Faculty Profile
Andrea Feldpausch-Parker
Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
234 Marshall Hall
Dr. Andrea Feldpausch-Parker Website
Education
- Postdoc, Texas A&M University (Energy and Communication), 2010-2011
- Ph.D., Texas A&M University (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences), 2010
- M.S., Texas A&M University (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences), 2006
- B.S., Michigan State University (Environmental Biology/Zoology), 2003
- B.S., Michigan State University (Fisheries and Wildlife), 2003
Research Interests
- Environmental and Science Communication
- Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making
- Environmental and Natural Resources Conflict
- Environmental Social Movements
- Energy Democracy and Communication
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses:
- EST 255: Research Methods in Environmental Studies (Spring)
- EST 493: Environmental Communication Workshop (Spring)
Graduate Coures:
- EST 608: Environmental Advocacy Campaigns and Conflict Resolution (Fall)
- EST 696: Professional Development Seminar (Fall)
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Edited Book in Production (under contract)
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., D. Endres, T. R. Peterson and S. Gomez, editors. Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- Sandrow, C. A., A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, E. S. Vidon, and I. D. Parker. 2018. Anything but a walk in the park: Framing analysis of the Adirondack State Park land classification conflict. Frontiers in Communication, doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2018.00042.
- Clucas, B., I. D. Parker, and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2018. A systematic review of the relationship between urban agriculture and biodiversity. Urban Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-018-0748-8.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., T. R. Peterson, J. C. Stephens, and E. J. Wilson. 2017. Smart grid electricity system planning and climate disruptions: A review of climate and energy discourse post-Superstorm Sandy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.06.015.
- Burnham, M., W. Eaton, T. Selfa, C. Hinrichs, and A. Feldpausch-Parker. 2017. Contested visions for bioenergy development: Sociotechnical imaginaries of bioenergy sub-niches in the Northeast, United States. Geoforum, 82: 66-76.
- Hall, D. M., A. Feldpausch-Parker, J. Stephens, T. R. Peterson, and E. J. Wilson. 2017. Social-ecological system resonance: a theoretical framework for brokering sustainable solutions. Sustainability Science, 12(3): 381-392.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., I. D. Parker, and E. S. Vidon. 2017. Privileging consumptive use: a critique of ideology, power, and discourse in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Conservation and Society, 15(1): 33-40; DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.201395.
- Rickard, L. N. and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2016. Of sea lice and superfood: a comparison of regional and national news media coverage of aquaculture. Frontiers in Communication, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2016.00014.
- Endres, E., B. Cozen, M. O’Byrne, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, T. R. Peterson. 2016. Putting the U in carbon capture and storage: performance of boundary work within the CCS/CCUS scientific community. Journal of Applied Communication Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2016.1225160.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., M. Burnham, M. Melnik, M. L. Callaghan and T. Selfa. 2015. News media analysis of carbon capture and storage and biomass: perceptions and possibilities. Energies, 8: 3058-3074; DOI:10.3390/en8043058.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., and T. R. Peterson. 2014. Communicating the science behind carbon sequestration: a case study of U.S. Department of Energy and regional partnership websites. Environmental Communication, DOI:10.1080/17524032.2014.955039.
- Fischlein, M., A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, T. R. Peterson, J. C. Stephens, and E. J. Wilson. 2014. Which way does the wind blow? Analyzing the state context for renewable energy deployment in the United States. Environmental Policy and Governance, DOI: 10.1002/eet.1636
- Manno, J. P., P. Hirsch, and A.M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2014. Introduction by the Onondaga Nation and activist neighbors of an indigenous perspective on issues surrounding hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 4(1): 47-55.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., C. J. Ragland, L. L. Melnick, R. Chaudhry, D. M. Hall, T. R. Peterson, J. C. Stephens, and E. J. Wilson. 2013. Spreading the news on carbon capture and storage: a state-level comparison of US media. Environmental Communication 7(3): 336-354.
- Parker, I. D., and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2013. Yellowstone grizzly delisting rhetoric: an analysis of the online debate. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37(2): 248-255.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., M. O’Byrne, D. Endres, and T. R. Peterson. 2013. The Adventures of Carbon Bond: using a melodramatic game to explain CCS as a mitigation strategy for climate change. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology 3(1): 21-29.
- Klassen, J. A., and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2011. Oiling the gears of public participation: the value of organisations in establishing Trinity of Voice for communities impacted by the oil and gas industry. Local Environment 16(9): 903-915.
- Peterson, M. J., D. M. Hall, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and T. R. Peterson. 2010. Obscuring ecosystem function with application of the ecosystem services concept. Conservation Biology 24(1): 113-119.
Co-Guest Editor for Research Topic: Energy Democracy in Frontiers in Communication (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/6005/energy-democracy)
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., D. Endres, and T. R. Peterson. 2019. Editorial: A research agenda for environmental democracy. Frontiers in Communication. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2019.00053
- This research topic is also available as an E-Book: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/6005/energy-democracy
Co-Guest Editor for Special Journal Issue: Communicating Hydrofracking in Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture (Issue 3, pgs. 289-394)
- Buttney, R. and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2016. Editorial: Communicating hydrofracking. Environmental Communication, 3: 289-291.
Peer Reviewed Edited Book
- Peterson, T. R., H. Bergea, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and K. Raitio, editors. 2016. Environmental communication and community: constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation. Routledge, Oxfordshire.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M. and T. R. Peterson. 2020. Conflict in Wildlife Science and Conservation in N. J. Silvy, editor. 2nd Edition. Techniques for Wildlife Investigations and Management. Johns Hopkins UP, Baltimore, MA, USA.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., and T. R. Peterson. 2016. Introduction in Peterson, T. R., H. Bergea, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and K. Raitio, editors. Environmental communication and community: constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation. pp. 3-15. Routledge, Oxfordshire.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., I. D. Parker, H. Swartwood, M. N. Peterson, and M. J. Peterson. 2016. Managing wildlife for public benefit: the public trust doctrine and the North American Model of Wildlife Management in Peterson, T. R., H. Bergea, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and K. Raitio, editors. Environmental communication and community: constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation. pp. 124-145. Routledge, Oxfordshire.
