Publications 

A. Peter Castro, Associate Professor of Anthropology has co-edited Climate Change and Threatened Communities:  Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action. Practical Action Publishing

Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. This book argues that planners and researchers of climate change mitigation and adaptation must take into account the knowledge and capacity of rural people, and engage them as active participants in the design and governance of interventions, not as a matter of courtesy, but because it is their right. Furthermore, inclusion of local communities in genuine partnership will likely make climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts more effective.  Climate Change and Threatened Communities presents 15 case studies and a variety of approaches to document the capacities and constraints to be encountered among communities facing changing climates in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.

Farhana Sultana, Assistant Professor of Geography has co-edited, The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles published by Routledge. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims.

  Isidor Wallimann, PARCC Visiting Research Professor edited Social Policy According to the Polluter Pays Principle: Examples of Application in the Field of Addiction, Obesity, Abuse of Medicine, Unemployment, Prostitution. Published in German http://www.kleine-verlag.de/, the book is based on his previous (theoretical) publication exploring the potential for applying the polluter-pays principle to social policy and problem management. The application in social policy is strongly influenced by the tradition to apply the polluter-pays principle in environmental policy.

Brechin, Steven R. “Comment in Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change.” National Science Foundation Workshop Report, June 2009.

McShane, T., Hirsch, P. et al. Hard Choices: Making Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-being. Biological Conservation.

Hirsch, Paul D., William M. Adams, J. Peter Brosius, Asim Zia, Nino Bariola, Juan Luis Dammert.  "Acknowledging Conservation Trade-Offs and Embracing Complexity," Conservation Biology, Vol. 25, Issue 2, 259-264, April 2011.   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01608.x/abstract

Hirsch, P., W Adams, JP Brosius, A Zia, N Bariola, JL Dammert. Acknowledging Trade-offs, Embracing Complexities: A Challenge for Conservation.

Hirsch, Paul and Bryan Norton. Thinking Like a Planet. In Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, eds., The Virtues of the Future: Restoration, Climate Change and the Challenge of Adapting Humanity (The MIT Press, 2011). 

 Bozeman, B., Slade, C., and Hirsch, P. 2009. Understanding Bureaucracy in Health Science Ethics: Why Can’t We Build a Better IRB? American Journal of Public Health.

O’Leary, Rosemary (2009). “Environmental Policy in the Courts.” Environmental Policy, 7th Edition, Norman Vig and Michael Kraft (eds.). Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, pp. 125-147.

 Sultana, Farhana (2010).  “Living in Hazardous Waterscapes: Gendered Vulnerabilities and Experiences of Floods and Disasters” Environmental Hazards, Vol. 9, no. 1:43-53. 

Sultana, Farhana (2009).  “Fluid Lives: Gender, Subjectivity and Water Management” Special Issue on ‘Gender Geographies of Water.’ Gender, Place, and Culture, Vol. 16, no. 4:427-444. 

Sultana, Farhana with K. O’Reilly, N. Laurie, and S. Halvorson (2009). “Gender Geographies of Water” Special Issue on ‘Gender Geographies of Water.’ Gender, Place, and Culture Vol. 16, no. 4: 381-385.

 Sultana, Farhana (2009).  “Community and Participation in Water Resources Management: Gendering and Naturing Development Debates from Bangladesh.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 34 no.3:346-363.