Debra Salazar

Professor

Debra Salazar

Contact Information

Phone: (360) 650-6845
Office: AH 401
Email: Debra.Salazar@wwu.edu
Website: http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/~salazard

Education

  • M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington, College of Forest Resources
  • B.S., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Forestry and Wildland Resource Management

Research Interests

  • Role of social justice in discourse and practice of environmental movement
  • Agricultural pesticide politics
  • Gentrification and environmental justice
  • Immigration politics in the environmental movement

Selected Publications

  • Salazar, D.J. and D.K. Alper.  2011.  Justice and Environmentalisms in the British Columbia and Pacific Northwest Environmental Movements.  Society and Natural Resources 24  9(8):767-784.
  • Salazar, D.J. 2009. Saving Nature and Seeking Justice: Environmental Activists in the
    Pacific Northwest. Organization & Environment 22(2): 230-254.
  • Alper, D.K. and D.J. Salazar. 2005. Identification with Transboundary Places and
    Support for Ecological Transboundary Governance: A Case Study of British Columbia
    Environmental Activists. Journal of Borderland Studies 20(1): 23-43.
  • Salazar, D.J. 2003. Brown Hordes and Green Fears. Witness XVII (2): 144-155.
  • Salazar, D.J. 2003. Border Fetishism and the Environmental Movement. In Donald K.
    Alper and Daniel T. Douthit, BorderBlur: In and Out of Place in British Columbia and
    the Pacific Northwest
    . Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western Washington
    University, Bellingham.
  • Salazar, D.J. and D.K. Alper. 2002. Reconciling Environmentalism and the Left:
    Perspectives on Democracy and Social Justice in the BC Environmental Movement.
    Canadian Journal of Political Science 35(3): 527-566.
  • Salazar, D.J. and J.J. Hewitt. 2001. Think Globally, Secure the Borders: The Oregon
    Environmental Movement and the Population/Immigration Debate. Organization and
    Environment
    14(3): 290-310.
  • Salazar, D.J. and D.K. Alper (editors). 2000. Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific
    Coast: Forging Truces in the War in the Woods
    . Vancouver: University of British
    Columbia Press.
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