I am currently Associate Professor of Sustainable Business at Rowan University. My research, teaching, and professional practice are all focused on the relationships between sustainability and business.
A primary focus is the linkages between biodiversity and sports, and golf in particular (Sustainable Golf). Golf gets a bad rap, and in some cases rightfully so. But as a sport whose playing surfaces cover a land territory about the size of Switzerland, there is considerable positive that the sport and its keepers can contribute to sustainability in general and biodiversity in particular. I do both scholarly and applied research (some with clubs) to help improve golf’s sustainability performance. Along these lines, I am also a member of the Sport Ecology Group.
I also have ongoing research examining the roles for markets and financial instruments in enacting environmental and sustainability goals (Markets for the Environment). Some colleagues and I have been studying the potential for financial products called exchange-traded derivatives (e.g., futures contracts) to improve the performance of markets for recyclable materials in the US. This project, supported by the New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection and undertaken in collaboration with industry partners, explores a new avenue for creating a viable, transparent, and active market for buying and selling recyclables. I have also been studying New Jersey’s own (highly successful) transfer-of-development-rights marketplace, the Pinelands Development Credit program. The PDC program allows landowners to receive cash in exchange for entering their land into a conservation program.
An earlier focus of my research was on the environmental history, politics, and governance of waste management and recycling industries in the United States and particularly New Jersey. I also served previously as a commissioner on the New Jersey Pinelands Commission where I was also a founding member of the Land Use, Climate Impacts, and Sustainability sub-committee and designee to Pinelands Development Credit Bank.
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