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Faculty>Richard Wallace

 

Richard L. Wallace, Associate Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies; B.A., University of Vermont; M.E.S., Ph.D., Yale University.

 

Dr. Wallace teaches the core ENV courses, including Issues in Environmental Studies and the senior seminar. He also teaches ENV electives such as Conserving Biological Diversity, Ecosystem Management, Managing Parks and Protected Areas, Marine Mammal Conservation and Management, Advanced Environmental Policy Analysis, and Food, Society, and the Environment. His research interests include the implementation of federal policies and programs for the protection of biological diversity in the United States and the behavior of governmental and nongovernmental organizations under conservation mandates. Dr. Wallace is also involved in promoting and managing Ursinus College’s sustainability programs, including the campus recycling program, landscape design and engineering projects, the establishment and management of the Ursinus Wetland and the Ursinus Organic Garden Project, and maintenance and outreach activities in the local watershed. Dr. Wallace received the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2004 and the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2007. He is a former senior staff member of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and a long-time advisor to government agencies involved in the conservation of biological diversity. Currently, he serves as vice president of the Social Science Working Group of the international Society for Conservation Biology, on the executive council of the Society for the Policy Sciences and on the editorial board of the journal Policy Sciences.

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