John G. Hintz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography

Department of Geography and Geosciences

BloomsburgUniversity

400 East Second Street

Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301

office: 244 Hartline Science center

voice (570)389-4140

fax     (570)389-3028

email jhintz@bloomu.edu

“I think we are fools to turn from the superhuman beauty of the world and dredge our own minds.”

-Robinson Jeffers

Research Interests Nature ↔ Society  Environmental Pragmatism Political Economy and Political Ecology Animals and wildlife conservation  Charismatic Megafauna Environmental Policy

Teaching Areas/Specialties Natural Resources Management  Environmental Politics Environmental and Ecological Ethics GIS/Computer Mapping  North America World Cultural and Political Geography

Education  

Ph.D. Geography, University of Kentucky, 2005. Dissertation: Pragmatism and the Politics of Rewilding Nature: The Case of Grizzly Bear Reintroduction in Idaho.

M.S. Geography, University of Idaho, 1998. Thesis: Population, Migration and High Amenity Landscapes in the Northwest United States.

B.S. Geography, Florida State University, 1988.

Courses I teach at BU:

Geography 102: World Cultural Geography

Geography 105: Environmental Issues and Choices

Geography 260: Geographic Information Systems I

Geography 302: Land Resources Management

Geography 3XX: Conservation GIS (new course: planned for Spring 2009)

Recent Publications:

Essays in Refereed Journals

2007                            “Some Political Problems for Rewilding Nature,” Ethics, Place and Environment  10(2), forthcoming (June)

2007                            “Response to Woods: On with the debate (but let’s be careful with those swords),” Ethics, Place and Environment 10(2), forthcoming (June)

2006                            “Grizzly Bear Reintroduction in Idaho, or, It isn’t Just the Bitterroot Ecosystem,” Pennsylvania Geographical Society, Proceedings of Annual Meeting 13, p. 8-9.

2003                            “Grizzly Conservation and the Nature of Essentialist Politics,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15(4), p. 140-162.

Refereed Book Chapters

2007                            Six entries: “Berry, Wendell”; “Deep ecology”; “Discourse”; “The Social Construction of Nature”; “Pragmatism,” “Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA - U.S. – 1974)”; in Paul Robbins (ed.) Encyclopedia of Society and Environment (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage). (forthcoming, May 2007)

2005                            “The Role of Wilderness and Public Land Amenities in Explaining Migration and Rural Development in the American Northwest,” in Gary Green (editor), Amenities and Rural Development: Theory, Methods, and Public Policy (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar). Third author with Christy Dearien and Gundars Rudzitis.

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