Office Hours:
Monday
12:30 - 2:30
Wednesday
10:00 - 11:00
and by appointment

Christopher Klyza
Stafford Prof. of Public Policy, Political Science & Envir. Std.
Franklin Environmental Ctr Hillcrest 206
Phone: 802.443.5309
Email: klyza@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Ph.D. (1990) University of Minnesota; M.S. (1983) Duke University; B.S. (1981) Cornell University

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Courses Taught

ENVS/PSCI 0211: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
PSCI 0310: American Public Policy
PSCI 0320: American Political Development
PSCI 0421: Seminar on American Environmental Politics

Research Interests

U.S. Conservation and Environmental Policy
American Political Development
American Public Policy


Recent Publications

Co-author (with David J. Sousa), American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006: Beyond Gridlock, 2008, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2008 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award for best book in environmental politics and policy.

Co-author (with David J. Sousa), “New Directions in Environmental Policy Making: An Emerging Collaborative Regime or Reinventing Interest Group Liberalism?,” 2007, Natural Resources Journal, 47: 377-444.

Co-author (with Andrew Savage and Jonathan Isham), “Local Environmental Groups and the Creation of Social Capital: Evidence from Vermont,” 2006, Society and Natural Resources, 19: 905-919.

Co-author (with Andrew Savage and Jonathan Isham), “The Greening of Social Capital: An Examination of Land-Based Groups in Two Vermont Counties,” 2005, Rural Sociology, 70: 113-131.