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Rebecca Johns
Geography
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Geography, Rutgers University, 1994
Email: Dr. Rebecca Johns
Phone: (727) 873-4556

My work encompasses community organizing around economic or environmental issues, problems of cross-border labor organizing, globalization and the labor movement, gender and globalization, Native American cultural conflict, Gender and outsourcing in India, intentional communities as resistance, and globalization and the built environment.

Selected Publications
Johns, Rebecca A., 2005. "The Potential of Geographic Analysis in Solving Environmental Dilemmas.” Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. Vol. VII, No. 2, pgs. 13-33.

Schmidt, Nancy, Mark Luther, and Rebecca Johns. 2004. “Climate variability and estuarine water resources: A case study from Tampa Bay, Florida.” Coastal Management 32(2):101-116.

Johns, Rebecca A., Spring 2003. “Remembering Our Place: Ethical Activism for Scholars” Ethics, Place and Environment.

Johns, Rebecca A. 2001 “Identifying Barriers to Native American Participation in Higher Education,” Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference, vol. 24, edited by Andrew Schoolmaster.

Johns, Rebecca A., 2001. “Arbitration as a Decision-Making Tool: The Tampa Bay Water Case, Southeastern Geographer, 41 (1) pp.117-135.

Johns, Rebecca A., 2000. “Building Unity in a Common Place: Intentional Communities in the United States,” Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, vol. 23, 2000, pages 1-9, edited by Andrew Schoolmaster.

Johns, Rebecca A., and Vural, Leyla, 2000. “Class, Geography and the Consumerist Turn: UNITE and the Stop Sweatshops Campaign”, Environment and Planning A 2000, vol. 32, pgs. 1193-1213.

Courses
Human Geography, Urban Geography, Gender and the City, Political Geography of the United States, Cultural Geography, Global Conservation, Economic Geography, Environmental Perspectives, Exploring Cultural Diversity.

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