Faculty Profile
Joshua Cousins

Joshua Cousins

Assistant Professor

221 Baker Laboratory

315-470-6576
jcousins@esf.edu

Personal website

Everyday Urban Ecologies

Education

PhD, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan
MS, Geography, Portland State University
BA, Geography, University of Colorado

Research Interests

Urban political ecology
Science and technology studies
Critical infrastructure studies
Water policy, planning, and governance
Energy, climate change, and environmental politics
Urban sustainability
Political-industrial ecology
Climate change adaptation planning

Publications

Gutierrez, Grant M., Sarah Kelly, Joshua J. Cousins, and Christopher Sneddon. (2019). What Makes a Megaproject?: A Review of Global Hydropower Assemblages. Environment and Society 10 (1): 101-121.
Cousins, Joshua J. and Joshua Newell. (2019). Urban political ecologies of and in the city. In Handbook of Urban Geography. Ed. Tim Schwanen and Ronald van Kampen. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cousins, Joshua J. 2018. Remaking stormwater as a resource: Technology, law, and citizenship. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 5 (5):e1300. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/wat2.1300.
Cousins, Joshua J. 2017. Structuring Hydrosocial Relations in Urban Water Governance. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107 (5):1144–1161.
Cousins, Joshua J. 2017. Of floods and droughts: The uneven politics of stormwater in Los Angeles. Political Geography 60:34–46.
Cousins, Joshua J. 2017. Infrastructure and institutions: Stakeholder perspectives of stormwater governance in Chicago. Cities 66:44–52.
Newell, Joshua P., Joshua J. Cousins, and Jennifer Baka. 2017. Political-industrial ecology: An introduction. Geoforum 85:319–323.
Cousins, Joshua J. 2017. Volume control: Stormwater and the politics of urban metabolism. Geoforum 85:368–380.
Newell, Joshua P., and Joshua J. Cousins. 2015. The boundaries of urban metabolism: Towards a political-industrial ecology. Progress in Human Geography 39 (6):702–728.
Cousins, Joshua J., and Joshua P. Newell. 2015. A political–industrial ecology of water supply infrastructure for Los Angeles. Geoforum 58:38–50.
Fang, Andrew J., Joshua P. Newell, and Joshua J. Cousins. 2015. The energy and emissions footprint of water supply for Southern California. Environmental Research Letters 10 (11):114002.