Bonnie McCay

Graduate Certificate Director

Cook Office Building, Room 207
848-932-9232
mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu

Human Dimensions of Environmental Change

A Graduate Certificate Program

AT RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS

Featuring: faculty and students from Agricultural Economics, Anthropology, Ecology and Evolution, Environmental Sciences, Geography, History, Landscape Architecture, Marine Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Sociology, Urban Policy and Planning, and other graduate programs at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and at the School of Biological Sciences

Rutgers University's Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, on the New Brunswick campus, offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate program on the human dimensions of environmental change. The result of collaboration among faculty from a number of graduate programs, this certificate program allows students to pursue a concentration in the social, cultural, economic, historical, planning and other human dimensions of environmental change while carrying out a regular program of studies in one of the existing graduate programs.

The program helps graduate students gain access to the outstanding resources available at Rutgers in areas such as environmental policy and economics, land use, marine conservation, natural resources management, conservation ecology, political ecology, GIS, climate change, ecological risk and environmental communication, environmental planning and management, natural hazards, environmental history, sociology, anthropology, and more.

Students who fulfill the following requirements will receive a certificate, signifying special achievement in the field:

1. Seminar on the Human Dimensions of Environmental Change (16:378:501)

A multidisciplinary course which surveys the human dimensions of environmental problems and the full range of disciplinary approaches used to study these problems.

2. Topics Seminar (16:378:502)

Each year this seminar focuses on a particular aspect of environmental problems, such as ecological risk, modeling and climate change, culture and environment in frontier regions, marine conservation policy, or institutional approaches to commons problems. Please consult the Graduate Director for information on the offering in any particular year. These courses are usually cross-listed with other courses being offered.

3. At least one of the courses listed below or similar courses from outside the student's own graduate program:*


For more information about the Certificate Program in Human Dimensions of Environmental Change or a list of participating faculty contact the Graduate Program Director.

For questions concerning admission for graduate study, or for application materials and information, please contact the Office of Graduate Admissions:
web: http://gradstudy.rutgers.edu
email: gradadm@rci.rutgers.edu
phone: 732.932.7711

Participating Faculty

Clinton Andrews, Urban Planning and Policy Development Department. Environmental Policy.
Joanna Burger, Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department, Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program. Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Ecological Risk; Fishing, Consumption and Risk; Behavioral Toxicology; Environmental Attitudes.
Caron Chess, Center for Environmental Communication and Human Ecology Department. Risk Communication and Public Participation.
Lee Clarke, Sociology Department and Graduate Program. Risks, Hazards and Disasters
David Ehrenfeld, Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department. Ecology & Evolution Graduate Program. Conservation Ecology, Technology and Environment.
Joan Ehrenfeld, Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department. Ecology & Evolution, Environmental Sciences Graduate Programs. Director, Water Resources Research Institute. Ecosystems Ecology, Wetland Ecology, Restoration Ecology.
Frank Fischer, Political Science Department, Rutgers Newark. Citizen participation in science.
Judith Friedman, Sociology Department and Graduate Program. Urban Environments, Suburbanization, Landscapes.
Michael Gochfeld, Environmental and Community Medicine. Public Health Graduate Program. Public Health, Environmental Risk, Health Effects of Contaminants.
William Goldfarb, Environmental Sciences Department, Environmental Science Graduate Program. Environmental Law and Policy, Water Law.
Michael Greenberg, Urban Studies Department, Geography Graduate Program. Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health Institute, Public Health Program.
William Hallman, Human Ecology Department, Psychology Graduate Program. Community Psychology, Risk Perception.
Jean Marie Hartman, Landscape Architecture Department, Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program. Landscape Change.
Dorothy Hodgson, Anthropology Department and Graduate Program. Gender, Ethnicity, Environment and Development, Africa.
Briavel Holcomb, Urban Studies Department, Geography Graduate Program. Tourism.
David McDermott Hughes, Human Ecology Department. Environmental Justice, Development, Southern Africa.
R. Daniel Keleman, Political Science Department. European Union Environmental Policy, Comparative Environmental Policy and Trade-Environment Conflicts.
Robert W. Lake, Center for Urban Policy Research. Environmental Politics, Sustainable Development, Locational Conflict.
Richard Lathrop, Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department and Graduate Program, Geography Graduate Program. Remote Sensing/GIS, Landscape Change.
Bonnie McCay, Human Ecology Department, Anthropology, Geography, and Ecology Graduate Programs. Fisheries Conservation and Common Property Resource Management.
James Miller, Marine and Coastal Sciences Department, Oceanography and Environmental Sciences Graduate Programs. Earth System Science and Climate Modeling.
J. Kenneth Mitchell, Geography Department and Graduate Program. Natural Hazards Research and Policy.
George E.B. Morren, Jr., Human Ecology Department, Anthropology and Ecology Graduate Programs. Social Responses; Conservation Ecology in Tropical Areas; Soft Systems Analysis.
George Nieswand, Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department, Bioresource Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Geography Graduate Programs; Grant Walton Remote Sensing Center. Systems Analysis/Systems Thinking, Land Use Planning/Growth Management, Watershed Management.
Karl Nordstrom, Institute of Marine/Coastal Sciences, Marine Science Department, Geography Graduate Program. Coastal Geomorphology and Policy.
Karen O'Neill, Human Ecology Department..Sociology Graduate Program. Environmental Policy, Political Sociology.
Peter Parks, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Department and Graduate Program. Environmental Economics.
Steward Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Urban Ecological Studies, Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program. Forest and Conservation Ecology.
Frank Popper, Urban Studies Department, Geography and Urban Planning Graduate Programs. Land Use Policy.
Carl Pray, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Department and Graduate Program. International Agricultural Development and Science and Technology Policy.
Kevin St. Martin, Geography Department and Graduate Program. Coastal and Fisheries Policy, Community and the Commons, GIS Applications.