Research and Teaching Interests: Development, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Water, Population, Migration, Culture
His research empirically examines population and environment as aspects of development in the context of globalization. Most of his work is international in scope, and longitudinal and comparative in design.
On the population side, he is investigating international migration as both a cause and consequence of development dynamics in an increasingly inter-connected world.
He leads courses on international development and social change, environment and society, international migration, rural development, and principles of sociology.
I am especially interested in understanding the relations between people and the ecosphere in the context of globalization – the social processes integrating economies, polities, and cultures into an increasingly shared, but contested, space.
Much of my other research focuses on international migration.
I am a social scientist working at the multiple intersections of population and environment. I am interested in the human dimensions of environmental change, and the environmental causes and consequences of social change. My recent projects examine how social structures influence groundwater management at multiple scales (community to global; how social factors affect the adoption of irrigation technologies; how culture influences perceptions of the science, knowledge, and information used to make decisions about agricultural adaptations; and when, how, why, and where global change interacts with national, regional, and local social structures to encourage or constrain people’s decisions to migrate.
Research:
- Development, environment, water, agriculture and food, migration and population, political economy/ecology.
