Associate Professor of Sociology
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

 

Research Approach

As a social science researcher, I specialize in multiple research methodologies: surveys, spatial analysis, interviews, focus groups, and mixed methods.

I manage large interdisciplinary research teams including biologists, engineers, hydrologists, and other natural scientists to answer questions about how humans interact with the natural environment.

 
 

Agriculture and Environment

Within my study of agriculture and food systems, I have examined the impact of a transformation towards market-based environmental regulation and barriers to adopting new conservation behaviors. View Projects →

 
 

Resource Dependency

Within my study of resource-dependent rural communities, I have examined the role of natural amenities in driving rural population growth and second-home development and the impact of these population and housing changes on communities and resource management. View Projects →

 
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Minority Stakeholders in Environment Management

I examine minority stakeholders in environmental management. Much of this research has focusedon the engagement of Vietnamese American fishers with state and federal resource management agencies on the US Gulf Coast. Vietnamese Americans are responsible for over 50% of the US Gulf Coast shrimping industry and have endured the recent traumas of Hurricane Katrina and the BP Macondo oil spill. These crises highlighted the vulnerabilities of these minority stakeholders and breaks in engagement of local, state, and federal resource management agencies tasked with engaging and regulating fishing stakeholders. View Projects →

 

Rebecca L. Schewe
426 Eggers Hall
Center for Policy Research
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244

rlschewe@syr.edu

(315) 443-9894

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