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The Global Environmental Studies Research Circle

Societies around the world face critical environmental problems that
will affect the quality of human life for decades and centuries to come.
Solving these problems, in many cases, will require interdisciplinary
research to help us understand how the earth's complex environmental and human systems function and interact.

It will also require integrating research results across scales from the
local to the global, and incorporating research into policy-making
processes and decisions, with the ultimate goal of managing our planet's natural resources, the air, water, land and biological diversity upon which all life depends, sustainably into the future.

To address these concerns, our research seeks to bridge the natural and human dimensions of global environmental change in pursuit of an
integrated understanding of the relationships between environment,
health, security, and human well-being in a rapidly globalizing world.

Contact Information

Faculty Coordinator:

Gregg Mitman, History of Science, Medical History and Bioethics, Nelson Institute.

Jonathan Patz, Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.

Faculty Contacts:

Samer Alatout, Rural Sociology, SAGE
Research Interests: Water politics in the Middle East, political theories of environmental knowledge

Steve Carpenter, Center for Limnology, Zoology
Research Interests: Aquatic and ecosystem ecology, ecology and economics of ecosystem management

Jonathan Foley, SAGE, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Research Interests: Global environmental systems, land use change, ecosystem services, climate and freshwater resources

Leila Harris, Geography, SAGE
Research Interests: Water politics and development; gender, culture, and the environment

Tracey Holloway, SAGE, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Research Interests: Modeling of air pollution transport, environmental health risks, environmental policy

Marty Kanarek, Population Health, Nelson Institute
Research Interests: Epidemiology of environmental health risks

Nancy Mathews, Nelson Institute, Wildlife Ecology
Research Interests: Community-based conservation, ecosystem and endangered species management, ungulate ecology, biodiversity assessment

Gregg Mitman, History of Science, Medical History and Bioethics, Nelson Institute
Research Interests: Environmental history, history of ecology, history of asthma and allergy, race and disease

Javier Nieto, Population Health
Research Interests: Disease epidemiology

Chris Olsen, Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: Viral epidemiology, human-animal ecologies of influenza

Jonathan Patz, SAGE
Research Interests: Global environmental health, infectious diseases

Jeremi Suri, History
Research Interests: International history, security studies

Past Event

Eco HealthOne Conference

Forging Collaboration Between Ecology and Health

October 6th-10th, 2006
University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Pyle Center Langdon Street

For more information, please visit the conference website.