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Picture of Rick SmardonRichard Smardon

Professor

(On Sabbatical Leave Until January 2009)

Office: 211B Marshall Hall
Phone: (315) 470-6576
Fax: (315) 470-6915
Email: rsmardon@esf.edu

Education:

Research interests:

Selected Publications:

Smardon, R. C. Sustaining the World's Wetlands: Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts. NY: Springer-Verlag (forthcoming).
Smardon, R. C., and B. B. Faust (eds.). 2006. Special issue, "International Policy in the Biosphere Reserves in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula," Landscape and Urban Planning 74.
Smardon, R. C., and B. B. Faust. 2006. "Introduction: International Policy in the Biosphere Reserves in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula," Landscape and Urban Planning 74: 160-192.
Smardon, R. C. 2006. "Heritage values and functions of wetlands in Southern Mexico," Landscape and Urban Planning 74: 296-312.
Loftus, K. K., R. C. Smardon, and B. A. Potter. 2004. "Strategies for the Stewardship and Conservation of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands," Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 7 (2): 305-330.
Smardon, R. C. 2003. "The Role of Nongovernment Organizations for Sustaining Wetland Heritage Values." Pp. 795-815 in Regards Croisés sur le Patrimoine à l’aube du XXIe Siècle [Varied Perspectives on Heritage at the Beginning of the 21st Century], ed. M. Gravari-Barbas. Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, Paris.
Cover of Science and PolicyFaust, B. B., and R. C. Smardon. 2001. Special issue, "Environmental Knowledge, Rights, and Ethics: Co-managing with Communities," Environmental Science and Policy 4 (4/5).
Cover of Science and PolicyNordenstam, B. J., and R. C. Smardon, eds. 1998. Special issue, "Adirondacks and Beyond: Understanding Air Quality and Ecosystem Relationships," Environmental Science and Policy 1 (3).

Courses:

Graduate Student Advising:

Since I have been at SUNY-ESF (1979), I have advised approximately 70 graduate students and about 45 have been partially funded. I have sponsored eight visiting scholars - three from the Polytechnic City University of Madrid; one from the Polytechnic in Greece; one from Mumbai, India; and three from CINVESTAV, Merida, Mexico, through the Randolph G. Pack Environmental Institute.

Current advisees include:
Kevin Bliss, GPES, Ph.D., major professor; Heather Bradley, MPS, major professor; Sarah Darkwa, GPES, Ph.D., co-major professor; Lauren Johnson, GPES, Ph.D., major professor; Nidhi Pasi, GPES, Ph.D., major professor; Fred Owusu-Ansah, GPES, Ph.D., major professor; Erin Page, GPES MS. Co-major professor; Seon-Hyun Park, GPES, Ph.D. co-major professor; Eric Ripley, GPES, MPS, major Professor; Amanda Stella GPES MPS, major Professor; and Guihan Wu, GPES, Ph.D., major professor.