- Endres, D., M. O’Byrne, B. Cozen, and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2016. Performances of an international professional community: CCS/CCUS and its national contexts in Peterson, T. R., H. L. Bergea, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and K. Raitio, editors. Environmental communication and community: constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation. pp. 55-74. Routledge, Oxfordshire.
- Peterson, T. R., H. Bergea, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and K. Raitio. 2016. Social transformation and sustainability: communication and community construction/destruction in Peterson, T. R., H. L. Bergea, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and K. Raitio, editors. Environmental communication and community: constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation. pp. 269-275. Routledge, Oxfordshire.
- Peterson, T. R., and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2013. Environmental conflict communication in Oetzel J. G., and S. Ting-Toomey, editors. The SAGE Handbook on Conflict Communication: integrating theory, research, and practice, second edition. pp. 513-535. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., I. D. Parker, and T. R. Peterson. 2012. Web-based public participation in Carvalho, A., and T. R. Peterson, editors. Climate change politics: communication and public engagement. pp. 193-218. Cambria Press, Amherst.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., D. M. Hall, C.C. Horton, J. M. Minion, A. M. Munoz, I. D. Parker, and T. R. Peterson. 2009. Step It Up in the lone star state: how identity and myth may impact a movement in Endres, D., L. Sprain, and T. R. Peterson, editors. Social movement to address climate change: local steps for global action. pp. 23-51. Cambria Press, Amherst.
Peer Reviewed Encyclopedia Entries
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M. 2013. Wildlife Conservation in Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History, ed. Brian Black, David Hassenzahl, Jennie Stephens, and Gary Weisel. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M. and T. R. Peterson 2013. Clean Coal in Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History, ed. Brian Black, David Hassenzahl, Jennie Stephens, and Gary Weisel. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M. 2011. Clean Coal in SAGE eReference Green Series. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
- Peterson, T. R., and A. Feldpausch. 2010. Sustainability in Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication, volume 2, ed. Susanna Hornig Priest. pp. 865-861. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
Published Conference Proceedings
- Wilson, E., J. C. Stephens, A. Feldpausch-Parker, T. R. Peterson. 2014. Adapting energy systems for climate instability: learning from Superstorm Sandy. 2014 Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Conference,
- Feldpaush-Parker, A. M. and I. D. Parker. 2013. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: can it move beyond just hunting? Communication for the commons: revisiting participation and environment. Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment.
- Endres, D., B. Cozen, M. O’Byrne, and A. M. Feldpausch-Parker. 2013. Putting the U in carbon capture and storage: performances of rupture within the CCS scientific community. Communication for the commons: revisiting participation and environment. Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment.
- Batill, K.M. and A. Feldpausch-Parker. 2013. Hydrofracking in the news: how does media’s coverage of hydraulic fracturing shape public discourse about emerging energy technologies in the U.S. Communication for the commons: revisiting participation and environment. Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., M. O’Byrne, N. Schero, A. Strubb, D. Endres, and T.R. Peterson. 2012. Rise of the hero: how the creation of a fictitious hero could overcome the melodrama that is climate change and carbon sequestration. 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage Proceedings.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., R. Chaudhry, J. C. Stephens, M. Fischlein, D. M. Hall, L. L. Melnick, T. R. Peterson, C. J. Ragland, and E. J. Wilson. 2011. A comparative state-level analysis of carbon capture and storage (CCS) discourse among U.S. energy stakeholders and the public. Energy Procedia, 4: 6368-6375.
- Ragland, C. J., A. Feldpausch-Parker, T. R. Peterson, J. Stephens, and E. Wilson. 2011. Socio-political dimensions of CCS deployment through the lens of social network analysis. Energy Procedia, 4: 6210-6217.
- Feldpausch-Parker, A. M. 2009. Public participation in energy policy: a case study of the San Juan Citizens Alliance. Environmental Communication as a Nexus: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, 564-579. Available from https://theieca.org/sites/default/files/COCE_2009_Proceedings.pdf.
- Bradbury, J., I. Ray, T. R. Peterson, S. Wade, G. Wong-Parodi, and A. M. Feldpausch. 2009. The role of social factors in shaping public perceptions of CCS: results of multi-state focus group interviews. Energy Procedia 1: 4665-4672.
- Feldpausch, A. M. 2007. Global climate change: an issue of legitimacy in the media. Communication at the Intersection of Nature and Culture: Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, 276-292. Available from http://www.esf.edu/ecn/coce2007prc.htm.
- Feldpausch, A., and B. Higginbotham. 2006. Texas absentee landowners managing for wildlife: their goals, interests, and educational needs. Proceedings, 11th Triennial National Wildlife & Fisheries Extension Specialist Conference.
Current Graduate Advisees
Meredith Barges
mcbarges@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Parker and Cousins
- Area of Study: Environmental Science
Onyx Beytia
oibeytia@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MPS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Parker
- Area of Study: Environmental Studies
Brianna Lounsbury
bjlounsb@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Parker
- Area of Study: ENS Environmental Policy
Terra Rentz
tarentz@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Frair and Parker
- Area of Study: EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management
Graduate Research Topic
Strengthening the Public Trust: Management Effectiveness of State Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Favorite Quote
"Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic. Changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective." (Rachel Carson, Silent Spring)
Alexandra Walls
awalls@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Parker and Dann
- Area of Study: Environmental Science