Patrick Hurley

Collegeville, PA

Patrick T. Hurley has a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, Sciences and Policy. He is currently an associate professor of Environmental Studies at Ursinus College. He has researched nature and landscape conservation in exurban areas of California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, including examining the ways that politics shape planning efforts and their implementation. In South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York he has examined the diverse ways in which urban residents interact with and benefit from the urban forest. Focusing on foraging by residents across the urban-to-rural spectrum has highlighted the many species that support people’s food, medicinal, and resource needs and how theses interactions bring people closer to local ecologies and systems. Recent papers relating to foraging are: Whose urban forest? The political ecology of foraging nontimber forest products. 2015. In Isenhour et al. (editors). Sustainability in the Global City; and McLain, R., P. Hurley, M. Emery, and M. Poe. 2013. Gathering ‘wild’ food in the city. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainablity. 19(2): 220-240.