Graduate Degree Programs
Policy, Planning, Communication and Society (PPCS)

• PPCS Research Area Leader: TBD

Examples of the tools and concepts that are commonly used in Policy, Planning, Communication and Society Research Area include:

• Advocacy and Conflict Management
• Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
• Human Dimensions of Natural and Built Environments
• Environmental Communication and Participatory Processes
• Environmental and Community Land Planning
• Environmental Health and Justice
• Environmental Systems Management
• Landscape Design
• Environmental Interpretation and Education
• Urban and Rural Food Systems

Participating Faculty in Policy, Planning, Communication and Society (PPCS)

Name	Email	Research Keywords
Aidan Ackerman	acackerm@esf.edu	design of cultural, historic, and ecological landscapes, 3D modeling, rendering, virtual reality, digital fabrication, GIS, BIM, CAD
John Auwaerter	jeauwaer@esf.edu	historic preservation planning, landscape history and graphic documentation, design in historic landscapes
Margaret Bryant	mbryant@esf.edu	urban planning, climate resilience, neighborhood-scale planning and design, design and science, professional practice
Mariela Cavo	mcavo@esf.edu	Watershed management, environmental economics, forest economics, valuation of ecosystem services, payment for ecosystem services, rural development.
Jonathan Cohen	jcohen14@esf.edu	adaptive management and structured decision making for wildlife
Josh Cousins	jcousins@esf.edu	environmental governance and decision-making, water and energy policy, climate change adaptation planning, political ecology, urban sustainability
Shari Dann	sldann@esf.edu	environmental education, interpretation, citizen science, science education, natural resources stewardship, conservation, human dimensions
Stewart Diemont	sdiemont@esf.edu	food systems, security, sovereignty, and justice; agroecology; urban ecosystem design; sustainability analysis
Joshua Drew	jadrew@esf.edu	coupled human natural systems, coastal communities, ethnobiology
Andrea Feldpausch-Parker	amparker@esf.edu	environmental and science communication, public participation, conflict management, decision-making, social movements
Anne Godfrey	acgodfre@esf.edu	photography for environmental design decision making, diversity in the representation of landscape systems, diversity of cultural value systems
Deborah Hilbert	drhilber@esf.edu	urban forestry; arboriculture; socio-ecological systems; sustainable urban landscape management
Paul Hirsch	pahirsch@esf.edu	decision-making, leadership, navigating complex trade-offs, environmental ethics, environmental cognition, public engagement, deliberative democracy
Jean Kayira	jckayira@esf.edu	Indigenous knowledge systems, decolonizing methodologies, community-based research and food sovereignty
Danielle Kloster	dpkloste@esf.edu	human dimensions of natural resources management, sustainable energy management, family forest owners, large-scale renewable energy siting, forest carbon management, recreation
Patrice Kohl	pakohl@esf.edu	science and Environmental Communication; Journalism; Science and Technology Studies; Public Perceptions, Attitudes and Beliefs
Eun Kyung Lee	eklee02@esf.edu	Racial and socioeconomic health disparities; chronic disease prevention; environmental health disparities & environmental justice; place-based disparities; food systems; causal inference methods; community-level interventions & public policy
Valerie Luzadis	vluzadis@esf.edu	social-ecological systems, ecological economics and policy, natural resources values and policy, sustainability foundations, indicators, and values
Stacy McNulty	smcnulty@esf.edu	social-ecological systems, land use planning, recreation, natural resource policy, forest management, organizational governance
Michael Mikulewicz	mmikulew@esf.edu	Climate justice, Equitable adaptation & resilience, Vulnerability, International development, UNFCCC process, Urban sustainability, Public health, Climate finance, Critical theory (political economy, political ecology, postcolonial, feminist & queer theory), Participatory methods
Sharon Moran	smoran@esf.edu	human dimensions of water issues, environmental equity and justice, political ecology, socioecological systems, watershed restoration
Lee Newman	lanewman@esf.edu	nature deficit, horticultural therapy, urban land use and gardening, living walls
Madeline Nyblade	mlnyblad@esf.edu	Water justice; community-based participatory research; climate and landcover change impacts and adaptation; Indigenous Nation - University collaborations; research ethics; critical history of earth science
Tania Ploumi	ktploumi@esf.edu	environmental psychology, socio-ecological systems, ecosystem services, ecological economics, psychological resiliency, inner development goals, ecological grief, climate anxiety, sustainability, and behavior change, participatory methods, mental health benefits from nature.
Theresa Selfa	tselfa@esf.edu	environmental Governance, social implications of biotechnology in agriculture, public participation in environmental decision making
Jamie Shinn	jeshinn@esf.edu	Environmental governance and policy, climate change adaptation, water-society relationships, flooding,  political ecology, disaster response and recovery
Jill Weiss	jiweiss@esf.edu	socio-ecological systems, networks, governance, communication, education, behavior, recreation, strategic planning
Ellen White	eowhite@esf.edu	Urban planning, Public policy, Transportation planning & policy, GIS, Spatial analysis, Data science, Interdisciplinarity & decision-making, Landscape history
Nazanin Gaffari	ghaffari@esf.edu
Chie Togami	ctogami@esf.edu	critical environmental justice, environmental social movements, climate change, gender and the environment, environmental sociology, political ecology, air pollution, philanthropy, qualitative and community-engaged research