Valerie Rountree Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies, Faculty Experts
About
Raised in the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Rountree has lived in the Southwest since 2010 – first in Arizona and now Southern California. She has long been interested in understanding complex human-environment relations and grown increasingly passionate about addressing climate change as demonstrated through her teaching, research, and socio-political activism.
Dr. Rountree's teaching and research broadly relate to environment-society relationships – how our actions as individuals and societies impact the environment and how the environment impacts society in turn. More specifically, Dr. Rountree's work centers on issues related to climate change and energy, especially those dealing with climate change mitigation, policy- and decision-making, stakeholder participation, and renewable energy resources.
Most recently, Dr. Rountree has worked with undergraduate environmental and policy students at Redlands on research projects related to: Just energy transitions; California renewable energy policy design and implementation; California’s new mandate for residential compost programs; and estimating the CO₂ equivalent emissions from turfgrass maintenance in Southern California.
Education
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Ph.D., Natural Resource Studies, University of Arizona
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M.S., Natural Resource Studies, University of Arizona
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B.S., Biology, University of Puget Sound
Professional Background
- University of Redlands, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, 2018-Present
Publications
Rountree, V., Baldwin, E., & Hanlon, J. (2021). A Review of Stakeholder Participation in Water and Renewable Electricity: Does the Resource Context Matter? Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1-16.
Rountree, V. (2019). Nevada’s Experience with the Renewable Portfolio Standard. Energy Policy, 129, 279-291. Rountree, V., & Baldwin, E. (2018).
State-Level Renewable Energy Policy Implementation: How and Why Do Stakeholders Participate? Frontiers in Communication, 3, 6.
Baldwin, E., Rountree, V., & Jock, J. (2018). Distributed resources and distributed governance: Stakeholder participation in demand side management governance. Energy Research & Social Science, 39, 37-45.
Guido, Z., Finan, T., Rhiney, K., Madajewicz, M., Rountree, V., Johnson, E., McCook, G. (2017). The Stresses and Dynamics of Smallholder Coffee Systems in Jamaica's Blue Mountains: A Case for the Potential Role of Climate Services. Climatic Change, 1-14.
Gerlak, A. K., Guido, Z., Vaughan, C., Rountree, V., Greene, C., Liverman, D., ... & Jacobs, K. L. (2017). Building a framework for process-oriented evaluation of Regional Climate Outlook Forums. Weather, Climate, and Society
Awards and service
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2022 Faculty Award for Outstanding Writing Instruction
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2022 Voices for Science advocacy fellowship, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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2018 Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, University of Arizona
Areas of Expertise
- Renewable energy
- Climate change mitigation policies and practices
- Environmental policy- and decision-making
- Stakeholder engagement practices
- Sustainability
- Natural resources
- Climate adaptation