Travis Wagner
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- Ph.D., Public Policy, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Concentration, The George Washington University
- M.P.P., Environmental Policy Concentration, University of Maryland-College Park
- B.S., Environmental Science, Unity College in Maine
Travis received his B.S. in environmental science at Unity College in Maine. His focus was wildlife management; however, his experiences with counting rabbit scat in the unorganized territories of Maine erased his grand ideas of a wildlife management career. Immediately following graduation, Travis accepted an internship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Toxic Substances in Washington, DC. He quickly found his niche - environmental policy and management. Travis worked for a series of environmental firms focusing on a variety of environmental projects including solid and hazardous waste policy development; contaminated site remediation; pollution prevention; and regulatory compliance. Travis has also taught environmental policy and written and spoken about various aspects of waste management and pollution control. Since leaving Unity, he has lived in Washington, DC; Raleigh, NC; Würzburg, Germany; Kaiserslautern, Germany; and New Bern, NC. Having become satiated with environmental consulting, and having relished his teaching experience, Travis decided to return to graduate school fulltime to fulfill his dream of teaching college.
Dr. Wagner is the coordinator for the minor in environmental sustainability and is the faculty advisor for Kappa Alpha Omicron, the national honor society for Interdisciplinary Environmental Science and Studies.
Research Interests
My research interests focus on sustainable material use through the identification and evaluation of model environmental policy programs with special emphasis on applying extended producer responsibility and product stewardship frameworks to divert, recapture, and recycle waste. My other interest is researching historical evolution of environmental policies.
Recent Publications
Wagner, T.P. (2012). Examining the concept of convenient collection: an application to extended producer responsibility and product stewardship frameworks. Waste Management (in press).
Wagner, T.P. (2011). Compact fluorescent lights and the impact of convenience and knowledge on household recycling rates. Waste Management, 31:1300-1306.
Bouvier, R., Wagner, T.P. (2011). The influence of collection facility attributes on household collection rates of electronic waste: The case of televisions and computer monitors. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 55(11): 1051-1059.
Wagner, T., Sanford, R. (2010). Environmental science: active learning laboratories and applied problem sets, 2nd ed. New York, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Wagner, T.P. (2009). Shared responsibility for managing electronic waste: A case study of Maine, USA. Waste Management, 29(12): 3014-3021.
Wagner, T. (2007). Reframing garbage: solid waste policy formulation in Nova Scotia, Canadian Public Policy, (33)4.
Wagner, T. (2008). Reframing ecotage as ecoterrorism: news and the discourse of fear. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 2(1):25-39.
Wagner, T., Langley-Turnbaugh, S. (2008). Case study: examining the contribution of historical sources of lead in urban soils in Portland, Maine, USA. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 54(4).
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