David Lansing
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009
Assistant Professor
Office:
 211-C Sondheim Hall
Phone:
 410-455-2971
Email Address:
 dlansing@umbc.edu
Homepage:
 http://lansing.weebly.com
Research Interests:
 Human/environment interactions; political economy of climate change; environmental policy; agrarian change; social theory
Recent Research Activities:
1) Carbon offset policy development
2) Discourse and practice in climate change policy
3) Smallholder/plantation interactions
4) Carbon markets and the political economy of agrarian change

Recent Publications:

Lansing DM. Forthcoming. Realizing carbon's value: discourse and calculation in the production of carbon forestry offsets in Costa Rica. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

Lansing DM. 2010. Carbon's calculatory spaces: the emergence of carbon offsets in Costa Rica. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(4): 710-725.

Lansing, D. 2009. The spaces of social capital: livelihood geographies and marine conservation in the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area, Honduras. Journal of Latin American Geography 8(1): 29-54.

Lansing D, Bidegaray P, Hansen D, McSweeney K, 2008, Placing the plantation in smallholder agriculture: evidence from Costa Rica. Ecological Engineering 34(4): 358-372.

Recent Presentations:
2009 Lansing, D. Producing Carbon Territories: discourse, agriculture, and value in Costa Rica. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada.

2008 Lansing, D. Carbon’s Calculatory Spaces: the emergence of carbon credits in Costa Rica. Invited presenter for the workshop: “Socioeconomics, Markets and Space: Performing Markets”. Workshop held by Institut für Humangeographie, Universität Frankfurt am Main. October 16-18, 2008. Munich, Germany.

2008 Lansing, D. Carbon’s Calculatory Spaces: the emergence of carbon credits in Costa Rica. 15th Annual Critical Geography Conference. October 3-4, 2008. Athens, Ohio.

2008 Lansing, D. Quasi-markets: understanding the emergence of carbon credits in Costa Rica through actor networks. April 2008. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.

2006 Lansing, D., P. Bidegaray, and D.O. Hansen. The role of plantation wage labor in sustaining smallholder agriculture in the Parismina watershed. March 2006. EARTH University/Ohio State University Joint Conference on Sustainable Agriculture. EARTH University campus, Costa Rica.

2006 Lansing, D. Plantation wage labor and household livelihoods in Costa Rica. March 2006. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago.

2006 Lansing, D. Plantation wage labor and household livelihoods in Costa Rica. February 2006. The Ohio Latin American Studies Conference. Columbus, Ohio.
Courses Taught:
Environmental Policy; Introduction to Human Geography