Environmental Science

 

Jacque "Jody" Emel, Ph.D.


Graduate School of Geography
Jefferson Academic Center Room 207
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

(508) 793-7317 phone
email: jemel@clarku.edu
Member, George Perkins Marsh Institute

Curriculum Vitae


Professor Jacque "Jody" Emel earned an M.S. in geography from The Pennsylvania State University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in hydrology and water resources from the University of Arizona in 1983. Prior to coming to Clark University, she was an environmental consultant and a water resources planner.  Professor Emel teaches courses in natural resource development, feminist theory and nature, hydrology, and the relationship between economy and environment.  She is the Director of the Global Environmental Studies major.

Courses Offered

Geog 015 Introduction to Hydrology
Geog 090 Native Americans and Natural Resources
Geog 126 Living in the Material World: The Political Geography of Natural Resource Development
Geog 224 Economy and Environment
Geog 237 Feminism, Nature and Culture
Geog 351 Seminar in Resource Geography: Theory and Method

 

Current Research and Teaching

  1. Foreign direct investment in gold mining:  a route to sustainable development?  Funded by the National Science Foundation.
  2. The political ecologies of factory farming.

 

Selected Publications

Animals and Society

J. Emel and Urbanik, J.  2005 "A New Species of Capital" in Lise Nelson and Joni Seager (eds.)  A Companion to Feminist Geography  Blackwell.  pp. 445-457.

Wolch, J. Emel, J. and Wilbert, C. 2003 "Reanimating Cultural Geography" in K. Anderson, M. Domosh, S. Pile, S. Whatmore and N. Thrift (eds.)  Handbook of Gultural Geography  Sage.  pp. 184-206.

Emel, J., Wilbert, C., and Wolch, J.  2003 "Animal Geographies" Society and Animals.  11 (1):  68-74.

Wolch, J. and J. Emel. 1998 Animal Geographies: Politics, Place, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands. Verso Press, London.

Emel, J. 1995 " 'Are You Man Enough, Big and Bad Enough': An Ecofeminist Analysis of Wolf Eradication in the United States" Society and Space: Environment and Planning D 13: 707-734.

Mining

Huber, M. and Emel, J. 2009. "Fixed Minerals, Scalar Politics: The Weight of Scale in Conflicts Over Natural Resources, Ownership and Wealth Distribution". Environment and Planning A 41(2): 371-388.

Emel, J. and Huber, M. 2008. "Risky Business: Mining, Rent and the Neoliberalization of 'Risk'". Geoforum 39(3): 1391-1407.

Emel, J. and R. Krueger. 2003 "Spoken but not Heard:  the promise of the precautionary principle for nattural resource development" Local Envrionment  8(1):  9-25.

Emel, J., Bridge, G. and Krueger, R.  "The Earth as Input:  Resources" Geographies of Global Change (2nd Edition)  Blackwell.  Pp. 377-390.

Emel, J.  2002 "An Inquiry into the Greeen Financial Disciplining of Capital" Environment andPlanning A  34(5):  827-843.

Water Resources

Brooks, E. and J. Emel.  North American LLano Estacado:  Environmental Transformation and Potential for Sustainability.  United Nations University Press.

Emel, J. and R. Roberts  1995 "Institutional Form and Environmental Change: The Case of Groundwater Development on the Southern High Plains" Annals of the Association of American Geographers  85: 686-695.

Roberts, R. and J. Emel  1992 "Groundwater Management in the Southern High Plains: Questioning the Tragedy of the Commons" Economic Geography  68(3): 249-271.

Emel, J., R. Roberts, and D. Sauri  1992 "Ideology, Property, and Groundwater Resources: An Exploration of Relations," Political Geography Quarterly  11(1): 37-54.

Emel, J.  1990 "Resource Instrumentalism, Privatization, and Commodification," Urban Geography  11(6): 527-547.