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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.
  • 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