program |
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Faculty Member |
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fitzsim@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-3525 Office |
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417 NS2 |
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Fall 2009;1:30-2:30, Monday & By Appt. |
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Environmental Policy
Social and spatial aspects of environmental change, development and regulation of primary sector activities (agriculture and forestry), the regional integration of environmental planning and resource management institutions in urban and rural settings.
Margaret FitzSimmons joined the faculty of the Department of Environmental Studies from UCLA, where she was associate professor and coordinator of the environmental analysis and policy area in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her research addresses the social and spatial aspects of environmental change, examining the interaction among cultural and political values, economic institutions, government, and environment. It is focused particularly on two topical areas: (1) the development and regulation of primary-sector activities (agriculture or forestry); and (2) the regional integration of environmental planning and resource management institutions in urban and rural settings. She also studies the role of disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses in the discussion of environmental problems.
FitzSimmons's current students are studying the development of social, political, and economic institutions that structure human-environment interactions, including the origins of the strategies of milk regulation that currently moderate the U.S. dairy industry; the importance of urbanism in management of the Amazon frontier of Brazil; the role of a regional "culture of conservation" in the establishment of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; the importance of alternative culture and ecological philosophy in the rise of Central Coast organic farming; and the influence of social constructions of science in the struggle over toxic risk and environmental justice. |
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Social and spatial aspects of environmental change, development and regulation of primary sector activities (agriculture and forestry), the regional integration of environmental planning and resource management institutions in urban and rural settings. |
| Education History | |
B.A., Stanford University, 1968 (Psychology)
M.A., California State University, Northridge, 1975 (Geography)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983 (Geography)
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| Selected Publications | |
FitzSimmons, M. I., and D. Goodman. Forthcoming. "Incorporating nature: Environmental narratives and the reproduction of food." In N. Castree and B. Wilhelms-Braun (eds.), The Production of Nature at the End of the Twentieth Century. London and New York: Routledge.
FitzSimmons, M. I., and R. Gottlieb. 1996. "Bounding and binding metropolitan space: The ambiguous politics of nature in Los Angeles." In A. J. Scott, E. Soja, and R. Weinstein (eds.), The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
FitzSimmons, M. I., J. Glaser, R. Monte Mor, S. Pincetl, and S. C. Rajan. 1991. "Environmentalism and the liberal state." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2(1):1-16.
FitzSimmons, M. I., and R. Gottlieb. 1991. Thirst for Growth: Accountability and Innovation in Public Water Agencies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
FitzSimmons, M. I. 1990. "The social and environmental relations of U.S. agricultural regions." In P. Lowe, T. Marsden, and S. Whatmore (eds.), Technological Change and the Rural Environment. London: David Fulton.
–––––. 1989. "The matter of nature." Antipode 21(2):106-120.
–––––. 1986. "The new industrial agriculture: The regional integration of specialty crop production."Economic Geography 62(4):334Ð353.
–––––. 1985. "Hidden philosophies: How geographic thought is limited by its theoretical models." Geoforum 16(2):139Ð149. |
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