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Thomas Princen
Associate Professor
Environmental Policy and Planning
Cross-cutting
About
Thomas Princen, PhD, explores ecological and economic sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order and The Logic of Sufficiency(both published by the MIT Press).
Publications
Princen, Thomas, Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change, Past, Present, Future, forthcoming, MIT Press.
Princen, Thomas, Jack P. Manno, Pamela L. Martin, eds., Ending the Fossil Fuel Era, MIT Press, 2015.
De Young, Raymond and Princen, The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift, MIT Press, 2012.
Princen, Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order, MIT Press, 2010/2013.
Princen, The Logic of Sufficiency, MIT Press, 2005.
Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca, eds., Confronting Consumption, MIT Press, 2002.
Princen and Matthias Finger, Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking the Local and the Global, Routledge, 1994.
Education
PhD, Harvard University (political economy and government)
MPA, Harvard University (public administration)
BA, Ponoma College (biology)