Gregory Simon

Co-Director and Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences

Gregory is a human-environment geographer interested in the relationship between environmental change and social vulnerability. He is also interested in the production of  misinformation and “lack of knowledge” in environmental decision making. Broadly speaking, his research seeks to (a) detail how environment and development policy objectives are defined rhetorically, substantiated scientifically, organized administratively and negotiated politically; (b) expose program/policy tensions that produce undesirable and inequitable social and ecological outcomes; and (c) describe the emergence of new governance arrangements that reconcile program tensions and produce alternative outcomes.