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Charles C Geisler

Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • conservation biology
  • development sociology
  • international development
  • land use
  • rural development

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

WIthin the framework of ownership and control (see above), I am devoting myself to research new forms of ownership in society and the conditions that generate or suppress them. I am also currently interested in "win-win" ecology or the ways in which conservation can be effected beyond the borders of protected areas and in the environmental consequences of war and terrorism.

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • "Official Seeds, Loose Seeds, and Risk: Transgenic Cotton in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Farmers. " Chapter in R. Herring (ed.), India's Biotechnology (Provisional Title). London: Routledge (2006). 2006
  • "Homeless in the Heartland: American Dreams and Nightmares in Indian Country, " with Lance George. Chapter in Paul Cloke and Paul Milbourne (eds.), International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. London: Routledge (2005). 2006
  • "Negotiating Locality: Decentralization and Communal Forest Management in the Guatemalan Highlands, " with Hannah Wittmann. Human Organization (2005) 64, V. 1:62-74. 2005
  • "Your Park, My Poverty: Using Impact Assessment to Counter the Displacement Effects of Environmental Greenlining. " Ch. 13 in S. Brechin and P. West (eds.), Protected Natural Areas and the Dispossessed. Albany: SUNY Press (2003). 2003
  • "A New Kind of Trouble: Evictions in Eden, " International Social Science Journal 175 (March, 2003): 30-42. 2003
  • "Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment, and Development, " with Shelley Feldman and Louise Silberling, International Social Science Journal 175 (March, 2003): 7-13. 2003
  • "Murphree's Law, " Common Property Resource Digest 60 (March 2002):4-9. 2002
  • "Endangered Humans. " Foreign Policy (May/June):80-81 (reprinted in Spanish-Language Edition of FP (Junio 2002:14-15) and Primicia (May 27, 2002:28-29). 2002
  • Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management. L. Buck, C. Geisler, J. Schelhas, and E. Wollenberg (eds.) Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 2001
  • "Adapting Land Reform to Protected Area Management in the Dominican Republic, " Ch. 5 in L. Buck, C. Geisler, J. Schelhas, and E. Wallenberg (eds.) Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2001
  • "Community-Based Natural Resource Management, " (with Norman Uphoff), CIIFAD Annual Report 2000-2001:117-124. 2001
  • "Rethinking Land Reform in South Africa: An Alternative Approach to Environmental Justice, " with Essy Letsoalo, Social Research Online (2001): 1, 3. 2001
  • "From Refuge to Refugee: The African Case. " with Ragendra de Sousa, Journal of Public Adminstration and Development 21: 159-170 (also appeared as Land Tenure Center Working Paper No. 38 (July, 2000): Madison: University of Wisconsin. 2001
  • Property and Values. C. Geisler, G. Daneker (eds.) Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 2000
  • "Estates of Mind: Culture's Many Paths to Land, " Society and Natural Resources, " 13:51-60. 2000
  • "Property Pluralism. " Pp. 65-86 in Property and Values by C. Geisler and D. Daneker (eds.) Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 2000