Current Faculty
Ken Genskow
"My interests address issues of environmental planning and policy, watershed planning, and collaborative and participatory approaches to resource management. My research and applied work have explored the evaluation and assessment of collaborative watershed management, watershed governance, and the effectiveness of educational and technical assistance programs on land management."
Aslı Göçmen
"My primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of urban environmental sustainability, the role of planners in promoting environmental stewardship, and the application of spatial analysis and geographic information science and systems in urban, environmental and regional planning."
Jack Huddleston
"My current interests are in the area of the economics of energy policy (both domestically and internationally), regional economic development as a component of sustainable development, and state and local finance. I am on the governing board of the Energy Center of Wisconsin, through which I conduct research on energy issues related to low-income households, and I've been a central figure in a University-wide program to develop a sustainable management plan for the Manantlan Biosphere Reserve in Mexico."
Harvey M. Jacobs
"My current interests are on the rise and significance of the anti-environmental movement in the U.S. as it exemplifies social conflict over competing concepts of property rights, and the development of peri-urban land policy for newly democratic countries. I am especially interested in the social content of land use and environmental policy, and in how debate over such policy serves as a proxy for more fundamental social discourse."
Jim LaGro
"My interests include land use change, landscape ecology, and the spatial analysis of landscape fragmentation in the United States. My research in Wisconsin has examined the conversion of prime farmland to residential development, the land use impacts of local onsite sewage disposal system policies, and the effects of subdivision ordinances on land development patterns. I teach courses in urban planning and design, and landscape architecture."
Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel
"I am a sociologist with research interests in land rights and social equity, focusing on property privatization, land markets, and land conflicts in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe. Currently I am undertaking research on gender and land rights, particularly the impact of land rights on women’s status, economic opportunities, and well being. I collaborate with international development agencies such as the World Bank, USAID, Ford Foundation, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other United Nations divisions such as Habitat and Division for the Advancement of Women. Prior to joining URPL, I worked as senior researcher at the Land Tenure Center."
Dave Marcouiller
"I focus my research on the economic linkages between natural resource management and community development. I have examined the role and impact of tourism in rural communities, and have long-standing interests in forestry production issues particularly with respect to tradeoffs and land use incompatibilities. In addition, I haveworked with various regional economic and social models to assess the impacts of policy and economic change in rural areas."
Alfonso Morales
"My research analyzes the social organization and institutional context of entrepreneurship. The research context is the street market and the business organizations and households found in markets and other non-retail means of earning income. My work analyzes the social, political and economic processes that produce street-level businesses. My research was inspired by pragmatist theory and an interest in public policy. I purse this interest in the social organization and institutional context of entrepreneurship through three interrelated strands of research: Decision-making in Organizational and Institutional Context; Transformations of Self and Society, and Entrepreneurship in Organizational, Institutional and Policy Context. My research webpage is openair.org"
Brian Ohm
"My research, teaching, and outreach efforts relate to the institutional and legal framework for managing community growth and change. I am particularly interested in the need to revise and update state enabling laws that govern local planning, the impact of local laws on "new urbanism", and the "takings" issue. I lend my expertise to a variety of governmental and private organizations."
Kurt Paulsen
"My reaching and teaching interests are in land use planning, land use change, public finance, and intergovernmental relations. My research has examined the connections between local government fiscal policy and land use decsision in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, integovernmental cooperation in Pennyslvania planning, and land use/landscape change analysis in regional environmental planning."
Emeritus Faculty
Steve Born Richard Chenoweth Herman Felstehausen Jerome L. Kaufman Bernard J. Niemann Jr. Elizabeth Howe H. C. Jordahl Jr. Ved Prakash John Roberts