Our Faculty
Michael Finewood
Associate Professor
Department Chairperson
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Environmental Studies and Science
Location
- @Pleasantville
Upstairs
Office Hours
Pleasantville
- Biography
- Publications & Presentations
- Research & Creative Works
- Professional Contributions & Service
Biography
I am a human geographer and political ecologist with interests in environmental governance, water, climate change, urban sustainability, equity, and justice.
Education
PhD, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2010
Geography
MA, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2005
Anthropology
BA, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2003
Anthropology
PRESENTATIONS
Finewood, M. H. & Matsler, M. (2017). American Association of Geographers. Governing Through Barriers: An Urban Political Ecology of Green Infrastructure Implementation in Pittsburgh, PA. Boston, MA.
Finewood, M. H., Matsler, M. & Zivkovich, J. (2017). Dimensions of Political Ecology. Governing through barriers: the implications of categorizing barriers to green infrastructure in a post-industrial city. Lexington, KY.
RESEARCH INTEREST
I utilize training as a social scientist to study the ways communities manage their relationship to nonhuman nature. My primary research project focuses on urban stormwater governance with particular attention to green infrastructure. I also work on an interview-based project that explores the ways farmers perceive and adapt to a changing climate..
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Hudson River Watershed Alliance[Board]
Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences[Secretary]
American Association of Geographers
