Adam Eckerd

Research Interests

Environmental ​policy, public participation, complexity, and performance/program evaluation

Articles

Reducing complexity, signaling, and the pathways to nonsensical policy..

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Competition and sensegiving: Nonprofit markets and organizational signaling.

Political transactions, the social contract, and administrative power.

Administration of community participation in small-scale projects: Brownfield remediation in Los Angeles..

Institutional Injustice: How public administration has fostered and can ameliorate racial disparities.

Strategic planning and performance measurement: Engaging the community to develop performance metrics.

Administering public participation. .

The rural identity and the encroaching city: Governance, policy and development in Northern Virginia’s wine country..

Gentrification and displacement: Modeling a complex urban process. .

Organizational sensegiving: Indicators and nonprofit signaling. .

Citizen language and administrative response: Participation in environmental impact assessment..

Community privilege and environmental justice: An agent based model..

Designing the buyer-supplier contract for risk management: Assessing complexity and mission critically..

Does the program manager matter? New public management and defense acquisition..

Institutional constraints, managerial choices, and conflicts in public sector supply chains..

Supply chain psychological breach: An experimental study across national cultures..

Public incentives, market motivations, and contaminated properties: New public management and brownfield liability reform..

Two approaches to nonprofit financial ratios and the implications for managerial incentives..

Local zoning and environmental justice: An agent-based model analysis. .

Residential choice constraints and environmental justice..

Risk management and risk avoidance in agency decision making..

Policy alternatives in adaptive communities: Simulating the environmental justice consequences of hazardous site remediation strategies. .

Going green together? Brownfield remediation and environmental justice..

Helping those like us or harming those unlike us: Using agent-based modeling to illuminate social processes leading to environmental injustice..

Preserving the publicness of the nonprofit sector: Resources, roles and public values..

A challenge to the ownership society: Does homeownership alone improve relative neighborhood quality?.

Cleaning up without clearing out? A spatial assessment of environmental gentrification..

Heterogeneous roles and practices: Understanding the adoption and uses of nonprofit evaluations.

Books

Environmental Justice and Green Gentrification.

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Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Communities.

Book Chapters

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Simulating life cycle costs for nuclear facilities. .

Urban renaissance or invasion: Planning the development of a simulation model of gentrification. .