Senior Researcher
Social and Environmental Research Institute
278 Main Street, Suite 404
Greenfield, MA 01301
phone: 413-387-9717
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Department of Environmental Studies
Antioch University - New England
40 Avon Street
Keene, NH 03431
phone: (603) 357-3122 x 2346
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Tom's Antioch webpage

Thomas Webler is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire, USA and a senior researcher at the Social and Environmental Research Institute in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He specializes in bringing local and expert knowledge together in collaborative, democratic ways to produce innovative solutions to problems of environmental management and risk decision-making. He has a self-designed Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) where he specialized in the social dimensions of risk analysis, technology assessment, critical social theory, and public participation. From 1992-1994 he did post-doctoral research on public participation in waste planning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Upon returning to the United States he became the consultant to a U.S. National Research Council committee studying risk communication. That committee published a report titled: Understanding Risk: Informing decisions in a democratic society. He co-authored a book on advances in social science theory in the field of risk studies. The book is titled: Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action (London: Earthscan 2001). In 2006 he was a Fellow of the Breuninger Foundation at the University of Stuttgart on the topic of environmental collaboration. In 2007 he received a Fulbright teaching fellowship to India, where he will lead a course on the human dimensions of conservation biology. Together with his colleague, Seth Tuler, he recently edited special issues of Policy Studies Journal and Human Ecology Review on public participation in environmental decision making. His present research grants focus on empowering community involvement in superfund clean-ups and assessing the vulnerability of fisheries communities to regulatory change.

Tom's CV is available as a pdf download.