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

The Policy, Planning, Communication and Society area of study focuses on people's relationships and interactions with natural and built environments, and examines how we value, communicate, educate, plan, design, manage, and make decisions about such spaces and their respective resources. This area of study also explores the design, creation, maintenance and change of human institutions as well as researching the complexities of social, cultural, and biophysical system interactions. This area incorporates knowledge from the social sciences, humanities, and biophysical sciences.

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Cariann Linehan
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 clinehan@esf.edu
 315-470-6528

Graduate Program in Environmental Science
SUNY-ESF
202 Baker Lab
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210–2787 USA

Fax - 315-470-6700

  • PPCS Study Area Leader: TBD

Examples of the tools and concepts that are commonly used in Policy, Planning, Communication and Society Study 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
Emanuel Carter ejcarter@esf.edu urban planning, urban design, rural planning and design
Jonathan Cohen jcohen14@esf.edu adaptive management and structured decision making for wildlife
Mary Collins mbcollin@esf.edu socio-environmental systems, environmental health inequality, environmental justice, environmental risk perception, quantitative modeling methods
Josh Cousins jcousins@esf.edu environmental governance and decision-making, water and energy policy, climate change adaptation planning, political ecology, urban sustainability

Dan Cronan

drcronan@esf.edu  Alternative Futures Analysis, Scenario Planning (Urban and Regional), GIS and Geospatial Analysis, Urban Sustainability, Stormwater Green Infrastructure
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
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
Robin Kimmerer rkimmer@esf.edu indigenous peoples, biocultural restoration, ethnobotany
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
Rachel Leibowitz leibowitz@esf.edu cultural landscapes, historic preservation, landscape history
Christina Limpert cmlimper@esf.edu gender, culture, and environment, critical cultural studies, participatory action research, ecocinema studies
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
Theresa Selfa tselfa@esf.edu environmental Governance, social implications of biotechnology in agriculture, public participation in environmental decision making
Scott Shannon sshannon@esf.edu sustainable Design & Planning, Green Infrastructure Design & Planning, Urban Design, Climate Resiliency Planning, Environmental Planning
Jamie Shinn jeshinn@esf.edu  Environmental governance and policy, climate change adaptation, water-society relationships, flooding,  political ecology, disaster response and recovery
David Sonnenfeld dsonn@esf.edu sociology of environment and natural resources, comparative environmental policy, sustainable transitions, water governance, peacebuilding
Jill Weiss jiweiss@esf.edu socio-ecological systems, networks, governance, communication, education, behavior, recreation, strategic planning