Peter Walker

Professor

Research Interests

Peter's interests focus on the social and political dimensions of human uses of the physical environment. He served as an agricultural extension agent in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, and has worked extensively in social research in Africa and the American West. His current work examines the relationships between human illness (especially HIV/AIDS) and community and household-level socio-economic and land use change in Malawi (southern Africa); and the politics of land use regulation in the American West. Peter's recent book, co-authored with his former Ph.D. student Patrick Hurley, examines the politics of Oregon's land use laws: Planning Paradise - Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon published by the University of Arizona Press in spring 2011.