Professor of Political Science, Director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities

European Environmental Policy
EU Public Policy
European Civil Society Environment in the New Europe
European Federalism
Public Participation in Policy
Resource Economies and Environmental Sociology

“Watershed Management and Public Health: An Exploration of the Intersection of Two Fields as Reported in the Literature from 2000 to 2010” with M. Bunch, H. Venema, K. Morrison, M. Parkes & C. Neudoerffer in Environmental Management. August 2014, Vol. 54, No. 2 pp. 240-254

“Evaluation of the living with hope program for rural women caregivers of persons with advanced cancer” w/ Duggleby, W. W., Williams, A., Holtslander, L, Thomas, R., Cooper, D., Eby, J. in BMC Palliative Care 12:36.URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-684X/12/3 (2013) (co-author)

“Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment: What are the Big Questions?” A. Boxall et al. (second author) in Environmental Health Perspectives. Vol 120, No. 9 September 2012. pp. 1221-1229 (online May 31 2012)

“Participatory Watershed Management: A Case Study from Maritime Canada” with N. Guehlstorf, in Journal of Environmental Practice. Vol. 14, Issue 2, June 2012 pp. 143-153. (co-author)‘Top 40’ conservation science research priorities for Canadian policy and management” with M. Rudd., Beazley K., Cooke S.J. and others in Conservation Biology (accepted Summer 2010)

"Integrated Governance for Water, Health and Social-Ecological Systems: A framework for converging research and policy" in Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions with Margot Parkes, Martin Bunch, Karen Morrison, Cynthia Neudorffer, Henry Venema. 20 (2010) 693-704.

“Public Policy and the Welfare State in Canada” in Dennis Raphael (ed.) The Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives (2nd ed.), Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. 2008.

“Risk, Culture, and the Regulation of Genetically Engineered Corn in the USA and European Union” with N. Guehlstorf; in Environmental Science and Policy. Fall 2005. Vol. 8. No. 4.

“Gendering Governance? Civility and the Gender Gap in Poland” in Canadian-American Slavic Studies. Fall 2005. Vol. 39, No. 4

“Environmental Movements in East Central Europe: Between Technocracy and the ‘Third Way’" in Leatherman, J. & Webber, J. ed. Charting Transnational Democracy: Beyond Global Arrogance. Palgrave MacMillan Press. 2005.

"Eurocratizing Enlargement? EU Elites and NGO Participation in European Environmental Policy" in Carmin, J & Vandeveer, S. (ed.) EU Enlargement and the Environment: Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. pp. 175-193. Routledge Press, 2004.

Board Member, Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health, 2008 - present
Expert Consultant, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada. 2007 – 2008.
Member, Theme Working Group Two for the Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan
Founding Member, International Consortium for Global Health, 2006 - present
Expert Panelist, Health Canada Health Policy and Research Program, 2006
Member, Canadian Reference Group on the Social Determinants of Health, WHO Commission for the Social Determinants of Health, 2006 – 2008
National Collaborating Centres for Public Health Leads, 2006 - 2007
(CHHS-AP) 2007-08

Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities University of Alberta

Ph.D. – Political Science (Comparative Politics Aug. 1996 - Aug. 2001) Purdue University (USA)
M.A. – Political Science (Comparative Politics) May 1998
B.A. – Political Science (International Relations) University of Calgary Sep. 1991 – Apr. 1994
Minor: Economics Lancaster University (UK) Oct. 1994 – Jul. 1995

Political Science 100 – Introduction to Political Science. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 101 – Introduction to American Government. Purdue University Political Science 210 – Comparative Politics. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 223 – Introduction to Environmental Policy. Purdue University Political Science 230 – American Politics. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 250 – World Politics. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 310 – European Politics. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 342 – Canadian Public Policy. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 344 - Politics of Citizenship and Identity. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 347 – Politics of the Environment Political Science 355 – Global Issues. St. Francis Xavier University Political Science 442 – Senior Seminar in Public Policy, St. Francis Xavier University. Political Science 492 - Topics in Political Science: Church, State, and Secularism in Comparative Perspective. St. Francis Xavier University Nursing 661 – Independent Study - Environmental Policy, University of Alberta Nursing 661b – Independent Study – Environmental Policy and Health, University of Alberta

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