Assistant Extension Specialist
Research Interests:
Public perceptions of food risks; communication about foodborne illness; emergency preparedness among vulnerable populations; food access and the homebound elderly
Professor
Research Interests:
Cultural analyses of psychiatric epidemiology; the integration of cultural syndromes into psychiatric epidemiology and clinical research; cultural competence in mental health services research; processes of culture change among immigrants
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Professor
Research Interests:
Risk perception and risk communication, public policy related to food safety, food security, and public perceptions of controversial issues concerning food, technology, health, and the environment.
Teaching Instructor
Research Interests:
How to enhance science and data literacy skills to support a science literate society
Associate Professor (also in Africana Studies)
Research Interests:
African American health; neighborhoods; urban inequality; race and racism
Assistant Teaching Professor
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests:
Social impacts of climate change mitigation/adaptation; political ecology of natural resource management- emphasis on community forestry; indigenous land rights; non-timber forest products and agroforestry; sprawl, green spaces, and urban forestry; environmental risk communication
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Biodiversity; climate change; environmental change
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests:
Science in the mass media; visual science; culture and science; rhetoric of science, informal science education, museums and science centers
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
urban environmental planning and policy, household sewage services, environmental governance, political ecology, urbanization
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
environmental restoration policy, watershed management, local land development policies, flood control, state building and private interests, policy history
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Governance of natural resources and the environment through international, regional, national and local law
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Biology
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Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
local and regional food systems; environmental justice and food sovereignty; ethical consumption; social movements; interdisciplinarity; sustainability in higher education
Associate Professor and Grad. Cert. Director
Research Interests:
How production and consumption systems have and can change to mitigate and adapt to the risks; realities of environmental change, particularly climate change
Associate Professor of Practice
Research Interests:
Water resources management, regional environmental management, watershed management, water utility management, sustainability.
Faculty Emeriti
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
China, water resources, dam projects
Professor Emerita
Research Interests:
Public participation; risk communication; undergraduate education
UNDERGRADUATE DIRECTOR
Retired
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
Inculcating sustainability into the Rutgers experience for undergraduates, investigating the gamification of sustainability actions. Investigating the effect of the arts on the culture of sustainability. Improving planning for recovery from large scale nuclear or radiological incidents.
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor
Research Interests:
Marine and coastal ecosystems and communities; the institutional aspects of adapting to and managing commercial fisheries
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Sustainable Development, Environmental Sociology, Land Transformations, Deforestation, Forest Transitions, Latin America
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Explaining human actions and environmental changes; successes and failures in interdisciplinarity
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Risk perceptions (including optimistic biases about risk), risk communication, and health-related behavior