Jeff’s research focuses on human-environment relations, particularly around questions of wildlife conflict, land use change, and rural political economy. He is currently completing a dissertation project on conflict over gray wolf conservation, livestock predation, and public lands grazing in Central Idaho. Other interests include complexity and scientific method, worldbuilding and speculative fiction, and radical politics and strategy.

Publications:

Martin. In press. “Between Scylla and Charybdis: Environmental governance and illegibility in the American West.” Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.08.015.

Martin, et al. 2019. “Revisiting and revitalizing political ecology in the American West.” Geoforum. 107: 227-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.006.

Wesner, et al. 2019. “Left Coast Political Ecology: A Manifesto.” Journal of Political Ecology. 26(1): 529-544. https://doi.org/10.2458/v26i1.23539.