Mark N. Lubell
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Dr. Lubell is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. He studies collective-action problems in theory, lab, and field settings using quantitative and qualitative empirical methods.
His publications include the MIT Press book, Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management (2005), as well a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals: "Collective Action, Environmental Activism, and Air Quality Policy," Political Research Quarterly (2006); "Collective Action and Citizen Responses to Global Warming," Political Behavior (2007); and "Ecological Development and Global Climate Change: A Cross-National Study of Kyoto Protocol Ratification," Society & Natural Resources (2007). Other recent publications by Dr. Lubell are "Political Institutions and Conservation by Local Governments," Urban Affairs Review (2005) and "Familiarity Breeds Trust: Collective Action in a Policy Domain," The Journal of Politics (2007).
Dr. Lubell has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on several research grants, including "Farmer Cooperation in California Watershed Groups," sponsored by the California Policy Research Center; "Laboratory Models of Cultural Evolution: Fitting Theoretical Models to Experimental Data," "EITM: Cultural Evolution and Human Behavior: Linking Theory and Empirical Research," and "Collaborative Research on Institutions and Land-Use Politics," all sponsored by the National Science Foundation; and a Russell Sage Foundation grant to explore "Trust and Watershed Management."
His awards include Distinguished University of California, Davis Educator (2006), the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, and a nomination for the Excellence in Education Award from the Associated Students of the University of California, Davis Academic Affairs Commission (2005).
Dr. Lubell received his Ph.D. in political science in 1999 and his master of arts in political science in 1996, both from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1993 he was granted his bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of California, San Diego.