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Joe Bowersox

Joe Bowersox

Professor

Courses

  • Politics 210 - American Politics (Environmental Emphasis)
  • Politics 304 - Environmental Ethics and Politics
  • Politics 341 - Environmental Policymaking
  • Envr 445/Poli 345 - Forest Ecology and Policy

Professional Interests

Forest Policy/Fire Policy, Water Policy, Environmental Politics and Theory, Environmental Ethics

Personal Interests

hiking, whitewater rafting

Major Awards and Fellowships

American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow 2002-2003, Jacob K. Javits Fellow in Political Science (1988-1992)

Publications

  • Joe Bowersox, Greening the Divine: Religion, the Environment, and Politics in 21st Century North America. For Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: New Perspectives, New Directions. D. Gutterman, A. Murphy editors. Forthcoming, Lexicon Press.
  • Joe Bowersox. 2004. Fire on the Hill: Using Ecological Disturbance Theory to Understand the Ambiguous Prospects of the Northwest Forest Plan. Pp. 237-255 in Karen Arabas and Joe Bowersox (co-editors and contributors) Forest Futures: Science, Politics and Policy for the Next Century. Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Joe Bowersox. 2002.“Legitimacy Crises: Why Environmental Ethics and Environmental Political Thought Must Work Together,” for Bob Pepperman Taylor, Ben Minteer, (editors and contributors), Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century. Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Joe Bowersox. 2000. "From Water Development to Water Management: Federal Agency Opportunism in an Era of Policy Devolution." American Behavioral Scientist. 44/4 (December, 2000) 599-613.
  • John Martin Gillroy and Joe Bowersox (editors and contributors). 2002. The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making. Duke University Press.
  • Karen Arabas and Joe Bowersox (co-editors and contributors). 2004. Forest Futures: Science, Politics and Policy for the Next Century. Rowman and Littlefield.