Social Sciences and Humanities
Peluso, Nancy
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 3:35pm.Name:
Nancy Peluso
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Nancy Peluso and her students conduct research on the social processes that affect the management of land-based and coastal resources. Her work explores various dimensions of resource access, use, and control, while contrasting local, national, and international influences on management structures and processes.
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ESPM, Professor
Huntsinger, Lynn
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 3:11pm.Name:
Lynn Huntsinger
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Lynn Huntsinger's research addresses resource management as a shaper of landscapes, with consequences for ecosystems and people. A second major area of her research is rooted in the idea that ecological change brought about by resource management can influence social relationships and cultural practice.
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ESPM, Professor
Hass, Robert
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 3:04pm.Name:
Robert Hass
Research Interests:
20th-Century American Literature. Creative Writing. Poetry. Professor Hass works on contemporary American poetry and translation; he has also been interested recently in environmental history and literature.
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English, Professor
Fortmann, Louise
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 2:42pm.Name:
Louise Fortmann
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Louise Fortmann studies the outcomes of natural resource use and management for individuals and for communities. Her research focuses on addressing questions of gender, property, poverty, community control of natural resources, and knowledge production.
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ESPM, Professor
Carr, Claudia
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:56pm.Name:
Claudia Carr
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Claudia Carr is primarily involved in research concerning alternative types of rural development policies in terrestrial (especially drylands and river basin environments) and coastal and offshore resources in the ‘Third World.’
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ESPM, Associate Professor
O'Rourke, Dara
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:39pm.Name:
Dara O'Rourke
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Dara O'Rourke's current research analyzes systems for regulating the environmental and social impacts of industrial activities. Through a range of projects, he has been examining trends in industrial development, and state, firm, and community responses to adverse impacts of industrialization.
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Dara O’Rourke interests are in governmental and non-governmental strategies for monitoring and accountability over global production systems, and new models of public participation in environmental and labor policy regulation. In particular, he works on on several projects that analyze participatory strategies for environmental planning and regulation. He has on-going research in Vietnam on processes of "Community-Driven Regulation". He is also interested in new community initiatives around environmental justice concerns in the US. He is author of Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam (MIT Press, 2004)
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ESPM, Professor
Ray, Isha
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 1:29pm.Name:
Isha Ray
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Politics and economics of water, on-farm water use, common property resource management, transnational river conflicts and access to water for the rural and urban poor – especially in developing countries. Isha Ray teaches courses on research methods in the social sciences, and on development and environment studies.
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Isha Ray’s research interests are the politics and economics of access to water in developing countries, technology and development, common property resource management and social science research methods. She has research experience on problems of drinking water as well as irrigation management in India, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Mexico. She also has extensive work experience in the non-profit sector on sustainable rural development in India, and on international water-and-development problems. Professor Ray serves on the advisory committee of several water and development related NGOs and on the editorial committee of Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
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Energy and Resources Group, Assistant Professor
Roy, Ananya
Submitted by cmjones on February 27, 2007 - 12:58pm.Name:
Ananya Roy
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Ananya Roy's current research project is entitled Povertyscape: The New Global Order of Aid, Debt, and Development
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Ananya Roy is the author of City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (Lexington Books, 2004). Her current research project is entitled Povertyscape: The New Global Order of Aid, Debt, and Development (Routledge, forthcoming). The project has already received several prestigious awards including the Hellman Faculty Award and the Prytanean Faculty Award, the latter being a research and leadership award given to one junior woman faculty member on the UC Berkeley campus each year. Roy teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and international development. She currently serves as chair of the undergraduate Urban Studies major.
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City and Regional Planning, Associate Professor
Dowall, David
Submitted by cmjones on February 27, 2007 - 12:56pm.Name:
David Dowall
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David Dowall's research has focused on both domestic and international land management, housing policy, economic development strategy and infrastructure planning and finance.
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City planning professor David Dowall assumed leadership of the IURD in 2004. He has worked with IURD since joining the Berkeley faculty in 1976. Over the years, his research has focused on both domestic and international land management, housing policy, economic development strategy and infrastructure planning and finance. Internationally, Dowall has carried out policy research and designed technical and financial assistance strategies for cities and regions in over 40 countries. Although he is known for his empirical and analytical work on urban land economics and infrastructure finance, he has spent over 20 years working with governments and nongovernmental organizations on neighborhood and urban development projects. He is author of Spatial Transformation in Cities of the Developing World: Multinucleation and Land-Capital Substitution in Bogota, Colombia (IURD, 1990).
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City and Regional Planning, Professor
Hsing, You-Tien
Submitted by cmjones on February 27, 2007 - 12:49pm.Name:
You-Tien Hsing
Research Interests:
You-tien Hsing's research and teaching has been focused on political economy of development in East Asia and China. She has published works on cultural-historical processes of capital flows in East Asia. She is now working on the territorial politics of land and state-society dynamism in Chinese cities and rural towns
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Hsing’s research and teaching has been focused on the political economy of development in East Asia, especially China. Her book, Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) analyzes the cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment in southern China in the 1990s. In the last few years she extended this work in two directions. The first one concerns the politics of growth in Chinese cities and towns. In her upcoming book temporarily entitled The Politics of Land Development in Chinese Cities, Hsing discusses the issue of land rights and the territorial power consolidation of the local state in China’s late socialist transformation. The second project, which she started this year, focuses on telecommunication as a technological, political-economic, as well as social-cultural platform in China’s interaction with the global.
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Geography, Assistant Professor
