Positions

Research Areas research areas

Overview

  • Jennifer Brewer is a Professor in the Department of Geography and a faculty member in the Master of Public Policy program and Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science doctoral program. As a political ecologist, her research focuses on human-environment relations and environmental governance. Her research asks how decision processes can simultaneously sustain natural resources and strengthen democracy under conditions of environmental change. Her projects in marine fisheries, climate change, and coastal management and urbanization have spanned policymaking from local to international scales, including community- and market-based resource co-management models. She especially enjoys working with interdisciplinary and international research teams that integrate field data collection with qualitative and quantitative analysis and strengthen the interface between science and civic participation.

    Jennifer holds a doctorate in Human Geography from Clark Graduate School of Geography, a Master of Science in Marine Policy from the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She previously held a joint appointment at East Carolina University in the Department of Geography and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy. She has also worked at the National Academy of Sciences, US House of Representatives, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and in the non-profit sector.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2023 Climate change and seismic resilience: Key considerations for Alaska's infrastructure and built environment.PLoS One.  18:e0292320. 2023
    2021 Sea level rise hazardscapes of North Carolina: Perceptions of risk and prospects for policyOcean and Coastal Management.  212:105809-105809. 2021
    2018 Putting Rooted Networks into PracticeAcme: an international e-journal for critical geographies.  17:958-987. 2018
    2018 Review of “Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast."Northeastern Geographer.  10:69-72. 2018
    2017 Accountability, transformative learning, and alternate futures for New England groundfish catch sharesMarine Policy.  80:113-122. 2017
    2017 Actualizing marine policy engagementDialogues in Human Geography.  7:45-49. 2017
    2017 Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge, Action, and CosmopolitanismAntipode: a radical journal of geography.  49:273-293. 2017
    2016 Mending the Net: Property and Markets in Fisheries Policy for Less-Developed ContextsJournal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.  19:269-283. 2016
    2015 Adapting the Law of Fish and Wildlife to the Science of Climate ChangeJournal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.  18:355-368. 2015
    2014 Harvesting a knowledge commons: collective action, transparency, and innovation at the Portland Fish ExchangeInternational Journal of the Commons.  8:155-178. 2014
    2014 Hog Daddy and the Walls of Steel: Catch Shares and Ecosystem Change in the New England GroundfisherySociety and Natural Resources.  27:724-741. 2014
    2014 The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of SailJournal of Historical Geography.  43:187-188. 2014
    2013 Making an environmental market, unmaking adaptive capacity: Species commodification in the New England groundfisheryGeoforum.  50:172-181. 2013
    2013 Toward a Publicly Engaged Geography: Polycentric and Iterated ResearchSoutheastern Geographer.  53:328-347. 2013
    2013 From experiential knowledge to public participation: social learning at the community fisheries action roundtable.Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors.  52:321-334. 2013
    2012 Don't Fence Me In: Boundaries, Policy, and Deliberation in Maine's Lobster CommonsAnnals of the Association of American Geographers.  102:383-402. 2012
    2012 Revisiting Maine's lobster commons: rescaling political subjectsInternational Journal of the Commons.  6:319-343. 2012
    2011 Paper Fish and Policy Conflict: Catch Shares and Ecosystem-Based Management in Maine's GroundfisheryEcology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability.  16. 2011
    Escalating uncertainties require institutional transformation to support epistemological pluralismnpj Ocean Sustainability.  3.
    Putting Rooted Networks into PracticeACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.  17.

    Book

    Year Title
    2009 Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate 2009
    2008 Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making 2008
    2008 New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment 2008

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2003 Changes in Territoriality in the Maine Lobster Fishery 2003

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2010 POLYCENTRISM AND FLUX IN SPATIALIZED MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM MAINE'S LOBSTER (HOMARUS AMERICANUS) FISHERYBulletin of Marine Science. 287-302. 2010
    2003 Changes in the Territorial System of the Maine Lobster IndustryCOMMONS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: CHALLENGES AND ADAPTATION. 37-59. 2003

    Teaching Activities

  • Internship Taught course
  • Political Ecology Taught course
  • There Is No Planet B Taught course
  • There Is No Planet B Taught course 2024
  • Making Change: Soc & Envt Just Taught course 2022
  • There Is No Planet B Taught course 2022
  • Honors/There Is No Planet B Taught course 2022
  • Political Ecology Taught course 2021
  • There Is No Planet B Taught course 2021
  • There Is No Planet B Taught course 2021
  • Field Research Taught course 2020
  • There Is No Planet B Taught course 2020
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2020
  • Human-Environment Geography Taught course 2020
  • Internship Taught course 2020
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2019
  • Political Ecology Taught course 2019
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2019
  • Human-Environment Geography Taught course 2019
  • Internship Taught course 2019
  • Field Research Taught course 2018
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2018
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2018
  • Human-Environment Geography Taught course 2018
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2017
  • Internship Taught course 2017
  • Political Ecology Taught course 2017
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2017
  • Human-Environment Geography Taught course 2017
  • Internship Taught course 2017
  • Field Methods in Geography Taught course 2016
  • Fundamentals Policy Analysis Taught course 2016
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2016
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2015
  • Issues in Environmental Geog Taught course 2015
  • Field Methods in Geography Taught course 2015
  • Internship Taught course 2015
  • Geog of Natural Environment Taught course 2014
  • Internship Taught course 2014
  • Issues in Environmental Geog Taught course 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. Art & Society, University of Michigan
  • M.S. Marine Policy, University of Maine
  • Ph.D. Geography, Clark University
  • Full Name

  • Jennifer Brewer