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EERC ~ Staff - Rosalyn McKeown

Rosalyn McKeown

Rosalyn McKeown-Ice

Director
Center for Geography and Environmental Education
Energy, Environment and Resources Center
University of Tennessee
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
Phone: 865-974-4251
Fax: 865-974-1838
mckeowni@utk.edu






Ph.D. and M.A., Geography, University of Oregon.
A.B., Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.


Dr. McKeown's interests focus on developing a framework for education for sustainability and on assessing the environmental literacy of undergraduate students. As part of her assessment efforts, Dr. McKeown has developed and validated frameworks for teaching environmental issues and the socio-political-cultural foundations of environmental education. She has also directed curriculum development efforts in water and solid waste management education.

Dr. McKeown is Secretariat for the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair on Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability, York University, and Co-Director for the Tennessee Solid Waste Education Project. She is Secretary of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) and former president of the Tennessee Environmental Education Association (TEEA).

Dr. McKeown is a member of the National Council for Geographic Education as well as the NAAEE, and TEEA.

Her hobbies are canoeing and writing.





Selected Publications

Jack Barkenbus, "Reconciling Trade and Environment in East Asia," in International Environmental Cooperation (Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2002).

Jack Barkenbus, "APEC and the Environment: Civil Society in an Age of Globalization," AsiaPacific Issues, March 2001.

Jack Barkenbus, "Soft Tools for Environmental Management: The Role of Information," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 13(4), Winter 1998.

Jack Barkenbus, Gary A. Davis, and Catherine A. Wilt, "Extended Product Responsibility: A Tool for a Sustainable Economy," Environment, September 1997.