Degrees

B.A. Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

About

Ecological anthropologist; over twelve years field experience in Indonesia and Pakistan with the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the East-West Center, USAID, Stanford University, and the Winrock Institute; current research and teaching interests (1) the theory of sustainable development and resource-use, (2) biodiversity and human society, (3) contemporary and historical environmental relations in South and Southeast Asia, (4) human use of tropical forests and grasslands, (5) resource-based linkage of local communities to global systems, (6) the study of developmental and environmental institutions, discourses, and movements, (7) the sociology of resource-related sciences.

Topics

• Ecology, Ecosystems and Biodiversity
• Forestry, Forest Science and Management
• Social Ecology of Conservation and Development