Charlotte Clark, Associate Professor of the Practice of Sustainability in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Please note: Charlotte has left the "Sustainability Engagement Certificate" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Clark's primary interest is the intersection of collective learning and collective action. She studies how environmental education can contribute to management of common pool resources, and how informal learning processes engage with behavior change for individuals and communities around environmental issues. She applies these concepts in work around campus sustainability, and leads the Education Subcommittee of Duke's Campus Sustainability Committee. She uses and teaches qualitative research methods, including use of qualitative research software.

Prior to completing her PhD, she worked for 5 years as the Director of the Center for Environmental Education in the Nicholas School, and for 12 years doing air pollution regulatory work under contract for the US EPA.

Areas of interest: environmental education, free-choice learning, sustainability education, qualitative research methods, collective action, community behavior, responsible environmental behavior, informal learning, food/environment intersection

Office Location:	9 Circuit Drive, 3106 Grainger Hall, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3159
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• ENVIRON 245.01, SUSTAINABILITY THEORY/PRACTICE Synopsis

  LSRC A247, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as SUSTAIN 245.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	Duke University	2007
Masters of Environmental Management	Duke University	1983
AB	Duke University	1979

Specialties:

environmental sociology & anthropology
environmental policy
research methodologies & management

Keywords:

Environmental education • Interviews • Open learning • Qualitative Research • Sustainability

Recent Publications

1. Gibson, LM; Busch, KC; Stevenson, KT; Cutts, BB; DeMattia, EA; Aguilar, OM; Ardoin, NM; Carrier, SJ; Clark, CR; Cooper, CB; Feinstein, NW; Goodwin, J; Peterson, MN; Wheaton, M, What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL, Environmental Education Research, vol. 28 no. 10 (January, 2022), pp. 1423-1451 [doi]  [abs]
2. Clark, CR; Heimlich, JE; Ardoin, NM; Braus, J, Using a Delphi study to clarify the landscape and core outcomes in environmental education, Environmental Education Research, vol. 26 no. 3 (March, 2020), pp. 381-399 [doi]  [abs]
3. Clark, CR; Capps, TM, Synergy of the (Campus) commons: Integrating campus-based team projects in an introductory sustainability course, Sustainability, vol. 12 no. 3 (February, 2020) [doi]  [abs]
4. Ahern-Dodson, J; Clark, CR; Mourad, T; Reynolds, JA, Beyond the numbers: understanding how a diversity mentoring program welcomes students into a scientific community, Ecosphere, vol. 11 no. 2 (February, 2020) [doi]  [abs]
5. Cooper, EM; Kroeger, G; Davis, K; Clark, CR; Ferguson, PL; Stapleton, HM, Results from Screening Polyurethane Foam Based Consumer Products for Flame Retardant Chemicals: Assessing Impacts on the Change in the Furniture Flammability Standards., Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 50 no. 19 (October, 2016), pp. 10653-10660 [doi]  [abs]