Paul Robbins

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Paul F. Robbins (born September 2, 1967 in Colorado ) is an American geographer and director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . He researches and publishes on the topics of global change and political ecology and is the author of the introductory work Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell, 2004, 2011).

Life

Robbins was born and raised in Colorado . Initially, he concentrated his work on the analysis of the political conditions for nature conservation of forest areas in Rajasthan (India). Some of the last wolves on the subcontinent live there. In 1996 he obtained the Ph.D. at Clark University . Robbins then worked at Ohio State University and the University of Arizona before moving to the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2012 .

Publications (selection)

  • Paul Robbins: Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell Critical Introductions to Geography) , 2004. ISBN 978-1-4051-0266-7
  • Paul Robbins: Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are , 2007, ISBN 978-1-59213-579-0
  • Paul Robbins (Ed.): Encyclopaedia of environment and society , 2007, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412953924
  • Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael J. Watts (Eds.): Global Political Ecology , 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-54815-1
  • Paul Robbins, J Hintz, Sarah Moore (Eds.): Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction. 2014, ISBN 978-1-118-45156-4
  • Sallie Marston, S., Paul Knox, Diana Liverman, Vinnie Del Casino, and Paul Robbins. 2017. World Regions in Global Context . Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-418272-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Robbins - Institute of the Environment ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.environment.arizona.edu
  2. ^ UW welcomes new Nelson Institute director

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personal data
SURNAME Robbins, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robbins, Paul F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Colorado