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Nathan Sayre
Assistant Professor |
| Assistant Professor Nathan Sayre joined our Faculty as of July 1, 2004 as a human geographer with interests in the transformation and management of the earth's environment. He brings to our program an expertise in the management and ecology of rangelands, social theory and the transformations of Western rangelands under the influence of livestock production, urbanization and conservation. Prior to coming to Berkeley he was a Post-doctoral Research Associate with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is currently completing a book on the Malpai Borderlands Group, a community-based conservation effort led by ranchers in far southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. His current research focuses on the political ecology or rangelands along the border in northwestern Mexico. Professor Sayre's teaching interests and philosophy reflect a broad training in the social sciences and more specialized expertise in Western environmental history, range ecology and management, and pastoralism. Future courses may include: history of environmental thought, nature and culture, conservation geography, ecology and economics in Western environmental history, philosophical and methodological issues in human and cultural geography, and field study. |
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Interests: Ranching and pastoralism, rangeland ecology and management, history of range science, endangered species, scale in ecology and geography, the state, Western environmental history, and urbanization/land use change. Recent publications: Forthcoming. Scale. Invited chapter in Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Bruce Rhoads, and Diana Liverman, eds. A Companion to Environmental Geography. Blackwell Publishing. The Ranching and Mining Period. Desert Plants (special issue on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, edited by Conrad Bahre, 2007. Climax and "Original Capacity": Ecological Restoration in the Southwestern USA. In Marcus Hall, ed. Restoria: Renewing the Land, Recovering the Past. Book manuscript under review, MIT Press, in preparation. A History of Working Landscapes: The Altar Valley, Arizona, USA. Rangelands (June): 41-45, 2007. The Western Range: A Leaking Lifeboat for Conservation in the New West. In Laura Pritchett, Richard L. Knight, and Jeff Lee, eds. Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works. Denver: Johnson Books, 2007. Working Wilderness: the Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range. Tucscon: Rio Nuevo Press, 2005. forthcoming “Ecological and geographical scale: parallels and potential for integration.” Progress in Human Geography. 29(3): 276-290, 2005. “Interacting effects of landownership, land use, and endangered species on conservation of Southwestern rangelands.” Conservation Biology. 19(3): 783-792, 2005. “Viewpoint: The need for qualitative research to understand ranch management.” Journal of Range Management. 57: 668-674, 2004. “Recognizing History in Range Ecology: 100 Years of Science and Management on the Santa Rita Experimental Range.” Pp. 1-15 in Mitchel P. McClaran, Peter F. Ffolliott and Carleton B. Edminster, tech. coords. Santa Rita Experimental Range: 100 Years (1903-2003) of Accomplishments and Contributions; conference proceedings; 2003 October 30-November 1; Tucson, AZ. Proc. RMRS-P-30. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2003. “The Genesis of Range Science, with Implications for Pastoral Development Policy” (lead author, with Maria Fernandez-Gimenez). Pp. 1976-1985 in N. Allsopp, A.R. Palmer, S.J. Milton, K.P. Kirkman, G.I.H. Kerley, C.R. Hurt, and C.J. Brown, eds. Proceedings of the VIIth International Rangeland Congress. 26 July-1 August 2003, Durban, South Africa, 2003. Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002 “Transformations of the Chihuahua Borderlands: Grazing, Fragmentation, and Biodiversity Conservation in Desert Grasslands.” With Charles Curtin (lead author) and Benjamin Lane. Environmental Science and Policy 5: 55-68, 2002. The New Ranch Handbook: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands. Santa Fe: The Quivira Coalition, 2001. “The Cattle Boom in Southern Arizona: Towards a Critical Political Ecology.” Journal of the Southwest 41(2): 239-271, 1999. |