Peter A. Walker

Peter Walker has been a faculty member jointly appointed in the University of Oregon's Geography Department and the Environmental Studies Program since 1997. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from U.C. Berkeley in 1986; a master's in public policy from Harvard in 1990; and a Ph.D. in geography from U.C. Berkeley in 1997. He is currently associate professor, and will become full professor in Fall 2011.

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.

Address: Geography Department, 107 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1251

E-mail: pwalker@uoregon.edu

Office phone: 541 346 4541