Marine Science Institute
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Email: McGinnis@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Project:        Ecological Consequences of Alternative Abandonment Strategies for POCS Offshore Facilities and 

                                                         Implications for Policy Development

 

Education:          B.A.                     Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles                               1985

                             M.A.                    Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara                            1988

                             Ph.D.                   Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara                           1993

 

Positions:          2001-Present      Adjunct Assistant Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and  Management

                             1998-2000            Lecturer, UCSB Environmental Studies Program

                             1996-Present      Co-Director and Founder, The Center for Bioregional Conflict Resolution, Santa Cruz, California

                             1995-Present      Research Political Scientist, Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

                             1994                     Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

                             1992-94                Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon

                             1992-94                Research Associate, Institute for Sustainable Environment, Department of Planning and Public Policy, University of Oregon

                             1991                     Technical Consultant, Santa Barbara County Energy Division

                             1990                     Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Publications: 

Woolley, J.T., McGinnis, M.V., and J. Kellner. 2002. The California watershed movement: Science and the politics of place. Nat. Resour. J. 42(1): 133-183.

Woolley, J.T. and M.V. McGinnis. 2000. The conflicting discourses of restoration. Soc. Natur. Resour. 13(4): 339-357.

McGinnis, M.V. 1999. Bioregionalism:  The Tug and Pull of Place.  London, New York:  Routledge.  231 p.

McGinnis, M.V. 1999. Making the watershed connection. Policy Stud. J. 27(3): 497-501.

McGinnis, M.V., Woolley, J., and J. Gamman. 1999. Bioregional conflict resolution:  Rebuilding community in watershed planning and organizing. Environmental Management 24: 1-12.

Woolley, J.T. and M.V. McGinnis. 1999. The politics of watershed policymaking. Policy Stud. J. 27(3): 578-594.

McGinnis, M.V. 1997. An analysis of the role of ecological science in offshore continental shelf abandonment policy. In:  Proceedings of California and the World Ocean ‘97, Organized and sponsored by Coastal Zone Foundation and Resources Agency of California.  9 pp. 

McGinnis, M.V. 1996. Deep ecology and the foundations of restorations. Inquiry:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 39: 203-217. 

McGinnis, M.V. 1996. Perceptions and restoration ecology:  A comparison of restoration discourses. Inquiry:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.

McGinnis, M.V. 1995. Bioregional organization:  A constitution of home place. Human Ecology Review 2: 72-84. 

McGinnis, M.V. 1995. On the verge of collapse:  The Columbia River system, wild salmon and the Northwest Power Planning Council. Natural Resources Journal 35: 520-552.

McGinnis, M.V. 1994. Collective bads: The case of low-level radioactive waste compacts. Natural Resources Journal 34: 563-588. 

McGinnis, M.V. 1994. Myth, nature and the bureaucratic experience. Environmental Ethics 16: 425-434. 

McGinnis, M.V. 1994. The politics of restocking vs. restoring salmon in the Columbia River Basin. Restoration Ecology 2: 1-7. 

McGinnis, M.V. 1993. Low-level radioactive waste compacts:  Cases in the illogic of collective action. In:  Problems and Prospects for Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy, E.B. Herzik and A. Mushkatel, eds.  Greenwood Press, CT.

McGinnis, M.V. and J.T. Lima. 1993. California ocean use conflict management--An assessment of two integrating approaches.  Pp. 705-722 in:  International Perspective on Coastal and Ocean Space Utilization, P.M. Griffman and J. Fawcett, eds.  University of Southern California Sea Grant, CA.

McGinnis, M.V. and W. Cohan. 1992. Ecology and international studies.  Pp. 245-267 in:  Revealing the World: An Interdisciplinary Reader in International Studies, D Lieberman and M. Gurtow, eds.  Kendall/Hunt Publ. Co.

McGinnis, M.V. 1991. San Luis Obispo’s measure A--check or checkmate? Pp. 119-119 in:  The California Coastal Zone Experience, G.W. Domurat and T.H. Wakeman, eds.  American Society of Civil Engineers, NY, NY.

McGinnis, M.V. 1990. The multiple uses of the ocean and coastal zone offshore California.  California Sea Grant Publication, Working Paper P-T-51. California Sea Grant College Program, CA.

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