Curriculum Vitae
Robert G. Healy
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A116A Lev Sci Res Ctr
Durham, NC 27708+1 919 613 8025 (office)
(email)
- Education
PhD University of California, Los Angeles 1972 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1968 M.A. University of Chicago 1966 B.A., summa cum laude University of California, Los Angeles 1965
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- El Colegio de Mexico
- Fulbright Senior Specialist, June 2004
- Duke University
- Director, Center for North American Studies, 2000-2003
- Teaches courses in land use policy and in U.S. and international environmental policy.
- Director, Center for International Studies, 1994-1997
- Director, Center for World Environment and Sustainable Development, 1991-1994
- Professor of Resource and Environmental Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, 1990 - present
- Professor of Public Policy Studies, Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, 1990 - present
- Director, Duke Center for Resource and Environmental Policy Research, 1988-1998
- The Conservation Foundation
- Senior Associate, 1975-1987
- Conducted and managed research with emphasis on natural resources, land-use and environmental regulation, and the economic effects of public policies
- Resources for the Future
- Research Associate, 1973-1974
- Conducted studies of the origins and implementation of comprehensive state land-use controls
- The Urban Institute
- Economist, 1970-1973
- Research on the role of agglomeration economies in urban and regional growth
- Graduate School of Business Administration, UCLA
- Post-Graduate Researcher, International Housing Productivity Study, 1967-1970
- Studies of the effects of housing on health, worker productivity, educational performance. Performed field work in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and U.S. poverty communities
- Visiting Positions
- Visiting Professor, McGill University, Fall 1996
- Visiting Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, Fall 1995
- Visiting Professor of Resource and Environmental Policy, Duke University, Fall 1985
- Visiting Professor of Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981-1982, Winter 1984
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Spring 1975
- Visiting Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, Fall 1995
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Best Dissertation Award, Western Regional Association
Phi Beta Kappa, 1965
- Professional Service
- A&S Council
- Member, Academic Council, 1988-1990; 1997-2000
- Univ Services
- Chair, Resource Economics and Policy Program
- Member, Steering Committee, Duke University Center for Tropical Conservation
- Chair, University Library Advisory Committee, 2002-2003
- Co-chair, Committee on Environment in Latin America, 1992-2003
- Chair, Resource Economics and Policy Program, 1988-1990, 1993-1995, 1998-2001
- Co-led international development seminars for senior bureaucrats from developing countries, 1987-1989
- Project Director, CF/Duke Training Project, 1986-1988
- Other
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Planning Literature, 1986 - present
- Member, HUD Secretary's Task Force on Housing Costs
- Member, Development Project Selection Committee, Oxfam-America
- Member, Subcommittee on Land Use, U.S. State Department Advisory Committee for U.N. Habitat Conference
- Member, Committee on Southern Trade, Southern Growth Policies Board
- Member, Steering Committee, Project on Industrial Policy and the Environment
- Consultant, Consulting Services
- Member, Commission on Environmental Strategy and Planning
- Member, Committee on Use of Cost Benefit Analysis for Corps of Engineers Water Resources Projects, 2002-2003
- Member, Committee on Scientific Criteria for Federal Acquisition of Land for Conservation, 1990-1992
- Associate Editor, Policy Sciences, 1988-1989
- Project Director, Mexico/Central America Environmental Reconaissance, 1986
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Planning Association, 1984-1988
- Project Director, Southern Land Use Project, 1982-1985
- Project Director, Industrial Futures Project, 1980-1981
- Project Supervisor, Rural Land Film, 1980-1981
- Project Director, Future of Agricultural Project, 1979-1980
- Project Director, Rural Land Market Project, 1978-1981
- Project Director, California Coastal Zone Commission Project, 1976-1978
- Lectures
- Conferences:
- "Ecotourism, National Parks and Rural Development in Latin America, paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 1995
- "The Role of Tourism in Sustainable Development", Paper presented at World Parks Conference, Caracas, February 1992
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2008/04/02

