Environmental Management

Max Nielsen-Pincus, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair

Environmental Science & Management

Portland State University

Contact Information

Faculty Office: Science Research and Teaching Center, Room B1-04e

Chair Office: Science Research and Teaching Center, Room 218

maxnp@pdx.edu or (503) 725-2827

PDXScholar: http://works.bepress.com/max_nielsen-pincus/

Education

PhD Natural Resource Management, University of Idaho (2007)

MA Environmental and Community Studies, Antioch University (2003)

BA Economics, University of Oregon (1997)

BA Business Management, University of Oregon (1997)

Interests

At Portland State University I teach, conduct research, and advise graduate students in the Department of Environmental Science and Management. I am also faculty fellow with the PSU Institute for Sustainable Solutions.

My interests focus on how policy impacts natural resource management and local communities. I am particularly interested in issues such as wildfire risk management, forest and fuels management, ecological restoration, and private land conservation. I use social science science and economic methodologies to study how individuals and institutions make natural resource and environmental management decisions, and the types of economic incentives and social factors that influence decision making. I also work on interdisciplinary projects focused on long-term landscape simulation modeling that integrates biophysical and socioeconomic perspectives to better understand how policy and planning can sustain the ecosystem services provided by landscapes in the Western US.