Faculty Profile
Valerie Luzadis
Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
208 Marshall Hall
Global Council for Science and the Environment, Board of Directors www.gcseglobal.org
Heart Forward Science, Founder
Highest Education
Ph.D., SUNY ESF (Forest Policy and Economics), 1997.
Areas of Study
Social-Ecological Systems; Ecological Economics; Natural Resources Policy and Values; Science-Policy Interface; Heart Forward Science
Most Recent Publications
Viera, M., Selfa, T. L., Luzadis, V.A. & Diemont, S. A. W. 2025. Ecological modernization in practice: A multiple case study in Ecuador. Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2479052
McNulty, S., Luzadis, V.A., Hirsch, P., Diemont, S. A. W. 2025. Development of a hybrid public–private natural area governance model in the Adirondack Park of New York State. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 5(4). https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2025.2487083
Adam, M., LaBeaud, D., Mbewu, N., Gates, J., Waechter, R., Borbor-Cordova, M. J., Kibe, L., Alvarez, S., Dori, A., Bilimale, A. S., Mwoka, M., Deffler, J., Spring, M., Diaz, A. R., Farquhar, R., Dunbar, W., Phiri, C. R., Luzadis, V.A., Redvers, N., Alonso, C., Rochford, R., Lowe, R., Coomansingh, K., Laman, M., Sultana, R., Ryan, S., Bustinduy, A. L., Hargrave-Bouagnon, A. S., Ruybal-Pesántez, S. N., Kerry, Z., Kelebi, T., McEwen, S., Robinson, L., Salazar Campo, M., & Bärnighausen, T. 2025. Protecting global health partnerships in the era of destructive nationalism. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004428
Luzadis, V.A. 2024:355-366. Engaging With Heart in Global Health Partnerships. IN: A. Stewart Ibarra, A. D. LaBeaud (eds.), Transforming Global Health Partnerships, Sustainable Development Goals Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53793-6_25
Viera, M., Diemont, S. A. W., Selfa, T. L., & Luzadis, V.A. 2024. The sustainability of shrimp aquaculture: An emergy-based case study in the Gulf of Guayaquil thirty years later. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 194(11), 114326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114326
Loeffelholz, M., Luzadis, V.A., & Sonnenfeld, D. A. 2024. Steering change, steering futures: Conceptualizations of future-oriented steering mechanisms in three international river basin organizations. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4768356
Romero, M., Luzadis, V.A., Hirsch, P., Huarachi, E., Condori, F., & Sonnenfeld, D. A. (2023). VIVIR BIEN: Intercultural and spiritual approach to water and power in time of climate change and political transformation. EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5SM14
Brainard, A. S., Luzadis, V. A., & Schulz, K. L. 2021. Drivers of species richness, biomass, and dominance of invasive macrophytes in temperate lakes. Biological Invasions, 23(4), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02418-y
Spethman, D. and V.A. Luzadis. 2020. Moral and ethical foundations for ecological economics. Chapter 14. In: Costanza, R. et al., Eds., Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, 480 pp. ISBN: 978 1 78990 094 1.
Costanza, R., E.M.B. Doran, T. Gladkikh, I. Kubiszewski, V.A. Luzadis, and E. Zencey. 2020. Creating positive futures for humanity on earth. Chapter 2 In: Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics, Robert Costanza, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, Ida Kubiszewski, Eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 480 pp. ISBN: 978 1 78990 094 1.
Luzadis, V.A. 2019. Engaging intuition and imagination for solutions to confounding science and societal problems. In W. Leal Filho & A. Consorte-McCrea (Eds.), Sustainability and the humanities (pp. 329–342). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95336-6_18
Barresi, P.A., R.C. Smardon, and V. A. Luzadis. 2018. Institution-wide design: Sustainability education across the curriculum and beyond. Chapter 12 In: Focht, W. et al. (eds). Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: From Theory to Practice. Routledge: London. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351171601. 296 pages. eBook ISBN 9781351171601.
Kuehn, D. M., V.A. Luzadis and M. Brincka. 2017. "I catch whatever's biting!": Motivations, constraints, and facilitators of non-preference anglers residing along New York's Lake Ontario Coast. Fisheries Research, 194:188-196.
Caputo, J., C.M. Beier, V.A. Luzadis and P.M. Groffman. 2016. Integrating beneficiaries into assessment of ecosystem services from managed forests at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, USA . Forest Ecosystems (2016) 3:13 DOI 10.1186/s40663-016-0072-9
Montefrio, M. J.F., D.A. Sonnenfeld and V.A. Luzadis. 2015. Social construction of the environment and smallholder farmers' participation in ‘low-carbon’, agro-industrial crop production contracts in the Philippines. Ecological Economics, 2015, vol. 116, issue C, 70-77.
