Robert Krueger
Associate Professor of Geography
Director, Worcester Community Project Center
Co-Director, London Project Center
Director, Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program
Office Project Center Building, Second Floor
Telephone +1 508 831 5110
Fax +1 508 831 5485
Education
- Clark University, 2001, Ph.D. (Geography), Dissertation title: Relocating Regulation: Environmental Politics and the Montana Gold Mining Industry
- Clark University, 1998, M.A. (Environmental Science and Policy), Thesis title: Expanding Material Concerns: Environmental Regulation in the Post-War Period
- Vermont Law School, 1992, M.S.L. (Masters in Studies of Environmental Law and Policy)
- Oklahoma State University, 1991, B.S. (Political Science)
Related Links
- http://www.wpi.edu/academics/Majors/ENV/
- http://www.wpi.edu/academics/Depts/IGSD/WCPC/
- http://www.wpi.edu/academics/Research/Sustainability/Home.html
- http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sse/chg
Areas of Interest
My research focuses on developing and applying political economic theory to questions of urban sustainability and economic development and the environment. I take a deliberately interdisciplinary approach to this research by grounding it in in-depth case studies coupled with statistical analysis and, increasingly, collaborations that employ a broader range of approaches (e.g., GIS). I am also interested in examining economic theory from a critical cultural perspective. Why do we think about economic policy and development the way we do? While this research is on the cutting edge of method and theory, I also seek to apply the lessons of my academic work to real social, economic and environmental problems in the Worcester community.
Selected Publications
Books
Krueger, Rob and David Gibbs. 2007. The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban political economy in the US and Europe. New York, Guilford Press.
Guest Edited Journals
Krueger, Rob and Susan Buckingham. 2009. Creative City Scripts, Economic Development and Sustainability. Guest Editorial. The Geographical Review.
Gibbs David and Rob Krueger. 2005. From Sustainability to “Real” Development: Exploring Local Capacities for Sustainable Development. Guest Editorial, Geoforum 36.
Journal Articles
Gibbs, David and Rob Krueger. Forthcoming. Fractures in meta-narratives of development: An interpretive institutionalist account of land use development in the Boston city region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Krueger, Rob. Forthcoming. Smart Growth and Its Discontents: An examination of American and European Approaches to Local and Regional Sustainable Development. Documents d’Analisi Geografica.
Krueger, Rob and David Gibbs. In Press. Changing Development Policy in Competitive Global City Regions: An Interpretive Institutionalist Account in the South East of England. Environment and Planning A.
Evans, James, Phil Jones and Rob Krueger. 2009. Organic regeneration and sustainability: How the credit crunch can save our cities. Local Environment 14:7 683-693.
Krueger, Rob and David Gibbs. 2008. Third Wave Sustainability? Sustainable Development, Smart Growth and Regional Development in the US. Regional Studies.
Krueger, Rob and Lydia Savage. 2007. The Social Reproduction of Sustainable Development? Mediating neo-liberalism and redefining sustainability. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 31(1), pp. 315-333.
Krueger, Rob. 2007. Making Smart Use of a Sewer in Worcester, Massachusetts: A cautionary note on smart growth as an economic development strategy. Local Environment 12(2): 1-18.
Krueger, Rob, Fabio Carrera and Jason Farmer. 2006. Creating Tools for Deliberative Community Planning Through Interdisciplinary Research and Community Engagement, Scholarship in Action: Applied Research for Community Change, 1(1), 51-61.
Krueger, Rob and Julian Agyeman. 2005. Sustainability Schizophrenia or Actually Existing Sustainabilities? The politics and promise of a sustainability agenda in the US. Geoforum 36: 410-417.
Krueger, Rob, Jason Farmer, Fabio Carrera and Dan Benoit. 2005. Community Participation in Planning: Using GIS and public input to map urban change in real time. New England St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Review.
Emel, Jacque and Rob Krueger. 2003. The Precautionary Principle and Natural Resource Development: Local Environment 8:1 3-19.
Krueger, Rob. 2002. [Re]locating Regulation in Montana’s Gold Mining Industry. Environment and Planning A 34:5 867-881.
Krueger, Rob and Lance Schachterle. 2002. Promoting Civic Involvement through Project-Based Learning? Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Interactive Qualifying Projects and the Worcester Community Project Center. Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education. Montreal, Canada.
Tuler, Seth, Tom Webler, and Rob Krueger. 2001. What is a Good Public Participation Process? Five Perspectives from the Public, Environmental Management .27:3, 23-46.
Robbins, Paul and Rob Krueger. 2000. Beyond Bias? The Promise and Limits of Q Method in Human Geography, Professional Geographer 52: 4, 636-648.
Brown, Halina, Brian Cook, Rob Krueger, and JoAnn Shatkin. 1997. Reassessing the History of Hazardous Waste Disposal Policy in the United States: Problem Definition, Expert Knowledge, and Agenda Setting, Risk: Health, Safety and Environment 8:2-49.
Book Chapters
Gibbs, David and Rob Krueger. 2007. Containing the Contradictions of Rapid Development? New Economy Spaces and Sustainable Urban Development in R. Krueger and D. Gibbs (eds) The Sustainable Development Paradox, New York: Guilford Press.
Emel, Jacque, Gavin Bridge and Rob Krueger. 2002. “Earth As Input.” In M. Watts, R.J. Johnson and P Taylor (eds) Geographies of Global Change. London: Blackwell.
Other Publications
Book Chapters/Encyclopedia Entries/Editorials
Krueger, Rob and Susan Buckingham. 2009. Creative City Scripts, Economic Development and Sustainability. Guest Editorial. The Geographical Review.
Krueger, Rob and David Gibbs. 2007. Sustainable Capitalism or Capitalist Sustainabilities? Toward new theories of urban sustainability in R. Krueger and D. Gibbs (eds) The Sustainable Development Paradox, New York: Guilford Press.
Krueger, Rob. 2007. “Institutions.” In the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Paul Robbins (ed). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Gibbs David and Rob Krueger. 2005. From Sustainability to “Real” Development: Exploring Local Capacities for Sustainable Development. Guest Editorial, Geoforum 36: 407-410.
Book Reviews
Krueger, Rob. Forthcoming. A Review of Development Beyond Neoliberalism by David Craig and Doug Porter 2007. Urban Studies.
Krueger, Rob. 2004. A Review of Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously by Kent Portney 2003.Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
Krueger, Rob. 2003. A Review of Sustainable Development: Understanding the Key Debates by Mark Mawhinney, 2002, Local Environment.
Krueger, Rob. 1999. A Review of Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest by Laura Pulido, Arizona 1996. Human Ecology Review Vol. 5(2).
Bratley, Bruce and Rob Krueger. 1996. A Review of Feminism and the Mastery of Nature by Val Plumwood, Routledge 1993. Economic Geography Vol. 4(2).
Awards
(2007) Alden Award for Excellence in Higher Education
(2007) Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Education
(2008) William Meinhofer Award for Faculty Excellence
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