Elizabeth De Santo is Associate Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Franklin & Marshall College, based in the Department of Earth and Environment. She is an environmental policy and governance scholar focused in coastal and marine environmental management. Her interdisciplinary academic background brings together human geography and environmental law (PhD, University College London), international relations (MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science), coastal environmental management (MEM, Duke University), and marine zoology (BA Hons., Connecticut College). Elizabeth's teaching and research critically examine: (1) the efficacy and equity implications of spatial approaches to conserving marine species and habitats (e.g., Marine Protected Areas and Marine Spatial Planning), and (2) mechanisms for improving the science-policy interface in environmental decision-making.
Prior to joining F&M, Elizabeth taught in the Marine Affairs Program and College of Sustainability at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has also held positions with the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and the World Environment Center, consultancies with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada and the Institute for European Environmental Policy, and she is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She is on the Editorial Board of Marine Policy and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.
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Prior to joining F&M, Elizabeth taught in the Marine Affairs Program and College of Sustainability at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has also held positions with the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and the World Environment Center, consultancies with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada and the Institute for European Environmental Policy, and she is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She is on the Editorial Board of Marine Policy and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.
Click on the links at the top of this page to learn more about her research and teaching and to find links to her publications.
Citations are available here: Google Scholar Profile
Latest News:
15 October 2023 - Opinion piece published in The Hill:
Reducing carbon emissions can't come at the expense of our oceans
We face a consequential choice: Will we finally protect the unique and fragile organisms found in the largest and least disturbed ecosystem on Earth? Or, in an attempt to curb the damage already caused by fossil fuels, will we destroy these species and habitats they depend upon before we have even discovered them?