My teaching and research focus areas are sociology, environmental, political, organizational and natural resource sociology, social change, social networks, and other courses, including global environment policy, sustainable development, park and people management, natural resource conflict management, non-profit management and open to contribute to core curriculum including introductory courses, environmental studies, social theory, social statistics, or social research methods, including organizational and political sociology.
I have spent most of my career focusing on the conservation of nature and natural resources, developing along the way expertise in global and international environmental politics, environmental institutions and governance, forest governance from the grassroots to the national level with a special focus on participatory management, climate change policy and implementation, environmental justice, and land cover and land use change.
Specialties: Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation, International environmental governance, Green Economy, Sustainability, and assess the economic, social and environmental impacts on the natural resources. My field experience spans across Asia, Africa, the U.S., Western Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.