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Mark W. Anderson

Office: 305 Winslow Hall

Phone: (207) 581-3198

Email: mark_anderson@umit.maine.edu

Senior Instructor in Resource Economics and Policy

M.S. Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maine

A.B. Government, Bowdoin College

Research Areas

Recreation and Land Management; Ecological Economics; Higher Education Assessment; Values in Sustainability Science

Mark Anderson is a Senior Instructor in the school; he was Coordinator of the undergraduate program in Ecology and Environmental Sciences for over twenty years.  He started his career at UMaine in 1980 and has served in various administrative positions, including Associate Director for Administration of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs, and Interim Chief Financial Officer.  He has been a full time member of the faculty since 2003.

His teaching includes an introductory course designed to meet the UMaine general education requirement in population and the environment, an introduction to resource and environmental economics and policy, environmental management, and the capstone course in the Ecology and Environmental sciences program.   He was chosen for the Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture in 2008.

His research in recent years includes work on the economics of land conservation and recreation management and research on the measurement of learning outcomes in higher education. He is a core faculty member in the Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) and is the SSI Graduate Student Coordinator.  He is also the UMaine respresentation to the Orono Bog Boardwalk management committee.

Mark W. Anderson Vita March 2013

Mark Anderson’s SSI Web Page

Mark Anderson LinkedIn

Syllabi

Fall 2013

• ECO 479 — Land Use Planning — Fall 2013
• EES 489 — Critical Issues in Environmental Policy — Syllabus–2013

May 2013

• EES100 — Human Population and the Global Environment

Fall 2012

• ECO 582 – Human Dimensions of Global Change (PDF)
• EES 489 — Critcal Issues in Environmental Policy
• ECO 590 — Readings in Sustainability Science

Spring 2012

• EES 100 – Human Population and the Global Environment (PDF)
• ECO 479 – Land Use Planning (PDF)
• EES 400 – Senior Paper in EES (PDF)

Fall 2010

• EES 100 – Human Population and the Global Environment (PDF)
• EES 397 – Energy and the Environment
• EES 400 – Senior Paper in EES
• EES 489 – Critical Issues in Environmental Policy (PDF)
• NFA 117 – Issues and Opportunities (PDF)
• REP 371 – Introduction to Natural Resource Economics and Policy (PDF)

Selected Publications & Presentations

• Time: How Do Futurists Perceive It?
• Procedures for Evaluating the Potential Regional Economic Impacts of Conservation Lands in the 100 Mile Wilderness Region
• Two Pigs From Maine: Reflections on Authenticity in Regional Literature
• Report prepared for Maine Land Use Regulation Commission — “Review of Report by Dr. John Daigle, ‘Impact of Plum Creek Petition for Rezoning and Concpet Plan on Recreation Resources in the Plan Area’”
• Reducing Your Footprint: A Handbook for Reducing Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions
• LURC and First Principles of Land Use Regulation from Maine Policy Review, Volume 16, Number 2.
• Our Environment A Glimpse at What Mainers Think — Maine Policy Review with M. Teisl and C. Noblet.
• An empirical test of anchoring the NEP scale in environmental ethics, with C. Noblet and M. Teisl in Environmental Education Research.
• Weaving the Environment into the College Curriculum, Keynote address at Maine Maritime Academy fall semester faculty meeting, August 31, 2012.
• UMaine Center for Teaching Excellence workshop presentation with Ted Coladarci:  CETA workshop on Multiple-Choice Testing Assesment
•  Testimony before Searsport, Maine Planning Board:   Property Value and Tourism Impacts of Proposed LPG Tank Development in Searsport 1-17-2012

Entries in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability (used by permission, Berkshire Publishing)

• Anderson, Mark W. (2011). National Environmental Policy Act. In Klaus Bosselmann, Daniel Fogel, and J. B. Ruhl (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 3: The Law and Politics of Sustainability, pp. 393 – 395. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.

• Anderson, Mark W. (2012).NewEcologicalParadigm(NEP)Scale. In Daniel Fogel, Sarah Fredericks, Lisa Harrington, & Ian Spellerberg (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 6: Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability, pp. 260 – 262. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.

• Anderson, Mark W. (2012). Economics, Steady State.  In Ian Spellerberg & Daniel Vasey (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 10: The Future of Sustainability, pp. 78-85. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.

• Anderson, Mark W. and Mario Teisl. (2012). Values. In Ian Spellerberg & Daniel Vasey (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 10: The Future of Sustainability, pp.212-218. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.  Forthcoming.

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