Research and Teaching Interests
Examining and facilitating public participation in deliberative
decision-making on such issues as environmental protection, neighborhood/community
enhancement, and global poverty relief; and the relationship of the following
to this end: classical rhetoric, risk communication, journalism, qualitative
research methods.
Related Activities
Director, several US-Mexico student and faculty exchange projects
Editorial Board, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
Member, Groundwater Management Committee, American Society of Civil Engineering
Hydrology consultant to public interest groups
Selected Publications
And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson’s
Silent Spring. Editor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and the Environment. Editor. Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
“Saving the Great Lakes: Public Participation in Environmental
Policy.” In Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary
America. Ed. Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown. Madison: U Wisconsin P,
1996. 141-165.
“Defining Sustainable Development: A Case Study in Environmental
Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly 4 (1995): 201-216.
“Perils of a Modern Cassandra: Rhetorical Aspects of Public
Indifference to the Population Explosion.” Social Epistemology 8 (1994):
221-237. Centerpiece article in this special issue on public indifference
to population pressures.
The Role of Pathos in the Decision-Making Process: A Study in
the Rhetoric of Science Policy.” The Quarterly Journal of Speech 76
(1990): 381-400.
“Reasonableness vs. Rationality in the Construction and
Justification of Science Policy Decisions: The Case of the Cambridge Experimentation
Review Board.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 14 (1989):
7-25.
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