Mark Lawrence (Ph.D. Geography, 1997) has assisted community planning efforts with the Indigenous Environmental Network, the University of Iowa Center for International and Comparative Studies, UI’s Center for International Rural and Environmental H
...MoreMark Lawrence (Ph.D. Geography, 1997) has assisted community planning efforts with the Indigenous Environmental Network, the University of Iowa Center for International and Comparative Studies, UI’s Center for International Rural and Environmental Health, the Stanley Foundation, the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, the State of Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Rebirth of the Land of Siberia, the University of Ibadan, the Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research, Global Service Corps, Zimbabwe Workcamps, and in Kenya especially the Masongaleni Community Organisation for Sustainable Development and the Uongozi Centre for NGO Studies, Leadership and Management. Lawrence’s fieldwork examines leadership ethnography, indigenous environmental knowledge, environmental contexts of rural women’s health and work, land tenure issues in ecologically at-risk regions, and “participatory GIS”. Teaching land use and regional planning at Bemidji State University with a growing interest in urban biodiversity, Lawrence has also taught at Des Moines Area Community College, Grinnell College, Iowa State University, and Northwest Missouri State University. Regularly contributing to the Summer Symposium on Community, Work, and Community Support at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lawrence is now teaching on sabbatical at the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, Germany.
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Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
