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Troy Abel
Dr. Abel has specialized in the field of environmental politics, including risk assessment, climate, environmental justice, governance, and polycentrism in environmental decision-making.
He has regional and international specialization of focus including areas of the western United States, U.S.-Canada border regions, and rainforest systems of Costa Rica. Dr. Abel has developed geo-spatial mapping tools, including for toxic trends mapping and their mobile applications.
Troy is a professor of Environmental Policy at Western Washington University in Poulsbo, Washington.
He is co-author of the award-winning book, Coming clean: information disclosure and environmental performance (MIT Press, 2011) which was the winner of the 2012 Lynton Caldwell Prize from the American Political Science Association as the best book on environmental politics.
His analytical work is widely
published in scholarly journals including the journal Sustainability, Environmental
Management, Review of Policy Research, Human Ecology Review,
and American Behavioral Scientist.
His externally funded research has been supported on several projects by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s program in Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving, also by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) program in Decision, Risk, and Management Science.