Abolina, E. and V.A. Luzadis - 2015. Abandoned agricultural land and its potential for short rotation woody crops in Latvia, Land Use Policy, 49:435-445.
Stewart Ibarra, A.M., V.A. Luzadis, M.J., Borbor Cordova, M. Silva, T. Ordoñez, E. Beltrán Ayala, S.J. Ryan. 2014. A social-ecological analysis of community perceptions of dengue fever and Aedes aegypti in Machala, Ecuador. BMC Public Health; 11/2014; 14(1):1135. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1135.
Abolina, E., V.A. Luzadis and D. Lazdina. 2014. Analysis of the Adoption of Willow Growing Practice in Latvia. Baltic Forestry, 20(1):78-87.
Abolina, E., V.A. Luzadis. 2013. Forest Sustainability and Social Policy: The Role of Ecosystem Services. Chapter: Chapter 6 In book: Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy, Publisher: Springer, Editor: Isidor Wallimann, pp.63-78.
Kuehn, D. M., V.A. Luzadis and M. Brincka. 2013. An analysis of the factors influencing fishing participation by resident anglers. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 18(5): 322-339.
Hirsch, P. D. and V. A. Luzadis. 2013. Scientific Concepts and Their Policy Affordances: How a Focus on Compatibility Can Improve Science-Policy Interaction and Outcomes. Nature and Culture 8(1), Spring 2013: 97–118.
Kuehn, D., V. A. Luzadis and M. Brincka. 2013. An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Fishing Participation by Resident Anglers. Human Dimensions of Wildlife: An International Journal, 18:5, 322-339.
Kuehn, D. P. D;Luhosch, V.A. Luzadis, R. Malmsheimer and R. Schuster. 2011. Attitudes and intentins of off-highway vehicle riders towards trail use: implications for forest managers. Journal of Forestry. 109(5):281-287.
Limburg, K.E., V.A. Luzadis, M. Ramsey, K.L. Schulz. 2010. The good, the bad, and the algae: perceiving ecosystem services and disservices generated by zebra and quagga mussels. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 36(1):86-92.
Luzadis, V.A., L. Castello, J. Choi, C.B. Franco, E. Greenfield, S. Kim, J. Munsell, E. Nordman, F. Olowabi. 2010. The science of ecological economics: A content analysis of Ecological Economics, 1989–2004. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1185, Issue Ecological Economics Reviews: 1-10.
Buchholz, T., T. Volk, and V.A. Luzadis. 2009. Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy Systems: Results from an expert survey. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol 17, Supplement 1: S86-S98.
Castello, L., J.P. Viana, G. Watkins, M. Pinedo-Vazquez, and V.A. Luzadis. 2009. Integrating small-scale fishers in management: the case of piraracu in Mamirauá, Amazon. Environmental Management: 43(2):197-209.
Buchholz, T., T. Volk, and V.A. Luzadis. 2007. A participatory systems approach to modelling social, economic, and ecological components of bioenergy. Energy Policy 35:6084-6094.
Buchholz, T., E. Rametsteiner, T. A. Volk, V.A. Luzadis. 2009. Multi criteria analysis for bioenergy systems assessments. Energy Policy, 37(2): 484-495.
Labriole, M. and V. A. Luzadis. 2011. Foresters’ attitudes toward the potential impact of climate change in New York. Journal of Forestry. 109(2):89-94.
Quaye, A.K., C.A.S. Hall and V.A. Luzadis. 2010. Agricultural Land Use Efficiency and Food Crop Production in Ghana. Environment, Development, and Sustainability. 12:967-983.
Solomon, Barry D. and Valerie A. Luzadis, editors. 2008. Renewable energy from forest resources in the United States. Routledge: London.
Luzadis, V.A., T. Volk, and T. Buchholz. 2008. Using a systems approach to improve bioenergy sustainability assessment. Chapter 9 In: Solomon and Luzadis, eds. Renewable Energy from Forest Resources in the United States. Routledge: London.
Volk, T. and V. A.. Luzadis. 2008. Willow Biomass Production for Bioenergy, Biofuels and Bioproducts in New York. Chapter 11 In: Solomon and Luzadis, eds. Renewable Energy from Forest Resources in the United States. Routledge: London.
Buchholz, T., T. Volk, and V.A. Luzadis. 2007. A participatory systems approach to modelling social, economic, and ecological components of bioenergy. Energy Policy 35:6084-6094.
Parrish, B. D., V.A. Luzadis, and W.R. Bentley. 2005. "What Tanzanian Coffee Farmers Can Teach the World: A Results-based Look at the Fair Trade - Free Trade Debate." Sustainable Development, 13(3): 177-189.