I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Affairs and Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington, where I study a wide range of topics centered around the environment. My core research program focuses on environmental policy and management, asking questions about how we can best organize and govern socio-ecological systems to ensure sustainable, effective, and just outcomes. There is no reason why we, as a society, should resign ourselves to the evaporation of environmental systems around us, but understanding how to respond requires identification of problems, understanding of the social interactions we have with them, and careful consideration of how we organize our management responses.

In search of answers to these questions, I study a wide variety of different policy topics, including the organizational processes directing conservation management, environmental justice in natural and built environments, and the policy processes guiding change. If my work enables us to do just a little better: to despoil a little less of the world around us, to disenfranchise a few less people of their environmental rights, or to undermine a small proportion of the ecosystems we rely on, then I will consider myself succesful.