Eric Compas

Lecturer
Political ecology, protected areas, human-environment relations, GIS

Contact Details Office: Room 303 Social Sciences North Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Email: eric.compas@flinders.edu.au Phone: (08) 8201 2244 (in Australia); (618) 8201 2244(outside Australia) Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia); (618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)

Qualifications

BA Geography, Physics, and German (University of Missouri-Columbia)
MA Geography (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Positions Held

Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
Instructor, Geography Department, University of Wisconsin-Madiison

Current Teaching

• GEOG 3013- Geographical Information Systems
• ENVS 1702/1702A - Environment, Economy and Culture
• ENVS 3723/GEOG 8002- Political Ecology
• ENVS 7005 Industry Placement

Research interests

• Politics and science in land-use planning around protected areas
• Protected area management
• Linking human development patterns to ecological patterns and processes
• Agency of nature within environmental conflict

Publications

Peer-reviewed

• Compas, E. In review. Measuring exurban change in the American West: a case study in Gallatin County, Montana, 1973-2004, Landscape and Urban Planning.
• Compas, E. In review. Murky waters: Media reporting of marine protected areas in South Australia, Marine Policy.
• Hay, I. and Compas, E. 2006, 'Ecological imperialism' (entry) in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Environmental Studies, Paul Robbins (ed.), Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
• Compas, E. In preparation. 'Retooling' for the New West: Local environmental groups, regime theory and land-use planning, Environment and Planning A.
• Clarke, B., Compas, E., Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 2005. Investigating the effectiveness of a proposed marine protected area in a region of rapid urban expansion: some preliminary observations, South Australian Geographervol. 104, pp. 64-76.
• Compas, E. & Sugumaran, R. 2004, 'Urban growth modeling on the web: A decision support tool for community planners', in Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences, St. Louis, MO, pp. 255-269.
• Batek, M. J., Rebertus, A. J., Schroeder, W. A., Haithcoat, T. L., Compas, E. & Guyette, R. P. 1999, 'Reconstruction of early nineteenth-century vegetation and fire regimes in the Missouri Ozarks', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 397-412.

  Other

• Compas, E. 2001, Land ownership changes on the upper Yellowstone River valley, Montana: A geographic analysis. Unpublished Masters, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
• Salter, Christopher and Eric Compas (eds) 2000, The Ashland project: The geography of change in a small town. Department of Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia.
  
  Last updated 22/1/07