Teaching and Research Interests

My professional teaching and research interests, in the realms of Human Ecology, encompasses a broad range of issues, processes, and contexts, under transience, and conflict, with �embedded�, open-ended dialogues and creative change processes, in education and applied action research.

To strive to be a force for innovation, positive change, on a life-long continuum, under limits, and challenges, to generate a community of learning, towards analysis, critical reflection, innate eco-management skills, with flexi-multidisciplinary mosaics of learning experiences,for truth, justice, courage, humility, understanding, and empowerment, are a vivid expressions, of mine, in the academic portals of knowledge.

Investigations of Qalitative methods, applied sociological methods, participatory methods, such as-Naturalistic inquiry, Case-study Purposeful sampling, Focus-groups, Participatory Observation, P M & E, Stakeholder analysis, conflict-resolution analysis, SWOT analysis, Environmental-entitlement analysis, participatory indicators of change and a multitude �fitness of function�methodological processes, applied to the disciplines in teaching and research , such as-

HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

LIVELIHOODS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING

PERMACULTURE URBAN DESIGNS

GE vs ORGANIC FOOD MOVEMENTS

ECOLOBBYING AND ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNING

ECO-INTERPRETATION & ECOJOURNALISM

URBAN ECOLOGY AND ECOSUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

ECOTOURISM

LEISURE AND ENVIRONMENT

BIOETHICS LIFESTYLES AND HUMAN ECOLOGY

COMMUNITY FORESTRY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

ETHNO-BOTANY AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

TRANSITIONAL HUMAN COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLE OF PLACES

TRANSHUMAN STRATEGIES AND URBAN ECOLOGY

WILDERNESS ECOLOGY

COMMUNITIES AND THE �LIVING ON THE EDGE SYNDROME�

THE SHADOW ECONOMY OF SURVIVAL AND ENVIRONMENTALISM

DRUGS,ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN ECOLOGY

THE DEEP ECOLOGY, MOVEMENTS AND BELEIFS

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES, NATURAL RESOURCES AND HUMAN ECOLOGY

NEW WAVE ENVIRONMENTALISM- CHALLENGES,BOTTLENECKS,AND PATHWAYS

CREATIVE WRITING AND ECOSUSTAINABILITY AND ECOLAWS.
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