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Lab Personnel - Jack Kartez

Professor: Planning, Development, and Environment

Office: 311 Wishcamper, Portland Campus
Telephone: (207) 780-5389

Email: jackk@usm.maine.edu

Professor Kartez (PhD, University of North Carolina) came to the University as implementing director of the new undergraduate Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) Program, an interdisciplinary, collaborative curriculum combining science and public policy. Extensively published, he has served two terms each on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Planning Literature. Professor Kartez works on environmental issues such as mitigating natural and technological hazards and balancing rural resource land uses with community growth. He takes a special interest in incorporating principles of dispute resolution as alternatives to nonproductive conflict in community planning and environmental issues.

Professor Kartez teaches Community Planning Analysis and Land Use Modeling.

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