Communities need to build greater resiliency to natural and economic disasters; diversify their economies; restore and sustain robust infrastructure; increase the efficiency of community support systems; and identify and implement cost-effective policies.
Faculty Working in this Area
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England
- Past Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Development Economics
- Public Sector Economics
- Community and Regional Economics
- Community and Rural Development
- Comparative Rural Policy
- Institutional and Behavioral Economics
- Resource and Environmental Economics
- Public Scholarship and Civic Engagement in Higher Education
- Email talter@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8640
- Associate Professor of Agricultural & Extension Education
- Director of Graduate Studies for Education, Development, and Community Engagement (EDCE) Graduate Program
Areas of Expertise
- Program Evaluation
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
- Behavior Change Theories and Frameworks
- Social Network Analysis
- Survey Methodology
- Research Methods and Applied Data Analysis
- Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences
- Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental demography
- Socio-Environmental Systems
- Population-infrastructure dynamics
- Spatiotemporal modeling
- Data intensive social sciences
- Email gchi@psu.edu
- Office 814-826-4686
- Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Teacher Preparation
- Experiential Learning
- Email jce122@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7463
- Associate Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
- Global Teach Ag Network Co-Founder
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Teaching and Learning in Agriculture
- Designing Global Learning in Agriculture
- Developing Global Competency in Agriculture Workforce
- School-based agricultural education
- Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
- Director of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Areas of Expertise
- Food Systems Economics
- Economic Growth and Development
- Regional Economics and Policy
- Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Social Stratification
- Demography
- International Development
- Rural Sociology
- Email ljensen@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8642
- Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
Areas of Expertise
- Developing & evaluating intergenerational initiatives in diverse settings.
- Training Extension educators and other professionals in intergenerational programming.
- Establishing intergenerational strategies for civic engagement and environmental design.
- Email msk15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7871
- Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- Senior Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences
- Email lzk68@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5461
- Assistant Professor of Marketing and Local/Regional Food Systems
Areas of Expertise
- Local Food Systems
- Agritourism
- Craft beverage industry
- Value added agriculture
- Farm management
- Economics of Animal and Zoonotic Diseases
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Farm labor
- Illegality
- Gender and Migration
- International Development
- Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives in Agriculture
- Gender and Sustainable Agriculture
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Global Service-Learning
- Research Associate
- Community and Economic Development Graduate Program Coordinator (and Instructor)
- Co-Director of Consumer Services Information System Project
- Co-Director of State Weatherization program Evaluation Project
- Email jxs10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8653
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Demography
- Director of Graduate Studies in Rural Sociology
- Interim Director, Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, Population Research Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Population and environment
- Climate change and health
- International development
- Poverty and inequality
- Migration
- Email bct11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2561
- Assistant Professor, Youth and Adult Leadership, Penn State Extension
Areas of Expertise
- Adult and Youth Leadership Development
- Community Leadership Development
- Volunteerism
- Volunteer Leadership Development
- Needs Assessment Research
- Evaluation
- Email sxk75@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3825
Office for Research and Graduate Education
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217 Agricultural Administration BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802-2600
- Email agresearch@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3136
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- Office 814-865-3136
