Timothy J. Downs
Research Assistant Professor

The George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.421.3814 phone
508.793.8820 fax
email: tdowns@clarku.edu

Current Research Interests

Public health imperatives and poverty; environmental justice; risk analysis; vulnerability assessment; impacts assessment; watershed stewardship; water supply and sanitation; sustainable development and capacity building; the Latin American region and transitional countries.

Selected Publications

Downs T.J. 2007. A systematic integrated approach for crafting poverty reduction and sustainable development projects. Natural Resources Forum 31: 35-50.

Downs T.J. and H.J. Larson. 2007. Achieving Millennium Development Goals for health: Building understanding, trust and capacity to respond. Health Policy 83 nos. 2-3: 144-161.

Ross, L. and T.J. Downs. 2006. University-community partnerships to promote environmental health and justice in Worcester, Massachusetts. In Scholarship in Action: Applied Research and Community Change. Washington, DC: HUD Office of University Partnerships.

Downs, T.J. 2002. A participatory integrated capacity-building approach to the theory and practice of sustainability: Mexico and New England watershed case studies. In International Experiences on Sustainability, eds. Leal Filho et al., Chapter 12, 179-205. Bern, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang Scientific Publications.