14 College
Farm Road
Dept. of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551
Phone: (732) 932-9383
Fax: (732) 932-8746
Email: horowitz@sebs.rutgers.edu
Dr. Horowitz's research, both academic and applied, focuses on the micropolitics of local residents' understandings of environmental issues, and ways that those understandings intersect with the policies and practices of actors such as governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Ultimately, her work can help to find ways for these groups to work together toward environmental conservation. She has addressed these research goals through studies of mining activities in New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil; protected areas in New Caledonia, Malaysia, Madagascar, Australia, and Guatemala; and urban wetlands in the U.S. Specifically, some of her recent and forthcoming publications have examined community responses to an indigenous environmental protest group that targeted a multinational mining company, the environmental dimensions of fundamentalist Christian discourses about a mining project, and ways in which a desire to maintain cultural heritage was and was not compatible with an interest in the economic benefits of ecotourism.
Please see my CV for more details.
Education
B.A. Amherst College, 1994
M.Phil. University of Cambridge, 1996
Ph.D. Australian National University, 2003
Research interests
Socio-cultural and politico-economic dimensions of natural resource
exploitation, biodiversity conservation and climate change.
Fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Melanesia, U.S.A.
Publications
Journal articlesHorowitz, L.S. 2009. Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia. Political Geography 28(4): 248-258.
Horowitz, L.S. 2008. Destroying God's creation or using what He provided?: Cultural models of a mining project in New Caledonia. Human Organization 67(3): 292-306.
Horowitz, L.S. 2008. "It's up to the clan to protect": Cultural heritage and the micropolitical ecology of conservation in New Caledonia. The Social Science Journal 45(2): 258-278.
Horowitz, L. 2006. Editorial: Section 2: Mining and sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production 14(3-4): 307-308.
Horowitz, L. and F. Solomon 2005. Make mine certification: A new co-operative project between mining companies and NGOs is looking to set an exam for mine sites to show they pass muster. Ethical Investor 42 (March 2005): 33.
Horowitz, L.S. 2004. Toward a viable independence? The Koniambo Project and the political economy of mining in New Caledonia. The Contemporary Pacific 16(2): 287-319.
Horowitz, L.S. 2003. La micropolitique de la mine en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de la Société des Océanistes 117(2): 255-271.
Maschia, M.B., J.P. Brosius, T.A. Dobson, B.C. Forbes, L. Horowitz, M.A. McKean, N.J. Turner 2003. Editorial: Conservation and the social sciences. Conservation Biology 17(3): 649-650.
Horowitz, L. 2002. Daily, immediate conflicts: An analysis of villagers’ arguments about a multinational nickel mining project in New Caledonia. Oceania 73(1): 35-55.
Horowitz, L.S. 2001. Perceptions of nature and responses to environmental degradation in New Caledonia. Ethnology 40(3): 237-250.
Horowitz, L.S. 1998. Integrating indigenous resource management with wildlife conservation: A case study of Batang Ai National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Human Ecology 26(3): 371-403.
Book chapters
Horowitz, L.S. in press. « Exploiter » ou « gérer » la création de Dieu ? Modèles culturels dans un projet minier en Nouvelle-Calédonie. in E. Faugère and I. Merle (eds.) La Nouvelle-Calédonie, vers un destin commun ? Nouveaux terrains, nouveaux enjeux. Karthala, Paris.
Horowitz, L.S. and Batterbury, S. 2007. New Caledonia. Pp. 1234-1235 in P. Robbins (ed.) The encyclopedia of environment and society. Sage, Thousand Oaks, California, London and New Delhi.
Horowitz, L.S. 2004. Réserver sa place : Définitions kanak du concept de « réserve » de ressources naturelles vivantes. Pp. 141-148 in J.-M. Lebigre and P.M. Decoudras (eds.) Les Aires protégées insulaires et littorales tropicales. CRET, Collection « Îles et archipels » No. 32, Bordeaux.
Horowitz, L.S. 2003. Espaces, espèces, esprits : La « nature » et l’identité culturelle kanak contemporaine. Pp. 139-152 in H. Mokaddem (ed.) Approches autour de culture et nature dans le Pacifique Sud. Expressions, Nouméa.
Other publications
Horowitz, L.S. 2008. Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia. SRI Paper No. 14. Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.
Horowitz, L. 2002. Kanak people's engagements with a multinational nickel mining project in New Caledonia. RMAP Working Paper No. 30. Resource Management in Asia-Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra.
Horowitz, L. 2000. Book review of En pays kanak. Ethnologie, linguistique, archéologie, histoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal of Pacific History 35(3): 330-331.
Unpublished reports
Horowitz, L.S. 2008. The Social Context of Mining at Ouinné, Yaté County, New Caledonia. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Horowitz, L.S. 2008. The Social Context of Mining on the Bogota Peninsula, Canala County, New Caledonia. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Solomon, F., P. Schiavi, L. Horowitz, A. Rouse and M. Rae 2006. Hard Thinking: The Mining Certification Evaluation Project Final Report. WWF-Australia, Melbourne.
Horowitz, L.S. 2001. Étude de faisabilité sur le thème de la création d’un parc naturel dans les îles Loyauté. Loyalty Islands Province, New Caledonia.
Horowitz, L.S. and G.-V. Remond 2000. Étude environnementale de base, volet Étude du patrimoine paysager. Falconbridge, Nouméa, New Caledonia.
Horowitz, L.S. 1997. Encroachment on Protected Areas by Small-Scale Actors: An Examination of the Issues. Conservation International, Washington, D.C., USA.